[PDF] Lets Go To The White City eBook

Author : James Colello Jr.
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1480803294

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During the first two decades of the twentieth century, thousands of people flocked to an enormously popular amusement park on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey, seeking thrilling rides and the amenities of Spring Lake. In Lets Go to the White City, James Colello Jr. shares the fascinating history of the park dubbed as The Coney Island of New Jersey. In 1907, an experienced amusement director arrived in Trenton to encourage the creation of a large-scale amusement park. As his vision eventually came to fruition, one of the foremost summer parks of its day entertained patrons with many attractions, including fireworks displays, popular dances, band music, and dinners at the casino restaurant. With a focus on good, clean fun, White City Park also provided a place of enjoyment where revelers rode the carousel, circle swing, shoot-the-chute, and watched vaudeville acts. Included are photographs that help rekindle memories of a time when many in New Jersey proclaimed, Lets go to the White City! Lets Go to the White City offers a never-before-seen glimpse into the twenty-year history of an amusement park that provided both the young and old alike with wonderful memories.

Author : John Claude Bemis
Publisher : Bluefire
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375855696

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Ray, Conker, and their Rambler friends face the Gog and his machine in a final struggle at the 1893 Chicago Exposition.

Author : Jocelyn Green
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493429914

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The one thing Sylvie Townsend wants most is what she feared she was destined never to have--a family of her own. But taking in Polish immigrant Rose Dabrowski to raise and love quells those fears--until seventeen-year-old Rose goes missing at the World's Fair, and Sylvie's world unravels. Brushed off by the authorities, Sylvie turns to her boarder, Kristof Bartok, for help. He is Rose's violin instructor and the concertmaster for the Columbian Exposition Orchestra, and his language skills are vital to helping Sylvie navigate the immigrant communities where their search leads. From the glittering architecture of the fair to the dark houses of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, they're taken on a search that points to Rose's long-lost family. Is Sylvie willing to let the girl go? And as Kristof and Sylvie grow closer, can she reconcile her craving for control with her yearning to belong?

Author : Donald W. Larson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1796099082

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Ted White a ten-year-old boy recently moved from Minneapolis to Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range and solves the mystery of a haunted house in the ghost town of White City. A mysterious Jesuit priest also adds to the mystery as he seeks a rare Douay Bible stolen from a church in Chicago. Also, there is a problem regarding sudden infant death syndrome of which Ted White is able to give comfort to his mother. A haunted house, mysterious happenings, a refuge for two boy’s horse.

Author : Dog Dujour
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 061525358X

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The first book in the Spirit Gates Chronicles. Harvey must discover his true identity and importance in a world of free love and peace, finding that doing so uncovers a singular truth, that free love and peace don't equal freedom and that the decision to leave his world torn and war strewn ultimately lays in his hands.

Author : Eva García Sáenz
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984898590

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"You’ll want to race through The Silence of the White City, but it’s best to slow down and savor the full effect of the volatile, intoxicating universe Sáenz has created. This is the first novel of the White City trilogy to be translated into English—the second can’t come fast enough." —AirMail HOW DO YOU STOP A KILLER WHO'S ALWAYS TWO STEPS AHEAD? A madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons. Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier. But back then, police were sure they had discovered the killer, a prestigious archaeologist who is currently in jail. Now Kraken must race to determine whether the killer had an accomplice or if the wrong man has been incarcerated for two decades. This fast-paced, unrelenting thriller weaves in and out of the mythology and legends of the Basque country as it hurtles to its shocking conclusion.

Author : A. S. Patrić
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612196837

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This powerful 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel tells of two refugees starting over after losing everything. Jovan and his wife have fled war-torn Sarajevo. They have lost their children, their comfortable lives as public intellectuals, and their connection to each other. Now relocated to a suburb of Melbourne, they must rebuild their lives under the painful and sometimes violent hardships of immigrant life.

Author : Alec Michod
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466866446

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From the depths of the seediest brothels to the pristine enclaves of the elite, The White City is a strange, beguiling first novel by Alec Michod, a thriller that masterfully blends fact and fiction. An exhilarating voyeur's glimpse at Chicago in all its glory, it also probes the dark side that was never far from its core. It is the year of our lord, 1893. The crackle of electricity's first sparks, the mechanical whine of Ferris's wheel, the tinkling of crystal from the majestic city atop the hill--the sounds of a new era pervade the air as the century's last World's Fair commences in Chicago. But darkness lurks beneath the metropolis so austere it has been dubbed the White City. Strikes loom on the horizon, racism runs rampant, and a murderer unlike any America has ever seen before is on the loose, terrorizing the city. His crimes are so brutal, newspapers have christened him the Husker. Hiding behind the cloak of a city in chaos, he taunts his pursuers, littering the grounds of the fair with the corpses of children as he slips through the shadows. Dr. Elizabeth Handley, the first forensic psychologist of her kind, has been called in to capture the killer, but when the son of prominent architect William Rockland goes missing, the case takes on an entirely new urgency. In this city of bombastic politics and cutthroat egos, everyone has his own agenda, but time is running out. As she races to save the boy, Dr. Handley fights to maintain her sanity as the line between captor and quarry blurs, and violence casts its spell.

Author : N. S. Wikarski
Publisher : Northgate Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries: Volume 1 - The Fall of White City Wealthy spinster Evangeline LeClair leads a paradoxical life. By day, she fends off marriage-minded suitors. By night, she teaches English to factory workers at a social settlement in the slums. Evangeline is quite satisfied with the status quo until murder disrupts her routine. One of her students, a penniless immigrant, has been stabbed to death in Chicago's most exclusive hotel. The girl's brother, a known anarchist, is accused of the crime. Evangeline wheedles her admirer, Freddie Simpson, into helping her track down the real killer. Their list of possible suspects is long: a captain of industry, a denizen of the slums, a shady doctor who mixes his own drugs, and a teenage prostitute from a sporting house in the Levee District. The gleaming surface of the World's Fair casts many shadows, and THE FALL OF WHITE CITY exposes the darkness at its core.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1409044602

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'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .