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Brooklyn

Author : Tracy Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250834961
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn written by Tracy Brown and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t? Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became. Brooklyn learned the art of hustling from her parents who used the church to get money. Idolizing her father and despising her mother, Brooklyn’s determined to be the type of woman who makes her own rules. When her back’s up against the wall, she sacrifices her family, takes the burnt offering that remains, and runs away. In NYC, young Brooklyn charms her way into the inner circle of hustlers and stick-up kids, learning tricks along the way. She catches the eye of a major player in the drug game, Hassan, and they have a breathless love affair. Brooklyn becomes integrated into his operation, earning the trust of Hassan and his associates. But when she gets the keys to the kingdom, driven by unfettered ambition and a ruthless desire to survive, Brooklyn snatches the pot of gold, leaving bitter retribution promises behind her. From DC to Maryland, Brooklyn burns bridges and breaks hearts. What she doesn't realize is that someone is prepared to end her reign of terror. As she faces her killer and her fate, Brooklyn’s stunned that justice comes from the least likely place.

The Lemon Table

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428893
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Lemon Table written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely acclaimed collection of short stories, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending addresses the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. "A master at work…. Sweet, sour, bitter, wistful, ruminative, comic, elegiac … A joy to read." —San Francisco Chronicle The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives—some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In today’s England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinner—and his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes. In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profound—a writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention.

Halsey Street

Author : Naima Coster
Publisher : Platinum Spotlight Series
ISBN 13 : 9781683248439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Halsey Street written by Naima Coster and published by Platinum Spotlight Series. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After her mother, Mirella, abandoned her family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic, Penelope Grand moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. When she receives a postcard from Mirella seeking reconciliation, old wounds are reopened, secrets revealed, and a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins"--

Song of Brooklyn

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767929993
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Song of Brooklyn written by Marc Eliot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of Brooklyn: “I’m a Brooklyn guy, it’s in my bones and it’s there in Brooklyn. There’s a certain rhythm you get growing up there. Every Brooklyn kid has it. Always on the right beat. The Bronx, no; Queens, you were out of it; but Brooklyn, that was it.” —Mel Brooks, Williamsburg “Everyone got along because we had one major thing that held everyone in Brooklyn…together: the emergence of big-time sports that happened after World War I. You could be an Irishman, an Italian, and a Jew and you could all be in Ebbets Field, sitting together, rooting for the Dodgers.” —Pete Hamill, Park Slope “I never really saw anyplace in the world as a kid except Brooklyn, so to me Brooklyn was the world. Every avenue was another country. It was a rough place, to be sure. You could say the wrong thing, make the wrong turn and be rubbed or killed, and I guess I was lucky because I had a talent that enabled me to get out . . . A part of me will always be that kid shooting hoops, with a dream in my hand as much as a basketball.” —Stephon Marbury, Coney Island “Both my parents were hard, hands-on workers, and that was the foundation of everything for me. Their work ethic was just over the top, and as a result of that I worked hard no matter what level job I had in the media. I was that tough Brooklyn girl pushing my way to the front, which eventually became the top. I was never afraid of hard work; I was always a go-getter, and that was something that came directly out of being born in Brooklyn. I cherish that, as I cherish my entire upbringing in Brooklyn.” —Maria Bartiromo, Bay Ridge A captivating oral portrait of America's favorite borough, in the words of those who know Brooklyn best—Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, Arthur Miller, Joan Rivers, Norman Mailer, Cousin Brucie, Maria Bartiromo, Pete Hamill, and many other current and former inhabitants. Song of Brooklyn gathers the oral testimony of nearly one hundred Brooklynites past and present, famous and unknown, about a mythic borough that is also an indisputably real place. These witnesses speak eloquently of what it was like back then, when the Dodgers played in Ebbets Field; later, when the borough fell on hard times; and now, when it has come roaring back on the tracks of a real-estate boom, giving it celebrity chic and hipster cred. With this surprising and inspiring renaissance in full swing, the story of Brooklyn is one of the great and still ongoing chapters of the American urban experience, and Song of Brooklyn sings that tune in pitch-perfect key.

