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  • SUNNY JIM
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    SUNNY JIM
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    An evocative portrait of the Triple Crown–winning racehorse trainer: "sportswriting as good as it could ever possibly be" ( New York Daily News).   At seventy-seven, James "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons should have been considering retirement. His six-decade career stretched back to 1885, when, as an eleven year-old, he began working as a stable boy. After failing as a jockey, Fitzsim...

    $109.00

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  • TABLE MONEY
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    TABLE MONEY
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    As a city worker and former war hero tumbles into alcoholism, his wife fights to hold on to her newfound freedom   Owney Morrison has walked the catacombs underneath New York City since he was eleven. His father was a sandhog—a tunnel worker—and the first to introduce him to the miles of passageways snaking beneath the ground.   Now an adult, back from Vietnam with a Medal of H...

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  • WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN
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    WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    Adrift in New York, an alcoholic cop searches for meaning in his life by revisiting his past   The department has taken away Dermot Davey's gun. After countless incidents of excessive force and on-the-job drunkenness, and one harrowing moment where he nearly killed a civilian, the New York Police Department has dumped him on the "Bow and Arrow Squad"—the home for alcoholic cops...

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  • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRESLIN
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    THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRESLIN
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—"a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).   Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York Daily News sparked some of his finest work. When New York City tumbled into economic and social chaos at the end...

    $164.00

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  • THE WORLD OF JIMMY BRESLIN
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    THE WORLD OF JIMMY BRESLIN
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's early columns "peopled by some of the funniest, looniest and saddest characters anywhere outside of a zoo" ( The New York Times).   In the 1960s, as the once-proud New York Herald Tribune spiraled into bankruptcy, the brightest light in its pages was an ebullient young columnist named Jimmy Breslin. While ordinary columnists wrote about p...

    $251.00

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  • CAN'T ANYBODY HERE PLAY THIS GAME?
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    CAN'T ANYBODY HERE PLAY THIS GAME?
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    A "hilarious" look back at the 1962 Mets and their record as the worst baseball team in history by the  New York Times–bestselling author ( Newark Star-Ledger).   Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city's National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted t...

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  • FORSAKING ALL OTHERS
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    FORSAKING ALL OTHERS
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight and The Good Rat. The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for dealing narcotics, he promises the parole board that he's gone straight. But Teenager has ...

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  • THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT
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    THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    New York Times bestseller: A novel of a messy mob war in Brooklyn that "makes you laugh out loud" ( Chicago Sun-Times).   Kid Sally Palumbo has been a loyal servant to the Brooklyn Mafia for years. His specialty is murder, and he is so skilled at it that he has gotten the attention of Mafia boss Papa Baccala. But unfortunately for Kid Sally, murder pays poorly. He wants to make...

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  • HE GOT HUNGRY AND FORGOT HIS MANNERS
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    HE GOT HUNGRY AND FORGOT HIS MANNERS
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    A Catholic priest sets his sights on sin's frontline: New York City Father D'Arcy Cosgrove honed his special talents during a mission to Africa, where he ministered to locals about the dangers of sex. To Cosgrove, sex is a menace to societies all across the world, with no country more stricken than the United States. And so, to fight his war on impropriety, Cosgrove moves to Ne...

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  • THE GOOD RAT
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    THE GOOD RAT
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist reveals a history of the American mob with "perfect diabolical detail. . . . A master at transforming crookery into opera" ( New York Times Book Review). In his inimitable New York voice, New York Times bestselling author Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like John Gott...

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  • HOW THE GOOD GUYS FINALLY WON
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    HOW THE GOOD GUYS FINALLY WON
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    New York Times Bestseller: A "superb" blow-by-blow account of how Tip O'Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate ( Chicago Tribune). Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip O'Neill noticed that Democratic fundraising efforts for the 1972 election had stalled. Major...

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  • COLLECTED NONFICTION
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    COLLECTED NONFICTION
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author.   In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin "leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard words and a jagged-glass wit" ( The New York Times).   How the Good Guys Finally Won: ...

    $329.00

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  • THE NOVELS OF JIMMY BRESLIN
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    THE NOVELS OF JIMMY BRESLIN
    JIMMY BRESLIN
    Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.   Jimmy Breslin was not only "the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City," he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally comfortable with comedy and tragedy, often intermixing the two ( New York Daily News). Co...

    $329.00

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