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Dogfight, A Love Story

Author : Matt Burgess
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2011-09-06
ISBN 10 : 9780307476432
Pages : 306 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (476 downloads)

Download Dogfight, A Love Story PDF Format Full Free by Matt Burgess and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his brother, which may have something to do with the fact that Alfredo is now dating Tariq’s ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is eight months pregnant. Tariq’s violent streak is probably #1 worry on Alfredo’s list. Also, he needs to steal a pit bull. For the homecoming dogfight. Burgess brings to life the rich and vivid milieu of his hometown native Queens in all its glorious variety. Here is the real New York, a place where Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, An glos, African Americans, and West Indians scrap and mingle and love. But the real star here is Burgess’s incredible ear for language—the voices of his characters leap off the page in riotous, spot-on dialogue. The outer boroughs have their own language, where a polite greeting is fraught with menace, and an insult can be the expression of the most tender love. With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy—or revenge tragedy, for that matter—and an electrically colloquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature. The great Queens novel has arrived.

The War Film

Author : Robert T. Eberwein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0813534976
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (813 downloads)

Download The War Film PDF Format Full Free by Robert T. Eberwein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has had a powerful impact on the film industry, while at the same time motion pictures can influence wartime behaviour & shape our perception of the historical record. This book collects essays that use a variety of critical approaches to explore this film genre.

The New York Nobody Knows

Author : William B. Helmreich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
ISBN 10 : 9780691169705
Pages : 474 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (169 downloads)

Download The New York Nobody Knows PDF Format Full Free by William B. Helmreich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles. His epic journey lasted four years and took him to every corner of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Helmreich spoke with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe and from every walk of life, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former mayors Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, and Edward Koch. Their stories and his are the subject of this captivating and highly original book. We meet the Guyanese immigrant who grows beautiful flowers outside his modest Queens residence in order to always remember the homeland he left behind, the Brooklyn-raised grandchild of Italian immigrants who illuminates a window of his brownstone with the family's old neon grocery-store sign, and many, many others. Helmreich draws on firsthand insights to examine essential aspects of urban social life such as ethnicity, gentrification, and the use of space. He finds that to be a New Yorker is to struggle to understand the place and to make a life that is as highly local as it is dynamically cosmopolitan."--Publisher's description.

A Pete Seeger Discography

Author : David King Dunaway
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2010-11-12
ISBN 10 : 0810877198
Pages : 317 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (81 downloads)

Download A Pete Seeger Discography PDF Format Full Free by David King Dunaway and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s, 78s, LPs, and CDs recorded by Seeger in his various incarnations: with the Almanac Singers, with the Weavers, as a solo artist, and with other musicians and contributors. David King Dunaway provides information, with easy to use cross-references, on rare recordings and archival collections. The discography offers details on Seeger's recording history, including the album title, song(s), other artists on the recording, the publisher and number, and the year or exact recording date if known, as well as the original release date and the re-releases of each recording. Structured to make locating details easy for readers, the recordings are organized chronologically and categorized by albums, singles, private pressings, and foreign releases. Readers can easily cross-reference through album and song title indexes and a contributing artist index. An appendix listing the unreleased archival holdings of the Smithsonian Folkways collection under Moe Asch completes the volume, and a photospread with more than 30 of Seeger's album covers convey a pictorial recording history of this well-loved artist. The authors gratefully acknowledge Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their funding assistance in preparing this discography.

