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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Literature & Fiction
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.
The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories
Pete Hamill
Biographies & Memoirs / Literature & Fiction
"Hamill, a master raconteur, mines his own roots in this enchanting new anthology." ---New York Times
Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia---for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.
THE CHRISTMAS KID is vintage Hamill. Set in the borough where he was born and raised, it is a must-read for his many fans, for all who love New York, and for anyone who seeks to understand the world today through the lens of the world that once was.
Money Can't Buy Love
Brooklyn June L.J. Miller
Vic and Charmaine have a very volatile relationship. The story opens with Char packing up and leaving the condo she shared with Vic, she is tired of the direction the relationship is going. Then you have Vic who comes home to an empty house with a dear john letter written on the mirror in lipstick. This wild relationship is told by both and in the end you will choose sides, but which one?One of the happiest times in a young woman's life is when she is in love and one of the most confusing times in a young man's life is when he's in a relationship with that young woman who is in love. Young couples in love often make haste decisions based on their emotions. The woman expects so much from the man and he in turn expects so much from her. It starts to seem as if they don't understand each other anymore and this only adds to what is already becoming a very tense relationship. Sound familiar? What if you were able to be the fly on the wall and hear what your partner is really thinking and feeling? Well meet Victor and Charmaine, two young people who are in love but experiencing some stressful times in their relationship. The story begins with Charmaine leaving Victor because she is looking for a stronger commitment and he is clueless as to why she left. They both tell their side of the relationship as the story unravels then you witness their reaction after having a confrontation with one another. Victor is in love with Charmaine and she is in love with him but when they clash their love is tested. Filled with drama, relationship truth, urban love and a whole lot of confusion, anyone currently in a relationship will appreciate this love affair between Charmaine and Victor and realize that Money Can't Buy Love.
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough
History / Nonfiction
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book contains a new Preface by David McCullough, “one of our most gifted living writers” (The Washington Post).
Built to join the rapidly expanding cities of New York and Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Bridge was thought by many at the start to be an impossibility destined to fail if not from insurmountable technical problems then from political corruption. (It was the heyday of Boss Tweed in New York.)
But the Brooklyn Bridge was at once the greatest engineering triumph of the age, a surpassing work of art, a proud American icon, and a story like no other in our history. Courage, chicanery, unprecedented ingenuity and plain blundering, heroes, rascals, all the best and worst in human nature played a part. At the center of the drama were the stricken chief engineer, Washington Roebling and his remarkable wife, Emily Warren Roebling, neither of whom ever gave up in the face of one heartbreaking setback after another.
The Great Bridge* is a sweeping narrative of a stupendous American achievement that rose up out of its era like a cathedral, a symbol of affirmation then and still in our time.
Chasing Brooklyn
Lisa Schroeder
Young Adult / Children's Books
Restless souls and empty hearts
Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn't Lucca visiting her dreams.
Nico can't stop. He's always running, trying to escape the pain of losing his brother, Lucca. But when Lucca's ghost begins leaving messages, telling Nico to help Brooklyn, emotions come crashing to the surface.
As the nightmares escalate and the messages become relentless, Nico reaches out to Brooklyn. But neither of them can admit that they're being haunted. Until they learn to let each other in, not one soul will be able to rest.
A Hero Grows in Brooklyn
Jeffrey Rubin
Design
A Hero Grows in Brooklyn is a thrilling novel about Steve Marino, a junior high student seeking respect. Should he take after his violent father whose actions have flung his family into poverty? Or can he discover another way? Amidst swirling emotions, suddenly Steve discovers he must face the Skull Bones, a knife slashing gang. Armed only with courage, he takes on thechallenge of his life.Steve Marino is not seeking to become a junior high school hero. However, he is interested in “respect.” Should he follow in his father’s footsteps, a big strong man who is quick to put others down, be provoked into violence and discipline Steve with the back of his hand? Or would it be better to adopt his Uncle Rickey’s approach, a guy who is just as big and strong as Steve’s dad, but with a knack for avoiding violence and developing a friendly loyalty by participating in fun activities?Before he can decide, suddenly Steve is shocked to find his father’s approach has flung his family into utter poverty. Now, forced to move in the middle of the school year, a deeply depressed Steve tearfully asks, “How can I start all over? I put everything into making things work right in Bensonhurst. I’ve lost everything.”Things turn dramatically worse. As Steve signs up to attend his new school, two police officers and several parents show up. “Who’s gonna be the next to die!?” screams one of the parents. “Huh!? Who’s gonna be next!? Answer me! ANSWER ME!”And so begins Steve’s first bleak day at Cunningham Junior High.In this deathly atmosphere, Steve seeks to earn the respect of his new classmates while trying to come to grips with his turbulent feelings for one of his classmates, the beautiful and strange Mysterious Jane.Amidst gut wrenching swirling emotions, Steve discovers he must face the Skull Bones, a knife slashing gang. Armed only with courage, he takes on the fight of his life.
Brooklyn Noir 2, The Classics
Part #1 of "Akashic Noir" series by Tim McLoughlin (ed)
ContentsPART I: OLD SCHOOL BROOKLYNH.P. LOVECRAFT Red HookThe Horror at Red Hook IRWIN SHAW BrownsvilleBorough of Cemeteries MAGGIE ESTEP KensingtonLuck Be a Lady PART II: COPS & ROBBERSLAWRENCE BLOCK Sunset ParkBy the Dawn’s Early Light DONALD E. WESTLAKE Park SlopeThe Best-Friend Murder PETE HAMILL South SlopeThe Men in Black Raincoats PART III: WARTIME BROOKLYNHUBERT SELBY, JR. South BrooklynTralala SALVATORE LA PUMA BensonhurstThe Boys of Bensonhurst GILBERT SORRENTINO Bay RidgeSteelwork
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Back(stabbed) In Brooklyn
Lenox Parker
This Hollywood star is washed up after a series of sordid, drunken mistakes, and returns to his Brooklyn roots after decades of success. What he finds is not the nostalgia he expected, but a group of hardened guys with grudges to match. The gang all finally meet up at a dive in Chinatown, but instead of a warm reunion the deep resentments of the past turn into exploitation and deceit.Her sentence is death.Evil turns the life of Ysane Wulfsingas, a woman of gentleness and peace, into a nightmare that drives her to murder. When a new enemy, the fearsome knight Fallard D'Auvrecher, charges headlong into her life intent on picking up where her former husband left off, her only defense is to guard well her heart.Captain Fallard D'Auvrecher holds the opportunity of a lifetime within his hand. To keep it, he must rescue Ysane Wulfsingas from execution, for the beautiful Rose of Wulfsinraed is the key to all he has fought for in his years as a knight of King William. Fallard must conquer not only the rebel commander who desires Wulfsinraed for himself, but also the demesne's serenely obstinate mistress.Though he has waged countless battles, Fallard soon learns the greatest challenge of all is the fight for the lady's heart.
Black Beauty
Part #1 of "Brooklyn Bombshells" series by Erica Hilton
Bad BloodDating a hustler was never on Chanel's to-do list, but life has always thrown her curveballs. The youngest of three girls and treated like the black sheep, she has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful sisters, Claire and Charlie Brown.Charlie, the oldest sister, gets what she wants and takes what she needs. She has a temper like her crazy parents, and Chanel is her favorite target. Charlie's jealousy and ambition cross over into Chanel's world, and the unthinkable happens.Engaged in a family feud, Chanel and Charlie bump heads like never before. When the men in their lives can't come to their rescue, the sisters quickly learn to fight their own battles.
Coup: A BWWM Romance (The French Connection Book 2)
Brooklyn Knight
What happens when interracial love and afrocentrism collide? All Dylan Hamilton knows is that he loves the vivacious and vibrant Laila Renaud, and would do anything to make her happy; including support her decision to work at the firm owned by his arch nemesis, Michael Sawyer.All Laila Renaud knows is that Dylan Hamilton means the world to her, and there has never been another man to love and support her, the way he does.But the minute Michael Sawyer lays eyes on Dylan's prized possessions - both his woman and his firm - his blinding rage and jealousy ignites, driving him to bring an end to their 'unnatural' relationship and force Dylan to his knees.Will Dylan and Laila be able to defend their special love?Or will Michael be successful in getting them to doubt everything they think they know about each other... and themselves?
Glitter and Greed (Brooklyn Brothers #4)
Melanie Munton
We are the Rossetti's.The exiled "sixth family" of the New York mafia. We're the good guys.People don't fear us...much. They respect us.The five of us? We're the Brooklyn Brothers.And we protect what's ours.Don't ask me what made this girl different, what made her stand out. I'm not proud of it, but it wasn't exactly my first ever lap dance. The last thing I expect is for the same woman I've been obsessing over for two months to waltz right into my gym.Catalina "Cat" Vasquez is the most alluring, sensual woman I've ever met. She has secrets, and I want all of them. It's the only way I can protect her. Because it seems I'm not the only one who's been looking for her.Just my luck that I would fall for a woman who has connections with the Mexican cartel. Who would have thought her stalker would be the same man who's about to wage an all-out war on my turf?I'm a fighter by nature.I fight for what's mine.And I'm not...
Booze and Bullets (Brooklyn Brothers #3)
Melanie Munton
We are the Rossetti's.The exiled "sixth family" of the New York mafia. We're the good guys.People don't fear us...much. They respect us.The five of us? We're the Brooklyn Brothers.And we protect what's ours.Lexi Kozlov is a spoiled brat. Rich. Entitled. And unfortunately, she's now my wife. The marriage is part of a deal I struck with her father...the boss of the Russian mafia. Insane? Maybe. But the payoff could mean millions for my family. Marriage is just a contract anyway. We barely even have to speak to each other. Piece of cake, right?Wrong.Lexi is not what I bargained for. Her millions of Instagram followers see her as an international sex symbol, but I'm learning that she's so much more. I should be relieved that she's the bachelorette to my bachelor. I shouldn't want to convince her to turn our fake marriage into a real one.But when her life is threatened, you better believe I'm going to protect my wife, contract or...
Lunchtime Chronicles: Served
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Just Shelby
Brooklyn James
A secret note square found in a handmade guitar proves that small town gossip is not only ubiquitous but occasionally true. This gossip comes with strings rivaling those on Ace Cooper's guitar, the safest strings he will ever have around his heart.Ace's father warns him to stay away from the Lynn girl. Daughter of a deceased bootlegger and a barely living addict, Shelby Lynn is no stranger to small town contempt. She keeps her nose in the books and feet to the ground, a college scholarship the only escape from her tumultuous life.As Ace's heartstrings unravel, so does his family's role in Shelby's broken past. Thrust into a precarious journey of their roots brimming with music and betrayal, the two have never been closer...to the truth of how Shelby's father died. One truth transforms every facet of their lives forever.A dual POV friends-to-first-love story, Just Shelby is an unsuspecting mystery that depicts how growing together can sometimes hurt worse...
Predatory
Brooklyn Ray
Donovan Quinn is faced with the impossible: unleashing the wild energy inside him. In the aftermath of a rushed, thoughtless sacrifice, his circle mates brainstorm a plan to appease the Queen of Water. Meanwhile, Donovan desperately tries to find a way to access the lonely Earth magic hiding inside him.But with his heart reaching for Tyler, the aggressive and volatile head witch of his circle, and friendships being tested at every turn, Donovan is at a standstill with his magic. Saving his friends, his circle, and his heart becomes far more complicated than he ever thought.
