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  | | Snow in August by Pete Hamill Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1999 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67525-3, ISBN: 0-446-67525-3 "Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague." |
 | | Snow in August(1st Edition) by Mr Pete Hamill Paperback, 327 Pages, Published 1994 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-34094-6, ISBN: 0-316-34094-4 "In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the many miracles large and small contained in Pete Hamill's novel. Michael finds himself in trouble when he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of the dreaded Falcons gang beating an elderly shopkeeper. Fo ..." |
 | | Snow in August by Pete Hamill Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-7848-1084-2, ISBN: 0-7848-1084-2 |
 | | Snow in August(Reprint) by Pete Hamill Library, Published 2008 by Unknown ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-6422-6, ISBN: 1-4395-6422-1 "Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship - and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival any ..." |
 | | Snow in August by Mr Pete Hamill 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-56966-8, ISBN: 0-446-56966-6 "He barely knew what the Latin words meant, and he certainly could not speak Latin. And neither could the priests at Sacred Heart. They all spoke English to each other. The priests and the altar boys recited Latin, like actors in some play. The priests often read the Latin prayers from books, while the altar boys called up the replies from brute memory. And Father Heaney raced through Latin prayers as if they were a bore. Michael di ..." |
 | | Snow in August by Pete Hamill Published 1999 ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-3868-7, ISBN: 1-4177-3868-5 |
 | | Snow in August by Pete Hamill Published 1999 by Bt Bound 1999-10-01 ISBN-13: 978-0-613-06851-2, ISBN: 0-613-06851-3 |
 | | Snow in August(Large Print) by Pete Hamill Paperback, 507 Pages, Published 1999 by Thorndike Pr Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7862-1222-4, ISBN: 0-7862-1222-5 "Kate Devlin said calmly. The rabbi was slumping now, his ... "After the war, letters I wrote to the Americans, the British, even the Russians," he said. "In German I wrote, in Czech, in my not good English." His body slumped lower in the chair." |
 | | Snow in August(1st Edition) by Pete Hamill Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1998 by Vision ISBN-13: 978-0-446-60625-7, ISBN: 0-446-60625-1 "Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache. Im Brooklyn der vierziger Jahre mag die Freundschaft zwischen einem elfjährigen irisch-katholischen Jungen und einem älteren jüdischen Rabbi so unwahrscheinlich erscheinen wie -- nun ja, Schnee im August. Aber die Beziehung zwischen dem jungen Michael Devlin und Rabbi Judah Hirsch ist nur eines der vielen großen und kleinen Wunder, die in Pete Hamills Roman enthalten sind. Michael gerät in Schwie ..." |
 | | Snow in August by Pete Hamill Hardcover, Published 1997 by Follett ISBN-13: 978-0-329-16483-6, ISBN: 0-329-16483-X |
 | | Snow in August by Mr Pete Hamill Published 1998 by Turtleback Books: A Division Of Sanval ISBN-13: 978-1-4176-2196-5, ISBN: 1-4176-2196-6 |
 | | Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World A Memoir Anthology by Nancy C. Atwood, Roger Atwood, Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, Kim Barnes, Rick Bragg, Rosemary L. Bray, Mary Childers, Paul Clemens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Pete Hamill, E. Lynn Harris, Daisy Hernández, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Hoffman, Bell Hooks, Mary Karr, Michael C. Keith, Michael Patrick Macdonald, Bich Minh Nguyen, Joe Queenan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Scofield, Kate Simon, Brent Staples, Michelle Tea, Tobias Wolff, Monica Wood, Howard Zinn Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5532-0, ISBN: 0-8203-5532-1 "Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors―some eminent, some less well known―who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, racially, geographically, and in sexual ori ..." |
 | | A Time it Was(1st Edition) Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties by Bill Eppridge, Pete Hamill, John Ellard Frook, Adrienne Aurichio Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-7122-6, ISBN: 0-8109-7122-4 "On June 6, 1968, at the age of 42 and at the height of his popularity, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, fatherKennedy was all of these thingsand, to many Americans, he embodied the power of possibility and positive change during a period of social unrest, racial inequality, and war. Renowned Life photographer Bill Eppridge followed and photographed Kennedy during his early campaign d ..." |
