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Book Anne Devlin Hamill

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  • Author : Anne Devlin Hamill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Anne Devlin Hamill written by Anne Devlin Hamill and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anne Devlin Hamill

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  • Author : Anne Devlin Hamill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Anne Devlin Hamill written by Anne Devlin Hamill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Downtown

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  • Author : Pete Hamill
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2004-12-01
  • ISBN : 0759512973
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Downtown written by Pete Hamill and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "beautifully written, sharply observed, and heartfelt" guide to his hometown (New York Times), legendary New York City journalist Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves. Walking the Manhattan streets he loves, from Times Square to the island’s southern tip, Pete Hamill combines a moving memoir of his own days and nights in new York with a lively and revealing history of the city’s most enduring places and people. “Pete Hamill lovingly captures the vibrant sights, sounds, and smells of Manhattan from Battery Park to midtown, the most important, most exciting stretch of real estate in the world.” --New York Daily News

Book Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Book Transit Talk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert W. Snyder
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780813525778
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Transit Talk written by Robert W. Snyder and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City may seem to be a place where everyone is a stranger, yet transit workers provide a human presence on a late-night bus or an empty subway platform. Few of us give any thought to these invisible workers-until something goes wrong. Transit Talk takes readers into the world of MTA New York City transit employees, as they describe their lives and work, from the most visible subway conductor to the seemingly invisible mechanic. There are nearly 44,000 transit workers like those you will meet in Transit Talk , and every day they help five million of us travel to work, to school, to weddings, to funerals, to hospitals, to vacations. These workers labor daily on subway tracks inches from high-voltage powerlines, risking their lives for passengers they'U never know. The city can feel large and fragmented, but the transportation system and its workers create common threads in the lives of all New Yorkers, threads we take for granted. Together, their stories create a human tableau of life and labor in the city within a city that is the MTA New York City Transit. Transit workers find satisfaction in fixing a damaged subway car, gain wisdom from mastering a dangerous workplace, nurse emotional wounds from tending to someone injured in an accident, battle frustration from difficulties with management, and express satisfaction when reflecting on a productive career. They tell of how years spent in the same shop create bonds between workers. They talk of the burden of laboring in a twenty-four-hour system with night shifts and weekend workdays that take them away from families. You'U hear painful tales of informing next-of-kin of a death on the tracks as well as joyous anecdotes of workers delivering a baby in a subway car.

Book A Drinking Life

Download or read book A Drinking Life written by Pete Hamill and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times). !--StartFragment-- As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker. !--EndFragment--"Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink." --Boston Globe

Book Anne Devlin

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  • Author : Fidelma Farley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Anne Devlin written by Fidelma Farley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish American Who s who

Download or read book The Irish American Who s who written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irrational Ravings

Download or read book Irrational Ravings written by Pete Hamill and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles and essays, in seven sections, each with its own introduction written especially for the book, with an added previously unpublished autobiographical essay--

Book Loving Women

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  • Author : Pete Hamill
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-12-21
  • ISBN : 0307799662
  • Pages : 541 pages

Download or read book Loving Women written by Pete Hamill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1953. The Korean War is ending. The Eisenhower era is beginning. Patti Page and Frankie Laine sit at the top of the charts. And aspiring cartoonist Michael Devlin, Brooklyn born and bred, is heading south to become a man. Pete Hamill's prose has always been praised for its energy and muscularity. But rarely, if ever, has he achieved the tough-and-tender lyricism and imagistic power of his sensual new novel, Loving Women. When Michael arrives at the U.S. Navy supply base in Pensacola, Florida, he is immediately plunged into a world he's never before encountered or imagined. Sensitive, street-smart, but wildly naive about the sadistic terrors of the service and the bigotry of the Deep South, he thrashes through a baptism of frustration and despair - until he meets Eden Santana. Eden is everything he's ever dreamed of: older, wiser, nonplussed by his ingenuous ways - the perfect instructor for a Catholic virgin in the art of lovemaking, in sexual pleasure, confidence and courage. Though their steamy passion is destined to dissipate, there is no way Michael can prepare himself for the circumstances under which his enigmatic lover disappears. Their heartbreaking parting becomes entwined with frightening secrets about each other, the South and the friends they make along the way. As compelling in narrative drive as it is utterly convincing in mood and tone, Loving Women's cinematic immediacy and haunting storytelling signify Pete Hamill writing at the top of his talent.

Book In the Footsteps of Anne

Download or read book In the Footsteps of Anne written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title contains 142 stories from individual ex-prisoners spanning more than three decades from 1967 to 2003. They redress the fact that women have largely been written out of this period in history.

Book Criminal Justice in Transition

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  • Author : Anne-Marie McAlinden
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-12
  • ISBN : 1509900543
  • Pages : 635 pages

Download or read book Criminal Justice in Transition written by Anne-Marie McAlinden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a critical examination of key aspects of crime and criminal justice in Northern Ireland which will have resonance elsewhere. It considers the core aspects of criminal justice policy-making in Northern Ireland which are central to the process of post-conflict transition, including reform of policing, judicial decision-making and correctional services such as probation and prisons. It examines contemporary trends in criminal justice in Northern Ireland and various dimensions of crime relating to female offenders, young offenders, sexual and violent offenders, community safety and restorative justice. The book also considers the extent to which crime and criminal justice issues in Northern Ireland are being affected by the broader processes of 'policy transfer', globalisation and transnationalism and the extent to which criminal justice in Northern Ireland is divergent from the other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. Written by leading international authorities in the field, the book offers a snapshot of the cutting edge of critical thinking in criminal justice practice and transitional justice contexts.

Book Mother Jones

Download or read book Mother Jones written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish America

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book Irish America written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Authors

Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Hal May and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholics in New York

Download or read book Catholics in New York written by Terry Golway and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the history, growth, and extraordinary legacy of New York's largest Christian denomination. Co-published with the Museum of the City of New York as a companion to its exhibition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Archdiocese of New York, this book brings together rare images and original essays to explore the key dimensions of the Catholic experience in New York. Here is a fascinating pictorial record of Catholic struggles and triumphs, and thirteen insightful essays that trace the story of Catholic New York--from people, parishes, and traditions to the schools, hospitals, and other institutions that helped shape the metropolis. The struggles of generations of immigrants and their descendents against prejudice bear fruit in the remarkable ascendance of Catholics in the city's politics. From the emblematic account of one Manhattan parish's life across generations of neighborhood change to fresh perspectives on the extraordinary impact of Catholic institutional life on the making of the city, the essays range widely. There's a personal refl ection by Pete Hamill on growing up Catholic as well as revealing explorations of the Catholic presence in all corners of New York's social, political, cultural, and educational worlds. Catholic leaders such as Dorothy Day, Al Smith, and Mother Cabrini come to life in other essays. An afterword offers a look at Catholic New York facing new realities of race, ethnic change, and suburbanization after World War II. Blending memorable images with insightful commentary, Catholics in New York tells not just the story of the city's largest community of faith, but offers a new telling of what is for everyone a classic New York story.

Book Who s who in U S  Writers  Editors   Poets

Download or read book Who s who in U S Writers Editors Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: