Author: DUTY.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Sixth Family
Author: Adrian HumphreysPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443427500
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
The definitive book about the explosive Rizzuto crime family On May 5, 1981, three rebellious members of New York’s Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of the gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, a man who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand his reign across continents to become a global superboss. The Sixth Family, now revised and updated, reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto clan, the alliances it forged around the world and the bloody events that led to charges against Vito Rizzuto in the United States and Italy for racketeering and corruption. As police in the United States, Italy and Canada meticulously pieced together the puzzle that is Vito Rizzuto, established notions about the nature of authority within the Mafia were called into question. Who was this so-called “John Gotti of Canada”? How did he become one of the biggest names in global crime? And how did he survive the deadly assault from gangland rivals that almost destroyed his family?
The Sixth Family
Author: Peter DiapoulosPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553102956
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Hidden Valley Road
Author: Robert KolkerPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385543778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.
Family in Six Tones
Author: Lan CaoPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984878174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience."--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where she faced hosts she had not met before, a language she didn't speak, and food she didn't recognize, with the faint hope that she would be able to go home soon. Lan fought her way through confusion, and racism, to become a successful lawyer and novelist. Four decades later, she faced the biggest challenge in her life: raising her daughter Harlan--half Vietnamese by birth and 100 percent American teenager by inclination. In their lyrical joint memoir, told in alternating voices, mother and daughter cross ages and ethnicities to tackle the hardest questions about assimilation, aspiration, and family. Lan wrestles with her identities as not merely an immigrant but a refugee from an unpopular war. She has bigoted teachers who undermine her in the classroom and tormenting inner demons, but she does achieve--either despite or because of the work ethic and tight support of a traditional Vietnamese family struggling to get by in a small American town. Lan has ambitions, for herself, and for her daughter, but even as an adult feels tentative about her place in her adoptive country, and ventures through motherhood as if it is a foreign landscape. Reflecting and refracting her mother's narrative, Harlan fiercely describes the rites of passage of childhood and adolescence, filtered through the aftereffects of her family's history of war, tragedy, and migration. Harlan's struggle to make friends in high school challenges her mother to step back and let her daughter find her own way. Family in Six Tones speaks both to the unique struggles of refugees and to the universal tug-of-war between mothers and daughters. The journey of an immigrant--away from war and loss toward peace and a new life--and the journey of a mother raising a child to be secure and happy are both steep paths filled with detours and stumbling blocks. Through explosive fights and painful setbacks, mother and daughter search for a way to accept the past and face the future together.
Six Generations Here
Author: Marjorie McLellanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Six Generations Here is a unique collection of words and photographs taken across the first half of the 20th century by Wisconsin dairy farmer Alexander Krueger and his descendants. The Kruegers turned the camera lens on their Dodge County farm, its environs, their family, and the networks of kin that framed their lives. Their photographs and family stories comprise a unique record not only of who the Kruegers were but also of how they sought to be remembered.
Six Dollar Family
Author: Stacy BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512188035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Is Your Family a Six Dollar Family? What if you had the tips you need to go from six dollars to six figures? It's quite possible! Even if you don't make six figures a year! Are you tired of years of struggling financially, overspending and underbudgeting? Tired of dreaming of when "someday" will come and suddenly everything will be okay? Someday is here! Six Dollar Family: From Six Dollars to Six Figures is your toolbox of frugal living ideas, budget saving advice, financial crisis management and more to arm yourself with the info that you need to go from six dollars...to six figures! Are you really frugal? See the characters of a truly frugal person versus simply thrifty and figure out which one you fall under. Is your budget too tight or even non-existent? Learn the 3 most common budget types and how to find one that works for you. Are your expenses keeping you broke? Learn how to get past the small savings and cut right to saving big bucks. Are your finances currently in crisis mode? Find a step by step walkthrough for how to handle a budget crisis so that your family comes out shining on the other side. Six Dollar Family gives you the tips and tricks that you will need to take your family's budget to the next level. Tried and true, these tips are what you've been waiting for to help kick your savings up a notch, knock your budget back into place and really take hold of your money! - How to give awesome gifts for cheap...or even free! - Why your dryer is costing you thousands and what to do about it - How to teach your kids to manage money and why you should start early - Simple ideas for boosting your income and more!
The New Whole Duty of Prayer: Containing Fifty-six Family Prayers ... and a Variety of Other Devotions and Thanksgivings, Etc
Author: DUTY.The New Bath Guide: Or, Memories of the B-r-d Family. The Sixth Edition
Author: Christopher AnsteyThe Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
The Kent Family Chronicles Volumes Four Through Six
Author: John JakesPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504057562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2011
Book Description
A family builds its empire in books four through six of an American historical epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South. This multigenerational saga follows the Kent family in their pursuit of a better future in the expanding United States amid deceit, passion, and violence. From the brutal Battle of the Alamo to the bloody Civil War, their fate is intertwined with the course of American history in these three volumes of the series. The Furies: Spanning from 1836 to 1852, the fourth Kent Family novel opens with Amanda Kent just escaping the massacre at the Alamo. Brazen and focused, she works to make a new life for herself during the California Gold Rush, and she’s willing to risk everything to restore her family’s name . . . The Titans: In the hellish years of the Civil War, while the nation struggles with its identity, the Kent family fights greed and hatred. In New York, devious Louis Kent controls the family dynasty—now on the verge of collapse. Meanwhile, his cousin Jephtha Kent backs the abolitionist cause even though it may cost him his sons . . . The Warriors: With the advent of the transcontinental railroad, the Kents continue to fight for their place among America’s wealthy. Temptation beckons young Jeremiah Kent as a Southern belle lures him into a trap of lust, lies, and murder. The nation may be facing a rebirth, but that doesn’t mean all survive . . .