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Broken Yesterdays

By: Joseph William Meagher,Lee Meagher

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In 1922, at the age of four, Joseph William Meagher contracted polio, leaving him with a back shaped like the harp of his Irish ancestors. Only all-night massaging by the family doctor saved him from a wheelchair life. After a barbaric (and fruitless) treatment to straighten his spine, Joe returned home to the shelter of a loving family. But little by little, the cold eye of the outside world made clear to him how different he was. His parents took medical advice and sent Joe off to Port Jefferson, Long Island, to spend the next four years at a hospital/school for crippled children. Though many there were severely disabled, they had the same unquenchable zest for life as any other kids, and with great innocence and gusto went about the business of being kids in the best way they could. In addition to presenting a picture of the very beginnings of rehabilitative therapy, Broken Yesterdays is the unswervingly candid and often amusing memoir of a boy who learned early that tears did no good, and that he faced a choice: Either surrender to the bitterness of being different or, through strength of will, make the best of what he had in him. Fortunately for his readers, Joseph William Meagher made the right choice.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462807585

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9781462807581

The Family Overhead

By: Joseph William Meagher

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The Family Overhead

By: Joseph William Meagher

When Con and Margaret Mary Skilly, an elderly couple who have always longed for children, begin finding abandoned children left and right, they never question their good luck but simply raise the three foundlings with love and devotion. Too soon the three kids are left on their own again. It's the Depression, with more feet than shoes, more appetites than dinners, when rumrunners wear diamonds big as knuckles, even the cops have favorite speakeasies, and the thrills of radio and the talkies hold the nation spellbound. Only Birdy's Regina wants the kids. A diffident, self-effacing young woman, she has always been cowed by her mother, bullied by her absurd husband, and intimidated by her own infant. But she turns out to have the heart of a lioness, and is determined to keep the foundlings free of the State's clutches. Along the way she finds a strong and completely unexpected ally. Joseph William Meagher brings to teeming life this Brooklyn neighborhood and the people in it who struggle for food and rent, love and fun, and everything that keeps life going. If characters caring deeply for one another are unfashionable, then this is an unfashionable novel. But such an enjoyable one!

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1410789624

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9781410789624

Demons to Doughnuts

By: Joseph William Meagher

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Demons to Doughnuts

By: Joseph William Meagher

DEMONS TO DOUGHNUTS joins two novellas as different as a cold December moon and strawberry pudding. THE TIPTOP JELLY DOUGHNUT, all warm sunshine and good eats, will delight dreamers and lovers of jelly doughnuts from eight to 108. It is set in a lovely land called the Kids' Republic where nobody over ten is allowed. Here the government is run (quite well) by babies. At the helm is President Baby Bumkey, seventeen months old and a born leader. For diplomatic reasons it is urgent that the baker of certain sublime jelly doughnuts be found so he can supply them for a vital state banquet. But the baker of these glorious doughnuts, having reached the age of ten, has been obliged to leave the comfort and safety of the Kids' Republic. Three children and a Six O'Clock Cat are chosen to make the perilous journey Somewhere Out There to find him. Will they succeed? In contrast, THE LUCIFER GYPSIES is a haunting chiller set in nineteenth-century New England. In this dark and fascinating tale a casket-maker inadvertently insults a band of gypsies who happen to be wards of the Devil. In their fury they inflict on the poor shopkeeper a fiendishly cunning curse which he must somehow overcome to survive.

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1462807593

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9781462807598

The League of the Less Lucky

By: Joseph William Meagher

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The League of the Less Lucky

By: Joseph William Meagher

P.J. Linenette is a Manhattan accountant. The disabled son of his building superintendent vanishes and P.J. is asked to hunt him down. P.J. then notices the abrupt disappearance of all the disabled people he's been seeing around town for years. Where are they? P.J. finds out when he gets off at the wrong floor of a factory and stumbles into a conspiracy of cripples led by the Bundle, a quadriplegic with an outrageous mission. The cripples refuse to let P.J. leave. In a strangely cozy imprisonment filled with macaroni dinners and dire threats, he learns some profound lessons about the disabled and himself.

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312

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1462807607

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9781462807604

THE BRISTOL WARRIOR JOB

a novel

By: Joseph William Meagher

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THE BRISTOL WARRIOR JOB

a novel

By: Joseph William Meagher

The war was going badly for America in 1942, but the Tebo shipyard was bursting with ships and the waterfront bars were exploding with sailors, hustlers, and shipyard workers. When a smashed rivet ship limped into port requiring urgent repairs, Terry Peirce, in charge of personnel, had to hunt down hard-drinking, temperamental rivet gangs to handle the job. War fever consumed the nation. Girls like the bewitching Viola Wakeless went mad for gold braid while Terry, crazy for Viola, tried to break free of her. Brilliantly depicted here, this was an electric time like no other in America’s history.

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1462807623

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9781462807628

Why the West Was Wild

A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Kansas Cowtown Personalities

By: Nyle H. Miller,Joseph W. Snell

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Why the West Was Wild

A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Kansas Cowtown Personalities

By: Nyle H. Miller,Joseph W. Snell

... collection of material" from "newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries, contemporary" sources. Includes material on "Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City"--Back cover.

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710

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135301

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9780806135304

Book's by Joseph William Meagher

Broken Yesterdays

Broken Yesterdays

The Family Overhead

The Family Overhead

Demons to Doughnuts

Demons to Doughnuts

The League of the Less Lucky

The League of the Less Lucky

THE BRISTOL WARRIOR JOB

THE BRISTOL WARRIOR JOB

Why the West Was Wild

Why the West Was Wild

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