Brooklyn Supreme

Author : Robert Reuland
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647001188
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Supreme written by Robert Reuland and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-edged literary thriller about a racially charged police shooting, by one of “crime fiction’s most gifted writers” (George Pelecanos)—now in paperback No one knows better than Will Way that it’s not so easy to get out of Brooklyn. Seeking escape, Will finds possible upward mobility in a relationship with Regine Pomeroy, the daughter of Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Henry K. Pomeroy. But Regine is a troubled young woman, and one day Will is called upon by her father to fix a situation that proves beyond fixing. Two decades later, Will has returned to the borough and, like many of his peers, joined the NYPD. Now it’s his job to get beat cops out of trouble—cops like Georgina Lee, an inexperienced officer who shot and killed an African American teenager after he robbed a bodega. But when it turns out the perpetrator might not have been armed, Lee’s case becomes a publicity firestorm. Several men vying for higher office in Brooklyn use it to further their ambitions, and Will finds himself caught not only in the bureaucracy of the NYPD and Brooklyn politics, but also in his deeply confused conscience. As he tries to unravel so many different versions of the truth, Will’s past catches up with him; his distant father and Regine Pomeroy reenter his life, and her father tries to capitalize on the case for political gain. As lines are drawn across the city, Will must make decisions he never expected he would have to make, whose outcomes will cost him dearly. Brooklyn Supreme is a clear-eyed exploration of the fault lines of class, gender, and race in America, and a stunning portrayal of Brooklyn’s justice system. A standout crime novel by a writer with an undeniable gift, Brooklyn Supreme is a gritty and gut-wrenching read.

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Author : Theodore Hamm
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755028
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn written by Theodore Hamm and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Persuasively and passionately makes the case that the borough (and former city) became a powerful forum for Douglass’s abolitionist agenda.” —The New York Times This volume compiles original source material that illustrates the complex relationship between Frederick Douglass, who escaped bondage, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and advised a US president, and the city of Brooklyn. Most prominent are the speeches the abolitionist gave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Plymouth Church, and other leading Brooklyn institutions. Whether discussing the politics of the Civil War or recounting his relationships with Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, Douglass’s towering voice sounds anything but dated. An introductory essay examines the intricate ties between Douglass and Brooklyn abolitionists, while brief chapter introductions and annotations fill in the historical context. “Insight into the remarkable life of a remarkable man . . . shows how the great author and agitator associated with radicals—and he associated with the president of the United States. A fine book.” —Errol Louis, host of NY1's Road to City Hall “A collection of rousing 19th-century speeches on freedom and humanity . . . Proof that Douglass’ speeches, responding to the historical exigencies of his time, amply bear rereading today.” —Kirkus Reviews “Although he never lived in Brooklyn, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass had many friends and allies who did. Hamm has collected Douglass’s searing antislavery speeches (and denunciations of him by the pro-slavery newspaper the Brooklyn Eagle) delivered at Brooklyn locales during the mid-19th century.” —Publishers Weekly “This timely volume [presents] Douglass' towering voice in a way that sounds anything but dated.” —Philadelphia Tribune “Though he never lived there, Frederick Douglass and the city of Brooklyn engaged in a profound repartee in the decades leading up to the Civil War, the disagreements between the two parties revealing the backward views of a borough that was much less progressive than it liked to think . . . Hamm [illuminates] the complexities of a city and a figure at the vanguard of change.” —The Village Voice

A Belle in Brooklyn

Author : Demetria L. Lucas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451609299
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book A Belle in Brooklyn written by Demetria L. Lucas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edtior at Essence magazine Demetria Lucas shares her ultimate dating what-to-dos and what-not-to dos in this fun guide to living the fabulous single life. According to Demetria, most women are too focused (and stressed) on the difficulties of meeting Mr Right to enjoy the dating experience. Instead A Belle in Brooklyn celebrates the joys of singlehood, encouraging personal development and offers tools to help women increase their odds of finding a suitable mate when they are ready for one. Viva la Liberte!