An Italian Girl in Brooklyn
Santa Montefiore
Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore's spellbinding new novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York.'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES'A wonderful story, beautifully told. I absolutely tore through it!' KAREN SWAN New York, 1979. It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart weighted with gratitude for what she has and regret for what she has given up. She has lived in America for over thirty years, but she is still Italian in her soul. Northern Italy, 1934. Evelina leads a sheltered life with her parents and siblings in a villa of fading grandeur. When her elder sister Benedetta marries a banker, to suit her father's wishes rather than her own, Evelina swears that she will never marry out of duty. She knows nothing of romantic love, but when she meets Ezra, son of the local dressmaker, her...
The Golem of Brooklyn
Adam Mansbach
Literature & Fiction
The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep.“A devastating romp through history, a bonkers road trip through America, this novel could not be any funnier—or any more important.”—W. Kamau BellIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis.But Len Bronstein is no rabbi—he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to...
Brooklyn Noir 3, Nothing But the Truth
Tim McLoughlin (ed)
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. This volume presents the first nonfiction collection in the series, curated by acclaimed novelists Tim McLoughlin and Thomas Adcock.Brand-new stories by: Robert Leuci, Dennis Hawkins, Tim McLoughlin, Thomas Adcock, Errol Louis, Denise Buffa, Patricia Mulcahy, C.J. Sullivan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Aileen Gallagher, Christopher Musella, Kim Sykes, Robert Knightly, Jess Korman, Constance Casey, and Rosemarie Yu."There is a difference, as editor, between cheering the literary accomplishment of a fiction writer who has delivered a brilliant story about a serial killer or hit man, and reading the true account, however beautifully written, of a young woman raped, murdered, and forgotten. So this book, though it has its light moments (and thank God for those), is for me the darkest of the Brooklyn Noir series. These pieces remind us that crime is personal. It happens to us and to our neighbors. Sometimes it happens because we do nothing to prevent it. Life does not always offer the moral arc we so desperately crave in fiction. If it did, we’d have no need for myths and fables, religion or miracles . . . "Read this book. Enjoy it. Be horrified by it. Carry it with you always. And the next time you’re watching a particularly bizarre and salacious news item on the television set in your neighborhood pub, and the guy on the next stool says, “You can’t make this shit up,” smack him with it."--Tim McLoughlin, from the introductionAbout the AuthorTim McLoughlin was born and raised in Brooklyn. His debut novel, Heart of the Old Country (Akashic), was hailed as reminiscent of James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris. He was editor of Brooklyn Noir, first in the Akashic Noir Series, as well as Brooklyn Noir 2 and Brooklyn Noir 3. An Edgar Award-winning novelist, Thomas Adcock is a veteran newspaper and magazine journalist. He divides his time between a Manhattan apartment and an eighteenth-century farmhouse in upstate New York.
Loveless: A BWWM Wolf Shifter Romance (The Alpha Series Book 2)
Brooklyn Knight
What does a girl do when love hurts? She becomes 'Loveless'.My sister, Sasha, says she's in love with Remi Moretti, but there is no way it can be true. I've protected her since we were kids in foster care, so nothing will stop me from rescuing her…Except, maybe, the man who answers the door when I arrive at the mansion.Vince Moretti is long, and lean, and impossibly sexy; and he is… doing something to me. I'm supposed to be loveless, yet when this man touches me, my body and soul erupt. I used to think that Loveless was the answer, but suddenly, I'm not so sure.What does a boy do when he finds the girl of his dreams? He makes her fall in love.There is a woman standing at the front door of the mansion, and immediately, I know she belongs to me. In fact, Shenique Wilcox is the woman I have been waiting for my entire life. But there is something about her aura. It is angry and closed.It is just like mine.When Shenique reveals a plot to separate my brother from his mate, it does not take much for me to get onboard. Love has hurt us and retribution is in order. But as our undeniable passion waxes stronger, suddenly our objectives become blurred. Now, it is not my brother I wish to defeat. It is Loveless itself.
