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1) Paradise Alley: a novel

Author

Baker, Kevin

Series

City of fire trilogy volume 2

Pub. Date

[2002]

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"For five terrifying days during the Civil War, the streets of Manhattan were taken over by the Draft Riots. ... follows three Irish women living on a small New York City street, each determined to protect herself and her family from the riots and each shouldering devastating burdens"--P. [4] of cover.

2) The New York game: baseball and the rise of a new city

Author

Baker, Kevin

Pub. Date

[2024]

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"A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s."--

3) Strivers row

Author

Baker, Kevin

Series

City of fire trilogy volume 3

Pub. Date

[2006]

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"Harlem is a never-ending carnival. Soldiers and sailors, hustlers and glamour girls fill its streets, looking for excitement. Every night, dance halls like the Savoy Ballroom are filled with frenzied jitterbuggers, and the best jazz musicians in the world face off in rent parties and clubs such as Small's Paradise. Yet underneath the glitter, Harlem's black residents remain second-class citizens, shut out of most jobs, charged double the rents of...

4) Dreamland

Author

Baker, Kevin

Series

City of fire trilogy volume 1

Pub. Date

[1999]

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A novel on turn-of-the century New York, portraying its various faces. The cast includes a Jewish seamstress who rebels against her rabbi father to become a union organizer, an Irish-American senator who rules the city with the help of corrupt police, and Freud who gives his views on crass America. By the author of Sometimes You See It Coming.