Author: Max Crisfield
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: brighton
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-11-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0711226466
ISBN-13: 9780711226463
Brighton is a city where nothing is quite as it appears. The end of the line and a stone’s throw from the continent, one minute it seems like an undiscovered corner of Europe, the next it reminds you of its quintessential Englishness. Like its o wn remarkable history, it is a city of improbable makeovers and deft sleight of hand: farmhouses
Author: Catherine Brighton
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: mozart
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2000-04-10
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 184507212X
ISBN-13: 9781845072124
When the composer Mozart was a child he was known as the "miracle boy". Accompanied by his parents and his older sister, Nannerl, he traveled to Europe to perform concerts in the grandest places. Seen through the eyes of Nannerl, this is a story of achievement, excitement and hard work.
Author: Sarah Burakoff
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: street, third, brighton
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-12-10
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0595337937
ISBN-13: 9780595337934
New York’s Brighton Beach in the late thirties is inhabited by many European Jews who have come to the United States in search of a better life. They have fled persecution and poverty. The boardwalk, fireworks, steeplechase and Luna Park’s dancehall paints a future that looks quite enchanting for the girls and boys growing up in Brighton Beach. But the innocent looking Brighton Third Street holds many secrets of incest, gang rape, illegal abortion and infidelity among the families. Bella Levine is on her way to surprise her Mom with a visit to her work place, but what she encoun
Author: William Kennedy
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: badlands, beach, brighton
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595349943
ISBN-13: 9780595349944
The rapid collapse of the Soviet system offered the powerful and dangerous Josef Urikovich and his brother Uri the opportunity to spread the existing Russian criminal network to America. Their headquarters was in Brighton Beach, the area of southeast Brooklyn bordering Coney Island in New York City which unofficially was known as the home base of the Russian Mafia. It was a closed world inhospitable to outsiders. Uri developed a close relationship with Russell Boyd when they both served with the American military forces in Afghanistan. Boyd’s profession as a Major League Baseball player
Author: Neil Simon
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: memoirs, beach, brighton
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0452275288
ISBN-13: 9780452275287
Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext. Here is part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters a
Author: Albin Wagner
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, brighton
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-06-10
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738569410
ISBN-13: 9780738569413
The town of Brighton was founded by railroad man and real estate developer Daniel F. Carmichael at the junction of the Denver Pacific (now Union Pacific) and Denver and Boulder Valley Railroads. Carmichael determined, “There should be a town here that would do credit to the splendid valley.” The junction, originally named Hughes after the first president of the Denver Pacific Railroad, had a long history as a crossroads of the West. The town grew into an agricultural center for the Platte River Valley with a thriving sugar beet industry, dairies, and canning factories, but the changing
Author: Neil Simon
Publisher: Samuel French Inc
Keywords: memoirs, beach, brighton
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-06-04
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0573619417
ISBN-13: 9780573619410
Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext. Here is part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters a