Briarhill to Brooklyn: an Irish Family's Journey to Freedom and Opportunity
Jack Bodkin
For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's clacháns, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died. Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave. Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto an Irish coffin ship known as Cushlamachree? Their destination was Brooklyn. An unimaginable hurdle confronted the seven young Bodkin siblings, only days after docking in New York. Would the "fever" get them too? But they managed to survive into adulthood as they were led by their two oldest brothers—Dominic and Martin. Dominic—a fledgling surgeon on the Alabama battlefields of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely—spends thirty-five years delivering and caring for thousands of Brooklyn babies. Martin—a Civil War veteran, and later an ironmonger with his own shop—ultimately is the progenitor of a large family of New York...
Fated To Love You: When Blunders Turn Beautiful! (The Brooklyn Girls)
A. Goswami
When Bella Foster goes to Dubai to perform as a DJ, she isn't looking for a hookup - it just happens. Playing a song for a stranger, turns into what should be a no strings attached one night stand. But then when she returns to Brooklyn, her friend drags her along to meet her mom - the brilliant, beautiful, sexy scientist Bella slept with.
Ava Miller had come to Brooklyn to spend a few days with her daughter, hoping to mend a complicated and strained relationship with her. But when she realises her daughter, Sophie, has brought Bella, the young, hot DJ she had hooked up with in Dubai, to breakfast with her, she almost faints.
To make matters worse, Bella is Sophie's roommate, and her best friend, and despite all her justifications, how can Ava make peace with the fact that she slept with her daughter's best friend? Especially when their chemistry continues to sizzle even after the night in Dubai?
What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Ava and Bella are fighting tempatations, urges and lust. And as the sneaking around continues, they realize they have something real. But do they love each other enough to face the challenges their relationship faces?
A steaming hot, passionate tale of overcoming age-gap, fighting against all odds, and believing in 'opposites attract', while cracking a joke here and there! This is a novel filled with steam, and heat, and reader discretion is advised!
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Love and Death in Brooklyn
Glenville Lovell
With its introduction of a bold new voice in crime fiction, Glenville Lovell's first mystery, Too Beautiful to Die, was called a "page-turner" (New York Daily News) and "stylish entertainment" (Booklist). Now Lovell is back, with a timely novel of a brilliant young African-American politician gunned down as his career is about to take off. Just when ex-cop Blades Overstreet finally has his life back on track, the son of his good friend and mentor is murdered before his eyes. Blades knows he won't be able to rest until the killer is brought to justice. He begins a search that leads him on a dangerous journey into the heart of the Russian mob and, ultimately, into a confrontation with a past he had hoped was buried long ago.
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster
Fiction / Memoir
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and, indeed, from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption. Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly.
True Blue K-9 Unit: Brooklyn Christmas
Laura Scott
Their mission: saving ChristmasTwo exciting new True Blue K-9 Unit: Brooklyn novellasIn Holiday Stalker by Laura Scott, Max Santelli and his furry partner protect the team's tech guru, Eden Chang, when she becomes the target of deadly attention. And in Gift-Wrapped Danger by Maggie K. Black, army veteran Adam Jolly teams up with Noelle Orton and her keen-nosed K-9 to take down someone smuggling drugs using toys donated to the single dad's Christmas charity.USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura ScottFrom Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.True Blue K-9 Unit: BrooklynBook 1: Copycat Killer by Laura ScottBook 2: Chasing Secrets by Heather WoodhavenBook 3: Deadly Connection by Lenora WorthBook 4: Explosive Situation by Terri ReedBook 5: Tracking a Kidnapper by Valerie HansenBook 6: Scene of the Crime by Sharon DunnBook 7: Cold Case Pursuit by Dana MentinkBook 8: Delayed Justice by...
Brooklyn Summer
Maggie Cummings
Ashleigh McAllister’s life is a total disaster. Her ex dumped her for a guy, and she can’t seem to stop bumping into them in their suddenly way too small Brooklyn neighborhood. At least Mother Nature is on her side. Summer is here and the forecast is all sun. Ashleigh needs a little excitement, and things get exponentially hotter when Kellan Dwyer walks into her life.
Fresh out of the army, Kellan is killing time apartment sitting before returning home to a scripted future in Colorado. Her itinerary consists solely of having a blast.
Ashleigh and Kellan decide friends with benefits is hot, and fun, and sexy as hell, but romance? Terrible idea.
With the New York City skyline as their backdrop, the summer heats up fast. They just have to keep their feelings in check before someone gets hurt. When opposites attract, can a summer of passion lead to a lifetime of love?
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Childrens / Middle Grade / Fiction
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Brooklyn Gothic
C G Twiles
Can you love a man with secrets? Casey Matos, an idealistic 26-year-old reporter, takes an unusual job in a Brooklyn Gothic mansion helping a reclusive multimillionaire give away all of his money.At 32, Samuel Henry Foster III doesn't have much time left. A rapidly growing brain aneurysm will soon claim his life, and he wants to leave behind a legacy of good deeds. The last thing the pair want to do is fall in love... but they can't help themselves. Just when Mr. Foster is given a second chance at life, Casey begins to suspect that her lover's generosity is rooted in secrets far darker than she ever could have imagined. But even when she thinks she knows it all, she learns she knows nothing... Fans of the Brontes, Daphne du Maurier, Ruth Ware, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia will love this atmospheric and evocative but contemporary Gothic suspense tale with shocking twists. (Brooklyn Gothic was previously...
Brooklyn Noir
Part #1 of "Akashic Noir" series by Tim McLoughlin (ed)
New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn’s historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood.Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New York’s literary fiction community—and, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities—in the most diverse urban location on the planet.TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: OLD SCHOOL BROOKLYN"The Book Signing" PETE HAMILL (Park
Slope)"Hasidic Noir" PEARL ABRAHAM (Williamsburg)"No Time for Senior's"
SIDNEY OFFIT (Downtown)"When All This Was Bay Ridge" TIM MCLOUGHLIN (Sunset
Park)"Practicing" ELLEN MILLER (Canarsie)
PART II: NEW SCHOOL BROOKLYN"Crown Heist" ADAM MANSBACH (Crown
Heist)"Hunter/Trapper" ARTHUR NERESIAN (Brooklyn Heights)"New Lots
Avenue" NELSON GEORGE (Brownsville)"Scavenger Hunt" NEAL POLLACK (Coney
Island)"The Code" NORMAN KELLEY (Prospect Heights)
PART III: COPS & ROBBERS"Can't Catch Me" THOMAS MORRISSEY (Bay
Ridge)"Case Closed" LOU MANFREDO (Bensonhurst)"Eating Italian" LUCIANO
GUERRIERO (Red Hook)"Thursday" KENJI JASPER (Bed-Stuyvesant)"One More
for the Road" ROBERT KNIGHTLY (Greenpoint)
PART IV: BACKWATER BROOKLYN"Triple Harrison" MAGGIE ESTEP (East
New York)"Fade to . . . Brooklyn" KEN BRUEN (Galway, Ireland)"Dumped"
NICOLE BLACKMAN (Fort Greene)"Slipping into Darkness" C.J. SULLIVAN
(Bushwick)"Ladies' Man" CHRIS NILES (Brighton Beach)
Debasements of Brooklyn
Ira Gold
His father had warned Howie, "You can't ride two horses with one ass." But here he was, living a double life—one racketeering with his crew and the other sitting in cafes reading Penguin classics. To fit in, Howie hides his intellectual interests from his gangster friends, but they still suspect something is not right about him. The real problem is that someone has been bad-mouthing Howie to Vinnie Five-Five, his captain. Howie thinks he could solve all his problems by finding a way to leave Vinnie's crew without anyone thinking he would turn rat. And while he goes about advancing this plan in his deliberate, half-baked way, a war breaks out between the Italians in Sheepshead Bay and the Russians in Brighton Beach. Now, beside his friends, he has enemies who wish him dead. So he must run from the basement apartment he rents from his sister—the one person who truly loves him—into the arms of demure and bookish Ariel, who likes her men rough and her sex rougher....
