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Download or read book The Schraft Street Historical Preservation Society written by Michael A. Connelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dust has seetled after the murders of two local gangsters - neither officially solved, but both settled as far as the street is concerned. Nonetheless, Schraft Street remains as lively, unruly, and occasionally dangerous as ever. "Boss" Jim Herlihy still owns his marginally successful gym and sports bar; unusually, he even has some financial "cushion," thanks to publication of a couple of gritty detective stories. In this sequel to Blue Collar Boston Cool, "Boss" Jim walks a tricky tightrope of balancing his love for the classy, high powered new woman in his life, with his nearly overpowering sense of responsibility for the struggling people he's lived with all his life.
Download or read book A Compensatory Gift of Unyielding Sturdiness written by Michael A. Connelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronnie Leigh is born with a disfigured face and a questionable gift of unusual intuition inherited from his mother. He gets off to a rocky start in life, with behavioral and personality problems compounded in that he knows, from an early age, that most people are immediately put off by his appearanceand that some even dislike him on sight. With the help of his understanding and loving parents and a caring child psychologist, Ronnie learns to appreciate what he does have, and not dwell on what he does not. What he has innately are intelligence and athletic ability, and what he learns through early adversity are persistence, perspective, the value of hard work in the classroom and on the baseball fieldand, for him especially, the healing, calming, and strengthening power of vigorous exercise, beyond what most people are capable of. Ronnie struggles to make close friends, even as strives to advance as a pitcher in the Boston Red Sox minor-league system. Meanwhile, he has a good heart, extraordinary fighting skills, and that gift/curse of special intuitionthe combination of which forces him to make some difficult decisions, and eventually to undertake some dangerous and extreme but ultimately necessary actions.
Download or read book The Schraft Street Historical Preservation Society written by Michael A. Connelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dust has settled after the murders of two local gangstersneither officially solved, but both settled as far as the street is concerned. Nonetheless, Schraft Street remains as lively, unruly, and occasionally dangerous as ever. Boss Jim Herlihy still owns his marginally successful gym and sports bar; unusually, he even has some financial cushion, thanks to publication of a couple of gritty detective stories. His girlfriend of nine months, rising young M&A attorney Janice Cochrane, would be much happier if Jim would sell his Schraft Street properties and move into her luxury downtown high rise. But Jim has good friends and serious responsibilities on the gritty street hes lived in for all of his thirty-six years. When an increasing number of reckless drug dealers and their customersseemingly backed by sinister unseen forcesagain make Schraft notably uncomfortable for citizens and businesses alike, and then two of Jims friends are brutally mugged in separate incidents, Herlihy and some of his gym membersincluding several competent MMA enthusiastsuse NYCs Guardian Angels as a model for forming The Schraft Street Historical Preservation Society. In this sequel to Blue Collar Boston Cool, Boss Jim walks a tricky tightrope of balancing his love for the classy, high-powered new woman in his life, with his nearly overpowering sense of responsibility for the struggling people hes lived with all his life.
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