Download or read book Mortal Lock written by Andrew Vachss and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his “perimeter” from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the “last journalists” accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects twenty tight, powerful stories—all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time—along with an original screenplay. Together, they form Mortal Lock, a searing portrait of the criminal underworld, with both its depravity and humanity on display.
Download or read book Mortal Lock written by Andrew Vachss and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his “perimeter” from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the “last journalists” accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects twenty tight, powerful stories—all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time—along with an original screenplay. Together, they form Mortal Lock, a searing portrait of the criminal underworld, with both its depravity and humanity on display.
Download or read book Horse Racing An Opinion written by Jack Adler and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of losing money at the racetrack? Horse Racing: An Opinion might well be the remedy. It is clever, witty, and strewn with insights. The book’s goal: enhance and enrich the reader’s appreciation of horse racing by providing a unique conceptual framework from which to view the sport. The book offers the reader a new way of seeing, a new set of eyes. Not only will it enhance the reader’s appreciation of the sport, but it will also enhance the health of one’s bankroll as well. Even money says you’ll love it.
Download or read book Beyer on Speed written by Andrew Beyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Beyer's clean, rapid-fire prose, this book explains how to relate speed figures to such factors as pace, track bias, and track conditions. It discusses exotic wagers such as the pick six and reveals optimal uses of the figures based on computer analysis of more than 10,000 races. Blending colorful anecdotes, it presents a revolutionary way to play the horses.
Download or read book The Caesars Palace Book of Sports Betting written by Bert Randolph Sugar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-03-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years gambling has been, according to Sports Illustrated, "America's national pastime". Now, the most famous sports-gambling establishment in the world gives the gambler and sports fan this coverage of basketball, boxing, football, baseball, horse racing, and more.
Download or read book Haiku written by Andrew Vachss and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Burke series comes a sharply affecting new novel about a group of outcasts who undertake a “mission” to save a schizophrenic’s hidden treasure. When his most beloved student dies as a result of what he believes to be his misguidance, Ho renounces his position as a revered sensei, abandons his dojo and all of his possessions, and embarks on a journey of atonement on the streets of New York City. Here a group of homeless men gather around him: Michael, a gambler who lost it all; Ranger, a psychotic Vietnam veteran; Lamont, an ex-con, poet, and alcoholic in that order; Target, a compulsive “clanger”; and Brewster, the keeper of a secret library in an abandoned inveterate building on the waterfront. When news hits that the building is slated for demolition, the group must subsume each individual’s demons into one shared goal: save Brewster's library, at all costs.
Download or read book The Laurel and the Olive written by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and models of Archaic and Classical Greece. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has devoted a 30+ year professional scholarly career to the study of this reception, one of both imitation and variation, which took place concurrently with the massive collection and categorization of earlier Greek literature in the work of the scholars gathered under royal patronage at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria, a truly revolutionary new effort of cultural memorialization. The poets of this period, among them Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius and Posidippus, vied in their efforts to compose works that at once celebrated their poetic heritage and at the same time marked their own poetry as original artistic creation and as critical commentary upon their earlier models. This collection will be of interest not only for readers of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, but also for readers interested in the later reception of the Alexandrians at Rome.
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English J Z written by Eric Partridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Roadside Magic written by Lilith Saintcrow and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with the second novel in her Gallow & Ragged series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks. Robin Ragged has revenge to wreak and redemption to steal. As for Jeremy Gallow, the poison in his wound is slowly killing him, while old friends turn traitor and long-lost enemies return to haunt him. In the dive bars and trailer parks, the sidhe are hunting. War looms, and on a rooftop in the heart of the city, the most dangerous sidhe of all is given new life. He has only one thought, this new hunter: Where is the Ragged? Gallow and Ragged Trailer Park FaeRoadside Magic For more from Lilith Saintcrow, check out: Blood Call (coming August 2015) Bannon and Clare The Iron Wyrm Affair The Red Plague Affair The Ripper Affair The Damnation Affair (e-only) Dante Valentine Novels Working for the Devil Dead Man Rising Devil's Right Hand Saint City Sinners To Hell and Back Dante Valentine (omnibus) Jill Kismet Novels Night Shift Hunter's Prayer Redemption Alley Flesh Circus Heaven's Spite Angel Town Jill Kismet (omnibus) A Romance of Arquitaine Novels The Hedgewitch Queen The Bandit King
Download or read book The Mongol Reply written by Benjamin M. Schutz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an innocent woman is ambushed with divorce papers, she must learn to fight dirty On the wall of his office, high above Washington, DC, Albert Olen Garfield keeps a letter detailing the Mongol sack of Persia. “There is a great shrieking before us,” wrote Genghis Khan’s general, “and an even greater silence behind.” When he’s in the courtroom, Garfield aims for the kind of savage devastation that would make the great Khan proud. He’s a master of total war, a divorce lawyer who takes no prisoners, and his latest target is Serena Tully. Wife of one of the most brutal players to ever tear his way through the NFL, Serena is blindsided by her husband’s accusations of infidelity and his demands for a divorce. As Garfield rampages through her life, taking her kids and freezing her bank accounts, Serena must resort to guerrilla warfare to protect her family and safeguard what little she has left.
