Windy City Nocturne
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Windy City Nocturne
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Author : Ronald Brueckmann
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2008-03-05
Windy City Nocturne written by Ronald Brueckmann and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-05 with Fiction categories.
The place: Chicago, Illinois. The year: 1937. A city struggles to recover from the lawless legacy of Prohibition and the destructive aftermath of the Great Depression. The inequities of race and social class are vast and growing. In a rigidly segregated society, the average citizen keeps to his own kind, keeps his head down, and toils just to make ends meet. During this turbulent time, a young European immigrant labors in obscurity, deep within the teeming confines of the Pilsen district. He dreams of being a professional prizefighter. The young man’s prospects are few until he befriends an elderly African American boxer who operates a small gym on the city’s west side. The old man recognizes championship potential in the boy and agrees to coach him, molding him into a first class athlete. Together, the unlikely pair chase the elusive goal of a Middleweight Crown. Across town, another young man has a mentor of a different sort. One who schools him in the fine art of the “quick buck”. This boy, rescued from abject poverty, pursues wealth and power with ruthless zeal, surrendering to the darker side of human nature. Abandoning all compassion, he eagerly embraces a life of crime and brutality. A disillusioned Detective, grappling with a deep personal grief has become obsessed with fighting crime. His work has become his solace, his only virtue, his redemption. Exceeding the bounds of his authority, he fanatically persecutes the criminals of his precinct, setting him on a dangerous path of confrontation and violence. When these worlds collide, loyalty is forsaken and heartfelt dreams are crushed. A life is taken. This is a tale of good versus evil, of sacrifice and righteousness and love. This is a story of happiness and heartbreak and darkness. This Windy City Nocturne.
Snacks For The Mind
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Author : Denton Writers League
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
Snacks For The Mind written by Denton Writers League and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with American poetry categories.
The Cycling City
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Author : Evan Friss
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-04
The Cycling City written by Evan Friss and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with History categories.
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.
Selected Poems
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Author : Carl Sandburg
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-09-06
Selected Poems written by Carl Sandburg and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-06 with Poetry categories.
Superb collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet. This collection of Sandburg’s finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks’s comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg’s life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with americans today. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.
The Magical Life Of Marshall Brodien
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Author : John Moehring
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-04-21
The Magical Life Of Marshall Brodien written by John Moehring and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Performing Arts categories.
This unique biography details the life of magician Marshall Brodien, most remembered for his long-running career as television’s Wizzo the Wizard on WGN-TV’s Bozo’s Circus and The Bozo Show. Coverage begins in the late 1940s, when Brodien was a young magician in his first job as a Chicago magic shop demonstrator, then recounts Brodien’s steady rise to show-business success, including details of his work as a performer at the Magic Lounge in Cicero and, as a nightclub hypnotist in Chicago’s posh Cairo Supper Club. The work concludes with an examination of Brodien’s current career as one of the most successful marketers of magic sets in the U.S.
Contemporary American Poetry
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Author : Ryan G. Van Cleave
language : en
Publisher: Pearson
Release Date : 2002
Contemporary American Poetry written by Ryan G. Van Cleave and has been published by Pearson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with American poetry categories.
Features a collection of poetry from some of America's best poets and provides original commentaries and suggested exercises to help the reader explore the meaning behind these poets' works.
Nocturne
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Author : Ed McBain
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2009-05-30
Nocturne written by Ed McBain and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-30 with Fiction categories.
Just in case anybody thought the 47 earlier novels in the 87th precinct were a fluke, McBain's gone and revitalized the routine with Nocturne"". -- The New York Times Book Review In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful -- especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century long vanished. Meanwhile 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he's on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent the evening carving up a hooker.
Index To Children S Poetry
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Index To Children S Poetry written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with American poetry categories.
Index To Children S Poetry
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Author : John Edmund Brewton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Index To Children S Poetry written by John Edmund Brewton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with American poetry categories.
Crossroads
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Author : Mark Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Crossroads written by Mark Radcliffe and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Music categories.
Standing at the crossroads – the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil’s infamous meeting – Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal juncture. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be diagnosed with mouth and throat cancer. Together these events led Radcliffe to think about pivotal tracks in music and how the musicians who wrote and performed them had reached the crossroads that led to such epoch-changing music. Crossroads is a warm, intimate account of music and its power to transform our lives, as Radcliffe takes a personal journey through these key tracks.