Wolf Boys

Author : Dan Slater
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781501126628
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (126 downloads)

Download Wolf Boys PDF Format Full Free by Dan Slater and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times) In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. At first glance, Gabriel is the poster-boy American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome, and charismatic. But the ghettos of Laredo, Texas—his border town—are full of smugglers and gangsters and patrolled by one of the largest law-enforcement complexes in the world. It isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of juvenile crime, which leads him across the river to Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel: Los Zetas. Friends from his childhood join him and eventually they catch the eye of the cartel’s leadership. As the cartel wars spill over the border, Gabriel and his crew are sent to the States to work. But in Texas, the teen hit men encounter a Mexican-born homicide detective determined to keep cartel violence out of his adopted country. Detective Robert Garcia’s pursuit of the boys puts him face-to-face with the urgent consequences and new security threats of a drug war he sees as unwinnable. In Wolf Boys, Slater takes readers on a harrowing, often brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade. Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the intimate story of the lobos: teens turned into pawns for the cartels. A nonfiction thriller, it reads with the emotional clarity of a great novel, yet offers its revelations through extraordinary reporting.

Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories

Author : Tania Modleski
Publisher : NYU Press
Release Date : 1998-11
ISBN 10 : 9780814755945
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (755 downloads)

Download Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories PDF Format Full Free by Tania Modleski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.

Uncle Janice

Author : Matt Burgess
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2015-01-06
ISBN 10 : 9780385536813
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (536 downloads)

Download Uncle Janice PDF Format Full Free by Matt Burgess and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four-year-old Janice Itwaru is an “uncle”—NYPD lingo for an undercover narcotics officer—and the heroine of the most exuberantand original cop novel in years. A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will automatically get promoted to detective. Undercover narc Janice Itwaru is at month seventeen. Ambitious, desperate for that promotion, she hits the sidewalks of Queens in her secondhand hoochie clothes, hoping to convince potential criminals—drug dealers, addicts, dummies, whomever—to commit a felony on her behalf. And things aren’t any easier back at the narco office, where she has to keep up with the bantering lies and inventively cruel pranks of her fellow uncles while coping with the ridiculous demands of her NYPD bosses. With an ailing mother at home, her cover nearly blown, quota pressures from her superiors, and rumors circulating that Internal Affairs has her unit under surveillance, Janice is running terribly short on luck as her promotion deadline approaches. Now she has to decide which evil to confront: the absurd bureaucrats at One Police Plaza, or the violent drug dealers who may already be on to her identity. Bursting with the glorious chaos of the New York City streets, Uncle Janice is both a deeply funny portrait of how undercover cops really talk and act, and a compelling story of their crazy, dangerous, and complicated lives.

Cashiers du Cinemart 17

Author : Mike White
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-10-28
ISBN 10 : 9781300351405
Pages : 178 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (351 downloads)

Download Cashiers du Cinemart 17 PDF Format Full Free by Mike White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cashiers du Cinemart 17 authors: Jef Burnham, Jason Coffman, Chris Cummins, Skizz Cyzyk, Jim Donahue, Ralph Elawani, Mike Faloon, Paul Freitag, Joshua Gravel, Josh Hadley, Kristy Jett, Zachary Kelley, Andrew Leavold, Scott Lefebvre, David MacGregor, Mike Malloy, Bob Moricz, Rich Osmond, James Sanford, Robert St. Mary, Mike Sullivan, Calum Syers, Dan Tabor, Don Takano, and Mike White with cover art by Tom Bagley. This issue boasts features about Filipino exploitation films, Chuck Vincent, Andy Sidaris, Gaspar Noé, Brad Dourif, and Pierre Maheu and more including interviews with Sid Haig, Keith Shapiro, Eli Craig, Louie Bonnano, Peter Filardi, and many more. And, don't miss appreciations of films as diverse as After Last Season, The Touch of Her Flesh, Blood Sucking Freaks, Dream Home, and Eat My Dust.

