The World of Pro Hockey

Sports & Outdoors

Bruce Bennett

Howard Berger

Hockey

Crescent

Funny Signals

Foothills Pub.

A raw, gritty memoir part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end. In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and antipolice sentiment. Working as a plainclothes narcotics cop in the most high-voltage neighborhood in Manhattan, Detective Sergeant Mike Codella earned the nickname ''Rambo'' from the local dealers, as well as a $50,000 bounty on his head. The son of a cop who grew up in a mob neighborhood in Brooklyn, Codella understood the unwritten laws of the shadowy businesses that ruled the streets. He knew that the further east you got from the relative safety of Fifth Avenue, Washington Square Park, and NYU, the deeper you entered the sea of human misery, greed, addiction, violence, and all the things that come with an illegal retail drug trade run wild. With his partner, Gio, Codella made it his personal mission to put away Davey Blue Eyes a stone-cold murderer and the head of Alphabet City's heroin supply chain. Despite the hell they endured all the beatings and gunshots, the footchases, and close calls Codella and Gio always saw Alphabet City the same way: worth saving.Alphaville, Codella's riveting, no-holds-barred memoir, resurrects the vicious streets that Davey Blue Eyes owned and tells the story of how Codella bagged the so-called Forty Thieves that surrounded Davey, slowly working his way to the head of the snake one scale at a time. With the blistering narrative spirit of The French Connection, the insights of a seasoned insider, and a relentless voice that reads like the city's own, Alphaville is at once the story of a dedicated New York cop and of New York City itself.

Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side (Library Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Michael Codella

True Crime

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Witty, aphoristic poems, with a love story narrative throughout

Subway Figure

Orchises Press

Bruce Bennett's first collection of New and Selected Poems, Navigating The Distances, published by Orchises Press, was cited by Booklist as One Of The Top Ten Poetry Books Of 1999. Orchises has now brought out his second New and Selected. Although Just Another Day in Just Our Town includes poems from several of Bennett's books and chapbooks written since 2000, the book is not a conventional New and Selected. A large number of the poems have not been previously published, and many of them are very recent. Just Another Day is organized into sections, which invite the reader to journey with the author from the quotidian and local into a darker interior landscape that opens into a kind of free-wheeling Alice In Wonderland literary tour, followed by a suite of villanelles which act out a pas de deux with the villanelle form. The concluding sections are more personal, focusing on questions of identity and vocation rendered all the more urgent by the encroachment of intimations of mortality. In quoting Borges as a preface to both books, Bennett implies that the personal journey of self-discovery they document resembles everyone's personal journey. And it is clear throughout this new collection that the continuous play with form, narrative, voice, and character is Robert Frost' s "serious play." It may be just another day in just our town, but it is a day with everything in it, and it is no more ordinary than our extraordinary lives.

Just Another Day in Just Our Town

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