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Retreat

A Love Story

By: John Guzlowski

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Magda was a pretty young war widow on her lunch break. Hans was a soldier on furlough, a Bavarian farm boy Magda found wandering lost in Berlin. After two weeks together, she sent him on his way--back to the nightmare of the Eastern Front. Nine months later, Magda is trying to survive as her city is bombed to rubble, while Hans is somewhere in the Ukraine, slogging through snow and mud to find his way back to her, struggling to maintain his humanity despite the horrors he has survived and the brutality he has witnessed--and perpetrated. Retreat is a story of the terrible costs of war, of love amid crushing defeat, of complicity--and redemption.

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1948403234

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9781948403238

Little Altar Boy

By: John Guzlowski

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Little Altar Boy

By: John Guzlowski

On a snowy Thursday night in Chicago, there is a knock on Detective Hank Purcell’s door. Sister Mary Philomena has seen something terrible at Saint Fidelis Church?—?a violation of all she holds sacred. The next Monday, she is found murdered in the convent basement, next to a furnace stuffed with old papers and photographs. And Margaret, Hank’s teenage daughter, has disappeared. Hank and his unconventional partner Marvin Bondarowicz try to force their way through a wall of ecclesiastical silence to find the killer, while their search for Margaret takes them from swank lakeside flats to drug dens to south-side basement blues clubs…and the snow keeps falling.

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Kasva Press

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194840317X

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9781948403177

Poles in Illinois

By: John Radzilowski,Ann Hetzel Gunkel

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Poles in Illinois

By: John Radzilowski,Ann Hetzel Gunkel

Illinois boasts one of the most visible concentrations of Poles in the United States. Chicago is home to one of the largest Polish ethnic communities outside Poland itself. Yet no one has told the full story of our state’s large and varied Polish community—until now. Poles in Illinois is the first comprehensive history to trace the abundance and diversity of this ethnic group throughout the state from the 1800s to the present. Authors John Radzilowski and Ann Hetzel Gunkel look at family life among Polish immigrants, their role in the economic development of the state, the working conditions they experienced, and the development of their labor activism. Close-knit Polish American communities were often centered on parish churches but also focused on fraternal and social groups and cultural organizations. Polish Americans, including waves of political refugees during World War II and the Cold War, helped shape the history and culture of not only Chicago, the “capital” of Polish America, but also the rest of Illinois with their music, theater, literature, food. With forty-seven photographs and an ample number of extensive excerpts from first-person accounts and Polish newspaper articles, this captivating, highly readable book illustrates important and often overlooked stories of this ethnic group in Illinois and the changing nature of Polish ethnicity in the state over the past two hundred years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Poland will treasure this rich and important part of the state’s history.

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Southern Illinois University Press

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0809337231

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9780809337231

A History of the Polish Americans

By: John.J. Bukowczyk

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A History of the Polish Americans

By: John.J. Bukowczyk

In the last, rootless decade families, neighborhoods, and communities have disintegrated in the face of gripping social, economic, and technological changes. Th is process has had mixed results. On the positive side, it has produced a mobile, volatile, and dynamic society in the United States that is perhaps more open, just, and creative than ever before. On the negative side, it has dissolved the glue that bound our society together and has destroyed many of the myths, symbols, values, and beliefs that provided social direction and purpose. In A History of the Polish Americans, John J. Bukowczyk provides a thorough account of the Polish experience in America and how some cultural bonds loosened, as well as the ways in which others persisted.

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Routledge

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135153520X

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9781351535205

Little Altar Boy

By: John Guzlowski

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By: John Guzlowski

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Murdertown

By: John Guzlowski

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Murdertown

By: John Guzlowski

Twenty years ago, kids started turning up dead, chopped into pieces and stuffed into suitcases. Ten years later, nuns were getting murdered right in their convent and priests were whisked away to keep things quiet. Unfortunately for Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz, the neighborhood's gone downhill since then...

