Download or read book Pressing My Luck written by Colin MacKenzie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just 31 when he delivered the finest scoop of his career, Colin Mackenzie had already interviewed some of the world's most important and fascinating figures. He had grilled Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, President Nicolae Ceausescu, actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the Led Zeppelin band and many more.His location of Ronnie Biggs and his lotus-eating existence in far off Rio de Janeiro was recently nominated as one of the best ten scoops of the 20th century by the UK Press Gazette, Fleet Street's trade magazine. This one story elevated the Daily Express circulation above the critical four million mark in 1974. In the pre digital world described in detail in this fascinating account, this was no easy accomplishment.Mackenzie lovingly recreates for the reader a clubbable Fleet Street which, sadly, no longer exists as newspapers, battling for survival in a computerised world, have moved offices to the outer boroughs of London. "The Street of Shame" as Private Eye characterised the newspaper world of the Sixties and Seventies, is no more. Today, politicians, top sports stars, and celebrities, employ teams of public relations and protection employees to ward off the attention of journalists. In 1964, Mackenzie got through to former Prime Minister Harold MacMillan with one phone call.Throughout his career, Mackenzie entertained a love of the Sport of Kings, owning small shares in racehorses that challenged his financial resources and yet provided adrenalin pumping excitement. In 1985 he was invited to be a founder reporter on the Racing Post, a new racing daily. From there he rejoined the Daily Mail to become, after 20 years, the doyen of racing correspondents. In this role he rubbed shoulders with the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Anne, the Aga Khan and Sir Alex Ferguson.This riveting memoir uncovers the many other great stories that Mackenzie delivered to his employers and to his readers. Some are hilarious, some are shocking, and some just amazing.
Download or read book Pressing My Luck written by Shirley Press and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, Dr. Shirley Press was your typical, hard-working pediatric emergency room doctor...until she won 56 million dollars (17.5 million take home) in the Florida Lottery with a ticket bought in the hospital's gift shop. This stroke of luck brought with it numerous challenges as well as self-discovery. In her memoir, Pressing My Luck, Dr. Press takes readers on a tour of her life and candidly looks back on how the lottery windfall affected it. She recalls her childhood in Camden, New Jersey growing up with parents who were Holocaust survivors, her determination to become successful, the wild 1970 summer adventure at Paul McCartney's house and the years dedicated to practicing medicine. And despite her lottery fortune, she reveals how money didn't shield her family from life's adversities, such as her husband's near fatal illness and her son's drug addiction. With insight and candor, Dr. Press recounts her decisions, daily struggles as well as post-lottery observations on family, friends and life in general. In the end, Dr. Press can hardly believe that most of her confidence and personal growth that she thought was due to winning the Lotto could have been achieved without all the money.
Download or read book Luck and Circumstance written by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed director of such films as Brideshead Revisited shares the story of his youth and career, providing coverage of such topics as his childhood as the son of star Geraldine Fitzgerald, his relationships with Hollywood elite and the allegations that Orson Welles was his real father.
Download or read book Luck written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong—though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way. In Luck, one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from fate (inexorable destiny) and fortune (mere chance), Nicholas Rescher weaves a colorful tapestry of historical examples, from the use of lots in the Old and New Testaments to Thomas Gataker’s treatise of 1619 on the great English lottery of 1612, from casino gambling to playing the stock market. Because we are creatures of limited knowledge who do and must make decisions in the light of incomplete information, Rescher argues, we are inevitably at the mercy of luck. It behooves us to learn more about it.
Download or read book Down on Their Luck written by David A. Snow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-02-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas. Snow and Anderson reveal who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. Debunking current stereotypes of the homeless. Down on Their Luck sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic. Their survival is a tale of human resilience and determination, not one of frailty and disability.
