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Forever

Author: Peter Hamill
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780316735698
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
- A nationwide bestseller in hardcover, FOREVER spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is now in its 3rd printing.- The perfect marriage of subject and writer: For millions of readers of the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, The New Yorker, and Newsday, Pete Hamill is the living embodiment of New York City.- Hamill's previous novel, Snow in August, has

Snow in August

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780446606257
Publisher : Vision
Last update : 2009-08-28
It was an unusual friendship: 11-year-old Michael Devlin, an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn, and Judah Hirsch, a rabbi and refugee from Prague, meet during a swirling blizzard on the Saturday morning. For Michael, Hirsch is an extraordinary window to ancient times and foreign lands; for the Rabbi, Michael is an encyclopedia of cultural knowledge of his new land. In baseball, the two find a common l

Young Lonigan

Author: James T. Farrell, Ann Douglas, Pete Hamill
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780451529138
Publisher : New Amer Library Classics
Last update : 2009-05-22
Described as one of the most powerful fictional treatments of the Irish in America (James Hurt, Illinois Authors ), this classic coming-of-age story set in the mean streets of Chicago in the 1910s begins Farrell's trilogy that follows Studs Lonigan. Features a new Introduction by Pete Hamill.

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF MARK TWAIN

Author: Pete Hamill, Mark Twain, Lawrence I. Berkove
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780812971187
Publisher : Modern Library
Last update : 2009-08-27
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darke

Snow in August

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780446675253
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Last update : 2009-08-28
A young Irish Catholic boy growing up in Brooklyn makes a deal with a rabbi in his neighborhood: Michael will teach Rabbi Hirsch about baseball and help him improve his English; in return, the rabbi will teach the boy Yiddish. This strange compact ends in Michael`s beating by Frankie the local bully, followed by his mystical revenge.

Under the Influence

Author: Shannonhouse, Rebecca (EDT)/ Hamill, Pete (FRW)
Category: History
ISBN : 9780375757167
Publisher : Modern Library
Last update : 2009-05-22
Drawing on two centuries of compelling, surprising, heartbreaking, and truthful writings, Under the Influence offers selections from classic fiction, memoirs, and essays by authors such as Thomas De Quincey, Tolstoy, Cheever, Parker, and Poe. Also included are topical gems by lesser-known writers who illuminate the causes, dangers, pleasures, and public perceptions surrounding people consumed by

The Hesse-mann Letters

Author: Hesse, Hermann/ Mann, Thomas/ Hamill, Pete
Category: Letters
ISBN : 9780974261553
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
The letters present two great XX century Nobel Prize writers grieving for the ruined world. In the 1930s and 1940s, they rail against the stupidity of war and the cowardice of diplomats, against the social savagery of the Nazis, against the blind forces of abstraction and nationalism. They brood about the fate of Germany and of Europe after the last shots have been fired. They have lived through

Piecework

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Essays
ISBN : 9780316340984
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
This acclaimed collection, now in paperback, presents Pete Hamill's best journalism since 1970 -- forty-three hard-hitting, opinionated pieces on what television and crack have in common, why American immigration policy toward Mexico is wrong, what Mike Tyson did to pass the time in jail, and what it's like to realize you're middle-aged, not to mention JFK, Ireland, race, stick ball, Sinatra, San

In the Country of Brooklyn

Author: Peter Golenbock
Category: General
ISBN : 9780061253812
Publisher : William Morrow & Co
Last update : 2009-08-28
A social history of the borough of Brooklyn draws on first-person interviews with famous and everyday residents to capture its diversity, institutions, and most noteworthy events, in a chronicle that includes discussions with such figures as Pete Hamill, Neil Sedaka, and Bruce Morrow. 30,000 first printing.

A.j. Liebling (Hardcover)

Author: Pete Hamill, A. J. Liebling
Category: General
ISBN : 9781598530407
Publisher : Library of America
Last update : 2009-08-28
A single-volume collection of forefront sports classics includes The Sweet Science, The Earl of Louisiana, and The Jollity Building, in an anthology that also features the signature pieces, Between Meals and The Press. 10,000 first printing.

