Bøker av Joanne De Simone

This is the large print edition of the children's fiction chapter book The Metro Cats...a clowder of cats and their life on the streets of New York City.In Metro New York City, where a rebel cat gang rules the streets, how can three kittens, abandoned by their father and separated from their mother, survive on their own? Danger, adventure, a new home, and new friends await them-and the chance to find love and to reunite with long lost family, in the Big Apple.

This is the large print edition of Songs from Under the El, a nonfiction, personal account of life in Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s.From award-winning writer Joanne de Simone, Songs from Under the El is a love letter to her family-a nostalgic look at her heritage that began at Ellis Island, spanning almost a century. Her memoir is filled with anecdotes about who came before, with stories about life in the early to mid 1900s, and with the hope that all who follow in this tapestry of laughter and tears will come to cherish it as much as its creator.

From award-winning writer Joanne de Simone, Songs from Under the El is a love letter to her family-a nostalgic look at her heritage that began at Ellis Island, spanning almost a century. Her memoir is filled with anecdotes about who came before, with stories about life in the early to mid 1900s, and with the hope that all who follow in this tapestry of laughter and tears will come to cherish it as much as its creator.

If the mind is a trap for memories and flashing recollections, or a place that snatches a thought or action from the air for just a moment, this compilation of poems from the respective minds of two artists, sitting in a studio at East Hampton's public access televison show, Haim Mizrahi's HELLO, HELLO, reveal that minds meld and the instinctive floating grey cells give way to the unexpected whether it's on Joanne's paper scraps or Hiam's laptop screen. In the end, they are notable to the extent that they reveal what's under the SLIPCOVER.

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time..."  - Anna FreudINSIDE OUT YOGA is illustrated with dynamic yoga poses and filled with thought-provoking inspirational messages and journal pages to chart personal reflections for a strong and healthy mind, body, and spirit.

Splashes of poetry, essays and short fiction, from early teen to done and seen, with some lessons learned in between, recorded in the order of the writers life Joanne writes poetry in the style of a lyricist, liquid and flowing with rhythm; her short stories and essays are thoughtful and provocative as her quill spills emotion from her soul.- Christine Prendergast. Author, Lecturer, Artistic Director at Breaking the Rules, Creative Consultant to all writers at The Sounding Board.

This children's fiction chapter book for ages 9-13 tells the story of a clowder of cats finding ways to live on the streets of Manhattan, New York.Follow the adventures of a colony of cats living on the streets of metropolitan New York City, as they face danger, find love, and reunite with long lost family in the Big Apple. Lauren, a pampered uptown cat, becomes stranded in a snowstorm and is rescued by a tabby named Buster, a seasoned street cat. They fall in love, but tragedy tears them apart Left to fend for herself, Lauren gives birth to three kittens, who are soon forced to survive on their own in Manhattan, after Lauren is captured and whisked away from them. When their sister, Blanche, is taken from them by a kind lady, Sally and Roger make a home for themselves in a secluded west side alley, and invite their new friends, Maxine, Veronica, and Walter, to form a colony, where they all live in harmony. Roaming the streets are the Scratches, a renegade band of antagonistic cats, recognized by their visible "battle scars." Always on the prowl for action, they are joined by a dejected, friendless Buster. By chance, Blanche is reunited with her siblings. When Sally is caught by Animal Control, Roger enlists the aid of their estranged father, Buster, and his scrappy companions, to help the colony cats rescue Sally and to find their mother, Lauren.