These terse lyrics engage the reader with humor, brio, and bite. In these wildly imaginative poems, Karen Hildebrand reminds us of the strangeness of the everyday and the pleasure in those ripe moments when past and present buckle and overlap. Funny, fervent, and fierce, Crossing Pleasure Avenue is also delightfully profound.

The founder of Sea Isle City, Charles K. Landis, was a man of action. He had a dream of what the ideal seashore resort should be. In the 1870s, his dream began to take shape. It has been said, "Each age is a dream that is dying or a dream that is coming to life." This is the fascinating story of how Sea Isle City, located along the New Jersey coast in Cape May County, evolved. Sea Isle City is a pictorial tour of the founding and early history of this resort by the sea. Almost overnight the island town became accessible by railroad and by turnpike. Hotels and cottages appeared throughout the island. The Braca, Busch, Cronecker, Dever, Kehner, Pfieffer, and Rey families played a vital role in the growth of the town. Another family, the Hafferts, formed the Garden State Publishing Company, which contributed significantly to employment and economic stability. Commercial fishing became an important industry in the development of the town with the coming of the "Hatmen" at the beginning of the twentieth century. The influential people who shaped the community and countless other families, schoolchildren, and local legends are finally brought together in Sea Isle City.

Considers legislation to authorize the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge or a tunnel across the Potomac River in the vicinity of Constitution Avenue, D.C.

A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.

This is a real story. It is narrated autobiographically, and it tells of a series of events that could happen anywhere in Colombia. The names of the places or people do not matter, since these same events are repeated all throughout the whole country. There are very few voices that rise above the fear, threats or the generalized indifference, to denounce the mechanisms of corruption and violence that are forcefully imposed, even on those who represent the State/country, much like the protagonist of these revelations. Elsi Angulo wrote this book pouring out her soul in each phrase, and this has resulted in a work that not only has the moral value of a denunciation, the political value of the testimony of the attacks on a race and the place they call home, but also the aesthetic value of showing us a reality so raw, so unfair, that it seems unlikely ... but it is not. This book was published, in its first edition, in 2007, under the pseudonym of ‘Gaby Márquez’.