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Windy City Nocturne

Author : Ronald Brueckmann
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452054789
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Windy City Nocturne written by Ronald Brueckmann and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place: Chicago, Illinois. The year: 1937. A city struggles to recover from the lawless legacy of Prohibition and the destructive aftermath of the Great Depression. The inequities of race and social class are vast and growing. In a rigidly segregated society, the average citizen keeps to his own kind, keeps his head down, and toils just to make ends meet. During this turbulent time, a young European immigrant labors in obscurity, deep within the teeming confines of the Pilsen district. He dreams of being a professional prizefighter. The young man’s prospects are few until he befriends an elderly African American boxer who operates a small gym on the city’s west side. The old man recognizes championship potential in the boy and agrees to coach him, molding him into a first class athlete. Together, the unlikely pair chase the elusive goal of a Middleweight Crown. Across town, another young man has a mentor of a different sort. One who schools him in the fine art of the “quick buck”. This boy, rescued from abject poverty, pursues wealth and power with ruthless zeal, surrendering to the darker side of human nature. Abandoning all compassion, he eagerly embraces a life of crime and brutality. A disillusioned Detective, grappling with a deep personal grief has become obsessed with fighting crime. His work has become his solace, his only virtue, his redemption. Exceeding the bounds of his authority, he fanatically persecutes the criminals of his precinct, setting him on a dangerous path of confrontation and violence. When these worlds collide, loyalty is forsaken and heartfelt dreams are crushed. A life is taken. This is a tale of good versus evil, of sacrifice and righteousness and love. This is a story of happiness and heartbreak and darkness. This Windy City Nocturne.

Snacks for the Mind

Author : Denton Writers League
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105271021
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Snacks for the Mind written by Denton Writers League and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cycling City

Author : Evan Friss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621107X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Cycling City written by Evan Friss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.

Selected Poems

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156003964
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Carl Sandburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What Sandburg knew and said was what America knew from the beginning and said from the beginning and has not yet, no matter what is believed of her, forgotten how to say," wrote Archibald MacLeish about Carl Sandburg - that most American of poets - and his connection to the American psyche.

The Magical Life of Marshall Brodien

Author : John Moehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786483952
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Magical Life of Marshall Brodien written by John Moehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique biography details the life of magician Marshall Brodien, most remembered for his long-running career as television’s Wizzo the Wizard on WGN-TV’s Bozo’s Circus and The Bozo Show. Coverage begins in the late 1940s, when Brodien was a young magician in his first job as a Chicago magic shop demonstrator, then recounts Brodien’s steady rise to show-business success, including details of his work as a performer at the Magic Lounge in Cicero and, as a nightclub hypnotist in Chicago’s posh Cairo Supper Club. The work concludes with an examination of Brodien’s current career as one of the most successful marketers of magic sets in the U.S.

Contemporary American Poetry

Author : Ryan G. Van Cleave
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Poetry written by Ryan G. Van Cleave and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of poetry from some of America's best poets and provides original commentaries and suggested exercises to help the reader explore the meaning behind these poets' works.

Selections from American Literature

Author : Leonidas Warren Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Selections from American Literature written by Leonidas Warren Payne and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nocturne

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446560278
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Nocturne written by Ed McBain and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in case anybody thought the 47 earlier novels in the 87th precinct were a fluke, McBain's gone and revitalized the routine with Nocturne"". -- The New York Times Book Review In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful -- especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century long vanished. Meanwhile 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he's on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent the evening carving up a hooker.

Index to Children's Poetry

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Index to Children's Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Index to Children's Poetry

Author : John Edmund Brewton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index to Children's Poetry written by John Edmund Brewton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossroads

Author : Mark Radcliffe
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786898160
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Crossroads written by Mark Radcliffe and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the crossroads – the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil’s infamous meeting – Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal juncture. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be diagnosed with mouth and throat cancer. Together these events led Radcliffe to think about pivotal tracks in music and how the musicians who wrote and performed them had reached the crossroads that led to such epoch-changing music. Crossroads is a warm, intimate account of music and its power to transform our lives, as Radcliffe takes a personal journey through these key tracks.

Index to Poetry for Children and Young People, 1970-1975

Author : John Edmund Brewton
Publisher : New York : H. W. Wilson Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Index to Poetry for Children and Young People, 1970-1975 written by John Edmund Brewton and published by New York : H. W. Wilson Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On t.p.: A title, subject, author, and first line index to poetry in collections for children ...

New York Nocturne

Author : Walter Satterthwait
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504028104
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book New York Nocturne written by Walter Satterthwait and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie Borden and Amanda Burton join forces with Dorothy Parker to solve a grisly murder in Prohibition-era New York in this “assured and witty” mystery (Publishers Weekly). Sixteen-year-old Amanda Burton is thrilled to be spending the summer in New York City at her glamorous uncle John’s apartment in the Dakota while her parents are off visiting Tibet. It’s 1924, the decade is roaring, and she’s out on the town every night with her father’s flamboyant younger brother—seeing Broadway shows, going to fancy restaurants and speakeasies, meeting John’s rich and famous friends, and even an occasional gangster. It’s all great fun—until the morning she stumbles upon her uncle dead on the floor with a hatchet blade buried in his skull. And with Amanda as the prime murder suspect, the New York City cops consider the case as good as closed. Luckily the hapless teen has an old ally in town: the infamous—albeit acquitted—alleged axe murderess Lizzie Borden. Miss Lizzie and her new pal, the renowned acerbic wit Dorothy Parker, are on the job faster than you can say, “Forty whacks.” But trolling the glittering New York night scene and underworld for a killer can be a dangerous occupation for an old lady with a shady past, a sharp-witted literary icon, and a teenager with a history of violently losing relatives—especially when they keep turning up dead bodies.

The Bookman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Musical Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Musical Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pianist

Author : James Gollin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781453522332
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Pianist written by James Gollin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives

Author : Paul Green
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638373
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives written by Paul Green and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and informs and adds to the knowledge of either the new or informed reader. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.