![]() ![]() ![]() Hill's story becomes an extraordinary vantage on a demimonde that lives a high, violent, score-to-score life in which car theft, hijacking-to-order, credit-card scams, cigarette smuggling, and other hustles and schemes are as workaday as 9-to-5 at the office. The Wise Guy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run - Kindle edition by Hill, Henry, Davis, Priscilla, Pileggi, Nicholas. The book is the basis for the 1990 Academy Awardwinning film Goodfellas. Pileggi, a crime reporter for New York writing here with Hill's cooperation, does a superb job of re-creating the gangster's career, from his early days as an errand boy (at 12) to racketeer Paulie Vario in Brooklyn's BrownsvilleEast New York section, to his pivotal roles in a Boston College point-shaving scandal and the $6-million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport in 1978. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter. Its hard to imagine that the obsessive and frenetic Martin Scorsese ever endured blue periods in his career, but twenty years ago, he was going through one. The "wiseguy'' (mob parlance for a street-level hoodlum) is Henry Hill, 30-year veteran of a Brooklyn strong-arm branch of the Luchese crime family, who turned against and helped convict his former associates five years ago and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program. This is a riveting account of organized crime as a way of life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Data-packed pages give the essential details about each featured city, including where to go, what to do and things to eat on a visit, as well as information about the city's history. Cityscapes draw in the reader with facts about the iconic buildings that help to shape each city's unique identity. This series offers readers of 9 and up an engaging and visually exciting look at some of the world's major cities. ![]() ![]() Print Cities of South America (Cities of the World)Īn engaging and visually exciting look at some of South America's major cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II. In summary-despite the reader knowing exactly how the story ends The British Are Coming turns the Revolutionary War into nothing short of a riveting page-turner. The British Are Coming The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777. My heart can’t take any more supply shortages. To think this is only the first book in his trilogy. Never in my life have I worried so much about firewood and rope, let alone those darn gunpowder kegs that Congress could never supply enough of. ![]() With so much at stake, every shot holds immense importance, and Atkinson drives that point home, emphasizing not only the significance of the war but also the tragic cost in both lives and matériel. The British Are Coming honestly reads like Game of Thrones-just with less dragons and more tricorn hats-as political rivalries, bloody feuds, and massive set-piece style battles engulf the American colonies from Quebec to the Carolinas and everywhere in between. ![]() Drama, intrigue, and a cast of surprisingly colorful characters abound in this battle-by-battle recounting of the early years of the War for Independence. Based on exhaustive research on both sides of the Atlantic, Atkinson displays a mastery of the English language as well as military tactics which puts him in a class of his own as a writer. This book is a masterpiece as bold and cunning as Washington’s Christmastime attack across the Delaware. Download or stream The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson, George Newbern for free on hoopla. The British Are Coming is a sweeping narrative which captures the spirit and the savagery of the times. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Small is feeling down, Small asks Large, "If I turned into a bug, would you still love me and give me a hug?" Large's responses to this question and those that follow are nothing but loving and affirming. ![]() This powerful and heartwarming picture book about unconditional love is the perfect book to show your loved ones how much you love them, no matter what. Reading Level: 2.1 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 Physical Information: 0.34" H x 9.71" W x 12.02" (0.98 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product Lexile Measure: 490 AD (Adult Directed Text) Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Small, a little fox, seeks reassurance that Large will always provide love-no matter what. ![]() Contributor(s): Gliori, Debi (Author), Gliori, Debi (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() You’re 26 years old and in your twenties, I think there’s a chance that might happen if you come from where I come from and you have the tools that I have or don’t have, and what was important to me and what I really tried to do, especially in that chapter, was keep the focus on my sh-t.” being under the pressure cooker of a new show. “I don’t know if I describe it as a toxic relationship,” Minka replied. Minka just appeared on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live and was asked about describing her relationship as “toxic.” So when my relationship with Taylor became toxic, I had no one to turn to,” Minka wrote in the book while discussing her lack of female friendships during her time on FNL. “All the effort I might have invested in connecting consistently with the girls on the show went to Taylor. Minka is now clarifying something from the book. The 42-year-old actress looked beautiful in blue while heading into a promo appearance on Tuesday afternoon (May 2) in New York City.