Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by William Wilbanks and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of 117 officers, from the years 1840 through 1925, who were killed in the line of duty.

Download or read book Mendoza s Heroes written by Al Pepper and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball's honor rolls are filled with legendary deeds of batting prowess. Throughout history, crowds have risen to cheer the majestic trajectory of a white sphere "crushed" by the likes of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, and Barry Bonds. But, what about the players who repeatedly produced little more than squibbers to third base, infield pop-ups, or ego-bruising strikeouts? What could possibly be their values to a baseball club? Plenty. Al Pepper reveals the unique, offbeat, and remarkable stories of fifty of these men in Mendoza's Heroes. Using eye-opening statistics, interviews with players, and anecdotal biographies, Pepper also presents these players in context of their time. In effect, the book serves as a rollicking tour of baseball history as well. The Foreword is written by ex-big leaguer Mike Stenhouse.

Download or read book Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Times written by Patrick Mendoza and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-two tales about extraordinary heroes and villains from different historical eras.

Download or read book Twilight of Heroes written by Ralph Peters and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight of Heroes is a tale of international suspense set amid the recent drug wars in Latin America. The novel follows an American colonel plagued by his conscience, a female doctor fighting deadly odds, a dangerously arrogant American ambassador, a Bolivian playboy who falls in love with the woman he planned to betray, and a teenage assassin from the slums of Colombia. Ranging from the lawless South American backcountry to the halls of Washington, D.C., this is the finest novel--or work of any kind--written about the men and women whose fates are tied to politics, cocaine, and the gun.

Download or read book The Quixotics written by John Wayne Falbey and published by The Falbey Group, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quixotics is a tale of coming of age in the Baby Boomer generation. The time is 1970 and three young men have returned from military service in Vietnam. Like other returning warriors of that era, they have become disenchanted with a country whose citizens spit on and curse returning warriors. Restless and troubled by what they see as the loss of individuality in an increasingly one-size-fits-all society, they decide to escape it and create an environment more to their liking. They pool what little cash they have and acquire a boat that is barely seaworthy. The plan is to sail leisurely through the Caribbean, living life on their own terms one idyllic day at a time, determined to find adventure and right any wrongs they find along the way. Combative with society and each other, they set off in the small, cramped boat with no sailing or navigational skills. To earn some badly needed cash, they grudgingly agree to deliver a cargo of weapons to anti-Castro insurgents in Cuba. The start is rough and the voyage rougher, but all hell breaks loose once they reach the island. Captured by Castro forces, they are imprisoned in an old Spanish dungeon. Later, they escape and join up with the rebels in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Here, their talents for guerrilla warfare, honed in the jungles of Vietnam, assert themselves. Before this tale of adventure, romance, and self-discovery is over, each man will come to realize, as Cervantes said, “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within”.

Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Fiction written by William S. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands written by James William Buel and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tribulation of Heroes written by Jay L. Young and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a reason why Lucifer and his followers believed their assault on Heaven could succeed. There is a reason why the city of Sanctuary remains hidden... The words spoken by the Facet Angel millennia ago have plunged No Argentar and the other members of the Faction into a world of mystery. The dark gods are maneuvering silently towards an unthinkable goal, but will the Faction be their adversary or their unwitting tool? The Anaii, an alien race dwelling in Sanctuary, have chosen to reveal themselves fully to Sabrina. Through their story, she becomes aware of a link between their history, the origins of the dark gods, and her own evolving powers. All of Creation awaits her true awakening. Even as No struggles to maintain unity and discipline within the Faction, the group of heroes find themselves swept up in the war between Good and Evil that is consuming the world around them, and unforeseen battles threaten to scatter the Faction forever. In a landscape of vengeance and betrayal, the remnant of the Faction must risk everything as the dark gods finally make their move. But the ultimate victory weighs balanced in the heart of the greatest Spirit Warrior in history - Walter Wilson.

Download or read book Luis Leal written by Mario T. García and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors, including Mexico's Aquila Azteca and the United States' National Humanities Medal. In this testimonio or oral history, Luis Leal reflects upon his early life in Mexico, his intellectual formation at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and his work and publications as a scholar at the Universities of Illinois and California, Santa Barbara. Through insightful questions, Mario García draws out the connections between literature and history that have been a primary focus of Leal's work. He also elicits Leal's assessment of many of the prominent writers he has known and studied, including Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Tomás Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodríguez, and Ana Castillo.

