Dogfight A Love Story

Download Dogfight A Love Story full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Dogfight A Love Story ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Dogfight, A Love Story

Author : Matt Burgess
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030747643X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dogfight, A Love Story by : Matt Burgess

Download or read book Dogfight, A Love Story written by Matt Burgess and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his brother, which may have something to do with the fact that Alfredo is now dating Tariq’s ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is eight months pregnant. Tariq’s violent streak is probably #1 worry on Alfredo’s list. Also, he needs to steal a pit bull. For the homecoming dogfight. Burgess brings to life the rich and vivid milieu of his hometown native Queens in all its glorious variety. Here is the real New York, a place where Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, An glos, African Americans, and West Indians scrap and mingle and love. But the real star here is Burgess’s incredible ear for language—the voices of his characters leap off the page in riotous, spot-on dialogue. The outer boroughs have their own language, where a polite greeting is fraught with menace, and an insult can be the expression of the most tender love. With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy—or revenge tragedy, for that matter—and an electrically colloquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature. The great Queens novel has arrived.

Dogfight, a Love Story

Author : Matt Burgess
Publisher : Random House LLC
ISBN 13 : 0385532989
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dogfight, a Love Story by : Matt Burgess

Download or read book Dogfight, a Love Story written by Matt Burgess and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight. A first novel.

Dogfight

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848281
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dogfight by : Michael Knight

Download or read book Dogfight written by Michael Knight and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Notable Book: Short fiction by the author of Eveningland, “a writer of the first rank” (Esquire). “These 10 distinctive and intensely affecting stories confirm Knight as a writer of significant gifts. In short narratives that invariably entice the reader with an arresting opening sentence, he establishes a solid sense of place, using the local color of his native Alabama, and transforms ordinary people into nearly mythic figures. The first story, ‘Now You See Her,’ sets the stage, constructing a conflict of nearly Oedipal proportions. A veterinarian widower and his teenage son, Xavier, who calls himself X, spy on Grace, their next-door neighbor, who ‘it would appear . . . renounced clothing altogether’; the surprising climax occurs when her dog suddenly takes ill. In many of Knight’s offerings, animals act as agents of change: in the title story, a dogfight is the catalyst for an adulterous affair and results in a parallel clash between the dogs’ owners. ‘Gerald’s Monkey’ uses a man’s desire for a pet monkey to examine the emotional aftermath of Vietnam. Knight demonstrates agility with a diversity of viewpoints: he is equally at ease with first-person narration or third, an adult perspective or an adolescent’s, as in a stunner called ‘A Bad Man, So Pretty’ (taken from a Muhammad Ali quote) that works up to a Cain and Abel-style confrontation. Knight’s characters are both recognizable and transcendent, suddenly drawn into trespassing the ordinary limits of their lives to enter the realm of allegory.” —Publishers Weekly

Dogfight

Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0812993683
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dogfight by : Calvin Trillin

Download or read book Dogfight written by Calvin Trillin and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a humorous ode to the 2012 presidential election that likens the campaign to a three-ring circus and includes riffs on figures ranging from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.

Uncle Janice

Author : Matt Burgess
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345803442
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Uncle Janice by : Matt Burgess

Download or read book Uncle Janice written by Matt Burgess and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four-year-old Janice Itwaru is an “uncle”—NYPD lingo for an undercover narcotics officer—and the heroine of the most exuberantand original cop novel in years. A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will automatically get promoted to detective. Undercover narc Janice Itwaru is at month seventeen. Ambitious, desperate for that promotion, she hits the sidewalks of Queens in her secondhand hoochie clothes, hoping to convince potential criminals—drug dealers, addicts, dummies, whomever—to commit a felony on her behalf. And things aren’t any easier back at the narco office, where she has to keep up with the bantering lies and inventively cruel pranks of her fellow uncles while coping with the ridiculous demands of her NYPD bosses. With an ailing mother at home, her cover nearly blown, quota pressures from her superiors, and rumors circulating that Internal Affairs has her unit under surveillance, Janice is running terribly short on luck as her promotion deadline approaches. Now she has to decide which evil to confront: the absurd bureaucrats at One Police Plaza, or the violent drug dealers who may already be on to her identity. Bursting with the glorious chaos of the New York City streets, Uncle Janice is both a deeply funny portrait of how undercover cops really talk and act, and a compelling story of their crazy, dangerous, and complicated lives.

Wirewalker

Author : Mary Hall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698139534
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Wirewalker by : Mary Hall

Download or read book Wirewalker written by Mary Hall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes heroes can be found in the most unlikely places. Fourteen-year-old Clarence Feather knows no world beyond desolate Mayfair Heights. Three years ago, his mother was killed before his eyes by a stray bullet. When his father becomes unable to keep the family afloat, Clarence is manipulated into running drugs. But he longs to be a good person, in spite of the seemingly impossible odds. Wandering through his neighborhood, Clarence meets Mona, a huge albino Great Dane. The two develop a deep bond. When he is forced to attend a dog fight as a rite of passage, Clarence realizes that Mona isn’t safe, and neither is he. Can he find a way to protect Mona? Can he survive life in Mayfair Heights and still become the person his mother wanted him to be? A novel about self-reliance, difficult choices, and imagination in the face of danger and isolation, Wirewalker is a masterfully written debut that blends gritty realism with moments of fantastical escape.

Help Your Dog Fight Cancer

Author : Laurie Kaplan
Publisher : JanGen Press
ISBN 13 : 0975479474
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (754 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Help Your Dog Fight Cancer by : Laurie Kaplan

Download or read book Help Your Dog Fight Cancer written by Laurie Kaplan and published by JanGen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50% of our dogs will have cancer in their lifetimes. This book is a crash course for caretakers, by medical animal writer Laurie Kaplan. Composed during her Siberian Husky Bullet's triumphant battle against lymphoma, written to educate all caretakers and to help those who have dogs with cancer.

Dogfight

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802143303
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (433 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dogfight by : Michael Knight

Download or read book Dogfight written by Michael Knight and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --Los Angeles Times "A writer of the first rank. . . . [Knight] writes gently and with great gobs of empathy."--Esquire "Wonderfully humane." --Playboy A Los Angeles Times Notable Book, Michael Knight's stunning debut delivers ten tales of ordinary people seized by extraordinary circumstances as their attempts at human connection result in frustrating false starts and ruinous misunderstandings. Knight expertly unveils fragile family ties, secret compulsions, and the nagging doggedness of love as he taps into our collective human experience to remind us, with unerring, piercing insight, of what it means to be alive. By turns unpredictable and wise, sorrowful and triumphant, Dogfight and Other Stories reveals the transformative power of life's small struggles.

The Last Dogfight

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297768746
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Last Dogfight by : Martin Caidin

Download or read book The Last Dogfight written by Martin Caidin and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1974 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adam Frankenstein

Author : Sheila English
Publisher : Reader's Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 9781684544899
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (448 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Adam Frankenstein by : Sheila English

Download or read book Adam Frankenstein written by Sheila English and published by Reader's Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immortal legend finds himself in modern-day Houston, Texas as a U.S. Marshal. Waking up half dead was unexpected. Finding out that an infamous dog fighting ring stole his immortal dog turns Adam Frankenstein into the monster he was created to be.

The Lost Dogs

Author : Jim Gorant
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101543809
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Lost Dogs by : Jim Gorant

Download or read book The Lost Dogs written by Jim Gorant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man's best friend, in the aftermath of the nation's most notorious case of animal cruelty. Animal lovers and sports fans were shocked when the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick's brutal dog fighting operation. But what became of the dozens of dogs who survived? As acclaimed writer Jim Gorant discovered, their story is the truly newsworthy aspect of this case. Expanding on Gorant's Sports Illustrated cover story, The Lost Dogs traces the effort to bring Vick to justice and turns the spotlight on these infamous pit bulls, which were saved from euthanasia by an outpouring of public appeals coupled with a court order that Vick pay nearly a million dollars in "restitution" to the dogs. As an ASPCA-led team evaluated each one, they found a few hardened fighters, but many more lovable, friendly creatures desperate for compassion. In The Lost Dogs, we meet these amazing animals, a number of which are now living in loving homes, while some even work in therapy programs: Johnny Justice participates in Paws for Tales, which lets kids get comfortable with reading aloud by reading to dogs; Leo spends three hours a week with cancer patients and troubled teens. At the heart of the stories are the rescue workers who transformed the pups from victims of animal cruelty into healing caregivers themselves, unleashing priceless hope. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Watch a video

