Cohen, Rich
Summary: After his first Cubs game when Rich Cohen was eight, his father asked him to make a promise. "Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not win," he explained, "and because of that, a Cubs fan will have a diminished life determined by low expectations. That team will screw up your life." Here he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days-- not just what happened, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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Summary: "An exploration of parenting, sports, and the suburbs, all through the sport of children's ice hockey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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Summary: The author describes growing up on the Great Lakes, relating how a relationship forged in adolescence shaped and transformed his life, and reexamines that friendship from the perspective of adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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Summary: The bittersweet story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. A strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, it is also the story of immigrants, sugar,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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Contents: Today you are a man, go get me a drink -- Jew Street -- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance -- 2120 South Michigan -- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick -- The record man pays for our sins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: Over three months in the summer before the Civil War, New York suffered a massacre, a flight, a manhunt, and a trial, all of which kept the nation riveted and remade Albert Hicks, the last pirate of New York, into a celebrated antihero. For years Hicks operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime. In 1860 he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019
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Summary: "In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city's sewer tunnels to sabotage German outposts. Abba's chief lieutenants were two teenage girls, Vitka...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 COHSummary: Xander is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when he goes over the line with his latest stunt, he's faced with two options - either infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring for the government, or go to jail. Xander turns spy and now this new breed of secret agent is out to take down the enemies of justice with his own style of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002