When Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements and factory work.
But even as she struggles, Rose finds small bright points in her new life--at the movies with her working friends and in the honest goals of her mentor, Gussie. Still, after her exhausting days as a working girl, Rose must face the confusion of balancing her need for simple fun with her more wary feelings about joining Gussie in her fight for better working conditions.
When the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 rushes into Rose's life, her confusions are brought to an all-too-painful head. To whom and to what can she turn when everything around her is in ashes?
Sharp, poignant, and stirringly real, MJ Auch has written a powerful historical novel that is hard to put down.

Ihr praxisnaher Ratgeber fur die Arthroskopie des Kniegelenks! Suchen Sie nach einer klaren und schematischen Darstellung der diagnostischen Arthroskopie? Die voellig neu uberarbeitete zweite Auflage von Die Arthroskopie des Kniegelenks, Diagnostik und Operationstechniken wird Sie nicht enttauschen! Sie informiert umfassend uber die operativen Moeglichkeiten und Techniken bei pathologischen Veranderungen im Knieinnenraum. Verschiedene Arthroskopietechniken werden mit ihren Vor- und Nachteilen ausfuhrlich erlautert. In einem ersten Abschnitt stellen die Autoren die ausseren Voraussetzungen fur die diagnostische Arthroskopie dar. Die endoskopische Anatomie und Pathologie des Kniegelenks wird detailliert beschrieben. Praktische Hinweise zur Ausfuhrung der Arthroskopie stehen hierbei im Vordergrund. Der zweite Abschnitt gilt der operativen Technik. Schritt fur Schritt erfahren Sie, wie welcher pathologische Befund am besten behandelt werden sollte. Probleme und Komplikationsmoeglichkeiten der arthroskopischen Chirurgie im Hinblick auf die einzelnen Techniken sind ebenfalls wichtiger Bestandteil der Ausfuhrungen. Diese zweite Auflage hat mit der ersten nur noch wenig gemeinsam! Sollten Sie die erste bereits kennen, werden Sie jetzt eine erhebliche Erweiterung und noch klarere Darstellung des diagnostischen Teils vorfinden. Der operative Teil entspricht dem jungsten Stand der Technik. Sie erhalten eine aktuelle Darstellung der Arthroskopie des Kniegelenks.

Travis Tacey doesn't have it easy: his mom's in the hospital suffering from brain trauma after a terrible car accident, and his father has lost his good sense in the aftermath and kicked him out. Homeless, penniless, and only fourteen years old, Travis tries to make money off of his singing and guitar playing skills. But when his beloved guitar--a family heirloom--is stolen, Travis grows desperate. By a stroke of luck, he gets a job helping a guitar maker. Through Travis's love of music, his devotion to his family, and the kindness of strangers, he begins to find his way in the world. But how will he keep his family together?

Twelve-year-old Grady Flood and his mom, Lila, have been on the road ever since Grady's dad died seven years ago. When their old car breaks down, they find themselves stranded in rural Pennsylvania where Lila gets work as a cook and caretaker. There's nothing out of the ordinary in that, unless you factor in her new boss. Old Charlie Fernwald, a skilled mechanic and bird enthusiast, is definitely out of the ordinary. In fact, if Grady's not mistaken, Charlie is a certifiable "wing nut." For the time being, Grady figures, he can help Charlie with his birds and maybe even learn how to fix a car engine. But before he can do either, something goes terribly wrong.

Twelve year-old Basil knows he's special - he's been associating numbers with colours since he was a kid. His gift (or curse) has turned him into somewhat of a loner, but his world begins to change when he meets Tenzie, the new girl in school who has similar freakisms. She, too, has synesthesia (a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another). At first, Basil is somewhat annoyed with Tenzie's pushiness, but after Basil's estranged mother returns, his life is turned upside down ... and Tenzie may be the only person to help him put it back together again.