Download or read book Dragonwitch Tales of Goldstone Wood Book 5 written by Anne Elisabeth Stengl and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Tale Is Added to this Christy Award-Winning Fantasy Saga! Submissive to her father's will, Lady Leta of Aiven travels far to meet a prospective husband she neither knows nor loves--Lord Alistair, future king of the North Country. But within the walls of Gaheris Castle, all is not right. Vicious night terrors plague Lord Alistair to the brink of insanity. Whispers rise from the family crypt. The reclusive castle Chronicler, Leta's tutor and friend, possesses a secret so dangerous it could cost his life and topple the North Country into civil war. And far away in a hidden kingdom, a fire burns atop the Temple of the Sacred Flame. Acolytes and priestesses serve their goddess to the limits of their lives and deaths. No one is safe while the Dragonwitch searches for the sword that slew her twice...and for the one person who can wield it.
Download or read book Heartstar written by Elva Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hate the antithesis of love, wages war upon the Triad Realms of High Faerie, Faerie and the Mortal World. In the third dimension, Emma Cameron the mortal warrior of Air has been captured by the Demon Lord Zugalfar and his legions, which wait in the shadow realm for the gates to Pandemonia to open. In the fourth dimension, Kilfannan and Kilcannan, the sylphs of the House of Kilfenoran are on an urgent quest to find the stolen key made of air that will unlock the power of the HeartStar. The hounds of hell have been released to stop them. In High Faerie, the rulers of Gorias are imprisoned in the outer darkness, and their emerald city is in flames. All seems lost as the fate of three worlds hangs in the balance. In this race against time, the sylphs of Kilfenoran are all that stand between the death of the HeartStar and the annihilation of all life as the threat of Pandemonia inches ever darkly onward.
Download or read book The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Terry Victor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 2232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of the two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2005: The king is dead. Long live the king! The old Partridge is not really dead; it remains the best record of British slang antedating 1945 Now, however, the preferred source for information about English slang of the past 60 years is the New Partridge. James Rettig, Booklist, American Library Association Most slang dictionaries are no better than momgrams or a rub of the brush, put together by shmegegges looking to make some moola. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, on the other hand, is the wee babes. Ian Sansom, The Guardian The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning its rude, its delightful, and its a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Download or read book Good Vibes written by Jay Cronley and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trotter never comes out ahead at the racetrack. But maybe that’s because his lucky day is still just around the corner. One day, to the surprise of his down-and-out buddies, Trotter’s luck changes, and he finds himself in the boxes with the VIPs. But should he quit while he’s ahead? Or should he… LET IT RIDE.
Download or read book Child of Darkness written by Jennifer Armintrout and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a Lightworld royal gala, Queene Ayla announces the betrothal of her daughter, Cerridwen, to a high-ranking councilor. Though strategically brilliant, the engagement comes as a shock—to Cerridwen especially. Infuriated by her mother's high-handedness, ignorant of her own true origins, she flees the court—leaving herself vulnerable to those who would see the Lightworld destroyed. Amid burgeoning unrest, desperate desires become divided loyalties and terrifying mercenaries lurk in the shadowy space between rebellion and anarchy.
Download or read book The Franchise Babe written by Dan Jenkins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for a big-time magazine. Bored with the PGA, he decides to check out “the Lolitas,” on the LPGA Tour. Jack chooses as a magazine subject Ginger Clayton, a fiery eighteen-year old whose killer looks and killer game make her the kind of star who can take the LPGA to the next level. She is, indeed, The Franchise Babe, and everyone wants a part of her, but someone, it seems, is trying to knock Ginger out of the competition-permanently. Filled with dead-on take downs of sports moms, adventurous promoters, suck-up corporate sponsors, double-dealing sports agents, and just enough menace to make golf dangerous, Dan Jenkins latest tale of hijinks on the links is not to be missed.
Download or read book Through The Vortex Finding Odin written by Cihime Wright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events from Cihime's journal, she tells of her dream quests whilst going through a vortex into another dimension. There within her nightmare, she finds Odin. Cihime realises she is in a full matrix never to escape the true reality of the Book of Destiny which is within her.