Saving Audie

Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080273457X
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Saving Audie by : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Download or read book Saving Audie written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a survivor of the Michael Vick dog-fighting ring, the black pit bull terrier pup eventually named after World War II hero Audie Murphy, as he get socialized, undergoes surgery, trains in agility, and becomes a coach for other dogs.

Fighter Pilot

Author : Christina Olds
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 142992909X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fighter Pilot by : Christina Olds

Download or read book Fighter Pilot written by Christina Olds and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter Pilot is the memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, Robin Olds. Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He arrived in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them. Proving he wasn't a WWII retread, he led the wing with aggressiveness, scoring another four confirmed kills, becoming a rare triple ace. Olds, who retired a brigadier general and died in 2007, was a unique individual whose personal story presents one of the most eagerly anticipated military books in recent memory. Please note: This ebook edition does not include the photo insert from the print edition.

Topgun

Author : Dan Pedersen
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316416274
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Topgun by : Dan Pedersen

Download or read book Topgun written by Dan Pedersen and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book." -- Fox & Friends On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the "Topgun" Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and eight other risk-takers revolutionized the art of aerial combat. When American fighter jets were being downed at an unprecedented rate during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy turned to a young lieutenant commander, Dan Pedersen, to figure out a way to reverse their dark fortune. On a shoestring budget and with little support, Pedersen picked eight of the finest pilots to help train a new generation to bend jets like the F-4 Phantom to their will and learn how to dogfight all over again. What resulted was nothing short of a revolution -- one that took young American pilots from the crucible of combat training in the California desert to the blistering skies of Vietnam, in the process raising America's Navy combat kill ratio from two enemy planes downed for every American plane lost to more than 22 to 1. Topgun emerged not only as an icon of America's military dominance immortalized by Hollywood but as a vital institution that would shape the nation's military strategy for generations to come. Pedersen takes readers on a colorful and thrilling ride -- from Miramar to Area 51 to the decks of aircraft carriers in war and peace-through a historic moment in air warfare. He helped establish a legacy that was built by him and his "Original Eight" -- the best of the best -- and carried on for six decades by some of America's greatest leaders. Topgun is a heartfelt and personal testimony to patriotism, sacrifice, and American innovation and daring.

Nine Lives

Author :
Publisher : Flying Furballs
ISBN 13 : 9781988516967
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (169 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Nine Lives by :

Download or read book Nine Lives written by and published by Flying Furballs. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Has Claude really lost all his 9 lives? Will cats and dogs ever live in peace again? Find out how it all ends in this explosive series finale. It's the final countdown to blast off! Can cats and dogs work together to stop Alf Alpha and his army rising from the ashes of defeat? And will the traitorous Major Tom finally get his comeuppance?"--Provided by publisher.

Last Night at the Viper Room

Author : Gavin Edwards
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062273191
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Last Night at the Viper Room by : Gavin Edwards

Download or read book Last Night at the Viper Room written by Gavin Edwards and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix—a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood’s storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23. Last Night at the Viper Room explores the young star’s life, including his childhood in Venezuela growing up under the aegis of the cultish Children of God. Putting him at the center of a new generation of leading men emerging in the early 1990s— including Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage, and Leonardo DiCaprio—Gavin Edwards traces the Academy Award nominee’s meteoric rise, couches him in an examination of the 1990s, and illuminates his lasting legacy on Hollywood and popular culture itself.

Grip, a Dog Story

Author : Helen Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823403356
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Grip, a Dog Story by : Helen Griffiths

Download or read book Grip, a Dog Story written by Helen Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy experiences conflicting loyalties for his father, a breeder of generations of champion fighting dogs, and the playful pup he loves so much.