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1948403218

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9781948403214

Suitcase Charlie

By: John Z. Guzlowski

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Suitcase Charlie

By: John Z. Guzlowski

Chicago, May 30, 1956: On a quiet corner in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a heavy suitcase is discovered on the sidewalk late at night. Inside is the body of a young boy, naked and hacked into pieces. Two hard-drinking Chicago detectives are assigned to the case: Hank Purcell, who still has flashbacks ten years after the Battle of the Bulge, and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz, a wise-cracking Jewish cop who loves trouble as much as he loves booze. Their investigation takes them through the dark streets of Chicago in search of an even darker secret--as more and more suitcases turn up. Praise for Suitcase Charlie Every detective has a case that haunts him. For the Chicago cops Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz, that would be the "dead kid in the suitcase" whose broken body epitomizes "some kind of evil that was one-of-a-kind, fresh and original down to its buttons." In writing Suitcase Charlie, John Guzlowski was inspired by a true crime that horrified his city in 1955 and retains the power to shock us today. Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer... The sheer cruelty of the case's multiple murders demands coarse language, at which Guzlowski excels. But in describing the saintly Sisters of St. Joseph nuns who live near the murder scene as "tough broads, eyes like razors," he lets us know that, back in the day, the city of Chicago was an all-around rough town. Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Suitcase Charlie, a tough-as-rusty-nails police procedural by John Guzlowski, is set in Chicago in the spring of 1956 - when the radio is playing hits by Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry, many citizens are smoking Chesterfields and Lucky Strikes, and "Dragnet" and "General Electric Theater" are TV favorites. In Mr. Guzlowski's book, the "second city" is being terrorized by a series of child killings in which the small victims are drained of blood, dismembered and stuffed into luggage left in public spaces. Detective Hank Purcell... with his heavy-drinking partner Marvin Bondarowicz, scours the city in search of clues. The duo visit the musty apartment of a reclusive language tutor, the elegant suite of a physicist in the employ of the U.S. government, and the shadowy ghetto lair of a brutal young hoodlum. Each environment seems spookier than the last in a narrative driven by lyrical anxiety. Little by little, Purcell - treading the blurred line between burnout and breakdown - perceives these sickening new crimes as the fruit of diseased notions and lingering hatreds from earlier decades and even centuries. "I thought all of that bad s__ would just disappear when the war ended," Purcell tells his wife. "And it didn't. It's still here." Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal John Guzlowski beautifully conjures up the seamy side of the allegedly innocent 1950s with a thrilling serial murder mystery featuring two boozehound detectives. Hank Purcell...and his Jewish partner, Marvin Bondarowicz, have been known to break the rules. Both men are survivors of the mean streets, appealing in their humorous repartee and in their willingness to seek justice, even if insubordination is part of their means to that end. ...The plot moves sure-footedly to a powerful and plausible conclusion. While the mystery and its resolution are powerful, the novel's greatest attractions are the characterizations of the partners and the stunning evocation of time and place in a great American city. In important ways, Chicago is the main character, and Guzlowski gives it muscle, pulse and breath. Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book Council Chicago in 1956 is a tough town, but a boy's dismembered body found stuffed in a suitcase shocks even the toughest detectives in Guzlowski's novel. Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz are the detectives who catch the case... The detectives question witnesses and possible suspects, but when more bodies are found, their bosses and even Purcell wonder if they'll ever catch the killer. The author grew up in Chicago during the time of the novel, and it shows in his details of places, people, and the prejudices of the era. The author's strongest asset is his dialogue; whether it's the cops talking with each other or neighbors and crooks casually chatting, the talk always rings true... This vivid re-creation of a time and place may not be enough to make Chicago your kind of town. Kirkus Reviews

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1948403048

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9781948403047

The Journal of John Woolman

By: John Woolman,John G. Whittier

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The Journal of John Woolman

By: John Woolman,John G. Whittier

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0526966092

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The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

By: John Woolman,John G. Whittier

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The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

By: John Woolman,John G. Whittier

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0649619811

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The Journal of John Woolman

By: John G. Whittier

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The Journal of John Woolman

By: John G. Whittier

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3382121042

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The Journal of John Woolman

By: John Whittier

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By: John Whittier

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Retreat

Retreat

Little Altar Boy

Little Altar Boy

Poles in Illinois

Poles in Illinois

A History of the Polish Americans

A History of the Polish Americans

Little Altar Boy

Little Altar Boy

Murdertown

Murdertown

Suitcase Charlie

Suitcase Charlie

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman

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