 | | Only in New York(1st Edition) An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City by Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38777-8, ISBN: 0-312-38777-6 "No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, he writes about what makes New York tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all cities on earth. The forty essays in this book cover a variety of topics, including: • Why do we have doormen? • Is it nois ..." |
 | | The Irish Face in America(1st Edition) by Julia Mcnamara, Jim Smith, Contributor-Pete Hamill Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2004 by Bulfinch ISBN-13: 978-0-8212-2883-8, ISBN: 0-8212-2883-8 "THE IRISH FACE IN AMERICA profiles a vibrant cross section of Irish Americans and their contributions to every aspect of society. Several well-known figures are included: film stars Martin Sheen, Ed Burns and Bridget Moynahan; Riverdance founder Michael Flatley; television personality and producer Merv Griffin; and pro golfer Mark O'Meara among them. The stories span all ages and walks of life, and capture the richness and heritage of t ..." |
 | | Shaking the Foundations 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) by Bruce Shapiro, Pete Hamill, P. Hamill Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2003 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-433-1, ISBN: 1-56025-433-5 "Great investigative journalism is present-tense literature: part detective story, part hellraising. This is the first anthology of its kind, bringing together outstanding (and often otherwise unavailable) practitioners of the muckraking tradition, from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Ranging from mainstream figures like Woodward and Bernstein to legendary iconoclasts such as I. F. Stone and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the dispatches ..." |
 | | The Brooklyn Film Essays in the History of Filmmaking by John B. Manbeck, Robert Singer, Pete Hamill Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcfarland ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-1405-5, ISBN: 0-7864-1405-7 "Brooklyn, New York, a borough of New York City, is known for its distinctive vernacular, its communal feel on the fringes of a booming city, and its famous bridge, a gateway to the unlimited opportunities in Manhattan. Of course, Coney Island deserves a mention as it garners its own fame independent of Brooklyn, its parent locale. New York City moviemaking got its start in Brooklyn when Charles E. Chinnock shot his silent film in 1894. ..." |
 | | A Killing for Christ by Pete Hamill Hardcover, 266 Pages, Published 2018 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-590-3, ISBN: 1-61775-590-7 ""Hamill is better known as one of our greatest chroniclers of New York City. In this, his first novel, rereleased on its 50th anniversary, he goes all hard-boiled noir, telling the story of a disaffected American priest and a plot to kill the pope."--The New York Times Book Review, included in Honor Jones's "New & Noteworthy" column"I'm a big fan of Pete Hamill's, and can't think of a finer New York novel than Forever. Somehow I'd misse ..." |
 | | A Killing for Christ by Pete Hamill Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2018 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-578-1, ISBN: 1-61775-578-8 ""Hamill is better known as one of our greatest chroniclers of New York City. In this, his first novel, rereleased on its 50th anniversary, he goes all hard-boiled noir, telling the story of a disaffected American priest and a plot to kill the pope."--The New York Times Book Review, included in Honor Jones's "New & Noteworthy" column"I'm a big fan of Pete Hamill's, and can't think of a finer New York novel than Forever. Somehow I'd misse ..." |
 | | A Killing for Christ by Pete Hamill 266 Pages, Published 2018 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-598-9, ISBN: 1-61775-598-2 "Until A Killing for Christ, I had never tried a story of such length (my first book was a paperback biography of Ernest ... But to make the transition from one form to another on the same day, I'd lie down, thinking of choices, and wake up an hour later, almost always knowing what to write. ... Reading A Killing for Christ again for the first time in a half century, I now believe that it is overwhelmingly about the loss of faith. . ..." |
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