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Author : Lorenzo Carcaterra
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2002-08-20
Street Boys written by Lorenzo Carcaterra and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-20 with Fiction categories.
Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience. It’s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city can’t belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one. No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Nazis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city—or die trying. There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen-year-old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self-confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle-aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen-year-old daughter, who helps her father regain his self-respect— and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comrades—with no choice but to aid the street boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Nazi commander shamed by his own sadistic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves. In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterra’s trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page-turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all—and as a singular addition to the novels about World War II.
Cliff Street Boys
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Author : Richard Vadim
language : en
Publisher: Richard Vadimsky
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Cliff Street Boys written by Richard Vadim and has been published by Richard Vadimsky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the mid-twentieth century, before the era of computer games and social media platforms, teens in a small New Jersey town are on the prowl for their next adventure. See how imagination, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and self-confidence made for exciting lives, sometimes at great peril.
The President Street Boys
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Author : Frank Dimatteo
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Books
Release Date : 2016-07-26
The President Street Boys written by Frank Dimatteo and has been published by Kensington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This true crime memoir of 1950s Brooklyn shares a revealing look at life inside the Mafia at the height of its power. Frank Dimatteo was born into a family of mob hitmen. His father and godfather were shooters and bodyguards for infamous Mafia legends the Gallo brothers. His uncle was a capo in the Genovese crime family and bodyguard to Frank Costello. With family connections like those, Frank knew everybody in the neighborhood—and they knew him. After dropping out of high school, Frank lived gangster-style with the boys on President Street. In this lively memoir, Frank tells it like it really was growing up in the mob. He shares wild stories about everyone from the old-school Mafia dons and infamous “five families” to the new-breed “independents” who didn’t answer to nobody. He had a front row seat as the Gallo gang waged war against wiseguys with more power, more money, and more guns. And he reveals the shocking deathbed confessions that will blow the lid off the sordid deeds, stunning betrayals, and all-too-secret history of the American Mafia. The President Street Boys was originally self-published as Lion in the Basement.
The Baker Street Boys
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Author : Brian N. Ball
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-01-15
The Baker Street Boys written by Brian N. Ball and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with Fiction categories.
If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when the Baker Street Irregulars stumbled across the mystery of the Captive Clairvoyant, then no doubt he would have given immediate assistance. But Mr. Holmes was in Switzerland engaged in a deadly duel of wits with his most feared opponent, the evil Professor Moriarty; and so the Baker Street Irregulars, the gang of ragamuffins who sometimes assisted Mr. Holmes in his investigations, had to rely on their own wits. It all began—and ended—in Trump’s Music Hall, the theatre where Sparrow was employed, where the star of the show was The Amazing Marvin, Hypnotist Extraordinaire and Mentalist Supreme! But Marvin had a secret and sinister agenda.... Two marvelous tales of Holmesiana!
The Paul Street Boys
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Author : Ferenc Molnár
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
The Paul Street Boys written by Ferenc Molnár and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Fiction categories.
Street Boys 7 Kids 1 Estate No Way Out The True Story Of A Lost Childhood
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Author : Tim Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-02-02
Street Boys 7 Kids 1 Estate No Way Out The True Story Of A Lost Childhood written by Tim Pritchard and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-02 with Social Science categories.
The moving true story of 7 young kids and their struggle to escape a life of gangs and violence.
Street Kids
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Author : Kristina E. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-05-09
Street Kids written by Kristina E. Gibson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-09 with Social Science categories.
Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. Kristina Gibson argues that the enforcement of quality of life ordinances in New York City has spurred hyper-mobility amongst the city’s street youth population and has serious implications for social work with homeless youth. Youth in motion have become socially invisible and marginalized from public spaces where social workers traditionally contact them, jeopardizing their access to the already limited opportunities to escape street life. The culmination of a multi-year ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and ‘their kids’ on the streets of New York City, Street Kids illustrates the critical role that public space regulations and policing play in shaping the experience of youth homelessness and the effectiveness of street outreach.
Street Boys
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Author : Tim Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2008
Street Boys written by Tim Pritchard and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The shocking, powerful true story of the lives of 7 young kids, marred by guns, gangs and violence on one of Britain's toughest estates.
Flash Boys A Wall Street Revolt
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Author : Michael Lewis
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Flash Boys A Wall Street Revolt written by Michael Lewis and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
The Dead End Kids Of St Louis
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Author : Bonnie Stepenoff
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2010-05-24
The Dead End Kids Of St Louis written by Bonnie Stepenoff and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-24 with History categories.
Joe Garagiola remembers playing baseball with stolen balls and bats while growing up on the Hill. Chuck Berry had run-ins with police before channeling his energy into rock and roll. But not all the boys growing up on the rough streets of St. Louis had loving families or managed to find success. This book reviews a century of history to tell the story of the “lost” boys who struggled to survive on the city’s streets as it evolved from a booming late-nineteenth-century industrial center to a troubled mid-twentieth-century metropolis. To the eyes of impressionable boys without parents to shield them, St. Louis presented an ever-changing spectacle of violence. Small, loosely organized bands from the tenement districts wandered the city looking for trouble, and they often found it. The geology of St. Louis also provided for unique accommodations—sometimes gangs of boys found shelter in the extensive system of interconnected caves underneath the city. Boys could hide in these secret lairs for weeks or even months at a stretch. Bonnie Stepenoff gives voice to the harrowing experiences of destitute and homeless boys and young men who struggled to grow up, with little or no adult supervision, on streets filled with excitement but also teeming with sharpsters ready to teach these youngsters things they would never learn in school. Well-intentioned efforts of private philanthropists and public officials sometimes went cruelly astray, and sometimes were ineffective, but sometimes had positive effects on young lives. Stepenoff traces the history of several efforts aimed at assisting the city’s homeless boys. She discusses the prison-like St. Louis House of Refuge, where more than 80 percent of the resident children were boys, and Father Dunne's News Boys' Home and Protectorate, which stressed education and training for more than a century after its founding. She charts the growth of Skid Row and details how historical events such as industrialization, economic depression, and wars affected this vulnerable urban population. Most of these boys grew up and lived decent, unheralded lives, but that doesn’t mean that their childhood experiences left them unscathed. Their lives offer a compelling glimpse into old St. Louis while reinforcing the idea that society has an obligation to create cities that will nurture and not endanger the young.