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Spanish Harlem Mystery
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Author : Michael Boccia
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004-06-08
Spanish Harlem Mystery written by Michael Boccia and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-08 with Fiction categories.
A death bed request, hauntings and murder lead Maria into a journey of self discovery. To please Adrianna, her dying mother, Maria promises to seek her father, whom she believes long dead. But she never intends to keep this promise. Until her mother starts haunting her dreams. Dreams, memories and visions entice her. Night after night, Adrianna visits Maria's dreams and nags her into fulfilling the deathbed request. Nightmares and visions force her on a quest to Spanish Harlem. She delves into her family history, only to find herself embroiled in a series of mysteries. Among the prostitutes and the crooked police, her family and the street people, she discovers her father was a terrible man: a pimp, thief and drug dealer. Until he is murdered. And more, there is some dark family secret no one discusses. Memories mingle with dreams and visions as she discovers her own past. Failure after failure meets each attempt she makes at solving the mysterious death of her father, who died when she was only nine. With each new discovery, things look worse. She discovers he was murdered by an unknown assailant, his throat cut from ear to ear. The family's dark secret: he was a an incestuous child molester. She learns her father was murdered by a sexual abuse victim. When things become as bad as they can be, Mare discovers that she herself was molested and may even be her father's killer. Dreams tell her she killed him because he was raping her at the age of nine. For comfort, Maria falls back on her childhood religion, Catholicism. At the Feast of Saint Anthony, she goes to Saint Anthony's, the local church, and confesses to the murder. But to her amazement, an old priest tells her that she did not commit the murder. She learns her father is not her father, but a stepfather, who married her mother in a business deal. Adrianna was an unwed girl, pregnant by a handsome young priest. She needed a "father" for the unborn Maria; he needed to marry a US citizen to remain in America. So he married his brother's pregnant girlfriend. He was killed by her biological father, the priest, who caught his brother sexually abusing her. Maria unable to believe this story, wonders who is her real father, and demands to know why she should believe him. The old priest confesses that he is her biological father and cut his own brother's throat in a fit of rage.
Spanish Harlem Mystery
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Author : Michael Boccia
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004-06-08
Spanish Harlem Mystery written by Michael Boccia and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-08 with Fiction categories.
A death bed request, hauntings and murder lead Maria into a journey of self discovery. To please Adrianna, her dying mother, Maria promises to seek her father, whom she believes long dead. But she never intends to keep this promise. Until her mother starts haunting her dreams. Dreams, memories and visions entice her. Night after night, Adrianna visits Maria's dreams and nags her into fulfilling the deathbed request. Nightmares and visions force her on a quest to Spanish Harlem. She delves into her family history, only to find herself embroiled in a series of mysteries. Among the prostitutes and the crooked police, her family and the street people, she discovers her father was a terrible man: a pimp, thief and drug dealer. Until he is murdered. And more, there is some dark family secret no one discusses. Memories mingle with dreams and visions as she discovers her own past. Failure after failure meets each attempt she makes at solving the mysterious death of her father, who died when she was only nine. With each new discovery, things look worse. She discovers he was murdered by an unknown assailant, his throat cut from ear to ear. The family's dark secret: he was a an incestuous child molester. She learns her father was murdered by a sexual abuse victim. When things become as bad as they can be, Mare discovers that she herself was molested and may even be her father's killer. Dreams tell her she killed him because he was raping her at the age of nine. For comfort, Maria falls back on her childhood religion, Catholicism. At the Feast of Saint Anthony, she goes to Saint Anthony's, the local church, and confesses to the murder. But to her amazement, an old priest tells her that she did not commit the murder. She learns her father is not her father, but a stepfather, who married her mother in a business deal. Adrianna was an unwed girl, pregnant by a handsome young priest. She needed a "father" for the unborn Maria; he needed to marry a US citizen to remain in America. So he married his brother's pregnant girlfriend. He was killed by her biological father, the priest, who caught his brother sexually abusing her. Maria unable to believe this story, wonders who is her real father, and demands to know why she should believe him. The old priest confesses that he is her biological father and cut his own brother's throat in a fit of rage.
Harlem Sunset
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Author : Nekesa Afia
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-06-28
Harlem Sunset written by Nekesa Afia and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-28 with Fiction categories.
Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home... Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talking. The next morning, Rosa Maria wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the previous night. Nora is lying dead in the middle of the dance floor. Louise knows Rosa Maria couldn’t have killed Nora, but the police have a hard time believing that no one can remember anything at all about what happened. When Louise and Rosa Maria return to their apartment after being questioned by the police, they find the word GUILTY written across the living room wall in paint that looks a lot like blood. Someone has gone to great lengths to frame and terrify Rosa Maria, and Louise will stop at nothing to clear the woman she loves.
Island In The City
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Author : Dan Wakefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Island In The City written by Dan Wakefield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Harlem (New York, N.Y.) categories.
This book describes the life and struggles of those living in "Spanish Harlem," New York City's oldest and largest Puerto Rican neighborhoods.
What A Nightmare
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Author : Gloria Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2006-05
What A Nightmare written by Gloria Saunders and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the author of What a Nightmare: Growing Up in Spanish Harlem: My life has changed for the better. I have a great husband, two beautiful daughters and three grandchildren. After losing my family in such a tragic way, I now have a wonderful family again. I am sixty-five years old and have learned that if you have hard times, you become a stronger person in the end. Also, I have faith in God and Jesus. My faith has helped me through so many experiences. I now have faith, and faith is very important in life.
Dead Dead Girls
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Author : Nekesa Afia
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Dead Dead Girls written by Nekesa Afia and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Fiction categories.
“In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes and fears cease to exist.”--The New York Times The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia Harlem, 1926. Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She’s succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie’s Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem’s hottest speakeasy. Louise’s friends, especially her girlfriend, Rosa Maria Moreno, might say she’s running from her past and the notoriety that still stalks her, but don’t tell her that. When a girl turns up dead in front of the café, Louise is forced to confront something she’s been trying to ignore—two other local Black girls have been murdered in the past few weeks. After an altercation with a police officer gets her arrested, Louise is given an ultimatum: She can either help solve the case or wind up in a jail cell. Louise has no choice but to investigate and soon finds herself toe-to-toe with a murderous mastermind hell-bent on taking more lives, maybe even her own....
Clifford S Ghost An Art Mystery
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Author : Cynthia Lang
language : en
Publisher: Mill City Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 2019-01-30
Clifford S Ghost An Art Mystery written by Cynthia Lang and has been published by Mill City Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-30 with Fiction categories.
Lee Baldwin moves to Maine to revel in a tide of solitude and brood about her missing husband. Instead she's pulled into the daily dramas of Dolly, her flighty landlady; Maxine, the small town's store proprietor; a welder at Bath Iron works; a trio of boys running wild; and their mother, who may or may not have heard a saint speak. Lee feels especially the fierce grace of Hazel, an elderly woman whose grip on life breathes energy into her own. Evoking the lives of northern New Englanders who struggle in the shadow side of prosperity, Preservation explores the isolation--and possibilities--of a time before electronics linked us nonstop through the cloud. Cynthia Lang graduated from Smith College, won a Vogue Prix de Paris, and worked as a staff writer on Glamour. After free-lancing (Parents, Mademoiselle, Vogue Children, New York Times Magazine), she was co-author with Jerome Kagan of Psychology and Education: An Introduction (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and with Harry Levinson, Executive (Harvard University Press), and Senior Associate at Education Development Center, Inc. About Sarah Carlisle's River and Other Stories "With rare perspicacity, Cynthia Lang explores the reality of human relationships and the complexity of circumstance." --Rufus Collinson, Poet Laureate, Gloucester, Massachusetts. "It's the vocal textures: nimble sentences, sometimes buoyant, sometimes poignant, always with the sense that the momentum is the story. Lang writes of aspiration, chagrin, fleeting contentment. These stories open themselves across 200 years, two continents and the Caribbean."--Virginia Euwer Wolff, winner of the 2001 National Book Award, Young People's Literature for True Believer (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)
The Trouble With Moonlighting
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Author : Camilla T. Crespi
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-07
The Trouble With Moonlighting written by Camilla T. Crespi and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Cooking categories.
Originally published: Zebra Books, 1991.
Spanish Harlem
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Author : Joseph Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Release Date : 1994
Spanish Harlem written by Joseph Rodriguez and has been published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Each year, former residents of Spanish Harlem return for "Old Timer's Day," a celebration of the flamboyance and the gritty self-reliance of the neighborhood.".
Cotton Comes To Harlem
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Author : Chester Himes
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2011-08-03
Cotton Comes To Harlem written by Chester Himes and has been published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-03 with Fiction categories.
From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.