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5) It happened in Brooklyn: an oral history of growing up in the borough in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s
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Pub. Date
[1993]
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First edition.
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English
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Dragons in a bag volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Now that he is Ma's apprentice Jax is finding himself mixed up with all sorts of magical doings, like taking care of a phoenix egg which is going to hatch soon, trying to bring back the creatures Sis stole, finding his grandfather, and convincing Sis, the guardian, to reunite the two realms--and hopefully living to see Brooklyn again.
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English
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In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
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When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
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Coldest Winter Ever volume 2
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English
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"Twenty years ago, Sister Souljah's debut novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, became a bestselling cultural phenomenon. Fans fell in love with the unforgettable Winter Santiaga, daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family, who captivated her lovers, friends, and enemies with her sexy street smarts. For two decades, fans have begged for answers about what happened to Winter. Now all is revealed in Sister Souljah's page-turning sequel, filled with...
11) The Great Bridge
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English
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A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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After being fired from her job at the hat factory for insubordinate behavior, Mary Handley, an aspiring detective, finds herself at the murder scene of Charles Goodrich, a former employee of Thomas Edison, and, proving her acumen as a sleuth, is hired by the Brooklyn police department to solve the crime.
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English
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Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
16) Building up greater Brooklyn: with sketches of men instrumental in Brooklyn's amazing development
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Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH5672
Pub. Date
[1925]
Language
English
17) Recollections of old roads, residents and their occupations: the past contrasted with the present
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Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH5660
Pub. Date
[1894?]
Language
English
18) Wonder wheel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
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English
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A black comedy in New York's criminal underworld. The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
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