Pretty Evil New York: True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs, Paperback - Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Reducere. Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fasci...

Reducere. Pennsylvania may have been founded by peaceful Quakers, but the sect's pacifist ways didn't dampen the state's enthusiasm for violent scandals-or c...

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Reducere. Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcees, actres...

Reducere. As the saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The phrase is never more true for the women covered in this book, all of whom harbour a...

Reducere. AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwa...

Reducere. We all love our mothers, right?Our moms fed us, tucked is into our beds at night, and nursed all of our bruises, both physical and emotional when w...

Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront transports the reader into the extraordinary past and present embedded in New ...

Reducere. "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itsel...

Reducere. Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties a...

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Eli...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Elizabeth HardwickNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 19Cover ...

A New York Review Books OriginalEdith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, h...

Reducere. The first in a line of Animal Rescues chapter books, Dog Finds Lost Dolphins is a tale you'll not soon forget. In this charming and awe-inspiring s...

Reducere. In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the tr...

Reducere. Pretty on the outside may not mean pretty on the inside. Parke Stockard was certainly sitting pretty. Blessed with good looks and business sense to...

Reducere. Alex Shondor Birns--Public Enemy Number One, friend of powerful Jewish and Italian mobsters, and trusted partner of black gambling racketeers. He w...

Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry American poet Elizabeth Willis has written an electrifying body of work spanning more than twenty ye...

Reducere. Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultura...

Reducere. Demonic possession. Exorcism. Haunted Houses. Satanic Rituals.For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superst...

Reducere. Pierre Toussaint, a former slave, moved to New York from Saint Domingue (modern day Haiti) with his owners in 1787 as they escaped the unrest on th...

DescriptionGamma Rae wants to be a superhero, and why shouldn't she--? She's been strong since she was a baby The problem is, her siblings are all ...

Gamma Rae's one true love is already dead, and her best friend was demoted to being a glorified janitor after a series of what seemed like strategi...

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Reducere. Small Town Charm With Deadly ConsequencesA collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on small town true crime shows r...

Reducere. A 2020 International Book Awards True Crime Award Finalist From the author of To Kill the Irishman, basis for the movie Kill the Irishman, here is ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maggie NelsonMaggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New Yor...

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 336Collection: Alternative CriminologyPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 231 x 223 x 25Cover ty...

Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic people of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers, and prepare to be i...

A wickedly smart, utterly hilarious debut from a Southern Living columnist--mother of three, Southerner married to a New Yorker, evangelical Christ...

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans...

Reducere. A visually stunning, landmark photography book of transgender New Yorkers, complete with thought-provoking and revealing interviews that honor the ...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peaco...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth EllcessorNumber of pages: 272Collection: Postmillennial PopPublication date: 2016Dimension...

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