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Down City

Author : Leah Carroll
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455563307
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Down City written by Leah Carroll and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was eighteen. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did Leah inherit from her parents? Leah was left to put together her own future and, now in her memoir, she explores the mystery of her parents' lives, through interviews, photos, and police records. DOWN CITY is a raw, wrenching memoir of a broken family and an indelible portrait of Rhode Island- a tiny state where the ghosts of mafia kingpins live alongside the feisty, stubborn people working hard just to get by. Heartbreaking, and mesmerizing, it's the story of a resilient young woman's determination to discover the truth about a mother she never knew and the deeply troubled father who raised her-a man who was, Leah writes, "both my greatest champion and biggest obstacle."

Down in the City

Author : Elizabeth Harrower
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922147044
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Down in the City written by Elizabeth Harrower and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion—until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bitterly resentful of her privilege, Stan is involved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals. Esther, innocent and desperate to please him, must endure his controlling ways. This story of a troubled and obsessive marriage, set against the backdrop of postwar Sydney, is devastating. First published in 1957, Down in the City announced Elizabeth Harrower as a major Australian writer.

Down in New Orleans

Author : Billy Sothern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251490
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Down in New Orleans written by Billy Sothern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in New Orleans four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story.

Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

Author : Barry Adamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913172251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars written by Barry Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of seminal new-wave band Magazine, the original bassist in the legendary Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a Mercury-Prize-nominated solo artist, and pioneer of the imaginary soundtrack album--no matter where Barry Adamson's career has taken him, the result has been consistently impressive. Covering his early life up to the 1990s, 'The Barry Adamson Story' addresses Adamson's Mancunian and mixed-race roots, beginning in the late 1950s, through to the highs of his momentous musical achievements and the lows of psychiatric hospitals and drug rehabs. Using a 'noir' style of self examination, he also investigates the acute loss of his parents and sister in his early twenties, multiple failed relationships and arrives at the beginnings of a successful Hollywood soundtrack career.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

Author : Daniel Hernandez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451610185
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Down and Delirious in Mexico City written by Daniel Hernandez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).

Down and Out in Saigon

Author : Haydon Cherry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218257
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Down and Out in Saigon written by Haydon Cherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals--a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a destitute Frenchman--and how they navigated the ups and downs of the regional rice trade and the institutions of French colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century. "Down and Out in Saigon is marked by three qualities that endow it with unusual value: the originality of its subject matter, as the first and only history of colonial Saigon's poor population, the excellence of its research, and Cherry's elegant prose."--Peter B. Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley "This is more than a corrective of revolutionary historiography--it is a tour de force that brings marginal and forgotten lives into the story of modern Vietnamese history."--Charles Keith, author of Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation

Down Mason City's Memory Lane

Author : Dale C. Fancher
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595435289
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Down Mason City's Memory Lane written by Dale C. Fancher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mason City, Illinois, a tiny rural community in the heart of the Midwest, is the setting for Dale Fancher's book of reflections and memories of a day gone by. A lifelong resident of Mason City, Fancher has a keen mind, and a heart for the quaint, easily lost memories of youth: From bathing in a galvanized washtub, to trailing behind the ice-delivery truck to beg shards of ice on a hot day; from fishing at Salt Creek at night and listening to the bobcats, to World War II blackouts. Reading Fancher's book, one becomes familiar with local characters like Kenny Hanover, still barbering after fifty years, and Edna Sylvie, the barefoot taxi lady. Told as a series of "Remember when .?" and "Did you ever .?" snippets, reading this book is like flipping through an old family photo album.

Down in Houston

Author : Roger Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Down in Houston written by Roger Wood and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the clubs, ballrooms, and barbecue joints of neighborhoods such as Third Ward, Frenchtown, Sunnyside, and Double Bayou, Houston's African American community birthed a vibrant and unique slice of the blues. Ranging from the down-home sounds of Lightnin' Hopkins to the more refined orchestrations of the Duke-Peacock recording empire and beyond, Houston blues was and is the voice of a working-class community, an ongoing conversation about good times and hard times, smokin' Saturday nights and Blue Mondays. Since 1995, Roger Wood and James Fraher have been gathering the story of the blues in Houston. In this book, they draw on dozens of interviews with blues musicians, club owners, audience members, and music producers, as well as dramatic black-and-white photographs of performers and venues, to present a lovingly detailed portrait of the Houston blues scene, past and present. Going back to the early days with Lightnin' Hopkins, they follow the blues from the streets of Houston's Third and Fifth Wards to its impact on the wider American blues scene. Along the way, they remember the vigorous blues community that sprang up after World War II, mourn its decline in the Civil Rights era, and celebrate the lively, if sometimes overlooked, blues culture that still calls Houston home. Wood and Fraher conclude the book with an unforgettable reunion of Houston blues legends that they held on January 3, 1998.

The City Stained Red

Author : Sam Sykes
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316374865
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The City Stained Red written by Sam Sykes and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step up to the gates. After years in the wilds, Lenk and his companions have come to the city that serves as the world's beating heart. The great charnel house where men die surer than any wilderness. They've come to claim payment for creatures slain, blood spilled at the behest of a powerful holy man. And Lenk has come to lay down his sword for good. But this is no place to escape demons.

Rude London

Author : Patrick Dalton
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 9781907554452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Rude London written by Patrick Dalton and published by Portico. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following hot on the hilarious heels of Shit London comes the naughty, but very funny, Rude London. The book is 130 of the funniest, rudest and real photographs of London caught with its proverbial pants down. From hilarious real street signs to real pub names to an assortment of weird, wonderful and rude shop names, as well as the unexpected comedy that lurks on every street corner, our beloved capital city is up to its knees in wonderful muck. Rude London expresses our pathological human need to point and laugh out loud at something silly, ridiculous and crass. Rude London, by focusing on the capital city that everybody loves to hate (and hates to love), becomes a great gift for that special someone who loves the London vibe and pace of life, and is also a perfect leaving present for one of the 23 million people who fly to London for its attractions each year. Not forgetting the 8 million people who live, work and commute to the dirty city everyday.

Down the Asphalt Path

Author : Clay McShane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231083911
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Down the Asphalt Path written by Clay McShane and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McShane examines the uniquely American relation between auto-mobility and urbanization. Deftly combining urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems -- most important, the private automobile -- and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America.

California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Miscellaneous Reports

Author : New York (State). Courts of Record
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Miscellaneous Reports written by New York (State). Courts of Record and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Message of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of Directors of Departments

Author : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Annual Message of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of Directors of Departments written by Philadelphia (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City Club News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book City Club News written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City in the Sky

Author : James Glanz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805074287
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book City in the Sky written by James Glanz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like David McCullough's "The Great Bridge, City in the Sky" is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon.

The Rough Guide to Laos

Author :
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 140935038X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Laos written by and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensible Rough Guide to Laos is the definitive guide to this fascinating Southeast Asian country, taking you from the remote mountainous north to the sleepy south. It's packed with detailed, lively reviews of accommodation and restaurants to suit all budgets, plus practical information on things like border crossings and road and river travel. With comprehensive research, accompanied by stunning photographs, The Rough Guide to Laos is your essential companion, whether you want to follow the well-trodden route along the Mekong, or blaze your own trail. The guide's authoritative background section provides essential information on Laos's often turbulent history and teaches you about the country's fascinating hill tribes and vibrant festivals. And with dozens of clear, accurate maps The Rough Guide to Laos gets you under the skin of this dynamic country. Originally published in print in 2011. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Laos. Now available in ePub format.