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A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ringBefore Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father’s suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging along like any other cadet when first deputy Sidel, the commissioner’s right hand man, comes looking for a young cop with blue eyes to infiltrate a ring of Polish smugglers. He chooses Coen, and asks the ca...

After decades of madness in the Bronx, Isaac Sidel visits the craziest state in the countryIsaac Sidel is too popular to be America’s vice president. Once the New York Police Department commissioner, he became the most beloved mayor in the city’s history—famous for his refusal to surrender his Glock, and for his habit of disappearing for months at a time to fight crime at street level. So when baseball czar J. Michael Storm asks Sidel to join ...

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A master storyteller‿s novel of corruption and antisemitism. Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan‿s Lower East Side in a dark mirror.

Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike....

When Babe Ragland makes the hapless Boston Red Sox in a Spring Training tryout, he becomes baseball's "seventh Babe." He soon establishes himself as an acrobatic third baseman, and his rookie fright is soon replaced by a fierce competitiveness and a chip on his shoulder the size of the Green Monster. Ragland clashes with his teammates, the entire American League, and finally the mighty Kenesaw "Mountain" Landis, which results in his sudden eje...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century ManhattanRavage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side?the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century?in a dark mirror.Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade...

Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations.

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In A Singular Beauty, Jerome Charyn magically transports the reader back to his childhood in 1940s Bronx, filled with the tensions of World War II, the rationing of food and fuel, and corrupt public officials who feast on immigrant poverty and hardship. This is the story of his mother, Faigele, the queen of poker dealers in the West Bronx. Her legendary beauty hypnotizes us as her days and nights are consumed by politicians and crooks, always ...

New York, 1990. Die kleine Azami ist zur jungen Frau herangewachsen, zu einem Lieutenant der New York Police obendrein. Als volltätowierte Bodybuilderin verschafft sie sich in den dunklen Ecken des Big Apple spielend Respekt. Als sie in einer dieser Ecken ein verlassenes Baby findet, regt sich dennoch eine zartere Emotion in ihrer Seele, und sie will das Kind adoptieren. Mit der Hilfe ihres Ziehvaters, des Tätowierers Pavel, will sie dem Junge...

This surreal epic centers on the mysterious Rita, wife of a philandering magician, and her struggles with terrifying demons, both real and imaginary. Winner of the Prix Alfred (Angoulême) and the Grand Prix (Sierre).