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Show Me A Hero
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Lisa Belkin |
Gripping and timeless. Lisa Belkin's *Show Me A Hero* covers many important topics while re-telling the tragic and touching real-life events of Yonkers, NY in the 80's and 90's.
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Not in my backy… |
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Village of immigrants
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Diana R. Gordon |
"Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, exemplifies a little-noted national trend--that of immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural populati… |
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The Lufthansa heist
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Hill, Henry |
The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled l… |
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Black silent majority
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Michael Javen Fortner |
"Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of million… |
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Upstate cauldron
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Joscelyn Godwin |
"From 1776 to 1914, an amazing collection of prophets, mediums, sects, cults, utopian communities, and spiritual leaders arose in Upstate New York. Along with the best known of these, such as the Sha… |
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York
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Shane White |
"Stories of Freedom in Black New York re-creates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black commu… |
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Garbage Land
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Elizabeth Royte |
Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do t… |
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