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Book Tony 10

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony O'Reilly
  • Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
  • Release : 2018-03-02
  • ISBN : 0717179680
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Tony 10 written by Tony O'Reilly and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O'Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole €1.75 million from An Post while he was a branch manager in Gorey. He used the money to fund a gambling addiction that began with a bet of €1 and eventually rose to €10 million, leading to the loss of his job, his family, his home – and winning him a prison sentence. From the heart-stopping moments in a hotel room in Cyprus with his wedding money riding on the Epsom Derby, to the euphoria of winning half a million over a weekend, to the late goals and the horses falling at the last fence, Tony 10 is the story of an ordinary man's journey from normality to catastrophe. At times, he vowed to get out while he was ahead, only to be taken by another surge of adrenaline, falling deeper and deeper into a compulsion that consumed his life. His disappearance on the morning the fraud was discovered led to a surreal three days on the run in Northern Ireland, and ultimately his arrest, conviction and sentencing to four years in jail. Tony 10 is the mesmerising story of the secret life of a pathological gambler – as well as the most compelling account yet of the damage wrought by the online gambling industry.

Book Tony 10

    Book Details:
  • Author : Declan Lynch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-23
  • ISBN : 9780717179701
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tony 10 written by Declan Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O''Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole e1.75 million from An Post while he was a branch manager in Gorey. He used the money to fund a gambling addiction that began with a bet of e1 and eventually rose to e10 million, leading to the loss of his job, his family, his home - and winning him a prison sentence. From the heart-stopping moments in a hotel room in Cyprus with his wedding money riding on the Epsom Derby, to the euphoria of winning half a million over a weekend, to the late goals and the horses falling at the last fence, Tony 10 is the story of an ordinary man''s journey from normality to catastrophe. At times, he vowed to get out while he was ahead, only to be taken by another surge of adrenaline, falling deeper and deeper into a compulsion that consumed his life. His disappearance on the morning the fraud was discovered led to a surreal three days on the run in Northern Ireland, and ultimately his arrest, conviction and sentencing to four years in jail. Tony 10 is a mesmerising story of the secret life of a pathological gambler - as well as the most compelling account yet of the damage wrought by the online gambling industry. ''As hair-raising as the downfall reads, O''Reilly''s story grips to the end as a context of humanity replaces the sweat-browed hijinks.'' Hilary A White, The Sunday Independent ''This is a spine-tingling tale, beautifully told, and at the end of the rollercoaster ride there''s even a happy ending.'' Damian Corless, The Irish Independent ''A brilliant, nerve-shredding account of one man''s gambling addiction - and every word of it true. Would highly recommend it.'' Paul Howard ''Shocking, hugely readable and deeply important'' The Irish Examiner ''Remarkable story'' The Sunday World ''A fascinating story'' Daithí Ó Sé ''A startling illustration of the silent devastation that gambling can inflict'' The Racing Post ''Tony 10 is easily one of the best non-fiction books of the year'' Hot Press ''A fascinating and often incredible read'' - Barry Glendenning The Guardian

Book 10 Fat Turkeys

Download or read book 10 Fat Turkeys written by Tony Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rhyming story about ten turkeys sitting on a fence.

Book The Last Pirate

Download or read book The Last Pirate written by Tony Dokoupil and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Old Man. He ran stateside operations for one of the largest marijuana rings of the twentieth century. In all they sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana, and Big Tony distributed at least fifty tons of it. To his son he was a rambling man who was also somehow a present father, a self-destructive addict who ruined everything but affection. Here Tony Dokoupil blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age.

Book Creating Innovators

Download or read book Creating Innovators written by Tony Wagner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.

Book The Skin Commandments

Download or read book The Skin Commandments written by Tony Nakhla and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Skin Commandments: 10 Rules to Healthy, Beautiful Skin, Dr. Tony Nakhla simplifies complex principles of modern dermatologic theory and provides ten practical steps, or "commandments," to help you achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful skin regardless of your age. By incorporating advanced cosmetic enhancements with practical wellness and nutritional tips, The Skin Commandments encompasses the entire spectrum of integrative skin-care therapy like no other book. Readers will learn how to: reduce signs of aging prevent and detect skin cancer choose the best skin-care products and advanced treatments eat foods that are good for your skin maintain internal and external hydration achieve beautiful skin by living a healthy lifestyleThis essential guide reveals all the right steps to optimal skin care. Everyone wants healthy, beautiful skin-follow The Skin Commandments, and you can have it.Tony Nakhla, DO, FAOCD is a board-certified dermatologist, skin-cancer surgeon, cosmetic surgeon, and osteopathic physician with extensive training in traditional and holistic medicine as well as nutrition. Affectionately known as America's Dermatologist, Dr. Nakhla is medical director and founder of OC Skin Institute - Dermatology Centers in Orange County, California, a national center of excellence in skin health and beauty."A talented dermatologist on the cutting edge of cosmetic skin care."-David Matlock, MD, MBA, E! Entertainment's Dr. 90210, celebrity cosmetic surgeon" An emerging star in the field of anti-aging and cosmetic enhancements."-Craig Ziering, DO, ABC's Extreme Makeover, Medical Director, Ziering Hair Restoration Worldwide" Dr. Nakhla's nutritional tips are clear and practical . . . an ideal guide for anyone seeking simple tips to achieve beautiful skin through healthy living."-Andrew Abraham, MD, MBA, Founder/CEO of Orgain, Inc., organic nutritional expert"If there's one dermatologist in the world that can truly see beyond the skin, it's Dr. Tony Nakhla. . . . The Skin Commandments is a doctrine, by one of today's most brilliant, visionary and caring dermatologists, for all of the things we can control to have the healthiest and most beautiful skin possible."Marco Borges, Exercise Physiologist, Author of Power Moves: The 4 Motions to Transform Your Body for Life"A wonderful source for all things beauty." NewBeauty Magazine

