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1) The gift
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
2) Tabloid city
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy socialite and her secretary are found murdered in a stately West Village townhouse, a flurry of seemingly unrelated people spring into action. A reporter chases the story while a tabloid executive holds the presses, a ruined financer attempts to leave the country, a war veteran plots revenge, and a terrorist plans an attack.
3) North River
Author
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the horrors of World War I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns home one day to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep.
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
5) Forever
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Never before collected in one volume, here are Pete Hamill's stories about Brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart. A young boy with a mysterious past forever transforms the lives of the neighborhood toughs. A man returns to his old haunts to avenge the death of his brother. A couple chooses to embrace their memories of a bygone era rather than live in a diminished future. These are stories of a New...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Veteran Journalist Pete Hamill has never covered just politics. Or just sports. Or just the entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues, the art world, or New York City. He has in fact written about all thse subjects, and many more, in his years as a contributor to such national magazines as Esquire, Vanity Fair, and New York. This is a rich and varied collection of Hamill's best writing since 1970.
Author
Publisher
Harry N Abrams Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Vietnam War has left a deep and lasting impression in American life, from its impact on the men and women who fought in it, to the journalists and photographers who covered it, to the millions of Americans who protested against it or supported it. Thanks to an uncensored press, the world knew and saw more of this war than any in history before or since. The Associated Press made an unprecedented commitment to reporting the conflict: It gathered...
