Download or read book GYPSY JOE written by Joe Smith and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsy Joe is not only a story of redemption, but an uplifting account of a young gypsy determined to realize his dream. Joe Smith tells of his formative years travelling the country in a caravan and how he encountered crushing prejudice when his extraordinary talents as a golf boy prodigy became apparent.Disillusioned, he recounts a downward spiral and a life of criminality before pulling back from the brink and making the most of his life.The Observer selected the book as their Sports Book of the Year 2009 saying: "e;One of the best golf books written this year; although the cheque books come out for the scandal, this true story of thwarted ambition, criminality, violence and redemption has substance. A courageous story shot through with intelligence and humanity."e;"e;What comes across in this book is family loyalty, raw courage and violence but there is also intelligence and humanity."e;Chris Blackhurst -- Evening Standard, 23 June 2009
Download or read book Field of Thirteen written by Dick Francis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing. “Few things are more convincing than Dick Francis at a full gallop.”—Chicago Tribune With his remarkable blend of unrelenting suspense, finely tuned narrative, and lean, stylish prose, New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis proves that he is as much a master of the short story as he is of the novel in this thrilling collection.
Download or read book The Bittersweet Science written by Carlo Rotella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport—and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or cynicism common to writing on boxing, The Bittersweet Science is a collection of essays about boxing by contributors who are not only skilled writers but also have extensive firsthand experience at ringside and in the gym, the corner, and the ring itself. Editors Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra have assembled a roster of fresh voices, ones that expand our understanding of the sport’s primal appeal. The contributors to The Bittersweet Science—journalists, fiction writers, fight people, and more—explore the fight world's many aspects, considering boxing as both craft and business, art form and subculture. From manager Charles Farrell’s unsentimental defense of fixing fights to former Golden Glover Sarah Deming’s complex profile of young Olympian Claressa Shields, this collection takes us right into the ring and makes us feel the stories of the people who are drawn to—or sometimes stuck in—the boxing world. We get close-up profiles of marquee attractions like Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr., as well as portraits of rising stars and compelling cornermen, along with first-person, hands-on accounts from fighters’ points of view. We are schooled in not only how to hit and be hit, but why and when to throw in the towel. We experience the intimate immediacy of ringside as well as the dim back rooms where the essentials come together. And we learn that for every champion there’s a regiment of journeymen, dabblers, and anglers for advantage, for every aspiring fighter, a veteran in painful decline. Collectively, the perspectives in The Bittersweet Science offer a powerful in-depth picture of boxing, bobbing and weaving through the desires, delusions, and dreams of boxers, fans, and the cast of managers, trainers, promoters, and hangers-on who make up life in and around the ring. Contributors: Robert Anasi, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Donovan Craig, Sarah Deming, Michael Ezra, Charles Farrell, Rafael Garcia, Gordon Marino, Louis Moore, Gary Lee Moser, Hamilton Nolan, Gabe Oppenheim, Carlo Rotella, Sam Sheridan, and Carl Weingarten.
Download or read book Forced Perspective written by Colin Campbell and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These aren’t actors we’re looking for. It’s mug shots not auditions.” McNulty tried not to sound impatient. “It’s local extras. Head and shoulders to see what they look like. If you’re casting cowboys you don’t want to be hiring Indians.” The producer wasn’t appeased. “The reservation’s just over the hill. Indians is what we’re gonna to get. And I don’t want to get scalped.” “Larry. As long as I’ve known you, you’re the one does the scalping.” Palm Springs, California Jim Grant enlists Vince McNulty’s help with a sting operation where wanted criminals are invited to audition as extras in a Titanic Productions movie. The plan is almost derailed when McNulty and Grant can’t resist protecting a hotel receptionist from an angry biker but the plan goes off without a hitch. Almost without a hitch. Mission successful. Except the Palm Springs sting is a dry run for the main person Grant wants to arrest; a crime lord movie buff in Loveland, Colorado. And the angry biker and the worst snow in decades mean that this time there will be blood and death and a very big hitch.
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Download or read book The Detective Club Versi n de ESL EFL con notas en Espa a written by Qiliang Feng and published by 百萬英語閱讀計劃. This book was released on with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es el Libro 9, Colección I del "Proyecto de Lectura de un Millón de Inglés Palabras" (the Million-Word Reading Project, MWRP), una colección de lecturas en inglés de nivel intermedio. Está destinado a lectores que ya han adquirido un vocabulario básico de 1500 palabras en inglés. Proyecto de Lectura de un Millón de Inglés Palabras (the Million-Word Reading Project, MWRP) es un programa de mejora de la lectura en inglés diseñado específicamente para estudiantes que aprenden inglés como segundo idioma o lengua extranjera (ESL/EFL). Está dirigido a lectores que ya dominan un vocabulario básico de 1500 palabras (equivalente a inglés principiante). Con aproximadamente 15 minutos de lectura diaria durante dos años, los lectores pueden alcanzar un nivel de inglés intermedio, dominar más de 3500 palabras y numerosas frases, así como adquirir habilidad en diversas estructuras de oraciones en inglés y la capacidad de leer obras literarias en inglés de dificultad general. La siguiente tabla proporciona información detallada sobre las estadísticas del texto para su referencia al elegir: Estadísticas del Texto Valor de legibilidad || 85.28 Número total de palabras || 31945 Número de palabras fuera de las 1500 || 1802 Tasa de palabras nuevas (%)|| 5.64 Tasa de repetición de palabras nuevas || 4.53 Resumen del Contenido Three girls and two boys who live in Tenth Street have formed the Tenth Street Reading Circle. They read detective mystery stories together. One day, Betty Bliss suggests forming a detective club. They will call themselves Tenth Street Yard, after the London Scotland Yard, and Betty will be Superintendent. At first, the two boys do not think girls can do good detecting, so they laugh at them and refuse to join the club. But after they have solved several cases successfully, the boys begin to admire the girls and want to join the club. After that, they succeed in solving a number of cases. The original stories are written by Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937), famous American humorist, author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays.
