Download or read book More Like Wrestling written by Danyel Smith and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing . . . More Like Wrestling is the magnificent debut novel by one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation. It tells the story of Pinch and Paige, two sisters coming of age in Oakland, California, in the 1980s, a time when that beautiful, crumbling city is being transformed by tectonic shifts, both literal and figurative. The novel unfolds through the alternating narration of the two sisters: Pinch, quiet and observant, and Paige, louder and wilder but faltering under her facade. The sisters are teenage refugees from a violent home, living alone in a faded Victorian mansion where they survive by creating a closed world centered around each other and their new friends—a rowdy makeshift family of castoffs, dealers, and drama queens on the periphery of the burgeoning drug game, some looking for a way out, some looking for a way deeper in. As the sisters grow from girls into women, they are confronted with a series of surprising reversals—death, imprisonment, and, just maybe, love—that force them to come to grips with the truth about their choices, their friends, and their tangled roots. More Like Wrestling takes readers into fresh and surprising terrain, bringing a complex set of characters to vivid life with bracing honesty and sophistication. With a journalist’s eye for detail and a poet’s ear for language, Danyel Smith has written an unforgettable tale about memory, forgiveness, and love in a world built on fault lines.

Download or read book Straight from the Hart written by Bruce Hart and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling memoir, the first son of wrestling steps out from behind the shadows of Calgary's fabled "Hart dungeon" to discuss his family and the cutthroat world of professional wrestling. Stories about growing up as Stu Hart's son and the brother of wrestling legends Bret "Hitman" Hart and Owen Hart offer insight into this wrestling dynasty and the close relationships with people such as Andre the Giant and Killer Kowalski. Detailing the rise of the family business and how it was destroyed by Vince MacMahon, how the tragic death of Owen rocked the family, and what really happened behind the scenes of the infamous "Montreal screwjob," this gripping tell-all also provides information on how wrestling should be booked and the toll steroids and other drugs have taken on those close to Hart. The perfect book for fans, this account is chock-full of inside-the-ring stories and wrestling gossip.

Download or read book Wrestling Reality written by Chris Kanyon and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare glimpse not only into the life of a professional wrestler, but the life of a gay man in a straight world, this tragic memoir is told in Chris Kanyon’s own words, with the help of journalist Ryan Clark. One of the most popular wrestlers of the late 1990s, Kanyon kept his personal life private from his fans until finally revealing his biggest secret in 2004: he was gay. Going through the various roles that Kanyon played, both in the ring and out of it, as well as his battle with manic depression, this book explores the factors that led to his suicide in 2010. In his voice and the way he wanted it told, these are Kanyon’s last words about his experience rising through the ranks to the top of the professional wrestling world while keeping his sexuality hidden.

Download or read book Dad You Don t Work You Wrestle written by George South and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George South is a hold out from the glory days of professional wrestling. If you spend any time with him it's quickly apparent that the priorities in is life are his family, wrestling and his savior, Jesus Christ. As a child in the 1970s, he grew up watching Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. He knew then that he would soon be in the ring with his idols, men like Paul Jones, Wahoo McDaniel, Blackjack Mulligan, Ric Flair, the Anderson Brothers and Masked Superstar. Throughout his 30 plus year career in professional wrestling, George has maintained his strong faith in his Savior, Jesus Christ. Never willing to compromise, George has been able to stay on his daily walk with the Lord as well as keeping his focus on his wonderful family. George's journeys have taken him to the NWA, WCW and WWF and he's faced a who's who of wrestling legends. These experiences led George to open his own wrestling school which is still open today. Every weekend George still drives up and down the road to wrestling shows, thrilling the old-school fans. This book documents George's humble beginnings through his long career in professional wrestling. It's an amazing story told by an amazing man.

Download or read book Physical Chess written by Jake Shannon and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of the most legendary men in mixed-martial arts.

Download or read book Spiral written by Denise Turney and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAUNTING SUSPENSE NOVELTHAT WILL GRIP YOU FROM THE START Thrilling murder mystery with a cliffhanger ending! A page turning thriller murder mystery written in the vein of The Lovely Bones, The Changeling and Ghosts, Spiral is a suspenseful murder mystery powered by the unsolved death of a girl who turns up missing in Memphis, Tennessee's Shelby County at the height of the Second World War. SPIRAL HIGHLIGHTS: ✔Perfect blend of detective suspense and paranormal thriller ✔Could two spiritually gifted children hold the keys to this town's future? ✔Small town cover-ups with huge consequences It's the roaring 1940s. Ethics of Memphis, Tennessee's legal system are once again under tight scrutiny. Judges are blind to the poor who find themselves on the wrong side of rogue lawmakers. Racism is as familiar and brutal as the dangerous, unforgiving currents that run through the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. HAUNTING TENNESSEE HISTORY - IT'S TIME THE TRUTH WAS TOLD Unethical traditions that the powerful work hard to keep secret, bear a fruit that demand a hard-to-pay price in this murder mystery. In Memphis, Tennessee, communities demand that the guilty be held responsible for their actions. The year is 1944 and a young girl, the daughter of a prominent attorney, has disappeared. What if this new girl's disappearance in this murder mystery is linked to the abandoned girl kept hidden away in one of the Shelby County orphanages, what if the murder mystery has deeper ties to the town's elite than anyone imagined. As the search for the kidnapper unfolds, it becomes hauntingly clear that the attorney's young daughter isn't the only child that's gone missing. Despite relentless efforts to find the girl and stop another kidnapping, it's not until a young African American Tilson girl who hears from the dead gets involved that the crimes start to get solved. Get Spiral and find out what a dead girl, the daughter of a prominent attorney, shares with an unassuming but gifted African American girl, she too the daughter of a prominent, powerful family

Download or read book Homing written by Marc L. Carrier and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert’s father is in the late stages of dementia, in need of near-constant care. When his girlfriend’s caregiver fatigue gets the better of her, she leaves him all alone in the world—except for his son. But while he’s living in a trailer in Florida, Rob’s in a one-room studio apartment in Montreal. And, as of today, after a run-in with a bunch of TSA agents with no patience for a frightened old man and a failure to understand the word “dementia” ... he is now on the no-fly list. And then there’s Rob. Ex-husband (the “ex” is a recent addition) and father (when he can get his children to even look at him). He’s a real estate agent who lives in a cracker box and who lost his top-earner status when he started drinking after the divorce. He’s pretty much alone in the world, too, when it comes down to it, except for a father who’s a lot more pleasant to him now that he has no idea who Rob is. Dad is now Rob’s responsibility; they’ve just got to get him to Montreal. But a quick and easy flight isn’t an option... His father’s ancient car could probably get them home—if Rob can manage to plan and execute a road trip across most of the States, make it to payday without his child support cheque bouncing, keep his father safe, and figure out what the hell he’s supposed to do with him when they get back. Oh, and not get fired in the attempt. It’s going to be a long drive.

Download or read book Walking a Golden Mile written by William Regal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bare-fisted brawler from Blackpool, England tells his story of fortune and fumbling on the road to the WWE’s higher ranks. Since joining the WWE in 2000 as a goodwill ambassador from Great Britain, William Regal has established himself as an up-and-coming Superstar. He took the wrestling world by storm defeating many of the WWE’s best wrestlers to win both the European and Intercontinental championships—although he’s probably best known for getting back in WWE owner’s Vince McMahon’s good graces by kissing his naked backside on national television. While fans may still chuckle at Regal’s humiliation, his in-ring success is no laughing matter. In this no-holds-barred look at his life, Regal for the first time talks about how he has dragged himself out of a life of poverty and adversity on the street of Blackpool, England and battled his own inner-demons to reach the top of the WWE’s roster. He also discusses how he has overcome his recent life-threatening medical condition to return to triumphantly to the WWE.

Download or read book Beyond the Lion s Den written by Ken Shamrock and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Lion's Den is the remarkable story of Ken Shamrock's ascent to the top of reality martial combat. A legendary Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter and former professional wrestler, Shamrock is an inspiration to thousands. This is the story of his rise from a troubled youth to champion in the ring in both America and Asia. The first "King of Pancrase" in the Japanese fighting circuit, and the first "Superfight Champion" of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Shamrock also founded the Lion's Den in Northern California, a facility that has trained many champion MMA fighters. Readers and fans will learn the secrets of Shamrock's ultra-efficient submissions fighting system and the training regimen that he and his trainees followed. With over 150 dynamic photos, Inside the Lion's Den is both an inspiring portrait of the fighter known as the "World's Most Dangerous Man" and an invaluable guide for the martial artist, novice and master alike.

Download or read book The Bogus Buzz written by Glen Keough and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flashback to the 1960's and 1970's and faster than you can say "'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, '" accompany Glen Keough as he is drilled by Dominican nuns, enlightened by a hippie father and loved by a grandmother who easily forgave his sins. In this coming of age memoir, Keough reminisces on a youth spent in Southern California with a band of boys who when freed from the constraints of Catholicism, partook in the forbidden fruits of the era. A time to trade marbles for marijuana and Johnny Western for Led Zeppelin. Such transactions come with a price as his best friend went on an acid trip he never returned from mentally. The author broods on a lost of innocence and how a gracious God could take away a sister so young with cancer. "The Bogus Buzz" shares a sensitive maturation process similar to the 1986 movie "Stand By Me." It reflects on the coping mechanisms constructed to weather divorce, insecurity and the come hither look of the fish netted blonde two desks down.

Download or read book Sworn to Silence written by Brendan Boland and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was March 29th 1975 when Brendan Boland was summoned to give evidence to a secret canonical inquiry. The altar boy had just celebrated his 14th birthday. He had been abused for almost three years by a priest who would become Irelands' most notorious paedophile. Now the church wanted to know exactly what happened. Brendan told them everything ... Sworn to Silence is the story of one boy's quiet determination to stop wrongdoing. It is a story which the Irish Catholic church kept secret for almost four decades: the story of Brendan Boland. This compelling and important book will present a candid and often moving first-hand account of events by Boland.

Download or read book The Greatest Love of All written by Rock Peters and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Greatest Love of All" is a powerful, deeply contemplative book about a journey with God. A compilation of intense Christian poetry and Catholic apologetics. Moving, inspiring love sonnets to God, Christmas poems that will put you in the manger with the Holy Family and Passion poems that will make you feel like you were standing at the foot of the Cross on the first Good Friday. There are also great, unanswerable questions for God. Atheists don't believe in God's existence at all; but there must be a God because matter cannot cause itself and complex life cannot come from unintelligent matter. As Albert Einstein ingeniously said, "The perfect order of the Universe is proof of the existence of God." The author always sarcastically tells atheists that he will contemplate their extremely unscientific "Big Bang" theory when they can blow up a pile of lumber and a house comes down." No, there absolutely must to be a God. The enormous questions this book asks are: "How did a perfect and all powerful God create such an incredibly imperfect world with foreknowledge and omnipotence? How does a kind and merciful, holy, all good and loving Heavenly Father sit on a throne in Paradise while He is safe and sound and watch the Nazi Holocaust and all the rest of human pain and suffering?" "The Greatest Love of All" is universal in it's appeal and will be a part of the curriculum for college theology classes around the world stirring vigorous intellectual debate everywhere. This book is a compelling, must read for all spiritual people.

Download or read book Have More Money Now written by John Layfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So you're holding this book in your hand, wondering: Just what does this WWE Superstar know about the world of finance? Have you ever been down to your last twenty-seven dollars, out of a job, and wondering what you were going to do? If anyone needed to learn about finance, it was that person -- and he was me. I've had to learn through my own mistakes, and now you can learn from me. I break it all down for you in easy-to-understand language: Give Yourself a Pay Cut Set Your Goals Before You Start Living Within Your Means You Can't Crash-Diet -- Or Crash-Budget Good Debt vs. Bad Debt How Much Can You Spare? Keep It Simple Buy-and-Hold Doesn't Mean Buy-and-Ignore I might not work on Wall Street nor have a finance degree, but I've learned how to save, how to invest. And you too can Have More Money Now.

Download or read book SuperFan written by Jeff Gottesfeld and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning the title of "WrestleManiac" sounds pretty awesome, especially for a twelve-year-old die-hard WWE fan. The WrestleManiac gets the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to carry the defending champ's belt at WrestleMania, not to mention a trip to the event and the possibility of meeting the champ! Problem is, first you have to win a nationwide competition, and WWE fans can be kind of . . . competitive! Read along as one kid does whatever it takes to win the title of WrestleManiac, even if it means bodyslamming the competition!

Download or read book Aquarian written by May McGoldrick and published by MM Books. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killian knows all about vampires and aliens. They’re not real. But when a handsome swimmer climbs into her storm-tossed boat an hour from her summer destination, the worlds of fantasy and reality suddenly collide… Cuttylea Island has no mall, no social scene, and no action. But it does have a mysterious stone tower, ageless islanders, and a secret as astonishing as a mermaid’s tale… Before the summer is through, Killian will find the truth of her family’s past…and the role she is destined to play in a centuries-old curse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you enjoyed the mermaids of Born of Water and the Elemental Origins Series by A.L. Knorr, you’ll want to try this romantic suspense novel set in on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Action-packed, you’ll be enthralled by the merfolk and one merman in particular. For fans of Aisha Urooj, A.L. Knorr, Dee J. Stone, Sedona Ashe, Cortney Pearson, Carrie Vaughn, Wrenly B Noon, Holley Trent, Michelle Madow, Shannon Mayer, Kelly St. Clare, Elin Hilderbrand, Sarah J. Maas, Karen Kingsbury, Tessa Bailey, Emily Henry, Kat Martin, Laura Dave, Barbara Freethy, Susan Stoker, Heather Graham, Erin Brockus. Keywords – well-researched fast-paced read, emotional exciting page-turner, twisty action, pulse-pounding romantic thrillers, off-the-charts chemistry, smart sophisticated fast-moving romantic suspense, believable love story, satisfying and complex mystery, strong female heroines and intense male leads, mind blowing thought provoking suspense, romantic suspense summer read, heart-pounding fast-paced action, forced proximity, suspense books to read, books to keep you up all night, common threat, shared enemy, action, adventure; mermaid books, mermaid romance, mermaid adult romance, mermaid fantasy romance, mermaid fantasy YA, mermaid fiction, mermaid romance book, mermaid romance books for adults.

Download or read book Wrestling with an Angel written by Mary Lou Carney and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of daily devotions tell the story of a guardian angel named Herbie who helps a young boy face many problems, including the separation of his parents.

Download or read book His Only Wife written by Cathy McDavid and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone Was Sure She Was Gone For Good… Being back in Blue Ridge, Arizona, to help her grandmother was almost a relief after her busy job as a nurse in a Tucson E.R. Aubrey Stuart badly needed a few weeks of peace and quiet—but facing her past was another thing entirely. The boy she'd eloped with and hastily divorced ten years ago had matured. And Gage Raintree the man was a thousand times more tempting than he'd been then. …Except Her Ex They'd been too young and unsure of each other to fight back when their families decided they'd made a terrible mistake—especially when Gage thought his duty was to devote his life to the family ranch. But now he had six weeks before Aubrey went back to her career. Six weeks to show his first—and only—love he deserved a second chance….