An Orphan Of Hell S Kitchen

Author : Liz Freeland
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496726186

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An Orphan of Hell's Kitchen by Liz Freeland Pdf

In 1914, Hell’s Kitchen is an apt name for New York City’s grittiest neighborhood, as one of the city’s first policewomen, Louise Faulk, is about to discover when the death of a young prostitute leads her on a grim journey through the district’s darkest corners . . . Filthy, dangerous, and deadly—Hell’s Kitchen is no place for a lady, but Louise Faulk is no ordinary woman. The amateur investigator turned rookie policewoman is investigating the death of young prostitute, Ruthie, who leaves behind a baby boy. Although detectives are quick to declare it a suicide, Louise is less certain after she discovers clues implying murder while attempting to find a caretaker for Ruthie’s orphaned son. Uncovering the truth won’t be easy, especially since Louise is struggling to make a name for herself amid the boys’ club of the New York City Police Department. But Ruthie’s case keeps tugging at Louise, luring her beyond the slums’ drawn curtains and tenement doors, into an undercover investigation that often seems to conceal more than it reveals. Louise is convinced Ruthie’s secrets got her killed, but can she prove it before they catch up to her too?

Author : Liz Freeland
Publisher : Sterling Mystery Series
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643586297

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An Orphan of Hell's Kitchen: A Louise Faulk Mystery by Liz Freeland Pdf

New York, 1914. Filthy, dangerous, and deadly -- Hell's Kitchen is no place for a lady, but Louise Faulk is no ordinary woman. The amateur investigator turned rookie policewoman is investigating the death of young prostitute, Ruthie, who leaves behind a baby boy. Although detectives are quick to declare it a suicide, Louise is less certain after she discovers clues implying murder while attempting to find a caretaker for Ruthie's orphaned son.

Author : Robert S. Telford
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466929654

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Between Two Wars by Robert S. Telford Pdf

It is the early twentieth century, and aspiring journalist Howard Andrews has been nurturing a love affair with Eleanor Arlington partly in his own imagination since he was fifteen years old. But when Ellie tells Howie she is dropping out of college because her father has lost their family farm, he can only hope that they will be together one day. But even as the country prepares for a seemingly inevitable world war, Howard proposes. It seems all his dreams are about to come true. By the spring of 1917, the world has turned inside out. With a little more than three months to go before their wedding, Congress declares war, changing everything for the young couple. In a short span, Howard signs up for artillery school and seals his commitment with Eleanor during what turns out to be a beautiful, military wedding ceremony. Just two days later, he must report for duty and leave his new wife behind. Little does he know that a tiny life has already begun to grow inside Eleanor. In this historical tale based on true events, a father and son soon discover that the consequences of war and the peace that follows will pursue both of them for much longer than they ever imagined.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520918108

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Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum Pdf

In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society. Readers will find revealing examinations of, for example, racial stereotyping in the debates surrounding Do the Right Thing, key films from Africa, China, Japan, and Taiwan, Hollywood musicals and French serials, and the cultural amnesia accompanying cinematic treatments of the Russian Revolution, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. From Schindler's List, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Piano, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective to the maverick careers of Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Nicholas Ray, Chantal Akerman, Todd Haynes, and Andrei Tarkovsky, Rosenbaum offers a polemically pointed survey that makes clear the high stakes involved in every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing.

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608196586

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Harold Robbins by Andrew Wilson Pdf

During his fifty-year career Harold Robbins, the godfather of the airport novel, sold approximately 750 million copies of his books worldwide. His seventh novel, The Carpetbaggers, a steamy tale of sex, greed, and corruption loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes, is the fourth-most-read book in history. As decadent as his fiction was, however, his life was just as profligate. Over the course of his five-decade career, Robbins spent money as quickly as he earned it, reportedly wasting away $50 million on everything from booze and drugs to yachts and prostitutes. Based on extensive interviews with family members and friends, including Larry Flynt and Barbara Eden, Harold Robbins examines the remarkable life of the man who gave birth to the cult of the modern bestseller and introduced sex to the American marketplace.

Author : Ted Simon
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781405512275

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Rolling Through The Isles by Ted Simon Pdf

From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain. Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain and a witty and affectionate journey back to the past, when Ted would hitchhike across the country visiting friends (and girlfriends). He returns to the site of his old school with its astonishing war time history and visits familiar haunts where he did his National Service and got his first job in newspapers. He also visits less-familiar places. Some inspire him (Winchester Cathedral). Others defeat him (a tax office in Nottingham). As he rolls through the Isles, he discovers that a great deal has changed: busier roads, bureaucracy and, worst of all, the dreaded 'Sat Nav'. But there is also much to celebrate and enjoy along the way. Packed with fascinating stories, extraordinary encounters and glorious depictions of the British countryside, Rolling through the Isles takes the reader on an unforgettable trip with a celebrated adventurer and writer.

