The Pleasant Avenue Connection
Author | : David Durk |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : 9780060111427 |
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Author | : David Durk |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : 9780060111427 |
Author | : Victoria Thompson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984805754 |
When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy’s friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive, in this enthralling, new novel in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible—the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and kidnappings. Gino and Frank set out to learn more about the disreputable gang and soon find a lead: a saloon-owning gangster named Nunzio Esposito. Gino hates that a fellow immigrant would stoop so low and decides to confront his wayward countryman. But he quickly discovers the man can’t be reasoned with—because he’s been murdered. The police have only one suspect: Gino Donatelli. Frank and Sarah know Gino is no killer, but someone has pulled out all the stops to make it look like he is guilty. They also must now face the Black Hand, who are honor-bound to avenge the death of one of their own. With evidence mounting against their friend and a group of bad guys out for blood, Sarah and Frank race to unravel a treacherous plot before Gino’s time runs out. . . .
Author | : Victoria Thompson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984805762 |
When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy’s friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive, in this enthralling, new novel in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible—the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and kidnappings. Gino and Frank set out to learn more about the disreputable gang and soon find a lead: a saloon-owning gangster named Nunzio Esposito. Gino hates that a fellow immigrant would stoop so low and decides to confront his wayward countryman. But he quickly discovers the man can’t be reasoned with—because he’s been murdered. The police have only one suspect: Gino Donatelli. Frank and Sarah know Gino is no killer, but someone has pulled out all the stops to make it look like he is guilty. They also must now face the Black Hand, who are honor-bound to avenge the death of one of their own. With evidence mounting against their friend and a group of bad guys out for blood, Sarah and Frank race to unravel a treacherous plot before Gino’s time runs out. . . .
Author | : John Medici |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781548478315 |
In Pleasant Avenue, John Medici chronicles his growing up experience as the son of Italian immigrants in NYC's East Harlem. During his early years post WW II, the forties, fifties, and sixties, he witnessed great social changes. As he matured, Medici bristled against the isolationism in his Italian American neighborhood, often feeling trapped between modern society and the religious culture which his parents and community cherished. His book is a candid examination of the psychological burden he carried during his first thirty years to both honor his parents and live his own life. Medici peppers his work with humorous anecdotes about family, neighborhood and his conflict adjusting to East Harlem's bygone world of childhood. Pleasant Avenue also reveals his struggles to come to terms with the Roman Catholic Church's teachings, which led to a stint as a novice in a Franciscan seminary. On top of adjusting to cultural heritage and creating an identity, Medici had to cope with the alcoholism that ran in his family. That is a different, darker legacy that he couldn't completely reject. At the center of Pleasant Avenue is an honesty about family, culture, heritage, and values that is usually covered over by sentimental nostalgia. Medici's story is honest, revealing, and powerful.
Author | : Clive Moody |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Total Pages | : 2096 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Local laws |
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Author | : Michael C. Johanek |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781592135219 |
What is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed, or have we lost sight of the second goal of encouraging students to be contributing members of a democratic society? In this enlightening book, John Puckett and Michael Johanek describe one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." In the process, they offer a richly contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens. Although student test scores now serve to measure schools' achievements, the authors argue compellingly that the democratic goals of citizen-centered community schools can be reconciled with the academic performance demands of contemporary school reform movements. Using the twenty-year history of community-centered schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as a case study-and reminding us of the pioneering vision of its founder, Leonard Covello-they suggest new approaches for educating today's students to be better "public citizens."
Author | : Stephen Del Corso |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
"This is the case that could never have been prosecuted if a detective hadn't received a videotape camera for Christmas...This is the case that would never have come to trial if Del Corso and Erwin had not befriended Dolores Gomez, a tough, street-smart drug courier who risked her life by turning state's evidence. And this is the case that could have been blown if Del Corso and Erwin had accepted the biggest bribe ever offered two New York City detectives: $250,000 to destroy the evidence they'd collected--and kill Dolores Gomez"--from p. [3] of book jacket.
Author | : Victoria Thompson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984805789 |
Midwife Sarah Brandt Malloy and her detective husband, Frank, must discover who killed a prominent—but despised—society banker before an innocent family is destroyed in Murder on Wall Street, an all-new Gaslight Mystery in the USA Today bestselling series. Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree—things don’t look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had more than a few enemies. And it’s soon clear that plenty of the upper echelon as well as the denizens of the most squalid areas of the city seem to have hated him. Sarah and Frank have their work cut out for them. As the daughter of the elite Decker family, Sarah has access to the social circles Hayden frequented, and the more she learns about his horrific treatment of women, the more disturbed she becomes. And as Frank investigates, he finds that Hayden had a host of unsavory habits that may have hastened his demise. But who finally killed him? Sarah and Frank must put the pieces together quickly before time runs out and Jack’s hard-won new life and family are ripped apart.