Help Your Dog Fight Cancer

Author : Laurie Kaplan
Publisher : JanGen Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 9780975479476
Pages : 164 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (479 downloads)

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Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told

Author : Patricia M. Sherwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9781461749431
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (749 downloads)

Download Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told PDF Format Full Free by Patricia M. Sherwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since canines first joined humans around the fire—perhaps as far back as 100,000 years ago—the two species have enjoyed a mutually rewarding relationship. The bond between people and their dogs is like no other. Dogs are our best friends, our co-workers, our guardians, and often, our rescuers. They serve us, adore us, entertain us, work for and with us, but most of all they warm our hearts. The perfect gift for any dog lover, The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of some of the most moving and illuminating stories ever penned on the subject of our canine companions. Readers will find selections from renowned writers of the genre such as Jack London, James Thurber, and Willie Morris, as well as a few surprise contributions from writers more famous in other fields, including Ray Bradbury and Thomas Mann. With gems from Will Rogers, P. G. Wodehouse, Peter Mayle, Stephen J. Bodio, and many others, The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told is hard to put down. In the thirty-six stories in this fascinating collection, dog lovers will have the pleasure of meeting all kinds of canines—sled dogs, herding dogs, hunting and birding dogs, family pets and movie stars, a dog who was a growing boy's best friend, and even a man who was a dog in another life. These dogs will make readers laugh and make them cry, but most of all they will make them realize just why humans adore their dogs.

Dogfight, a Love Story

Author : Matt Burgess
Publisher : Random House LLC
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9780385532983
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (532 downloads)

Download Dogfight, a Love Story PDF Format Full Free by Matt Burgess and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight. A first novel.

Deep Space Dogfights

Author : Rogue Planet Press
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date : 2017-01-11
ISBN 10 : 9781326914745
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (914 downloads)

Download Deep Space Dogfights PDF Format Full Free by Rogue Planet Press and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have incoming... From Gavin Chappell, editor-in-chief of imprint Rogue Planet Press and editor E.S. Wynn comes the ultimate space opera anthology, full of stories of rebellion, ambition and supersonic, hyperbolic aerial dogfights that will leave you shaken and stirred by both G-force and unashamed conflict.

Dog Fight

Author : Norman Franks
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2003-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9781784380076
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (38 downloads)

Download Dog Fight PDF Format Full Free by Norman Franks and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of WWI aviation is a rich and varied story marked by the evolution of aircraft from slow moving, fragile, and unreliable powered kites, into quick, agile, sturdy fighter craft. At the same time there emerged a new kind of 'soldier', the fighter pilots whose individual cunning and bravery became crucial in the fight for control of the air. Dog-fight traces this rapid technological development alongside the strategy and planning of commanders and front-line airmen as they adapted to the rapidly changing events around them and learned to get the best from their machines. Often, this involved discovering and employing tactics instinctively to stay alive. Based on the author's personal correspondence with a number of WWI fighter pilots and aces, and drawing on published contemporary memoirs, this is an authoritative and lively history that serves as a captivating tribute to the brave pilots of both sides.

Roger Ebert's Video Companion

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0836221524
Pages : 1004 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (836 downloads)

Download Roger Ebert's Video Companion PDF Format Full Free by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully indexed by title, stars, and director and thoroughly cross-referenced, this guide to movies on video also features lists of outstanding movies, new interviews, and full-length reviews

The New York Times Film Reviews

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1969
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015023713798
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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New York

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105006708726
Pages : 1312 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers

Author : Jonathan J. Cavallero
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2011-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9780252093197
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (93 downloads)

Download Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers PDF Format Full Free by Jonathan J. Cavallero and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American "imagined community," others have ignored or even denied their background. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films of Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Savoca, Francis Ford Coppola, and Quentin Tarantino with a focus on what the films reveal about each director's view on Italian American identities. Whereas Capra's films highlight similarities between immigrant characters and WASP Americans, Scorsese accepts his ethnic heritage but also sees it as confining. Similarly, many of Coppola's films provide a nostalgic treatment of Italian American identity, but with little criticism of the culture's more negative aspects. And while Savoca's movies reveal her artful ability to recognize how ethnic, gender, and class identities overlap, Tarantino's films exhibit a playfully postmodern engagement with Italian American ethnicity. Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural institution that works to assimilate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted.