Gravesend

Author : William Boyle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779145
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravesend written by William Boyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been sixteen years since “Ray Boy” Calabrese’s actions led to the death of a young man. The victim’s brother, Conway D’Innocenzio, is now a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and drawn into a darker side of himself when he hears that Ray Boy’s has been released. But even with the perfect plan in place, Conway can’t bring himself to take the ultimate revenge.Meanwhile, failed actress Alessandra returns to her native Gravesend after the death of her mother, torn between a desperate need to escape immediately back to LA and the ease with which she sinks back into neighborhood life. Alessandra and Conway are walking eerily similar paths—staring down the rest of their lives, caring for their aging fathers, lost in the youths they squandered—and each must decide what comes next.In the tradition of American noir authors like Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, William Boyle’s Gravesend brings the titular neighborhood to life in this story of revenge, desperation, and escape.

Author : Eric J. Ierardi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738523613
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravesend written by Eric J. Ierardi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn is an incredible mosaic of the human experience. Within this New York borough's crowded city blocks, there are infinite stories of success and failure, hope and despair, euphoria and suffering. Gravesend, one of Brooklyn's most historic neighborhoods, possesses a rich heritage that is, at once, typical of the American spirit in its ambition and energy, yet is also unique with its colorful pageantry of luxury hotels, pleasure parks, and larger-than-life personalities. Gravesend: The Home of Coney Island takes readers on a fascinating journey from the town's first settlement in the 1640s by Lady Deborah Moody, an intrepid and visionary leader of religious freedom, across four centuries of progress, conflict, and change. Containing over 120 black-and-white images, this stunning illustrated history brings to life early figures and events that shaped Gravesend's past and initiated Coney Island's prominence as the world's playground. Like a visitor of yesteryear, readers will stroll along the busy boardwalk, taste the world-famous hot dogs from Nathan's Restaurant, explore the renowned dance halls, race tracks, and casinos, and thrill at the kaleidoscopic assortment of roller coasters and other breathtaking rides, such as the Parachute Jump, at the celebrated Dreamland, Luna, and Steeplechase Parks.

Author : Austin Parsons Stockwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Town of Gravesend, N.Y. written by Austin Parsons Stockwell and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Ditta
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738564692
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravesend, Brooklyn written by Joseph Ditta and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permanently settled in 1645, the farming town of Gravesend, Long Island, was annexed to the city (now borough) of Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. Few reminders from Gravesend's rural days survive around the urban landscape it has become. Even its more recent past is quickly disappearing.

Author : Robert Peirce Cruden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Town of Gravesend in the County of Kent, and of the Port of London written by Robert Peirce Cruden and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravesend Light written by David Payne and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joey Madden, the eleven-year-old narrator of Ruin Creek, is Joe now, a twenty-eight-year-old, Duke-trained anthropologist back on the Outer Banks doing ethnographic fieldwork in Little Roanoke, a traditional fishing community under stress from modernization. Attending services at Little Roanoke's evangelical church, Joe secures a berth aboard a commercial trawl boat called the Father's Price. Between trips to sea, Joe crosses paths with Day Shaughnessey, MD, an OB/GYN whose provision of birth and abortion services to local island women has put her in the crosshairs of the conservative community Joe has come to study. In the same family summer house where Joe once lived the painful end of his parents' marriage, his relationship with Day now begins. As they converge romantically, however, Joe and Day increasingly diverge on politics. If those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat it, it's Joe and Day's fate-and Joe's, in particular-- to learn that those who can't forget the past are oftentimes condemned to repeat it, too.

Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473864968
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravesend in the Great War written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravesend was like most other towns in the UK during the course of the First World War. When the call came to serve King and Country, local men enlisted in their thousands, but sadly not all of them returned.This book gives an insight into the Tilbury to Gravesend Pontoon Bridge, which allowed the rapid deployment of troops in the event of a German invasion along the East Coast. It provided a quicker route to get troops, equipment and supplies from Essex into Kent for transportation across to France. It looks at the role both New Tavern and Shornemead Fort, part of the London Defence system, played in preventing the German Navy from carrying out direct attacks on London.There is an account of the Gravesend riots, in which groups of local people burnt and looted premises they believed belonged to German aliens who were residents in the town, and the unique story of Captain Robert Campbell, taken as a prisoner by the Germans early in the war. He was allowed home by the Kaiser to see his dying mother one last time, and voluntarily returned to captivity in Germany, on his word of honour to do so.The story of Sir Gilbert Parker, the wartime MP for Gravesend, is also told. He was instrumental in convincing America to join the war as a British Allie, which was no easy task, as the United States Justice Department estimated there were some 480,000 Germans living in America at the time.The book also tells the individual stories of Gravesend's men who fought in the war, some who survived and returned to their loved ones, and others who were not so fortunate. It documents the triumphs and tragedies of Gravesend's people as they sought to find normality amongst a reality far removed from anything they had ever known before.

Author : GRAVESEND.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A new guide for Gravesend & Milton, also topographical excursions in the environs. With engravings written by GRAVESEND. and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hall's Gravesend, Milton and Northfleet directory, and advertiser, 1862-89 written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Jane Brabazon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month at Gravesend: Containing an Account of the Town and Neighbourhood, Statistical, Historical, and Descriptive written by Elizabeth Jane Brabazon and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: