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| Author | : Martin Lewis Blumberg |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Us |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2020-01-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781796070675 |
There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our friends and family know and love. For Martin Blumberg, the path of explaining himself to the world begins by understanding the way the world around him influenced his experiences and choices and how he interacted with family, friends, teachers, and neighborhood businesses as he grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. What puzzles us all is the mystery of how the kids we grew up with in those same surroundings went on to become either well-educated and respected professionals and businessmen, or gangsters and incarcerated criminals. Ultimately, growing up is a never-ending series of choices and interactions, some good, some not so, but ultimately, in balance, the better choices lead us to the happiness and self-satisfaction we enjoy, along with our many accomplishments. My dear friend Marty Blumberg has traveled a fascinating and unique path as he grew up in Brownsville and then to Canarsie neighborhoods, which colored and influenced his early life and molded him to become the great guy we all know and love. This is Martin's story, and it beautifully explains him to all of us, and, no doubt, through his introspections and insights, most importantly, explains him to himself. -Roger Elowitz
| Author | : Kevin J. Leddy |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1543428584 |
Let me just say that if you took two people who grew up in different neighborhoods in Brooklyn and sat them down in a room together they could talk for hours on end and basically share the same stories as if they grew up right next door to each other You see that is why I am writing this book. The stories that I will share with you as you turn each page do not belong to me exclusively. They are YOUR stories just as much as they are mine. All you really have to do is change the names and faces and use your own neighborhood as their back drop and believe me they are yours. I have included after each story an empty page for you to put your story on it so it will become “Your Brooklyn “ and a journal to pass on to those who you wish to remember your story
| Author | : Martin H. Levinson |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2011-05-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1462017134 |
Martin H. Levinson lived in Brooklyn from his birth in 1946 to 1962, the height of the baby boom following World War II. He grew up two blocks from Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, which boasts alums such as Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and chess-wiz Bobby Fischer. The author's personal recollections of his middle-class childhood in Brooklyn during the 1950s alternate with chapters detailing seminal cultural events of that era including the advent of television, fast-food restaurants, big cars with fins; desegregation and the white flight to the suburbs; rock and roll, beatniks, hula hoops, The Kinsey Reports, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Playboy, and much more. Part memoir, part social history, Brooklyn Boomer offers a captivating portrait of Brooklyn and America in the mid-twentieth Century.
| Author | : Gayle Forman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-04-16 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0425290786 |
The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay “Heartwrenching…If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck.” – Hypable A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day: Freya who has lost her voice while recording her debut album. Harun who is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved. Nathaniel who has just arrived in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. As the day progresses, their secrets start to unravel and they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in helping the others out of theirs. An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and discovering the person you are meant to be, I Have Lost My Way is bestselling author Gayle Forman at her finest. “A beautifully written love song to every young person who has ever moved through fear and found themselves on the other side.” – Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming
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| Release | : 2018-10-09 |
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| ISBN | : 9780999294338 |
The courageous and trailblazing women profiled in Hey Sky I'm On My Way include figures like Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Angela Davis and Valentina Tereshkova. They have qualities that all women share. They are strong and courageous women. We identify with them, perhaps even want to be them, and they enrich our lives. Hey Sky, I'm On My Way is filled with bold women and bold illustrations that inspire us all.
| Author | : Colin Gunderson |
| Publisher | : Triumph Books |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-04-01 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1633191583 |
Tommy Lasorda believed that winning wasn't about being the best, but about believing you are the best and that philosophy runs throughout Tommy Lasorda: My Way. Author Colin Gunderson takes readers through Lasorda's days as a player and the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, including their two World Series Championships in 1981 and 1988. It also provides fans with a peek at what makes Lasorda tick: his relationship with his father, Sabatino, whom he emulated; his childhood growing up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, working odd jobs; and his unfailing work ethic. That work ethic helped him become one of baseball's most successful managers as he won the World Series twice, won four National League pennants and eight division titles with the Dodgers. In this book, fans will recall some of their favorite Lasorda anecdotes, and will also be privy to new information and rich background on this national baseball treasure, including memories from an All-Star roster of Dodgers stars.
| Author | : Evelyn Stefansson Nef |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Reading Evelyn Stefansson Nef's autobiography is like watching time-lapse photographs of a rose in the process of blooming. Each petal in random sequence breaks free from the bud and stretches out in all directions. The intricately textured flower in full bloom gives little hint of its humble beginning. Born in 1913 the child of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants, Evelyn grew up in Brooklyn. Her memories of her early years are dominated by a sense of joylessness, a remote and fragile mother, and a father she adored who died suddenly when she was thirteen. While studying art at high school in Manhattan Evelyn frequently visited a Greenwich Village restaurant called Romany Marie's, a popular gathering place for artists and writers. Among her new acquaintances was the futurist inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller, who became an intimate friend. As a bright, talented, and attractive young woman, Evelyn moved freely within New York's theatrical and literary worlds of the 1930s. Under the tutelage of master puppeteer, Bil Baird, with whom she had a passionate but short-lived marriage, she became accomplished in the art of marionettes.
| Author | : Jonathan Lethem |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2011-04-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307789128 |
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
| Author | : Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Hawthorne Books |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2011-10-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0983850445 |
An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a singular girl.
| Author | : Adrienne Onofri |
| Publisher | : Wilderness Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0899975585 |
Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn’s most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan’s lesser-known neighbor. This two-color book features 30 routes, a clear neighborhood map for each walk, black-and-white photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section outlines each walk’s highlights.
