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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Born into a warm Cleveland household in 1950, Ogden Kern navigates life sideways-with good humor and an eye for the telling detail.From a boyhood of cowboy shows and Saturday adventures, through the newsrooms of Evansville and Atlanta, a failed marriage, a new love, and an unexpected collision with organized crime, Ogden follows the thread of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary times. He covers Atlanta's flourishing art scene, raises three children with his Italian-American wife, Reese, and finds himself drawn-against all good advice-into the shadow world of New York mobsters and Colombian cartel operators.When a mob-connected friend finally makes clear that curiosity has limits, Ogden makes the most unlikely choice of his life: to raise his family in a Sicilian villa under the quiet protection of a powerful local family-and somehow call it peace.Continuing the story begun in Harry Kern, Ogden Kern is a coming-of-age story that doesn't stop coming of age. Funny, frank, and deeply human, it is a love letter to a vanishing America and the ordinary man who paid close attention.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pap worried Harry would be so very far from the farm if he made it to the finish line. He knew his number-three son was not cut out for the life he had chosen for himself. But Cleveland The city was filled with sin and temptation.In 1914, Harry Kern speeds into Cleveland, Ohio with a race to win and nothing to lose. His new-found celebrity garners him a job in the automotive industry and the admiration of a certain policeman's daughter. What follows is a mix of everyday life, not-so-ordinary family drama, and.murder Based on the lives of the author's grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles, Harry Kern intertwines fact and fiction into a sometimes unbelievable but often true story of a family living in the first half of the twentieth century.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mitchell Jenkins is an ambitious museum director who will do anything to increase his status in life, including leaving literal and figurative victims in his wake. Both his methods and his morals are questionable at best.Ted Martin is the director of a small art gallery in Hudson, Ohio. When he accepts the curator position under Jenkins in Meriden, Alabama, he unknowingly joins a host of other employees who admire Jenkins at first, then find themselves doing their best just to survive under his unpredictable rule.Will someone catch on to Jenkins' scheming ways and make him pay, or is he just too good of a con artist to get caught Will Ted become one of Jenkins' victims.…