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Author: John Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0312581785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the story of The Peppermint Lounge, the influential 1960s Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout, detailing how the club's introduction of rock-and-roll music attracted rebel youths and celebrity patrons.
Author: M. S. Reed
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-12
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781096488798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFalling in love with the enemy wasn't in my plans. It all started as a game. Now he's my newfound addiction.It's like nothing I had ever experienced before. But what about our families? In a never-ending war since I can remember. Sworn mob enemies and not allowed to be seen together, let alone be together. But our want for one another will be the least of our worries. There is a puzzle of lies and deception that will change us all. Every one of us, in the labyrinth of this strange, untouchable world. Can we ever really be together, or is fate destined to destroy us all?
Author: Louis Diaz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-08-30
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1439148856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes Diaz's daring undercover effort to stop New York City kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, describing his infiltration of the dangerous drug operation and sharing details from other front-page cases
Author: Mayra Montero
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-05-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0374707669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHavana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when a secretive zookeeper whispers to him that he "knows too much." In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri Casino, Joaquín gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love. The love story is, of course, another mystery. Told by Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer now working for the famed cabaret San Souci, it interleaves through Joaquín's underworld investigations, eventually revealing a family secret deeper even than Havana's brilliantly evoked enigmas. In Dancing to "Almendra," Mayra Montero has created an ardent and thrilling tale of innocence lost, of Havana's secret world that is "the basis for the clamor of the city," and of the end of a violent era of fantastic characters and extravagant crimes. Based on the true history of a bewitching city and its denizens, Almendra is the latest "triumph" (Library Journal) from one of Latin America's most impassioned and intoxicating voices.
Author: Lee Anderson
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Connor Whiteley
Publisher: CGD Publishing
Published: 2022-11-04
Total Pages: 323
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 85,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 6 short stories from some of his most popular series, you know you’re in for an amazing treat and will be reading late into the night. Issue 8’s Intriguing Short Stories Includes: · Past, Theft and Team: A Bettie Private Eye Mystery Short Story · Christmas Innocence; A Christmas Private Eye Mystery Short Story · You Better Watch Out: A Christmas Crime Short Story · An Awful Way To Go: A Kendra Detective Mystery Short Story · The Royal Code: An Urban Fantasy Short Story · Dragon Coins: An Urban Fantasy Short Story Also includes two action packed short novels: · Freedom: A Fantasy Adventure Short Novel · Vigilance: Science Fiction Mystery Short Novel BUY NOW!
Author: Jonathan Alexander
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0822986434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of “unruliness” in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest. The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression – embodied, print, digital, and sonic – Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself.
Author: Lee Grieveson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813535579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMob Culture offers a long-awaited, fresh look at the American gangster film, exposing its hidden histories from the Black Hand gangs of the early twentieth century to The Sopranos. Departing from traditional approaches that have typically focused on the "nature" of the gangster, the editors have collected essays that engage the larger question of how the meaning of criminality has changed over time. Grouped into three thematic sections, the essays examine gangster films through the lens of social, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.
Author: Rachel Kraus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1317175271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its roots in Middle Eastern and North African dance, belly dance is a popular leisure activity in the West with women (and some men) of all ages and body types pursing the activity for diverse reasons. Drawing on empirical research, fieldwork, and interviews with participants, this book investigates the social world and small group cultures of American belly dance, examining the various ways in which people use leisure to construct the self and social relationships. With attention to gender expectations, body image, sexuality, community, spiritual experiences, and the process of identifying with a leisure activity, this book shows how people engage in the same pursuit in a variety of ways. It sheds light on the manner in which dancers strive to deal with the challenges presented by internal power struggles and legitimacy bids, public beliefs, narrow cultural ideals of beauty and often sexualized assumptions about their art. A fascinating study of identity work and the reproduction and challenging of gender norms through a gendered leisure activity, Gendered Bodies and Leisure: The Practice and Performance of American Belly Dance will be of interest to students and scholars researching gender and sexuality, the sociology of leisure, the sociology of the body and interactionist thought.
Author: Marc Bradley
Publisher: Stepsontothemob.com
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the time I was old enough to form my first memory, my childhood was already headed down the inevitable path of dysfunction. With divorce in the books and a new man in the house, these events actually turned out to be the easy part. The hard part was absolutely everything else that followed. From the depths of addiction to the height of recovery. From a life-threatening diagnosis to the ultimate loss of a lifetime, my story will take you through a journey of one mother's love for her two young boys and the relentless courage to protect us, at any cost, from the very danger that she unwittingly had a hand in creating. It was a danger that would force us to disappear without a trace, from the only home we ever knew to a small town that no one could even pronounce. And as our lives were so quickly being turned upside down, all reasons for this upheaval could only point to one thing: the new man in the house. As the secrets began to pile up, there seemed to be far more questions than answers. The pressure to keep these secrets from us would inevitably take its toll, and by the time the truth was finally revealed, the emotional damage had already been done. No matter what degree of dysfunction that was dealt us, as two innocent boys from Chicago, thanks to our mother's unwavering love, we always had one thing to hold on to-hope. Hope of a second chance. Hope of a fresh start. The hope of a better ending to our story than the tragic beginning we were so unfairly given. From a very young age, I always knew my life was far from normal. There was just something about it that stood out, something that always had me wondering if everything I was experiencing was really what it seemed. And it was that mysterious "something" that would eventually reveal itself and change the course of my life forever.
