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"Aaron, a disgraced rabbi turned Wall Street banker, and Amelia, his journalist girlfriend, live with their newborn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City. The infusion of upwardly mobile strivers into Bed-Stuy's historic brownstones belies the tension simmering on the streets below. But after a cop shoots a boy in a nearby park, a riot erupts--with Aaron and his family at its center. Over the course...
25) DREAM WEAVER
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Claire is content teaching high school in a small town, but when a dwindling population threatens to close the school, Claire knows it will take a small miracle to keep her hometown alive.
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"Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside is a fast-paced but harsh story involving drug addicts and other low income residents in the ghetto that is Vancouver's drug-ravaged Downtown Eastside. Fans of Irvine Welsh and Hunter S Thompson will appreciate the non-stop black humour that prevents the book from being dragged down by the bleakness and intensity of the subject matter. Although highly entertaining, this novel, like all of Walter's work, is not...
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"All fire escapes lead back to the same block in Sugar Hill, Harlem--where kids run through hydrants and music blares from stereos plugged into lampposts When a new resident (the story's unnamed narrator) notices the trash polluting the picturesque streets and tainting his block's beauty, he is spurred into action. However, his best intentions go awry when the cleanup brings media coverage that, in turn, sets off a rash of evictions and an influx...
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Reddick es un joven pintor frustrado que vive en Brooklyn. A la espera de abrirse camino en el feroz mundo artístico neoyorquino, trabaja para una empresa que se dedica a montar exposiciones en las viviendas de la gente más acaudalada de Manhattan. Una gélida noche, en un callejón al lado de su casa, se encuentra a una desconocida con la que charla un rato antes de que ella desaparezca bruscamente. El descubrimiento de que se trata de la novia...
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