Įxcerpts from Minka‘s new memoir have been making their way online, including comments about her previous relationship with Friday Night Lights co-star Taylor Kitsch. ![]() ![]() Minka Kelly is hard at work promoting her new memoir! ![]() ![]() ![]() Generally while reading a book I underline words or expressions or references, which I can’t comprehend to look up later. This phrase was not only thing harming my reading experience. However in an otherwise well written book, repetition of this phrase makes reading experience irritating especially if the reader belongs to passionate anti-“Fair enough” group. To be completely honest I have to say, “Fair enough” about the context of most of the “Fair enough”s. There is, on average one “Fair enough” every 10 to 15 pages. My revelation came while reading Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin. Neither this is a recent phenomenon nor an Indian one. ![]() It has some how become the multipurpose reply to everything.īut I was mistaken. I feel as if I am flooded with “Fair enough”. I am revolted by the liberal use of “Fair enough” (or some form of it) in Indian English. What is fair? How it is fair? To whom it is fair? And how much fairness is enough? I clarified how I am merely a book blogger with some original writing thrown in. He replied enthusiastically about his relative being “a food blogger too”. I gave my usual full time mommy description and then said I write some time in my blog. On our first meeting someone asked me what do I do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the five Dreadgods hold a certain amount of power, and when one dies that beast’s power is distributed to the others. Subject One says that all hunger on Cradle is connected - it’s all one (see Reaper). The dreadgods are entities of hunger madra. The origin of their bloodline.’ (Bloodline, ch 20) Power Distribution The man who had become warped by hunger aura. This was Subject One, at least as he had appeared long ago. ![]() It was carved with the image of a gaunt, sunken human with many grasping hands, its eyes hollow and mouth open unnaturally wide. The last chunk of masonry rolled away, revealing a towering stone door. In Bloodline, Monarch Reigan Shen reveals that Subject One is also a Dreadgod, as he enters the Labyrinth via a hidden entrance. He’s also a Dreadgod, although few people know it. Subject One - Researcher turned subject.If it’s cut, it reforms itself from blood droplets. The Bleeding Phoenix - Huge crimson phoenix with wings large enough to stretch across the horizon.The Wandering Titan - A stone warrior with the shell of a tortoise and the tail of a monkey.The Silent King - White Tiger crowned in a halo.The Weeping Dragon - A blue serpentine dragon that travels on thunderstorms, and sleeps on miles-long beds of clouds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Officer Flossy catch Dingo? Will Rollo Rabbit catch his runaway steamroller? And with literally hundreds of things to look at, youngsters will spend hours trying to find Goldbug on every page. Every manner of machinery that moves is riotously depicted in this classic favorite. Cars and Trucks and Things that Go book by Richard Scarry Children's Books > Classic Children's Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 16.55 Paperback 8.39 - 9.89 Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good - Good 4.19 Acceptable 3.99 New 16.55 See All 17 Editions from 3. Each detailed spread provides tremendous opportunity to make up stories and describe situations. The station wagon, the tow truck, the garbage truck and the bulldozer. As the pig family head to the beach for a picnic, they encounter every vehicle known, from the forklift to the locomotive, and many vehicles that are not as common, from the pumpkin car to the broom-o-cycle. Every manner of machinery that moves is riotously depicted in this classic favorite. ![]() Annotation: The station wagon, the tow truck, the garbage truck and the bulldozer. ![]() Series Title: Giant Little Golden Book Ser. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() This book had a flow and an ease that was so comfortable, so relaxing. I would like to officially claim that this is Jodi’s best book yet. And I did not know how another book could be better, be good… The prospect of another book started to grow on me though and soon for me, no matter what the outcome was going to be, everything got the better of me and I KNEW I simply HAD to read it. They go together like Bella & Edward, Cinderella & Prince Charming. ![]() ![]() I mean Jesse & Ava are the Ross & Rachel of the book world. I was really, really struggling with the prospect of having another book in the world that would upset the dynamic of such a great loved pair. When Jodi Ellen Malpas announced that she was writing another book about Jesse & Ava my first thought was “NO. So, I’m gonna start this review being really, really honest. ![]() |