Download or read book Let Me Tell You About Alex Crazy Days and Nights on the Road with the Hurricane written by John Virgo and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a nation with a long and proud military tradition, one token stands above all others as a mark of recognition for the ultimate acts of individual feats of arms: the Victoria Cross. Awarded for one reason alone--to mark extreme acts of great heroism by British and Commonwealth servicemen in the face of the enemy--it is unquestionably the hardest club in the world to gain entrance to. Its holders--ordinary soldiers, sailors and airmen--are linked by an uncommon bond of exceptional bravery, displayed often at great personal risk and against impossible odds. The VC has been awarded only thirteen times since the end of the Second World War in 1945. Three of these awards were made to recipients who had paid the ultimate sacrifice while demonstrating gallantry beyond the call of duty. Forged in battle, from the shell-scarred hills of Korea, to the windswept marshland of East Falkland and today's counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, each one of these VCs has a uniquely inspiring tale to tell. This is their incredible story.
Download or read book Pleasures of Small Motions written by Ph. D. Fancher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychotherapist and pool columnist breaks new ground by applying good science to the mental game of billiards and gives invaluable insight on competitive play.
Download or read book Corpus Christi written by Alexander Connolly and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus Christi When the mortal remains of Christ are found in a disused Irish monastery, the Universal Catholic Church will stop at nothing to prevent their discovery from the public eye while an equally determined former Irish Republican Volunteer and his first love will allow no barrier to stand in the way of the truth even while being pursued by the deadly ruthless Miles Dei. Weaving through the beautiful Irish countryside, the great European cities of London, Belfast, Dublin, Rome, and Geneva as well as some of the most breathtaking scenery in Europe, Corpus Christi is a buckle-up ride from start to finish, moving seamlessly from the time of Christ through the formative years of Northern Ireland's Troubles to contemporary times. Beginning with a shocking discovery, it continues with a pulsating middle and finishes with an end that satisfies.
Download or read book More Fool Me written by Stephen Fry and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British comedian recounts the highs and lows of his wild years: “A gifted writer with a perfect sense of comic timing and anecdote-spinning . . . Lots of fun.” —Kirkus Reviews By his early thirties, Stephen Fry—writer, comedian, star of stage and screen—had, as they say, “made it.” Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him. As the ‘80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never-ending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, he was a high functioning addict. He was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow . . . Filled with raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain—revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden. “Fry is an astonishingly charming fellow: erudite, playful and capable of writing in a style so intimate that readers can picture themselves sitting next to him at a splendid dinner party as he rather one-sidedly entertains the entire table.” —Slate
Download or read book Tutenkhamen s Tracksuit written by Alan Tyers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The optician's prescription for the 1966 World Cup Russian linesman. A news report of an ear-biting scandal in the Roman gladiatorial arena. An advert for Roger Bannister's four-minute egg timer. Andrew Flintoff's bar bill from the 2005 Ashes celebrations. Tutenkhamen's Tracksuit ransacks the dusty lockers and forgotten corners of the world's dressing-rooms to present a unique collection of subverted reality. Satirical, surreal and completely invented, fans of every sport will enjoy this knowing and mischievous hijacking of the defining moments of popular sporting culture. The book illuminates the most famous moments, lives, personalities and controversies in sport with a unique collection of found (i.e. made-up!) objects drawn from throughout history. From match-fixing in Ancient Egypt to Twittering kiss-and-tells, no sporting stone is left unturned. The hundred objects are presented as a unique collection of sporting ephemera curated by Gideon Rupert, Acting Director of the National Museum for Sport and Fishing, Orkney. From spoof diaries, school reports, news articles and intercepted emails to postcards, seating plans, tactical diagrams and cave paintings, each tells the story of a well-known sporting event or personality in a completely irreverent way, alongside curator's notes and spurious academic references. After reading Tutenkhamen's Tracksuit, you'll never look at a museum catalogue in the same way again.
