LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kevin corley

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kevin corley

  • The American Boys
    Kevin Corley
    Gus and Georgette Winkler’s love story begins and ends on St. Valentine’s Day, but it’s the one in Chicago on February 14, 1929, that haunts them for the remainder of their lives. Gus and his friends participate in many of the most notorious crimes and murders of the 1920s and 30s and eventually are responsible for bringing down famous gangsters like Verne Miller, Machine Gun K...
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    16,69 €

  • Bootlegger Heaven
    Kevin Corley
    'Hang up your guns and enjoy life-before the bullet sends you to bootlegger heaven,' Infamous gangster Charlie Birger tells Carl Shelton. The next morning, Birger hangs. Carl, though, returns to his life as a bootlegger and leader of the Shelton Gang. Still, Birger’s words haunt him. Retiring to his farm in southern Illinois seems like an idyllic way for Carl to spend his golde...
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  • Sundown Town
    Kevin Corley
    Who we are is not always who we must be to survive.In 1898, Big Henry Stevens leads hundreds of African-American coal miners and their families from Alabama to Illinois. When they arrive, the miners learn the mine owners lied to them. Instead of good pay for honest work, they were strikebreakers crossing picket lines. With no money and nowhere to go, they were stuck.Meanwhile, ...
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  • Throw Out the Water
    Kevin Corley
    Coal mine wars. That’s what they called the long, bloody conflict between rival unions that tore apart families and communities throughout Illinois during the 1930s. Hot-headed Vinnie Vacca sides with the newly-formed Progressive Miners of America. His stubborn brother Bullo fights for the established United Mine Workers while the coal mine bosses hire Chicago gun thugs from th...
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    11,33 €