Author: Lloyd Smith
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449738796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Brooklyn Chronicles is a fast-paced urban novel that chronicles a chain of events surrounding murder, mayhem, and corruption along the Brooklyn piers. Detective Rices determination to eradicate organized crime in Bed-Stuy leads to his untimely demise, which creates a chain of events that widens as two private investigators seek to solve his murder. The following results align the real leadership of Bed-Stuy against corrupt politicians and police officers. Rosa, the wife of Detective Rice, is determined to bring closure to her husbands murder, only to be considered a prime suspect. Her beauty causes a conflict of interest between Roy Vanderbilt and Rock Lewis, the two investigators who come to her aid, against one investigators better judgment. As mentors for the youth of Bed-Stuy, both men are determine to be role models throughout the neighborhood while maintaining unwavering commitment to the district attorneys office. DA Kilpatrick lives and breathes to clean up the neighborhood and be a major factor in crushing the recidivism that destroys the community and the youth. Each clue to the demise of Detective Rice opens up a new can of worms for the city and forces politicians to choose which side they represent.
Author: Lloyd Smith
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449738788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Brooklyn Chronicles is a fast-paced urban novel that chronicles a chain of events surrounding murder, mayhem, and corruption along the Brooklyn piers. Detective Rice's determination to eradicate organized crime in Bed-Stuy leads to his untimely demise, which creates a chain of events that widens as two private investigators seek to solve his murder. The following results align the real leadership of Bed-Stuy against corrupt politicians and police officers. Rosa, the wife of Detective Rice, is determined to bring closure to her husband's murder, only to be considered a prime suspect. Her beauty causes a conflict of interest between Roy Vanderbilt and Rock Lewis, the two investigators who come to her aid, against one investigator's better judgment. As mentors for the youth of Bed-Stuy, both men are determine to be role models throughout the neighborhood while maintaining unwavering commitment to the district attorney's office. DA Kilpatrick lives and breathes to clean up the neighborhood and be a major factor in crushing the recidivism that destroys the community and the youth. Each clue to the demise of Detective Rice opens up a new can of worms for the city and forces politicians to choose which side they represent.
Author: John B Manbeck
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Brooklyn has always been a place of diversity and distinction. These qualities are everywhere across the borough, from its people to its events, landmarks, and more. In Chronicles of historic Brooklyn, Borough Historian John Manbeck has collected the stories that reveal the history and spirit of this ever-growing metropolis. From stories of murderous pirates who once besieged Sheepshead Bay to tales of the still-beloved Brooklyn Dodgers who played at Ebbets Field, Manbeck traces the long and colorful history. Explore the forgotten neighborhoods, iconic parks, vanishing waterfront and other attractions that show how and why Brooklyn has endured.
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780141377711
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Greetings, initiate! Carter Kane, here. Congratulations on reaching Brooklyn House in one piece. You are quite clearly descended from Egyptian royalty, with magical powers gifted from the gods. But what good is power without knowing how to use it? That's where this training manual comes in. It's packed with quizzes, stories and inside info on the Ancient Egyptian deities. For those with the blood of the pharaohs, this is your first step down the path of the gods. But beware, anything can happen in the world of Egyptian magic . . . Forming a trio with HOTEL VALHALLA and CAMP HALF-BLOOD CONFIDENTIAL, this companion guide gives readers the inside scoop on Brooklyn House - the safe haven in New York for magicians like Carter and Sadie Kane.
Author: Evan Hughes
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429973064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers. Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. In recent years, writers of all stripes—from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead to Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer—have flocked to its patchwork of distinctive neighborhoods. But as literary critic and journalist Evan Hughes reveals, the rich literary life now flourishing in Brooklyn is part of a larger, fascinating history. With a dynamic mix of literary biography and urban history, Hughes takes us on a tour of Brooklyn past and present and reveals that hiding in Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park, Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge, the raw Williamsburg of Henry Miller's youth, Truman Capote's famed house on Willow Street, and the contested streets of Jonathan Lethem's Boerum Hill is the story of more than a century of life in America's cities. Literary Brooklyn is a prismatic investigation into a rich literary inheritance, but most of all it's a deep look into the beloved borough, a place as diverse and captivating as the people who walk its streets and write its stories.
Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771085400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.
Author: Kay S. Hymowitz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442266589
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Featured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough “1 percenters” to draw the Occupy Wall Street protests across the Brooklyn Bridge. “Tres Brooklyn,” has become a compliment among gourmands in Parisian restaurants. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the dramatic transformation of the once crumbling borough. Devoting separate chapters to Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hymowitz identifies the government policies and young, educated white and black middle class enclaves responsible for creating thousands of new businesses, safe and lively streets, and one of the most desirable urban environments in the world. Exploring Brownsville, the growing Chinatown of Sunset Park, and Caribbean Canarsie, Hymowitz also wrestles with the question of whether the borough’s new wealth can lift up long disadvantaged minorities, and the current generation of immigrants, many of whom will need more skills than their predecessors to thrive in a postindustrial economy. The New Brooklyn’s portraits of dramatic urban transformation, and its sometimes controversial effects, offers prescriptions relevant to “phoenix” cities coming back to life across the United States and beyond its borders.
Author: David W. McCullough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Martin Lewis Blumberg
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781796070668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our friends and family know and love. For Martin Blumberg, the path of explaining himself to the world begins by understanding the way the world around him influenced his experiences and choices and how he interacted with family, friends, teachers, and neighborhood businesses as he grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. What puzzles us all is the mystery of how the kids we grew up with in those same surroundings went on to become either well-educated and respected professionals and businessmen, or gangsters and incarcerated criminals. Ultimately, growing up is a never-ending series of choices and interactions, some good, some not so, but ultimately, in balance, the better choices lead us to the happiness and self-satisfaction we enjoy, along with our many accomplishments. My dear friend Marty Blumberg has traveled a fascinating and unique path as he grew up in Brownsville and then to Canarsie neighborhoods, which colored and influenced his early life and molded him to become the great guy we all know and love. This is Martin's story, and it beautifully explains him to all of us, and, no doubt, through his introspections and insights, most importantly, explains him to himself. -Roger Elowitz
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062446320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.
