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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Telegraph Avenue
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443420654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller “A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time." — Benjamin Percy, Esquire New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart—half tavern, half temple—stands Brokeland. When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443420654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller “A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time." — Benjamin Percy, Esquire New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart—half tavern, half temple—stands Brokeland. When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue
Author: Karen English
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 9781328500069
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After having a fight, two friends spend the day ignoring each other, until the lure of a game of jump rope helps them to forget about being mad.
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 9781328500069
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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After having a fight, two friends spend the day ignoring each other, until the lure of a game of jump rope helps them to forget about being mad.
Buffalo City Directory
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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Historical papers are prefixed to several issues.
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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Historical papers are prefixed to several issues.
1970 Census of Housing
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Income, Education, and Unemployment in Neighborhoods
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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...Based on the 1960 US census; shows comparisons and relationships among the characteristics being studied...
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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...Based on the 1960 US census; shows comparisons and relationships among the characteristics being studied...
Area Trends in Employment and Unemployment
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Employees of Diplomatic Missions
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Extent of Subversion in the "New Left"
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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1970 Census of Population and Housing
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Congressional District Atlas
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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