Min Price: 2400  Max Price: 2774 

Time It Was (Hardcover)

Author: Pete Hamill, John Ellard Frook, Bill Eppridge, Adrienne Aurichio
Category: Photography
ISBN : 9780810971226
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
Renowned Life photographer Eppridge followed and photographed Robert Kennedy during his early campaign days up to his untimely death. A Time It Was features dynamic images of the public Kennedy, as well as rare, intimate photographs, some never before published.

Iron Mike

Author: O'Connor, Daniel (EDT)/ Plimpton, George (FRW)
Category: Sports - General
ISBN : 9781560253563
Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
Featuring contributions by Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Yardley, and others, Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous 15-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, boxer Mike Tyson. 25 photos.

North River

Author: Hamill, Pete
Category: Historical - General
ISBN : 9781428156524
Publisher : Recorded Books
Last update : 2009-05-21

Diego Rivera

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Artists
ISBN : 9780810990821
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Inc
Last update : 2009-05-22
Bestselling novelist Hamill presents an extraordinary book on Rivera's politics filled life and stirring art. 100 illustrations.

Loving Women (Paperback)

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General History
ISBN : 9780786016389
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
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Profiles in Courage for Our Time

Author: Caroline Kennedy
Category: American History
ISBN : 9780786886784
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Following the organizing principle of her father`s Pulitzer Prize-winning PROFILES IN COURAGE, Caroline Kennedy here collects sketches of men and women whose lives or accomplishments embody high American principles. The portraits of winners of the Profiles In Courage Award are written by Pete Hamill, Marian Wright Edelman, Michael Beschloss, Bob Woodward, and others.

Profiles in Courage for Our Time

Author: Caroline Kennedy
Category: American History
ISBN : 9780786867936
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Following the organizing principle of her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning PROFILES IN COURAGE, Caroline Kennedy here collects sketches of men and women whose lives or accomplishments embody high American principles. The portraits of winners of the Profiles In Courage Award are written by Pete Hamill, Marion Wright Engelman, Michael Beschloss, Bob Woodward, and others.

The Gift

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780316011891
Publisher : Little Brown & Co
Last update : 2009-08-28
Originally published in 1973 and long unavailable, this novel now returns to print in an edition that features a bound-in reading group guide. It's an evocative, emotionally involving tale of fathers and sons, loss and yearning, forgiveness and approbationFrom The Publisher:To a young sailor named Pete-on leave for the holidays, temporarily liberated from the specter of war in Korea-Christmas che

North River

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316007993
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
The year is 1934 and New York City is locked in the icy grip of the great depression. Amid the hunger and suffering, Dr. James Delaney tends to the needy, mobsters and housewives alike. However, Delaney himself is suffering from the heartache of his wife`s abandoning him and from the horrors he witnessed during the Great War. When his daughter leaves her two-year-old son on his doorstep, Delaney

John Barleycorn

Author: Jack London, John Sutherland
Category: General
ISBN : 9780375757921
Publisher : Modern Library
Last update : 2009-08-28
John Barleycorn is the closest thing to an autobiography Jack London ever wrote. It is a startingly honest, vivid and raw account of his life as a drinker, peppered with entertaining anecdotes from a storied and adventure-filled life. This edition features a new introduction by Pete Hamill.

Why Sinatra Matters

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316738866
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Pete Hamill`s evocation of Frank Sinatra begins in the archetypal Sinatra milieu of a New York City bar after midnight, rain outside, Sinatra and a few pals discussing sports and Hemingway. Within the space of a few paragraphs, Hamill manages to evoke the singer`s greatness, intelligence, and humanity, and the respect and even awe he has always engendered among lesser mortals, as well as the gnaw

If I Only Knew Then... (Paperback)

Author: Charles Grodin, Marion Grodin
Category: General
ISBN : 9780446582193
Publisher : Springboard Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Charles Grodin, known for his grumpy talk show appearances, must be more congenial in real life, as evidenced by the wide circle of friends and associates who have contributed to his instrumental collection of hindsight advice. A diverse set of celebrities, including Regis Philbin, Carol Burnett, Joe Torre, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Senator Orrin Hatch speak candidly abou

Guys and Dolls and Other Writings

Author: Pete Hamill, Daniel R. Schwarz, Damon Runyon
Category: General
ISBN : 9780141186726
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Last update : 2009-08-28
From Dave the Dude to Al Capone: a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up in the West, moved to New York City, and became one of the leading voices of American popular culture. From sports writing to short fiction, this unique collection offers an eclectic sampling of his extraordinary talent. Here are newspaper pieces, storiesa including the last one he ever comp