Download or read book A New Century of Heroes written by Eric P. Zahren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are heroes who walk among us: the clam digger who rescues a man from a burning retirement home; the dancer who prevents a robber from shooting two policemen at a nightclub; the former Marine, blinded during the Korean War, who saves two women from drowning in a river. What they have in common—besides the willingness to risk their own lives to save that of a friend or a stranger—is an unwillingness to brag about their actions. In 1904, moved by the stories of two men who died trying to rescue others in the devastating Harwick Mine Disaster that killed all but one of 180 men, Andrew Carnegie conceived of a fund to reward selfless acts of bravery and courage. Since its creation 120 years ago, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has awarded more than 10,000 medals and distributed more than $44 million in awards, grants, tuition, and other assistance. Published under the auspices of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the original edition of A Century of Heroes received an award of excellence in 2005 from Communication Arts and, along with its accompanying video, remains a part of the awarding materials given to each Carnegie hero. Updated and expanded, A New Century of Heroes profiles more than 200 medal recipients: ordinary men, women, and children who undertook extraordinary acts to save the lives of others. It also reveals the tireless efforts of investigators who roamed the United States and Canada, collecting data on the hundreds of nominations received each year for consideration and conducting thousands of interviews with rescuers, witnesses, and individuals whose lives were saved. Their maps, diagrams, and marked-up photographs, many of which are included in this volume, illustrate the high standards and strict requirements imposed by the Commission to ensure that a Carnegie Medal recipient truly deserves the appellation “hero.” Only about one in ten nominees is selected for recognition. The heroes featured in this book offer a cross-section of the thousands of honorees who have received the award. They represent only a few of the inspiring stories that uphold the Carnegie Hero Fund’s legacy, reminding us that true heroes are found, not on television or in comic strips, but in the uncommon strength that lives inside all of us.

Download or read book Romanticism Judaica written by Sheila A. Spector and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection of twelve essays, Romanticism/Judaica explores the four major areas of intersection: Nationalism and Diasporeanism, Religion and Anti-Semitism, Individualism and Assimilationism, and Criticism and Reflection. Chapters cover diasporeanism, Byron, Hyman Hurwitz and Coleridge, Solomon Maimon and Kant, Maria Polack, Grace Aguilar, the theater, boxing, Solomon David Luzzatto and Rousseau, Anglo-Jewish scholarship, Harold Fisch, Lionel Trilling, M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman.

Download or read book Fortune s Hero written by Susan Crosby and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been months since an unidentified rugged cowboy had saved Victoria Fortune from the rubble of the tornado—and she'd been haunted by his image ever since. Garrett Stone knew her name, all right. Everyone in Red Rock knew the Fortunes. And now the pampered princess had shown up on his doorstep! The taciturn rancher braced himself for trouble. Victoria was too young, too spoiled—and way too tempting. She saw Garrett as some kind of hero. But he was just a man. A man with a shadowed past who didn't deserve the glow he saw in her eyes…

Download or read book Mad For Glory A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812 written by Robert Booth and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship? In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain David Porter, who had decided to run off with the navy's ship and its three hundred men to fight a separate Pacific war--one of privateering, pillaging, and orgies. Drawing on Porter's own writings and the accounts of eyewitnesses, the author memorably recounts the events of a dark and fatal voyage in which David Porter crosses the line from commander to cult-leader, from improbable fantasy to disastrous reality. In a tale so amazing that it reads like fiction, Porter, impelled by his own demons and by rivalry with the ghostly British buccaneer Lord Anson, took his men and boys on a seventeen-month mystery tour that did not end until he had disrupted the Chilean revolution, captured the entire English whaling fleet (manned mainly by Americans), vanished into the enchanted Galapagos, and re-emerged in Polynesia, where he made himself the conqueror-chief of the stone-age Nukuhivans. In the end, when he sought redemption with a glorious victory over a British opponent, he failed terribly and sacrificed the lives of one-third of his crew to his personal notions of heroism. Robert Booth tells the story of the ill-fated Essex with accuracy, immediacy, and a broad vision of its meanings as an epic of war, a gripping tale of the sea, a brilliant portrait of a disturbed and disturbing American hero, and a geo-political thriller that sheds new light on the origins of U.S. imperialism, the tragedy of missed opportunities, and the disastrous and permanent impact of Porter's rampage on the peoples of the Pacific.

Download or read book Workmen and heroes written by Charles Francis Horne and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of biographies by various authors.

Download or read book An Unexpected Hero written by Stella Bagwell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romance for real Her Sweetest Fortune by Stella Bagwell Sophie Fortune Robinson is intent on landing Mr. Right by Valentine's Day—and she has her eye set on a sexy office colleague. But when she enlists friend and coworker Mason Montgomery to teach her how to get a man to notice her, she doesn’t know she's already captured his attention. Now Mason has just a few short weeks to convince sweet Sophie that he is the real man of her dreams! Fortune's Surprise Engagement by Nancy Robards Thompson Olivia Fortune Robinson’s cynical view of marriage accidentally convinced her little sister to call off her own wedding, and Liv has to fix things and quick. What better way than to "fall in love" herself? Tall, dark and sexy Alejandro Mendoza agrees to be her pretend boyfriend for a week. But when the two commitmentphobes suddenly become faux fiancés, Liv's traitorous heart starts to fall for real… USA TODAY Bestselling Author Stella Bagwell 2 Heartfelt Stories Her Sweetest Fortune and Fortune's Surprise Engagement

Download or read book Baseball and the American Dream written by Robert Elias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and