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134709908

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Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists by Tim Woods Pdf

Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern fiction. Authors included range from Joseph Conrad to Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to Chinua Achebe. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the twentieth century novel.

Author : Joanna Kelly
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462058242

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Hooligan’S Alley by Joanna Kelly Pdf

Fueled with in-depth research and personal recollections, Hooligans Alley presents a historic novel embracing generations of early European immigrants and their amazing struggles. In the style of a novel, author Joanna Kelly tells the true story of Wilhelmina Huebner Metting, an orphaned farm girl who uprooted her life in Germany to search for an aunt living far away in America. Her quest took her to New Yorks infamous Hells Kitchen, an area of overcrowded slums, lumberyards, slaughterhouses, factories, and immigrants troubled by poverty and violence. There, seventeen-year-old Wilhelmina started a seamstress business and kept cows on a vacant city lot. Wilhelmina was, above all things, a passionate social reformer. She encountered American society first during the Civil War, a time of great social unrest. Her involvement with the Colored Orphan Asylum put her in the center of the New York City Draft Riots, the largest uprising in the history of the United States. Wilhelminas story inspired Kelly, who fleshed out the few hard facts she could find with a lovingly researched fictional visit to a long-lost time and place in Americas history. Joanna Kellydraws special strength from her Quaker faith as well as her insatiable thirst for history in writing her first novel, Hooligans Alley. She is a gifted writer who explores her love of music, wildflowers, and passion for family in weaving this remarkable series of adventures that will set your heart to racing, while stretching your own recollections and imagination. Hooligans Alley is a must-read for New Yorkers and history lovers, and everyone who cares about origins and family. E. Barrie Kavasch best-selling author of The Medicine Wheel Garden

Author : Sinéad Moynihan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815652120

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Other People's Diasporas by Sinéad Moynihan Pdf

With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants suddenly saw waves of newcomers. In this book, Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: "What happens when other people’s diasporas converge on the homeland of diasporic people?" Approaching the question from a cultural rather than a sociological vantage point, Moynihan delves into fiction, drama, comedy, and cinema since 1998 to examine the various representations of and insights into race relations. "Other People’s Diasporas" draws upon the recent fiction of Joseph O’Connor, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue; films directed by Jim Sheridan and Eugene Brady; drama by Donal O’Kelly and Ronan Noone; and the comedy of Des Bishop to present a highly original and engaging exploration of contemporary Irish discourses on race.

Author : Cynthia Drew
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564747815

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Red Mansions by Cynthia Drew Pdf

After her first husband is presumed killed in World War I, milliner Carsie Levy marries Chat Nussbaum and together with Carsie's daughters, Sarit and Sophia, they settle into a quiet routine. But between the World Wars life outside the walls of the Nussbaum's red brick mansion on New York City's East 66 th Street is anything but quiet-the politics and pace of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression contrive in ways Carsie cannot imagine to wrest her of her family, her business and, ultimately, her sanity.

Author : Mark Knowles
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786453603

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The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances by Mark Knowles Pdf

The waltz, perhaps the most beloved social dance of the 19th and early 20th centuries, once provoked outrage from religious leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of social morality. Decrying the corrupting influence of social dancing, they failed to suppress the popularity of the waltz or other dance crazes of the period, including the Charleston, the tango, and "animal dances" such as the Turkey Trot, Grizzly Bear, and Bunny Hug. This book investigates the development of these popular dances, considering in particular how their very existence as "taboo" cultural fads ultimately provided a catalyst for lasting social reform. In addition to examining the impact of the waltz and other scandalous dances on fashion, music, leisure, and social reform, the text describes the opposition to dance and the proliferation of literature on both sides.

Author : Donelle Ruwe,James Leve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317167730

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Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater by Donelle Ruwe,James Leve Pdf

Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults.

Author : Stephen Pimpare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190660727

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Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens by Stephen Pimpare Pdf

"Explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today"--Front jacket flap.

Author : Morgan Reinbold
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475143966

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Laird O' the Prairie by Morgan Reinbold Pdf

Description of "Laird of the Prairie"Because Peter was an orphan, Hell's Kitchen in the 1860s was his home; if you could call it a home—a blanket on the floor of a run-down tenement building. Peter Von Rijn worked for the New York Water Authority from the time he could use a shovel. He wanted to escape from a life that would lead only to crime, but the escape was not the one he'd planned. A tryst with the daughter Stuyvesant, one of the wealthiest man in New York sends him on the run. With four killers closing in on him in a rail yard, Peter escapes in a livestock rail car and begins a new life. With the help of a jockey and a Scottish noble family, he learns not only to shoot a gun and ride a horse, but also to read and write. Peter begins a new life crossing the untamed country while working with this family, not knowing that he is still being sought by killers and unaware that his grandfather is also looking for him. He becomes an Indian scout for a wagon train out of St.Louis. There is plenty of romance and gun fighting action.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCAL:$B428568

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International Motion Picture Almanac by Anonim Pdf