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Author
Series
Ridley Jones thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this gripping memoir, almost prominent artist Warren Rosen takes us into the East Village scene of tawdry bars and late-night clubs as he pursues the good life., befriending the highest of society and the lowest. In a monentous decision he gives it all up and goes underground for seven years., escaping a marijuana indictment. He finds refuge in Buddhist monasteries where he learns the mental tools he will need when he finally turns himself in and...
Author
Series
Ridley Jones thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect--with only tiny cracks to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that's not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt's musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his Mission District home, the police are convinced it's a simple robbery. But Claire knows nothing is ever simple. With the help of her new assistant, Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding hints to Paul's fate in her other cases, especially that of a missing girl in the gritty 1980s East Village and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan{u2019}s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared{u2019}s lives in ways none...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his artistic soul over the course of the decade and comes into orbit with all the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not...
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