Brooklyn Zoo

Author : Darcy Lockman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385534299
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Zoo written by Darcy Lockman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn. When she started, little did she know that the hospital’s behavioral health department—the infamous G Building, where the Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz and the rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard once resided—was on the cusp of its darkest era yet, one that culminated in the death of a patient in a psychiatric emergency room described by the New York Post as a “Dickensian nightmare.” Brooklyn Zoo unfolds amid the constant drama and disorder of the G Building. Lockman rotates through four departments, each of which presents new challenges and haunting cases. She works with forensic psychologists to evaluate offenders for fitness to stand trial—almost all of them with pathos-filled histories and little hope of rehabilitation. The thorny politics of the psych ER compound her anxiety about working with its volatile patients, but under the wing of a charismatic if brusque mentor she gains a deeper insight into her new profession as well as into her own strengths and limitations. As she moves to the inpatient ward and then psychiatric consultation liaison, Lockman’s overstretched supervisors and the institutional preference for pills over therapy are persistent obstacles. But they eventually present a young clinician with the opportunity to reexamine everything she believes and to come out stronger on the other side. Lockman’s frank portrayal of her fledgling role in a warped system is a professional coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who has fought to develop career mastery in a demanding environment. A stark portrait of the struggling public mental-health-care system, Brooklyn Zoo is also an homage to the doctors who remain committed to their patients in spite of institutional failures and to the patients who strive to get better with their help. And it is an inspiring first-hand account by a narrator who triumphs over self-doubt to believe in the rightness and efficacy of her chosen profession.

Up in Irish Brooklyn

Author : Norman Keifetz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796090409
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Up in Irish Brooklyn written by Norman Keifetz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary detective story about two guys from Irish Brooklyn who meet after returning from the Korean War to live a tale of charm, humor, irony, murder and tragedy, a police procedural full of puzzling twists during a period in the history of the New York Police Department ́s recovery from the shame of the Knapp commission report of corruption. A body is discovered by a vagrant in a park in Irish Brooklyn, shot in the head. Detective Noah Keefe, a tough, determined officer, gets the case and he soon learns that the victim was an honored officer in the Royal Constabulary Belfast, the Northern Island Protestant police, detested by the Irish Republican Army. Have the Catholics and Protestants of Belfast brought their fight to Brooklyn?

Brooklyn Justice

Author : J.L. Abramo
Publisher : Down & Out Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Justice written by J.L. Abramo and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator Nick Ventura knows trouble—but not how to keep his nose out of it. A pool of blood spreading across a casino poker table, a Buick plowing through a storefront with a dead detective aboard, a fatal rendezvous in the shadow of a Coney Island landmark, a childhood friend gunned down walking his dog in the wrong place at the wrong time, a film distributor who thinks he can get away with murder through intimidation and violence, a mob boss assassinated leaving a neighborhood restaurant, and the particular brand of retribution necessary to level the playing field in the fourth largest city in America—J.L. Abramo serves it all up with a vengeance.

Because I'm Brooklyn That's Why

Author : BrooklynsClay Publications
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Because I'm Brooklyn That's Why written by BrooklynsClay Publications and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because I'm Brooklyn That's Why Lined journal Gift, 120 pages, customized name Because I'm Brooklyn That's Why Diary, Perfect Notebook Gift for Brooklyn 120 pages 6 x 9 Perfect size for all purposes

New York Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-02-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Scribner's Magazine ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Magazine ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brooklyn

Author : C. N. Phillips
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1645561194
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn written by C. N. Phillips and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Groomed to take over a powerful family organization, a young man harboring a secret wish to be a professional chef replaces his dream with a growing obsession to exact justice on the person responsible for his father's murder."--

Competing against Multinationals in Emerging Markets

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137500328
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Competing against Multinationals in Emerging Markets written by D. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competing against Multinationals in Emerging Markets provides a comprehensive set of lessons which successful small firms have adopted in order to survive and prosper in an increasingly hostile competitive manufacturing sector where large firms are mostly dominant.

When Brooklyn Was Queer

Author : Hugh Ryan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250169925
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book When Brooklyn Was Queer written by Hugh Ryan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. ***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection*** ***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar*** "A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." —Kirkus Reviews, starred “[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful.” —The New York Times Book Review Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history—a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Brooklyn’s queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic.

The Golden Age of Disaster Cinema

Author : Nik Havert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667306
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Disaster Cinema written by Nik Havert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster movies were a wildly popular genre. Audiences thrilled at the spectacle of these films, many of which were considered glamorous for their time. Derided by critics, they became box office hits and cult classics, inspiring filmmakers around the globe. Some of them launched the careers of producers, directors and actors who would go on to create some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. With more than 40 interviews with actors, actresses, producers, stuntmen, special effects artists and others, this book covers the Golden Age of sinking ships, burning buildings, massive earthquakes, viral pandemics and outbreaks of animal madness.