Download or read book Born in Ice written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in the Irish Born Trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Born In Fire. Brianna Concannon is the kind of innkeeper who doesn’t mind the harsh winters of Ireland—and the empty bed-and-breakfast that comes with them. But this year, a famous American author needs a quiet place to stay while writing his next book. A charmer whose easy smiles mask a guarded past, Grayson Thane plans to spend the cold winter alone. But his lovely landlady adds a complication he never expected. She’s exactly what he’s looking for in his heroine. And soon Grayson and Brianna will learn that sometimes fate has a plan of its own. Sometimes, fire can be born in ice... Don't miss the other books in the Irish Born Trilogy Born in Fire Born in Shame
Download or read book The Wandering Path written by Carlo Ardito and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in fascist northern Italy in the early 1940s, this novel reaches into the London of the 1950s and 1970s, drawing on the author's personal experiences of the London theatre of the time. It follows the progress of Walter Napley, gifted in the arts but intent on a life as a business entrepreneur.
Download or read book Unbreakable written by Ronnie O'Sullivan and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 and THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 'Reading this is like watching an O'Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossible to tear yourself away from.' - STEPHEN FRY 'Besides quite a few laughs, many readers will find recognition, reassurance, remedy and revelation in O'Sullivan's candid story. I highly recommend it.' - THE TIMES 'Ronnie is searingly honest, candidly funny, and thought provokingly brilliant in Unbreakable. I devoured it.' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE --- In a career spanning over three decades, Ronnie O'Sullivan's journey to becoming the greatest snooker player of all time has been filled with extremes. A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie into a life of excess and addiction. He was winning titles - his first within a year of turning professional - but losing himself and his game as he tried to block out the mental pain and misery. Whilst Ronnie appeared at the height of the game to spectators, these were the moments when he felt at his lowest. In the year 2000 Ronnie started rehab and began the journey to get his life back, addressing his demons and working on developing a stronger and more resilient mindset. More than twenty years on, Ronnie is still obsessed with delivering his peak performance and never happier than when in a snooker hall, but success has now taken on a new meaning for the record-equalling world champion. Framed around the many lessons Ronnie has learned from his extraordinary career, Unbreakable takes us beyond the success and record-breaking achievements to share the reality - and brutality - of making it to the very top, whatever your field. Ronnie is the first to say he doesn't have all the answers, but in sharing the experiences that have shaped him and mistakes that have made him, he hopes to help readers navigate their own personal challenges and obstacles, and in turn reach their maximum potential. This is Ronnie O'Sullivan as you've never seen him before, the definitive and unflinching story of a true British icon and a fascinating insight into the mindset of the world's greatest snooker player. Sunday Times Bestseller, May 2023
Download or read book Flushed written by Gary Benzies and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary ‘Bendy’ Benzies was in his late forties when everything got on top. 30kg overweight, suffering from the debilitating Crohn’s disease, he spent the vast majority of his time either sat on the toilet or wondering where the next one was. And when he needed one, he needed one urgently. His knees ached, he had intolerable reflux and rattled with medication. He couldn’t travel and became a miserable recluse who could barely keep it together enough to work. Relationships were just about to snap and everything around him was falling down. Told “this was his lot” and to “just take the medication” by the medical fraternity he decided one day that enough was enough. If this was the way his life was going to go it was almost not worth living. There had to be a way back. And one day, thanks to the luminous running shoes he’d bought years earlier, he found an epiphany. This is the story of an everyday senior copper who did what he’d done for thirty years in his day job - started a journey to find the truth. Through massive lifestyle changes and years of research he found himself and healed. It is written in typical policing fashion. Hard hitting, with a dark humour and totally real. It will make you laugh, reminisce and maybe even cry. This is an empowering and enlightening book for anyone suffering from life changing chronic illness who wants to return to the child within. Now in his mid-fifties, symptom and medication free for many years and fitter, healthier and stronger than he was in his thirties, Gary tells where society has gone wrong and let us down and how we can find a way back and how you can have your cake and eat it. For more information follow Gary at paleonutter.com
Download or read book A Long Neglected Passage written by Donald Simmons and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nora Roberts The Irish Born Trilogy written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a collection including all three novels in her Irish Born Trilogy—featuring three modern sisters bound by the timeless beauty of Ireland. BORN IN FIRE The eldest Concannon sister, Maggie is a reclusive, stubborn, and free-spirited glassmaker—with a heart worth winning... BORN IN ICE A lover of hearth and home, Brianna Concannon is a practical and nurturing innkeeper—whose heart is an open door... BORN IN SHAME Though an American, Shannon Bodine is about to find her roots—and lose her heart—in Ireland...
Download or read book Ronnie written by Ronnie O'Sullivan and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronnie is snooker's most written and talked about player, and its greatest showman. His supreme talent and style have made him the People's Champion and, as one commentator put it, 'the question is not how much does Ronnie O'Sullivan need snooker, but how much does snooker need Ronnie O'Sullivan?' A honest and candid account of his extraordinary life, Ronnie tells of the infant who was introduced to legendary snooker clubs at an impossibly early age; of the boy who frightened off the bookies aged just 12; of the teenager whose life was decimated when his father and mentor was sent to prison for life; and of the man dubbed the 'genius' of the modern game who regularly threatened to quit the sport to pursue other interests at the grand old age of 28. 'A fine autobiography ... compelling' - Independent 'O'Sullivan is as frank about his spell in the Priory clinic as he is about his father's murder conviction. His accounts of snooker tournaments and sketches of the sport's personalities will fascinate fans, but even snooker haters will be rooting for Ronnie in the game of life' - OK!
Download or read book Love and Hate Condemned to His Hate Book 3 written by Aliza Jabri and published by Starlight. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I stared at my reflection in the mirror. It was only a shadow of the girl I used to be. Blue eyes, void of emotions and glint, glanced back at me. My lipstick and mascara were smudged, and my blonde curls were a complete mess from when he had fisted them while he pounded inside me from behind. "Whores like you deserved to be fucked bent over the counter of a hotel restroom," Logan's last words before he left the ladies' restroom echoed in my ears. A tear trickled down my cheek as a scream fought to escape my mouth. I bit down on my lip to stop myself from crying out loud. Christina, who has been hiding for the past four years from the people who wanted to kill Christina and her son Aiden had no idea fate would bring her face to face with Logan De La Roche. The man she once betrayed. Now, Logan is hellbent on having her back in his grasp to make her pay for every single of her sins. With a secret to protect and a terminally ill mother, how will Christina survive Logan’s wrath?
Download or read book Me and the Table My Autobiography written by Stephen Hendry and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STEPHEN HENDRY became the youngest professional snooker player in 1985 aged 16 and, in 1990, he was the youngest ever snooker World Champion, at the age of 21. Widely regarded by fans and pundits alike as one of the greatest players of all time in the sport, over a 27-year career, Hendry went on to win the World Championship seven times, and was snooker's world number one for eight consecutive seasons between 1990 and 1998. Hendry retired in 2012 with a record-breaking seven World Champion titles under his belt, a record that remains to this day. He's now ready to tell his life story for the first time - from a childhood spent climbing the ranks of the sport, through the highs of the '90s and lows of the 2000s, to his life now as a sports pundit and commentator. With an insight into the world of the man behind the cue, and what made him such a top-class player, this is the definitive autobiography of the legend that is Stephen Hendry.
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Download or read book A Night with Damien Spur written by Nina Saville and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a famous novelist falls for the wrong woman, all his demons come up for review. Damien Spur, charismatic thriller writer, is the rock star of the literary world. Yet behind his public façade lies a troubled soul, addicted to the devil's trinity: sex, drugs, and alcohol. When he meets ruthless beauty, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, who wins a night with him at a charity auction, his life spirals out of control. Consumed by obsessive love and jealousy, Damien's descent culminates in a desperate act. Saved from the brink by chance, he embarks on a journey of redemption. Along the way he encounters the women who shape his path, from Sophie, a beautiful widow who is drawn into the depths of Damien’s dramatic life, her sister Anna, an aspiring novelist whom he mentors – and beds, to the ghost of his first wife, whose past lies finally unravel. Amidst it all, The Voice, the wisecracking companion inside his head, guides him through the stormy seas of his existence. A Night with Damien Spur is a romantic comedy tinged with darkness, delving into the tumultuous realm of unrequited love.