A Drinking Life

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316341028
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Rugged prose and a rare attention to telling detail have long distinguished Pete Hamill's unique brand of journalism and his universally well received fiction. Twenty years after his last drink, he examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the drinking culture. The result is A Drinking Life, a stirring and exhilarating memoir float is his most personal writing to date. The eldest son o

A.j. Liebling

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Military History
ISBN : 9781598530186
Publisher : Library of America
Last update : 2009-08-28
A collection of World War II accounts by the influential journalist and author of Why Sinatra Matters includes The Road Back to Paris, Mollie and Other War Pieces, and Normandy Revisited, in a volume that also features twenty-nine previously uncollected New Yorker articles. 10,000 first printing.

Min Price: 2300  Max Price: 2565 

Brooklyn Noir

Author: Tim McLoughlin, Neal Pollack, Pete Hamill, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham
Category: Mystery & Crime
ISBN : 9781888451580
Publisher : Akashic Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
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

News Is a Verb

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780345425287
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that dont support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features about celebrities at the expense of hard news, the reader feels patronized. In the process, the critical relationship of reader to newspaper is slowly undermined.--from NEWS IS A VERB

Downtown

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316010689
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Pete Hamill is a New York native who has never stopped loving his city. In this memoir of his life there, he begins with his first sight of the skyline, from Brooklyn, when he was a boy, and goes on to walk the city's streets, from Times Square south to the tip of the island. Mixing history and architecture with personal recollections, Hamill conveys a deep appreciation for New York and an awaren

New York Exposed

Author: Shawn O`Sullivan, Pete Hamill
Category: Photography
ISBN : 9780810982406
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Inc
Last update : 2009-05-20
Including text by author Pete Hamill, `New York Exposed` is an visual record of the city over eight decades - full of surprises, drama, and fun.

The Guns of Heaven

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Mystery & Crime
ISBN : 9780843955958
Publisher : Dorchester Pub Co Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
On a visit to Northern Ireland, newspaper reporter Sam Briscoe meets with a mysterious IRA leader and agrees to deliver an envelope to his supporters in New York City. It's a decision with grave consequences--for Briscoe, and his 11-year-old daughter as well.

North River

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316340588
Publisher : Little Brown & Co
Last update : 2009-05-19
The year is 1934 and New York City is locked in the icy grip of the great depression. Amid the hunger and suffering, Dr. James Delaney tends to the needy, mobsters and housewives alike. However Delaney himself is suffering from the heartache of his wife abandoning him and from the horrors he witnessed during the Great War. When his daughter abandons her two-year-old son on his doorstep, he recrui

New York

Author: Jake Rajs, Pete Hamill
Category: Photography
ISBN : 9781580931830
Publisher : Monacelli Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
The islands that form New York City are far more subtle and varied than the five that can be seen from the air. In this spectacular portrait of the great metropolis, renowned photographer Jake Rajs juxtaposes iconic views--the Empire State Building, the Hudson River skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge--with unheralded neighborhoods and hidden places throughout the five boroughs. Pete Hamill''s literary

Read All About It

Author: Jim Trelease
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9780140146554
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
Great read-aloud selections for teenagers, families and teachers from the bestselling author of The New Read-Aloud Handbook. This collection of 48 works from newspapers, magazines, and books features works from Pete Hamill, Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Gary Paulsen, and others.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Author: Pete Hamill, Jim Burke, Jack Norworth
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9780316758192
Publisher : Little Brown & Co
Last update : 2009-08-27
Big, bold, pen-and-ink watercolor illustrations . . . accompany Norworth's famous chorus. To illustrate the well-known song, Gillman has chosen the fifth game of the 1947 World series, played in Brooklyn between the Dodgers and the Yankees. . . . Full of nostalgia, excitement, and a good bit of sports history, this celebration of America's national pastime is sure to be a winner ( School Library

A Diary of the Century

Author: Pete Hamill, Edward Robb Ellis
Category: General
ISBN : 9781402754487
Publisher : Union Square Pr
Last update : 2009-08-27
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Yankee Stadium

Author: Ray Robinson, Christopher Jennison
Category: General
ISBN : 9780670033010
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-05-19
YANKEE STADIUM, a lavish, anecdotal tribute to the house that Ruth built, brims with colorful characters on and off the field: managers, players, owners, some of the greatest sports heroes from Babe Ruth to Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson, from Joe DiMaggio to Mickey Mantle, and personalities from Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto to Bob Costas and Pete Hamill.
Momentous events mix with obscure bu

The Day Our World Changed

Author: Andrea Henderson Fahnestock, Museum of the City of New York, Debbie Almontaser, Robin F. Goodman, New York University Child Study Center
Category: General
ISBN : 9780810935440
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Inc
Last update : 2009-05-22
This collaboration between New York University`s Child Study Center and the Museum of the City of New York presents artwork created by children from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut in which they express their feelings about the events of September 11, 2001. Essays by such people as artist Tim Rollins, writer Pete Hamill and Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey accompany the artwork. Proceeds f

Making the Irish American

Author: Lee, J. J. (EDT)/ Casey, Marion R. (EDT)
Category: United States - General
ISBN : 9780814752180
Publisher : New York University Press
Last update : 2009-05-21
View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.Most will find this book alone as satisfying as a plate of praties or an endearing tin-whistle tune. --Foreword MagazineThis lavish compendium looks at the Irish and America from a variety of perspectives. --USA TodayFor anyone with the slightest interest in the history of Irish immigrants in America, Lee and Casey''s book is a wonderful foundatio

The Koch Papers (Paperback)

Author: Edward I. Koch, Pete Hamill, Rafael Medoff
Category: General History
ISBN : 9780230610972
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Last update : 2009-08-28
For more than three decades, Ed Koch has been one of America''s most interesting and outspoken political figures. In this provocative new book, Koch with Rafael Medoff guides readers through the major battles in his life-long fight against anti-Semitism. Interviews, speeches, new essays, never-before published personal correspondence, and more highlight his leadership--on campuses, in the media,

The Koch Papers

Author: Edward I. Koch, Pete Hamill, Rafael Medoff
Category: Ethnic Studies
ISBN : 9780230601024
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Last update : 2009-08-26
For more than three decades, Ed Koch has been one of America''s most interesting and outspoken political figures. In this provocative new book, Koch with Rafael Medoff guides readers through the major battles in his life-long fight against anti-Semitism. Interviews, speeches, new essays, never-before published personal correspondence, and more highlight his leadership--on campuses, in the media,

Why Sinatra Matters

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316347969
Publisher : Xlibris Corp
Last update : 2009-05-22
Pete Hamill's evocation of Frank Sinatra begins in the archetypal Sinatra milieu of a New York City bar after midnight, rain outside, Sinatra and a few pals discussing sports and Hemingway. Within the space of a few paragraphs, Hamill manages to evoke the singer's greatness, intelligence, and humanity, and the respect and even awe he has always engendered among lesser mortals, as well as the gnaw

The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told

Author: Jeff Silverman
Category: Baseball
ISBN : 9781592280834
Publisher : Globe Pequot Pr
Last update : 2009-05-19
At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--organized baseball's first girl pitcher. On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to k

A Drinking Life

Author: Hamill, Pete
Category: General
ISBN : 9780316341080
Publisher : Little Brown and Company
Last update : 2009-05-22
Rugged prose and a rare attention to telling detail have long distinguished Pete Hamill's unique brand of journalism and his universally well received fiction. Twenty years after his last drink, he examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the drinking culture. The result is A Drinking Life, a stirring and exhilarating memoir float is his most personal writing to date. The eldest son o

The Sinatra Files

Author: Kuntz, Tom/ Kuntz, Tom (EDT)/ Kuntz, Phil (EDT)
Category: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
ISBN : 9780812932768
Publisher : Times Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
Published for the first time are details of the FBI's startling file on an American icon, Frank Sinatra--bringing to light a 1,275-page dossier recording 50 years of surveillance stemming from J. Edgar Hoover's belief that Sinatra had Mob or Communist ties. From the Publisher When he died in May 1998, Frank Sinatra already was one of the most chronicled celebrities of the 20th century. Since his

Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Friends, Small Pleasures, Large Calamities, and How the

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: Journalism
ISBN : 9780316341042
Publisher : Little Brown and Company
Last update : 2009-05-22
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 these subjects, and many more, in his years as a contributor to such national magazines as Esquire, Vanity Fair, and New York, and as a columnist at the New York Post, the New