Download or read book Big Slick written by Eric Luper and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All in all, sixteen-year-old Andrew Lang has been dealt a pretty good hand in life. Sure, he has to spend his afternoons slaving away in the hellhole that is his dad's dry-cleaning business, but even that's not so bad with Jasmine, the seriously hot Goth-chick senior, working right beside him. So what if she's got a boyfriend? Plus, Andrew's got an ace up his sleeve – he's good at poker. Very good. Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad beat at Shushie's illegal poker club to turn Andrew's bankroll from huge to nonexistent. And Andrew's pretty sure that sooner or later his dad's going to notice that $600 he "borrowed" from the register. Andrew thinks he may know how to get the money back, but it's a little bit crazy, and a little bit dangerous . . . In this breakneck-paced novel about gambling and growing up, the stakes are high, and Andrew must ask himself: What does going all in really mean?
Download or read book Slick Watts s Tales from the Seattle Supersonics written by Slick Watts and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slick Watts arrived in Seattle with nothing but his name, shiny head, headband, and his personality. He remains there to this day--one of the most memorable and likable icons of Seattle sports history. Not only did he win over the his first coach--Bill Russell--he won over an entire city that seemed desperate to embrace a role model with whom it could relate. Watts's sense of style, his humble beginnings, his down-to-earth personality and his determined hustle on the court made him more than a sports hero; he became larger than life. Some say if Watts ran for governor of Washington in the '70s, he would have won. He achieved the impossible: he became bigger than Russell. Watts details how his relationship with Russell deteriorated at the same time that relationships blossomed with Wilt Chamberlain, Walt Frazier, Bill Walton, Bob Lanier, Reggie Jackson, Jessie Jackson, Pistol Pete Maravich, and many others. He also reveals how a promising career abruptly ended at the hands of Hall of Fame coach and player Lenny Wilkens. Watts gives an insider's view of how Seattle's first professional sports team evolved through growing pains and into a world champion. In his unique Mississippi dialect, Watts spins tales about teammates, coaches, opponents, and some of the most memorable games in which he participated. He also outlines his journey from an unknown entity to an overnight celebrity--forced to move twice because people were camping outside his house. Much like the way he played the game, Watts combines boundless energy and unexpected entertainment as he spins, jumps, and shoots his way through this collection of tales from Seattle's original hardwood.
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Download or read book The Amazing Slick Mckinley Greatest Athlete Ever written by Adam Pfeffer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slick McKinley is the greatest athlete whoever lived! Join him as he plays every major sport -- baseball, football, basketball, and ice hockey -- and tries to win a championship in each. With his trusty baseball bat, Ernie, he takes on the major leagues and the best baseball players of his time, including Lou Gehrig, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, and Josh Gibson! He then takes on the National Football League in the 1930s and goes on to play for the Stanley Cup! Its a whirlwind trip around major league sports and you wont want to miss it! Theres romance and action and the greatest athlete whoever lived! Meet Slick and Mary and Ernie and Edgar and Elmer as they go around the major leagues, hoping to win and go on to the Hall of Fame! Read about Slick McKinley as he becomes the best at baseball, football, basketball, hockey, golf, wrestling, fishing and anything else he takes on! A real treat for the whole family and that you can count on, for sure!
Download or read book Slick Water written by Andrew Nikiforuk and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. Slick Water tells the shocking, inspiring story of one woman’s stand to hold government and industry accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake. After energy giant Encana secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home and her well water turned to a flammable broth, Jessica Ernst started asking questions. When she put forward evidence that Encana had violated laws by fracturing the community's drinking water aquifer, Ernst was falsely tagged as a bomb-making terrorist and visited by the government’s anti-terrorism squad. Frightened but undaunted, she uncovered a startling history of liability, fraud, and intimidation, along with a willful denial of widespread groundwater contamination. Jessica Ernst’s remarkable story raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society’s obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil and gas, and the future of civil society. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Download or read book Slick written by Sara Cassidy and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza, determined to prove that her mother's boyfriend is no good, starts researching the oil company he works for. Liza discovers a lawsuit against the company for compensation that is long overdue to Guatemalan farmers. She starts a group at school called GRRR! (Girls for Renewable Resources, Really!) and launches an attack on Argenta Oil. As her activism activities increase, her objections to her mother's boyfriend become political. She is learning to separate the personal from the political, but when her mother discovers her plans for a demonstration outside the Argenta Oil head office, the two collide in ways Liza least suspected. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!
Download or read book Big Slick written by Eric Luper and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All in all, sixteen-year-old Andrew Lang has been dealt a pretty good hand in life. Sure, he has to spend his afternoons slaving away in the hellhole that is his dad's dry-cleaning business, but even that's not so bad with Jasmine, the seriously hot Goth-chick senior, working right beside him. So what if she's got a boyfriend? Plus, Andrew's got an ace up his sleeve - he's good at poker. Very good. Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad beat at Shushie's illegal poker club to turn Andrew's bankroll from huge to nonexistent. And Andrew's pretty sure that sooner or later his dad's going to notice that $600 he "borrowed" from the register. Andrew thinks he may know how to get the money back, but it's a little bit crazy, and a little bit dangerous . . . In this breakneck-paced novel about gambling and growing up, the stakes are high, and Andrew must ask himself: What does going all in really mean?
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Download or read book Championship 107 Hold em Tournament Hands written by Tom McEvoy and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two poker legends show players the key concepts and thinking behind 107 actual Texas hold’em hands—including 45 key hands as played by champions in turnaround situations at the WSOP. From basic strategy situations to difficult and tricky situations, players gain tremendous insights into how tournament poker is played at the highest level. 345 pages
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