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| Author | : Robert Turcan |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2011-10-15 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1445628457 |
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Gravesend has changed and developed over the last century
| Author | : William Boyle |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681779145 |
It’s been sixteen years since “Ray Boy” Calabrese’s actions led to the death of a young man. The victim’s brother, Conway D’Innocenzio, is now a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and drawn into a darker side of himself when he hears that Ray Boy’s has been released. But even with the perfect plan in place, Conway can’t bring himself to take the ultimate revenge.Meanwhile, failed actress Alessandra returns to her native Gravesend after the death of her mother, torn between a desperate need to escape immediately back to LA and the ease with which she sinks back into neighborhood life. Alessandra and Conway are walking eerily similar paths—staring down the rest of their lives, caring for their aging fathers, lost in the youths they squandered—and each must decide what comes next.In the tradition of American noir authors like Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, William Boyle’s Gravesend brings the titular neighborhood to life in this story of revenge, desperation, and escape.
| Author | : Anthony Lane |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2014-06-15 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1445640074 |
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Kent Coast has changed and developed over the last century
| Author | : Cole Swensen |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-07-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520273176 |
Gravesend, which takes its name from the English town at the mouth of the Thames, revisits the genre of the ghost story and, through fragmentation, juxtaposition, and allusion, powerfully summons the uncanny, the spectral presence. Cole Swensen delves into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more to explore the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of "gravesend," implicitly asking if all ends in the grave or if death itself has an end. Swensen's focus on language shapes these visitations--glimp.
| Author | : Robert Turcan |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 1997-01-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780631200475 |
This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. As well as being of wide general interest, this book will appeal to students of the Roman Empire and of the history of religion.
| Author | : Sara Richard |
| Publisher | : Source Point Press |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2021-10-26 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781954412286 |
The Dead Hand Book is a memorial to mortality and the ancestral liaison with death through quiet and sweetly-macabre short stories. The Dead Hand Book is a memorial to mortality and the ancestral liaison with death through quiet and sweetly-macabre short stories. The collection of fables is inspired by the manner those long gone have had their memories engraved onto slate and marble stones with the cadence of an old Folk song or Murder Ballad. Tales of warning, the deepest loves honored by surviving paramours and the indifferent cruelty of life in the 17th-20th century are all recorded in the Stories From Gravesend Cemetery. The purpose of this book is to educate the casual cemetery wanderer about how to read the old stones they pass by and to excite the #deathpositivity movement enthusiast or morbidly curious. This book aims help honor those who have come before us by opening the door of understanding the strange records inscribed in old cemeteries; many of those interred below having only that record of their life existing on a crumbling stone. The stories are short and often open-ended to allow the reader to contemplate their interpretation of the endings, maybe even their own mortality. (Much like the way Edward Gorey crafted his short stories.) Modern attitudes towards death have become sodden with superstition, misinformation and fear; this book’s goal is to illuminate how those of the near past embraced, cared for, and honored death as an obvious part of life. Not long ago art was very much an integral part of funerary celebrations such as elaborate Memento Mori carvings on ancient gravestones and the hair jewelry of the Victorians. Those relics are celebrated in The Dead Hand Book.
| Author | : Joseph Ditta |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738564692 |
Permanently settled in 1645, the farming town of Gravesend, Long Island, was annexed to the city (now borough) of Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. Few reminders from Gravesend's rural days survive around the urban landscape it has become. Even its more recent past is quickly disappearing.
| Author | : Phil Farina |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2018-04-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781987611779 |
Detectives Paul Mercuri and Dave Delair are stumped while investigating a series of grisly murders. The victims have been brutally attacked, leaving behind a bloody massacre and a dearth of logical evidence. The detectives enlist the help of Dr. Emily Howell, the local coroner, who follows a trail of inexplicable clues leading to an impossible conclusion: the trio must look beyond this mortal plane to find the murderer. The trail leads to an Indian Spirit, Shingas, who has been dead some 250 years, as their lead suspect. Shingas was once a Lenni Lenape Medicine Man, brutally killed by white soldiers during the American Revolutionary War. The spirit of Shingas plans to cross the veil between the living and the dead to seek vengeance against those who have wronged him. The trio must enter the realm of the supernatural to stop him from crossing over and allowing demonic forces to enter our world.
| Author | : Elaine Mercado |
| Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Ghosts |
| ISBN | : 9780738700038 |
You leave us alone; we'll leave you alone. When Elaine Mercado and her first husband bought their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1982, they had no idea that they and their two young daughters were embarking on a thirteen-year nightmare. thin a few days of moving in, Elaine and her older daughter began to experience the sensation of being watched. Then came scratching noises and weird smells, followed by voices whispering, maniacal laughter, shadowy figures scurrying along baseboards, and small balls of light bouncing along the ceilings. From the beginning of the haunting, "suffocating dreams" were experienced by everyone except the younger daughter. These eventually accelerated to physical aggression directed at Elaine and both the girls. This book is the true story of how one family tried to cope with living in a haunted house. It also describes how, with the help of parapsychologist Dr. Hans Holzer and medium Marisa Anderson, the family discovered the tragic and heartbreaking secrets buried in the house at Grave's End. I struggle to open my eyes, but achieve nothing but frustration and failure. I am not asleep. I am fully conscious, in a state of panic unthinkable during the day intolerable in the dark of night, held prisoner by some tortured, invisible presence, insistent on abruptly invading my slumber. The more I struggle toward freedom, the more I am pushed into the mattress, perspiring, heart palpitating, a scream involuntarily silenced within my throat. Some nights I experience my skin being stroked while I fight to regain control of my body, my sight. Thank God, this was not one of those nights. Tonight it lets me open my eyes, shaken but unviolated, frightened, but not as frightened as I know I can become. First Runner up for the 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for Best Biographical/Personal Book
| Author | : William Boyle |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1643134035 |
A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There’s Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava’s son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey Baldini, a college dropout who’s returned to the old neighborhood, purposeless and drifting; Donna Rotante, Donnie’s ex-wife, still reeling from the suicide of their teenage son; Mikey’s mother, Rosemarie, also a widow, who hopes Mikey won’t fall into the trap of strong arm work; and Antonina Divino, a high school girl with designs on breaking free from Brooklyn. Uniting them are the dead: Mikey’s old man, killed over a gambling debt, and Donnie and Donna’s poor son, Gabe. These characters cross paths in unexpected ways, guided by coincidence and the pull of blood. There are new things to be found in the rubble of their lives, too. The promise of something different beyond the barriers that have been set out for them. This is a story of revenge and retribution, of facing down the ghosts of the past, of untold desires, of yearning and forgiveness and synchronicity, of the great distance of lives lived in dangerous proximity to each other. City of Margins is a Technicolor noir melodrama pieced together in broken glass.