Book Tony Baloney

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0545231353
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Tony Baloney written by Pam Muñoz Ryan and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony, a macaroni penguin, is a middle child with very exasperating siblings, and although he never looks for trouble, it often finds him.

Book Tony s Ten Years

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  • Author : Adam Boulton
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-03-28
  • ISBN : 1471128296
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Tony s Ten Years written by Adam Boulton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the events of Blair's last hundred days as his launching pad for captivating snapshots of key moments in his premiership, Adam Boulton follows Tony Blair intimately through his final day in office. The veteran political journalist witnesses the so-called 'Blairwell Tour' as the caravan travels from Westminster to Washington, Iraq, South Africa, the EU, the G8, Northern Ireland, the Sedgefield constituency, Chequers to the final farewell and beyond. Boulton traces from these celebrations back to the key incidents, achievements and mistakes of the Prime Minister's ten years in power. And he draws on his first hand experience of them to measure Tony Blair against his immediate predecessors, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and the rival who succeeded him, Gordon Brown. Boulton has followed the Blair story intimately from 1983 to the present. He provides fresh and fascinating insights into the Blair-Brown conflict, the decision making that led to Britain joining the US invasion of Iraq, the pressures on the Blair family, and the often fraught and febrile relationship between Number 10 and the media. MEMORIES OF THE BLAIR ADMINISTRATION isauthoritative, highly readable and revealing.

Book Insidious Intent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Val McDermid
  • Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Release : 2017-12-05
  • ISBN : 0802189288
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Insidious Intent written by Val McDermid and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer targets single women at weddings: “[An] intense plot…McDermid keeps each twist believable.” —The Washington Post In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away—only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are called upon to investigate—but this may be the toughest case they’ve ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor must deal with a cruel cyber-blackmailer targeting their teenage ward. Impeccably plotted and intensely gripping, Insidious Intent comes from Val McDermid, Diamond Dagger Award winner, multiple Edgar Award nominee, and “one of crime fiction’s most eminent writers” (Entertainment Weekly).

Book Make It Work

Download or read book Make It Work written by Tony A. Gaskins and published by Howard Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity coach and speaker Tony A. Gaskins shares proven principles—gleaned from real life failures and successes—for building and sustaining a healthy relationship in today’s times. Tony A. Gaskin’s appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show launched his career as a life coach and relationship counselor. After speaking about domestic violence, he felt empowered to speak his truth. Since then, Gaskin has been a faithful and committed husband for over a decade, and has counseled thousands, leading to millions following him online and making him one of America’s foremost experts on love and relationships. Practical and accessible, Make It Work walks you through a series of lessons on how to maintain a healthy and long-lasting relationship. Drawing inspiration from the Bible and using his own successes and failures, Gaskins offers a framework for how you can identify the right person to settle down with, set standards which prompt longevity in love, and know what to avoid in a relationship. All this is told in his empowering and empathetic tone that his loyal and devoted following has come to love and trust. In a hopeful response to culture where breakups and divorces are all too common, Make It Work is as an essential resource to help your relationship thrive in this day and age.

Book Keep Watch with Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael T. McRay
  • Publisher : Abingdon Press
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 1501876341
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Keep Watch with Me written by Michael T. McRay and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers is a collaborative daily devotional featuring diverse contributors: black, white, LGBTQ, Latinx, Palestinian, incarcerated, Native American, Australian, Americans, Irish, South African, clergy, laity, activists, authors, organizers, and more. The season of Advent, as the church prepares for the birth of Christ, is a penitential season of reckoning with our need and the needs of the world. Keep Watch With Me offers stories, reflections, prayers, and spiritual practices to sustain and challenge the faith of those who work for justice and peace, and long for the coming of God with us.