Brooklyn Bombshells--Part 2
Part #2 of "Brooklyn Bombshells" series by Erica Hilton
Putting Out Fires Charlie Brown, known in the streets as Red Charlie, has burned more bridges and started more fires than she can put out. Rehabilitation isn't high on her priority list, so when the smoke clears, she delves deeper into Brooklyn's underworld. Soon Red Charlie becomes a miracle worker for a notorious organization, and her rise to the top is swift. Still, she's lost the one thing she yearns for: respect. The streets whisper words like grimy and trifling behind her back, but not out of earshot. This ding in her reputation compels her to seek revenge on her baby sister and regain her street cred.
Letter from Brooklyn
Jacob Scheier
Having lived part time in Brooklyn for the past several years, Jacob Scheier's new poems are solidly rooted in Jewish New York life and examine love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of Letter from Brooklyn is the notion that people understand who they are by where they have been. Everything is at once political and poetic, inseparable from intimate experience and personal heartbreak. Scheier moves from the inner worlds of grief and love to form a poetic dialectic between the familial and the historical. Whether eating in a knish restaurant on the Lower East Side or falling in and then out of love with the Brooklyn Bridge, or even being startled while biking down a prairie road, with depth and originality Scheier confronts the question of where home is and what it means amid private and public loss.
Brooklyn Noir 2
Part #45 of "Akashic Noir Cities" series by Tim McLoughlin
Fiction / Short Stories / Mystery
On the heels of the stunning success of the Summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, this second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York's punchiest and most alluring borough. Brooklyn Noir 2 offers short stories by the classic authors who blazed the path for the success of the first volume, which award-winning mystery author Laura Lippman called, "a stunningly perfect combination . . . the writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your head for a long time to come." Brooklyn Noir was featured in every media outlet in New York City (including two New York Times features and an appearance on the Leonard Lopate NPR radio show), as well as publications and media all across the country (and the UK, Australia, Italy, etc.).Once again in *Brooklyn Noir 2*, each story is set in a distinct Brooklyn neighborhood and mixes masters of genre with some of the best literary fiction writers to ever set foot in the borough. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish, and many other ethnicities--in the most diverse urban location on the planet.Contributors:H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Jr., Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, Salvatore La Puma, and Irwin Shaw.
Rock God (Hearts of Metal Book 3)
Ann,Brooklyn
Fleeing tragedy and infidelity, twenty-five-year-old Shayna Jones takes the longest walk of her life—which ends with her in the protective and possessive arms of heavy metal music’s hottest commodity, Dante Deity.
Without You
Brooklyn Skye
Contemporary / Ebooks / Fiction
She was broken when I met her, shattered from the death of her sister and running from love. Not to sound like an egotistical douche or anything, but I fixed her. Put her back together, filled in the cracks, and made her whole. A true fairytale in her eyes.But now real life is getting in the way: school, jobs, and the unexpected opportunity to travel the world under a legendary photographer. This internship will open doors not even my father’s influence could. It’s something I’ve been waiting all my life for. But so is Quinn, and accepting this internship will mean leaving her. And breaking her all over again. a novella to Amazon's best-selling New Adult novel STRIPPED can be read as a standalone
Brooklyn Secrets
Triss Stein
Erica Donato, Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student and single mom, is researching the 1930s when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. She quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Brooklyn, Brownsville remains much as it was. It is still poor, it is still tough, and it still breeds fighters and gangs.Doing field research, Erica stops in at the landmark local library and meets Savanna, a young woman who is the pride of her mother and her bosses, and headed for an elite college and a future. A few days later, Savanna is found beaten and left for dead. Her anguished mother is everywhere, insisting someone knows something. After a massive, angry demonstration, a young girlfriend of Savanna's is found dead, too. Is there a connection? Did perfect Savanna have a few secrets? Erica's curious. But she's focused on the 1930s and has located a few women who are happy to share memories. Two are childhood friends who...
