Tales of Brooklyn

Tales of Brooklyn
Author: Stan Fischler
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781667803685

Every hero must have an origin story, and that includes New York media icon Stan Fischler. Known by millions of sports fans as The Maven, Fischler has written over 100 books on hockey, baseball, and transit systems--now he turns to his own story. Tales of Brooklyn is a collection of humorous and poignant stories about growing up in 1930s and 40s Brooklyn, New York. In a timeline that includes the Great Depression and World War II, experience the blossoming of Fischler into the Hall of Fame hockey writer he will become.

The Guardians of Brooklyn

The Guardians of Brooklyn
Author: Francis Holt
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-02-14
Genre:
ISBN:

Brooklyn, 1973"What's the address of the fire?"It was the twenty-fourth time that Fire Alarm Dispatcher Tommy McDonald, who was nearing the end of a double shift at FDNY's Brooklyn Central Office, had asked that question in the last two hours. Nondescript on the outside, most people walking by thought the Brooklyn CO was part of the nearby Prospect Park Zoo. The dispatchers inside knew that the zoo was a much quieter calmer place by comparison.The Guardians of Brooklyn follows the lives of two fire alarm dispatchers, one a rookie and one a 17-year veteran, as they navigate through fire department politics, city politics, arson for profit, murder, union politics and love.

I'm Dying to Tell Ya!!!

I'm Dying to Tell Ya!!!
Author: Doris Amen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-01-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514614624

"Fast, funny and totally enjoyable. Who would have known there was humor in dying! Amen tells you the nitty-gritty of the industry with candor."~ Catherine Arnold, author of Due Process, Imperfect Justice, Wrongful Death, Class Action and the novel, Journey. "In her lengthy career as one of New York's most colorful and best-known funeral directors, Doris Amen has seen and Glone more than most. On the pages of this book, Amen tells some of those stories as only she can." ~ Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, author of Grave Undertakings and Green-Wood Cemetery.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn
Author: Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0691208611

A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.

The Brooklyn Stories

The Brooklyn Stories
Author: Andrew Bernstein
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1951943902

The Brooklyn Stories is a collection of tales chronicling varied characters in sizzling conflicts regarding major values.For example: Will a philosophy professor overcome heartbreak and anger at romantic betrayal to collaborate with his triumphant rival on writing the novel they both cherish? Can a high school teacher and former Marine, reared in a criminal family, protect from that family’s murderous intent his innocent best friend? Can a brilliant boxer clean the ‘hood’s mean streets of brutal thugs and win back the girlfriend that his neglect permitted to be savagely assaulted? How do multiple survivors of a violent school invasion deal with the aftermath of the tragic event? These are just some of the vivid characters and conflicts gracing the pages of this collection.

Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062446320

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

Brooklyn by Name

Brooklyn by Name
Author: Leonard Benardo
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2006-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814799469

From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. These pages take readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Over 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place names are organized alphabetically by region. Photos & maps.

Hard Boiled Brooklyn

Hard Boiled Brooklyn
Author: Reed Farrel Coleman
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781932557176

Bagels, bullies, and bad girls are only part of the chemistry of Hardboiled Brooklyn. An anthology of slash and burn short stories set in the Country of Kings, the collection boasts an all-star line up of today's hottest crime fiction writers, including Edgar winners S.J. Rozan and Peter Blauner, Shamus winners Ken Bruen and Peter Spiegelman, Gumshoe winner Jim Fusili, and Anthony/Barry winner, Jason Starr.

The Third Attic and Other Brooklyn Stories

The Third Attic and Other Brooklyn Stories
Author: Vincent Manago
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991493005

"Being a member of a large, caring, Italian-American family is not only a privilege and a great gift, but it also bears an obligation. It comes with a requisite responsibility-the active participation in the helpful caring for others." A man reflects on a lifetime of love, unforgettable friends, and a dedicated family in the nostalgic memoir, "The Third Attic and Other Brooklyn Stories." Vincent Manago reminisces on a boyhood spent in 1950s and 1960s Brooklyn, New York with his Italian-American family. Readers will delight in hearing of Vincent's search for the elusive "Third Attic," a secret room reportedly hidden within the yawning reaches of the attics of the local church that was built in part by Vincent's grandfather during the dawn of the twentieth century. Learn of the young Jewish couple who help their Italian neighbors in a time of need, only to have the kindness repaid in the most unexpected way during World War II. Experience Vincent's life through adolescence in Brooklyn, his young loves, and his chance meeting with the woman who would become his wife. These stories and more help reconstruct the nuances of a life well lived, in an era that has long since passed.