Download or read book Lucky In Love written by Jennifer Laslie and published by Celtic Hearts Press. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes luck has nothing to do with it, but sometimes it’s everything. Karma Quinn’s luck with men didn’t always run on the good side, and her last blind date was no exception. Forced to turn to a black-market artifact at the Celestial Shadow Market, she can only hope it’ll help protect her. Luciano Rossi didn’t believe in luck, even with a hated nickname like Lucky. When he winds up on a case with a beautiful woman to tail, the idea of luck doesn’t seem so far-fetched. Even if his unbearable partner was determined to get him kicked off the case at every turn. But when Karma realizes that blind date was more dangerous than expected, can she trust Luciano to keep her safe, or will the lies he’s told to keep her close be his undoing? Dive in today to uncover what kind of luck it takes to survive life as a Zodiac.
Download or read book The Truth About Luck written by Iain Reid and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation — which turns out to be a "staycation" at his apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she begins to reveal details of her inspiring life story. Told with subtlety, humour, and heart, this delightful comic memoir reflects on family connections; how we experience adversity, the passage of time, and aging; and most importantly what it truly means to feel lucky.
Download or read book Make Your Own Luck written by Peter Kash and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Morgan Mash seems to be one of those people upon whom good fortune shines. Just when he's about to lose a big deal, chance rears its beautiful head to help him on his way; just when he's about to give up on meeting a key potential investor, he ends up stuck in the elevator with him. To what does Mash attribute his good fortune? Simple kindness, integrity and personal values. By stressing these personal attributes, he says that anyone can benefit from the kindness of life. getAbstract.com recommends this book to anyone convinced that the universe is a basically friendly place.
Download or read book Just My Luck written by Adele Parks and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 4 million Adele Parks books sold worldwide including LIES, LIES, LIES and I INVITED HER IN! "Utterly engrossing and brilliant"— Lucy Foley New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List It was supposed to be the lottery win they’d always dreamed of… For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends. Over drinks, dinner parties and summer barbecues, the three couples have discussed the important stuff—kids, marriages, careers—and they’ve laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything. But then the unthinkable happens. There’s a rift in the group. Someone is caught in a lie. And soon after, six numbers come up that change everything forever. Lexi and Jake have a ticket worth millions. And their friends are determined to claim a share. #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks returns with a riveting look at the dark side of wealth in this gripping tale of friendship, money, betrayal and good luck gone bad… Don't miss One Last Secret from #1 Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks. Looking for more? Check out Adele Parks' other thrilling books: I Invited Her In Lies, Lies, Lies Women Last Seen
Download or read book Cybomorph written by Sally Rogers-Davidson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Mouse's epic journey from humble beginings as an orphaned D-grade inhabitant of The Greater Melbourne Megalopolis of the late 21st Century, to the end of the universe and back again. After escaping the secure state orphanage she grows up in, Mouse is taken in by the Ghosts, a gang of homeless teens who dwell in The Spirit World, a subterranean world of forgotten caverns and deserted basements sealed off from the towering skyscrapers above. Trained by the gang's leader, the Fagan-like Sensei, Mouse grows adept in the criminal arts, but when her life spirals into chaos she chooses the only option left to her: she trades her human body in for a cyboform, and joins the Space Corps. Will this be the escape she hopes for, or will her shady past catch up with her? From the author of Spare Parts and Polymer
Download or read book Tricks for Free written by Seanan McGuire and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans.
Download or read book Just My Luck written by Cammie McGovern and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern's powerful and heartwarming middle grade novel will appeal to readers who loved R. J. Palacio's Wonder, Holly Sloan's Counting by 7s, and Lynda Mullaly Hunt's Fish in a Tree. "This brave story, told with wry humor, is inspirational," raved Ann M. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Rain Reign. Fourth grade is not going at all how Benny Barrows hoped. He hasn't found a new best friend. He's still not a great bike rider—even though his brother George, who's autistic, can do tricks. And worst of all, he worries his dad's recent accident might be all his fault. Benny tries to take his mom's advice and focus on helping others, and to take things one step at a time. But when his dad ends up in the hospital again, Benny doesn't know how he and his family will overcome all the bad luck that life seems to have thrown their way. Just My Luck is a deeply moving and rewarding novel about a down-on-his-luck boy whose caring heart ultimately helps him find the strength to cope with tragedy and realize how much he truly has to offer his friends and family.
Download or read book Blackened written by Tim McWhorter and published by PlotForge, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke knows two unfortunate truths: sadistic killer Corwin Barnes is still out there, and someday, he'll come calling. A year ago, Luke put an end to Barnes's barbaric bone harvesting operation, but it wasn't without consequence. With a team of doctors, Luke has finally dealt with his heart-wrenching losses and the heinous crimes he uncovered. He's getting on with his life. But his nemesis hasn't done the same, and Luke could never imagine just how brutal Barnes can be... A tense, riveting continuation of the story started in McWhorter's Bone White.
Download or read book Airborne written by Commander Martin Herzog and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biographical collection of short stories about events that I expererienced during my career as a naval aviator. Most of the stories are first hand and happened directly to me. Many are humorous. Other stories are about events that I heard about during my time in the Navy. These are stories about my life as a naval pilot, a military officer, a teacher, a professor, a husband and a father.
Download or read book Mental written by Bart Yates and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nothing Else Is Love written by Gina Linko and published by TouchPoint Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your past life wasn’t quite over? In 1998, Alice Grier is a normal twenty-five-year old, but with a secret. She plays the piano, speaks perfect French, and mixes homemade perfume as a hobby. For her graduate work in history, she's researching the historical significance of St. Paul's most famous buildings, including its rehabbed Victorian homes, breweries and speakeasies, and its labyrinthine underground maze of sandstone caves and tunnels, all used by Prohibition gangsters, star-crossed lovers, and, of course, a lingering piano-playing ghost. Rune Folkeson came to America in the 1920s as a child, a Swedish immigrant, facing life with an abusive father, a brother with secrets, and a seer mother. Rune's story is one of seeking the American Dream, with one extra caveat. He must avoid his mother's vision about him, which she's had, over and over, since the day he was born; Rune belly-crawling for his life through a darkened tunnel -- not unlike the ones below St. Paul's Swede Hollow neighborhood. Alice's and Rune's stories can't intertwine; they're separated by space, by time, an ocean, nearly a century. But then again, Alice does have a secret. She loves to make parfum, that specific clink-clank of the pipettes against the beakers, the subtle stinging smell of the perfumer's alcohol, the cool calming fragrance of the lavender buds when she would pluck them from their purple-gray stalks. You see, Alice knows how to mix scents from the before, when she lived in France, nearly a hundred years ago. In her previous life. But when Alice's discoveries at Swede Hollow begin to fade the line between past and present, superimposing her previous life on this one, here and now, Alice realizes there's more at stake than finding out what happened to the heartbroken lovers of her before. As Alice's mystery unfolds, she realizes that somehow, some way, against all common sense, her before isn't over.
Download or read book Entrapment written by George Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Weathers, a married businessman and mogul, experiences trials and tribulations throughout the story. He was raised by a single mother due to his father’s untimely death at an early age. Keith inherited his father’s company, along with his father’s selfish ways and addiction for women. Keith struggles in the beginning to do right by his wife, distracted by obstacles he will later have to overcome. Keith masters the art of manipulating women, until he comes across this one woman who will stop at nothing to get pregnant by him. Along the way, Keith finds out that the same woman is also his wife’s fraternal twin sister who supposedly died at birth. His wife’s sister tries to assume his wife’s identity. Lies, jealousy, and trust play a huge role throughout the story. Keith comes to the conclusion that one night of passion has become a lifetime of pain. After realizing his wife is the only woman he wants, he tries to get rid of everything that is hurting her. Trying is the easy part. Actually getting rid of everything well, Keith knows that is not as easy as it seems.