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Brooklyn Noir [3] Nothing but the Truth
Part #1 of "Akashic Noir" series by Tim McLoughlin
Fiction / Short Stories / Mystery
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. This volume presents the first nonfiction collection in the series, curated by acclaimed novelists Tim McLoughlin and Thomas Adcock.Brand-new stories by: Robert Leuci, Dennis Hawkins, Tim McLoughlin, Thomas Adcock, Errol Louis, Denise Buffa, Patricia Mulcahy, C.J. Sullivan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Aileen Gallagher, Christopher Musella, Kim Sykes, Robert Knightly, Jess Korman, Constance Casey, and Rosemarie Yu."There is a difference, as editor, between cheering the literary accomplishment of a fiction writer who has delivered a brilliant story about a serial killer or hit man, and reading the true account, however beautifully written, of a young woman raped, murdered, and forgotten. So this book, though it has its light moments (and thank God for those), is for me the darkest of the Brooklyn Noir series. These pieces remind us that crime is personal. It happens to us and to our neighbors. Sometimes it happens because we do nothing to prevent it. Life does not always offer the moral arc we so desperately crave in fiction. If it did, we’d have no need for myths and fables, religion or miracles . . ."Read this book. Enjoy it. Be horrified by it. Carry it with you always. And the next time you’re watching a particularly bizarre and salacious news item on the television set in your neighborhood pub, and the guy on the next stool says, “You can’t make this shit up,” smack him with it."--Tim McLoughlin, from the introduction
Just One Reason
Part #5 of "What Happens in Vegas" series by Brooklyn Skye
Contemporary / Ebooks / Fiction
He's more than she bargained for... As far as Declan Waterford is concerned, women are off limits-at least until he can earn enough money for his brother's surgery. The dueling piano gig at Vegas's Masquerade hotel barely pays enough...but if Declan can convince his boss to promote him, he'll be set. And the Senior VP of the hotel's gorgeous daughter might just be the "in" Declan needs. Between drowning in mistakes at her editorial internship and fighting off her father's demands that she relocate to Vegas and join his hotel empire, Melody Sumner doesn't have time for love-or one-night stands with sexy Irish piano players-no matter how appetizing Declan is. But even though she knows he's only interested in her for one reason, the intense chemistry between them has her thinking dangerous thoughts...
Brooklyn Legacies
Triss Stein
Murder strikes the neighborhoods of Brooklyn—the hip, the historic, and the hoodThe search for a lost portrait of Brooklyn's own genius Walt Whitman sends urban historian Dr. Erica Donato into Brooklyn Heights, a neighborhood of quaint and charming streets, family names out of history, and spectacular views of the harbor and the world-famous bridge. New York's first suburb has long weathered political battles about neighborhood preservation and destruction. Is a new one shaping up?Erica meets an idol, fiery community activist Louisa Gibbs, now locked in a dispute with the Watch Tower Society. One of Brooklyn's biggest landowners, the Jehovah's Witnesses are selling off their holdings. Then at a glittering party, Erica meets the threatening Prinzig clan who are trying to buy the Witness's property adjoining Louisa's historic home. The discovery of the Society's Daniel Towns' body in the Witnesses' underground tunnels reignites old conflicts....
Brooklyn Zoo
Darcy Lockman
A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn. When she started, little did she know that the hospital’s behavioral health department—the infamous G Building, where the Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz and the rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard once resided—was on the cusp of its darkest era yet, one that culminated in the death of a patient in a psychiatric emergency room described by the New York Post as a “Dickensian nightmare.” Brooklyn Zoo unfolds...