Download or read book The Ghosts of Greenwood written by Maggie MacKeever and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indomitable Baroness Bligh packs up her friends and family, along with her pets and the Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, for a relaxing country Christmas, which — as often is the case with Dulcie — turns out to be nothing of the sort. Ghosts, murder, forbidden trysts and romantic misunderstandings: what can a lady do but try and set things right? A Dulcie Bligh Adventure. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Vintage Ink Press
Download or read book Doors of the Night written by Frank Lucius Packard and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doors of the Night written by Frank L. Packard and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futility again! The door was unlocked, but it availed him nothing at all now. He had meant to go in and wait for Peters, but it would be a fool play from any angle to go in there now if Peters had anybody with him. Nor was there time to lock the door again. He had returned the bunch of keys to his pocket, and it would take a moment to sort out the right one, and there was not that moment to spare. The footsteps were already on the landing. Billy Kane drew back once more silently and swiftly to the front of the hall. He was tight-lipped now. It seemed as though every turn of the luck had gone against him. Peters was certain to notice that the door was unlocked. What effect would that have on Peters? What would the man do, and—...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fun Factory written by Rob King and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company—home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties—made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its high-energy comic shorts. Even as Keystone brought "lowbrow" comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. In The Fun Factory, Rob King explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a new understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture. He shows how Keystone fashioned a style of film comedy from the roughhouse humor of cheap theater, pioneering modes of representation that satirized film industry attempts at uplift. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Fun Factory offers a unique studio history that views the changing politics of early film culture through the sociology of laughter.
Download or read book The Show off written by George Kelly and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1924 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1924 stage play by George Kelly about a working-class North Philadelphian family's reluctance to accept their daughter's suitor Aubrey Piper, an overly confident Socialist buffoon. The play has been revived five times on Broadway and adapted for film four times; it is Kelly's most frequently produced play.
Download or read book French s Standard Library Edition written by George Kelly ` and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legends of Pro Wrestling written by Tim Hornbaker and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the lives and careers of the best professional wrestling figures of the last one hundred fifty years, including Bruno Sammartino, The Undertaker, and John Cena.
Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists written by Bert Randolph Sugar and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the ten most fantastic knockouts in boxing history? Which pugilist had the greatest jab of all time? What were the sport's most intense rivalries? Who scored the biggest upsets in the sport's annals? Which fighters have the best nicknames? These questions and many others are answered in this bold collection of ranked lists from two of boxing's most popular commentators. Each list has an introductory paragraph followed by a number of ranked entries, with each entry featuring a brief explanation of ranking plus entertaining and enlightening background information. Also included are original lists contributed exclusive to this book by more than 25 top personalities from boxing and beyond, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Oscar De La Hoya, Bernard Hopkins, and more.
Download or read book Counterpunch written by Ira Berkow and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the period between 1967 and 2005, this compilation includes 84 of Pulitzer Prize&–winning author Ira Berkow's columns on boxing. Readers will meet some of the greatest names in the sport's history in the pages of this book, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Joe Louis, and Mike Tyson. Among the unforgettable stories gathered in this collection are the heated rivalry between Ali and “Smokin' Joe” Frazier, Tyson's infamous “Bite Fight” in 1997, and the will-he-or-won't-he retirement saga of Sugar Ray Leonard. Written in Berkow's gripping prose, the columns included in Counterpunch chronicle the most important moments in boxing over the last four decades.
Download or read book Mary Jane Down South written by Clara Ingram Judson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mary Jane Down South" by Clara Ingram Judson is a delightful exploration of the South through the eyes of its young protagonist, Mary Jane. Judson's storytelling is akin to taking a leisurely stroll through the region's rich culture and landscapes. Through her vivid descriptions and engaging narrative, readers are transported to a world where Southern hospitality, warm traditions, and colorful characters come to life. Whether it's savoring mouthwatering Southern cuisine, experiencing the enchanting melodies of local music, or encountering the region's unique history and traditions, Mary Jane's adventures are both entertaining and enlightening. Judson's portrayal of the South is not only a visual feast but also a heartwarming journey that captures the essence of the region's charm.
