Author: Brian McDonald
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452279247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the world. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was little more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop's career. His father Frank's career would span World War II through the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-first Precinct. Better known as "Fort Apache", it was a place from which few cops emerged whole. His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to become a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime. From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father's Gun combines a rare and intimate family story with turbulent social history.
My Father's Gun
Author: Brian McDonald
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452279247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the world. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was little more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop's career. His father Frank's career would span World War II through the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-first Precinct. Better known as "Fort Apache", it was a place from which few cops emerged whole. His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to become a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime. From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father's Gun combines a rare and intimate family story with turbulent social history.
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452279247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the world. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was little more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop's career. His father Frank's career would span World War II through the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-first Precinct. Better known as "Fort Apache", it was a place from which few cops emerged whole. His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to become a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime. From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father's Gun combines a rare and intimate family story with turbulent social history.
The Littlest Gun
Author: Paul L. Thompson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583483209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Janice McCord is fourteen years old when the five Kraymon brothers ride in and shoot down her parents and her twin brother Jack. She takes up Jack's name and her father's .45 to blaze a trail of revenge across the Territory of New Mexico.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583483209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Janice McCord is fourteen years old when the five Kraymon brothers ride in and shoot down her parents and her twin brother Jack. She takes up Jack's name and her father's .45 to blaze a trail of revenge across the Territory of New Mexico.
The Fifth Device
Author:
Publisher: Bryce Cullen Publishing
ISBN: 1935752251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Publisher: Bryce Cullen Publishing
ISBN: 1935752251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Gun Work
Author: J. Lee Butts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101185090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The further exploits of Hayden Tilden continue from the author of Written in Blood Tilden's latest mission: track down the Coltrane brothers, who butchered most of the Cassidy family and made off with their daughter, Daisy. But when a girl down in Texas claims to be Daisy Cassidy, Tilden smells a lie. Still, he and his partners set off to escort her from Texas to Arkansas-and if they should come across the Coltranes, there might be no need to bring them back alive.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101185090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The further exploits of Hayden Tilden continue from the author of Written in Blood Tilden's latest mission: track down the Coltrane brothers, who butchered most of the Cassidy family and made off with their daughter, Daisy. But when a girl down in Texas claims to be Daisy Cassidy, Tilden smells a lie. Still, he and his partners set off to escort her from Texas to Arkansas-and if they should come across the Coltranes, there might be no need to bring them back alive.
Unable To Say Goodbye
Author: H.S. Darke
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984577921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dealing with divorce is never easy to do, especially when a child is involved. But Brian was having a particularly hard time. It seemed he never got over losing Angelica to her new lover, but that wasn't the greatest loss he'd faced. If ever there was a guardian angel in his life, perhaps he was no further away than his best friend Jason. While Jason seemed an unlikely candidate to be a guardian angel in the biblical or even noblest sense of the term, he may have what it takes to save Brian from his own demise. But that's a big maybe.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984577921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dealing with divorce is never easy to do, especially when a child is involved. But Brian was having a particularly hard time. It seemed he never got over losing Angelica to her new lover, but that wasn't the greatest loss he'd faced. If ever there was a guardian angel in his life, perhaps he was no further away than his best friend Jason. While Jason seemed an unlikely candidate to be a guardian angel in the biblical or even noblest sense of the term, he may have what it takes to save Brian from his own demise. But that's a big maybe.
Heller with a Gun
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 0553899201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn’t like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy. So Tom invited Mabry to join them. Tom was right to be worried, because Barker had a plan. He knew that the wagons carried something more than actors and scenery. He and his men were going to steal it any way they could. And that included murder.
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 0553899201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn’t like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy. So Tom invited Mabry to join them. Tom was right to be worried, because Barker had a plan. He knew that the wagons carried something more than actors and scenery. He and his men were going to steal it any way they could. And that included murder.
Dreamless
Author: Erin Manbeck
Publisher: Erin Manbeck
ISBN: 0991633547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In the beginning, when the battle for heaven was won and the rebellious angels were cast into hell, not every angel had a place. Those who hadn't chosen a side were sentenced to exist between the two parallels…earth. The angels who repented were called the Fallen, peaceful angles that existed amongst mankind. Those who rejected their punishment became known as the First, angels that survived by stealing souls. Over time, a First and Fallen unite and the Protectors were born. Eighteen year old Mira Daly had one goal, get out of Redding,WY and never look back. That was until her best friend goes missing the day before graduation. Chloe’s disappearance brings back haunting memories of her father, and through the help of some unexpected new friends, the story of who he was and what she’s meant to be unfolds. With a living, breathing, nightmare determined to destroy her, Mira knows the only way to survive is to accept her fate and meet this demon in battle.
Publisher: Erin Manbeck
ISBN: 0991633547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In the beginning, when the battle for heaven was won and the rebellious angels were cast into hell, not every angel had a place. Those who hadn't chosen a side were sentenced to exist between the two parallels…earth. The angels who repented were called the Fallen, peaceful angles that existed amongst mankind. Those who rejected their punishment became known as the First, angels that survived by stealing souls. Over time, a First and Fallen unite and the Protectors were born. Eighteen year old Mira Daly had one goal, get out of Redding,WY and never look back. That was until her best friend goes missing the day before graduation. Chloe’s disappearance brings back haunting memories of her father, and through the help of some unexpected new friends, the story of who he was and what she’s meant to be unfolds. With a living, breathing, nightmare determined to destroy her, Mira knows the only way to survive is to accept her fate and meet this demon in battle.
A Loaded Gun
Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1934137995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine “Best Books of Summer” selection “Magnetic nonfiction.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the quintessence of these.” —Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wild Nights! and The Lost Landscape We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote: My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— … Though I than He— may longer live He longer must—than I— For I have but the power to kill, Without—the power to die— Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson’s correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn’s literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today. Jerome Charyn is the author of, most recently, Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War, and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel. He lives in New York.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1934137995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine “Best Books of Summer” selection “Magnetic nonfiction.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the quintessence of these.” —Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wild Nights! and The Lost Landscape We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote: My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— … Though I than He— may longer live He longer must—than I— For I have but the power to kill, Without—the power to die— Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson’s correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn’s literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today. Jerome Charyn is the author of, most recently, Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War, and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel. He lives in New York.
The New-England Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The New-England Magazine
Author: Joseph Tinker Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description