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(0)Charles Fleming
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels - where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless Worthington Lee and the city's first all-black hotel-casino. The Ivory Coast is rising up from the dust, on the wrong side of town. And, out of the shadows steps Deacon, a white horn player with a dark...
4) Nicky Deuce
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Borelli II is an over-protected teen who has the adventure of a lifetime when his plans to attend math camp go awry. He spends the summer in Brooklyn, NY with family he never knew he had; his Italian grandmother Tutti and Uncle Frankie. Nicholas leans on the local kids to help him fit in and winds up mistakenly into his new persona, Nicky Deuce. Nicky uncovers family secrets
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Pr
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve. Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. “In 1960,” he writes, “I was given a transorbital, or ‘ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American...