Book What Daddy Never Told His Little Girl

Download or read book What Daddy Never Told His Little Girl written by Tony A. Gaskins and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Daddy Never Told His Little Girl is a stirring collection of essays & anecdotes designed to empower women of all ages. In straight-ahead, no-holds-barred fashion, author Tony Gaskins answers ten of the most often-asked questions regarding relationships between men & women. Covering everything from why men cheat to why men hit to why Black men date White women, he delivers uncomfortable - yet necessary - truths with unflinching honesty.In this updated edition of his original seminal work, Gaskins aims to provide women with the knowledge, insight, and wisdom necessary to protect themselves in an increasingly dangerous world of dishonesty and deceit. In so doing, he ensures that they'll never see men - or the dating scene - the same.

Book Watercolor  You Can Do It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Couch
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2019-05-15
  • ISBN : 0486840360
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Watercolor You Can Do It written by Tony Couch and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete watercolor instruction guide, this long-time bestseller is full of vibrant illustrations, examples of what to do and what to avoid, and tips that make the medium accessible. Written by a true master, it presents practical information on the basics of setting up a good painting — composition, color, and light — before discussing the medium's advantages and concluding with informative demonstrations. Tony Couch emphasizes practice as the key to developing watercolor skills. Starting with equipment choices and methods for controlling paint on wet paper, he proceeds to discussions and illustrations of the elements and principles of design. Other topics include working with color and value, pulling together a composition, and acquiring techniques for handling watercolor. Easy-to-follow examples chart the progress from a rough sketch into a finished painting. Watercolor: You Can Do It! is an ideal companion for beginning to advanced artists, suitable for individual study as well as a text for art students and teachers.

Book Lakota Wisdom   Author Signed Edition

Download or read book Lakota Wisdom Author Signed Edition written by Tony Ten Fingers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Special Edition signed copy by the author. "Lakota Wisdom" is a beautiful creation of ancient and current wisdom, brought to us through the heart and soul of the author. Through our lives, we tend to take so much for granted of what the Earth and Nature gives us. We forget about the humility of life, as well as the importance of being one with all things. We structure our lives to be lived as a race, rather than to simply be lived in grace. This literary work is so much more than a series of sayings and quotes; it is a map to a more positive, humble, creative and loving way of living life.

Book Cuba Libre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Perrottet
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-01-22
  • ISBN : 0735218161
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Cuba Libre written by Tony Perrottet and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956–1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; it successfully overthrew the island nation’s US–backed dictator; and it quickly went awry under Fidel’s rule. But less is remembered about the amateur nature of the movement or the lives of its players. In this wildly entertaining and meticulously researched account, historian and journalist Tony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries—many of them kids just out of college, literature majors, and art students, and including a number of extraordinary women—who defeated 40,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details: How did Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sánchez whip the male guerrillas into shape? Who were the two dozen American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels? How do you make land mines from condensed milk cans—or, for that matter, cook chorizo à la guerrilla (sausage guerrilla-style)? Cuba Libre! is an absorbing look back at a liberation movement that captured the world's imagination with its spectacular drama, foolhardy bravery, tragedy, and, sometimes, high comedy—and that set the stage for Cold War tensions that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Book The Last Ghost Dancer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Bender
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2010-07-14
  • ISBN : 1429929596
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Last Ghost Dancer written by Tony Bender and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a remarkable coming-of-age story and spiritual journey with as much between the lines as in them. Sometimes wry, always thoughtful, the characters seem to live and breathe, and you won't soon forget them."—Senator Byron Dorgan The Last Ghost Dancer is more than a coming-of-age fable, more than the wry memoirs of a spiritual search. It is the story of a remarkable summer in a remarkable west river town. It is a commentary on the depth and breadth of friendships forged, of lovers lost, and the realization that it is the journey that is of importance, and not so much the destination. Looking back, as old men do, it's hard to imagine it really happened. But it did. One wise teacher, one perfect girl, one harrowing summer, can set the course of a lifetime. Meet Bones, the wry, funny, ever-observant, thoughtful and hapless narrator, a grease monkey at the only gas station in Pale Butte, whose most recent claim to fame is dropping an Edsel off the hoist. Now, some sixty years later, Bones, a dreamer of apocalyptic dreams, reflects on miracles small and large and his spiritual discovery that marked the summer of 1977.

Book Tony s Hard Work Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Arkin
  • Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781586851811
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tony s Hard Work Day written by Alan Arkin and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his family rejects his offer to help fix up an old house, Tony decides to build his own. He clears a spot in the woods, prepares the logs and builds the cabin. When his family begins to wonder what he is up to, they discover Tony in his own finished cabin. Out of print for over a decade, this whimsical, delightful story sends a message to kids about faith in themselves and their abilities.