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    The Kosher Capones

    A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters

    by Joe Kraus ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.”These two men linked the early Jewish ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Kosher Capones

    A History of Chicago's Jewish Gangsters

    by Joe Kraus ...
    The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing."These two men linked the early Jewish ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Currents in the Electric City

    A Scranton Anthology

    Edited by Brian Fanelli, Joe Kraus ...
    In Currents in the Electric City, an installment of Belt's City Anthologies series, the story of Scranton gets told by the people who know it best.Scranton, PA, is more than just the setting for The Office. It's a living city, one with a rich industrial and labor history, that also has a small-town feel. Who is considered "from Scranton" is fiercely guarded even as the city sees immigration from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accidental Anarchist

    How the Killing of a Humble Jewish Immigrant by Chicago's Chief of Police Exposed the Conflict Between Law & Order and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century America

    by Walter Roth, Joe Kraus ...
    It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago–a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey–from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Honor in the Modern World

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    by Laurie M. Johnson, Dan Demetriou, Anthony Cunningham, Shannon E. French, Mark Griffith, Vanessa Hettinger, Richard Ned Lebow, Andrea Mansker, Ryan Rhodes0, Paul Robinson1, Steven Skultety2, Joe Thomas3, Joe Vandello4, Ajume H. Wingo5, Amitai Etzioni6, Steven Forde7, Dr. Sharon R. Krause8 ...
    Series series Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
    After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors—representing philosophy, sociology, political science, ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Dark Tales from the Outside: A Dark Flash Fiction Anthology

    WATG Press Collection

    by Dakria, Ryan Colley, Kevin David Anderson, J. Rocky Colavito, Amber Willis, Andrea Tillmanns, Marius Creed, Basile Lebret, Norbert Góra, Robert Hanover, Nelly Shulman, Evan Baughfman, Laura Nettles, Tom Blicq, Joe Kraus, J. Agombar, Christopher Dabrowski, Morgan Chalfant, Shashi Kadapa, Andreas Flögel, Tina Wingham, Kareem Miskel, Phoenix Ginger, Ross Baxter ...
    Series series WATG Press Collection
    Across forgotten mountains, cursed rivers, haunted forests, and ancient ruins, something waits in the dark.Dark Tales from the Outside gathers a wide range of horror voices from around the world, each exploring legends, folklore, monsters, ghosts, and the hidden fears lurking just beyond the edge of human understanding. From Appalachian nightmares and Japanese yōkai to ancient prophecies and ... Read more

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  • The Book of Delights

    Essays

    by Ross Gay ...
    The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers, award-winning poet Ross Gay.“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us.” —Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet LaureateThe winner of the NBCC Award for ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

    by Irving Howe ...
    The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories ( ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Naming Names

    by Victor S. Navasky ...
    Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC from a longtime editor of The Nation and former Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review .Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and A... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Inciting Joy

    Essays

    by Ross Gay ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection.In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blacklisted by History

    The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

    by M. Stanton Evans ...
    Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The 50 Funniest American Writers

    An Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion

    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD