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Eddie's Quest

Author : Dan Hoffman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595416527
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Eddie's Quest written by Dan Hoffman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Kucera is born two months after the death of his immigrant father, who was killed in the Cherry, Illinois Mine Disaster in 1909. When his mother dies of pneumonia when Eddie was fourteen, his sisters plan to send him to an orphanage since they have no place for him in their lives. The year is 1924. He decides to run away from his family home in La Salle, Illinois in search of his only living uncle, Mike Kucera, who left Cherry in 1899 for the gold fields of Alaska when he was eighteen. In 1924, however, Mike is presently living in Oregon as a successful lumberman and has lost all contact with his family back in Illinois and knows nothing of Eddie's existence. The novel weaves the lives of these two young men into a tapestry of adventures that culminate with the birth of a child on Christmas Eve, 1929.

Burn Me Deadly

Author : Alex Bledsoe
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765362049
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Burn Me Deadly written by Alex Bledsoe and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left for dead by unknown assailants who have murdered a woman he was protecting, swordsman-for-hire Eddie LaCrosse sets out to avenge the attack and finds himself entangled in a mystery involving a notorious crime lord, a backwoods dragon cult, and royal scandals.

Porter's Quest

Author : William M. Davenport
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467801429
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Porter's Quest written by William M. Davenport and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Porter, a professional gambler, arrived at the village of Fallston, North Carolina in 1930 with the rarest of commodities: money. He was there to investigate the prospect of buying a sprawling, run down tobacco farm. Eddie knew, at once, that he has found the place he had long been seeking. It was sound rather than site that told Eddie this. The people of Fallston had the exact same accent and voice inflections of the man he was seeking. It has taken Eddie a dozen years to find this place. After a week in Fallston, Eddie calmly bet the bulk of his fortune and the last ten years of his life on Fallston. In June of 1940, Eddie Porter was found murdered in his home in Fallston.Ten year old Jubal Scott was the first to reach the scene. Jubal caught a glimpse of Eddies killer, before he, too was knocked unconscious and left for dead. Soon, the Sheriff of Green County, Jubals father Mason Scott and Eddie Porters daughter join forces to hunt for his killer. Months of sleuthing later, the trio have only a budding romance between Monica Porter and Mason Scott to show for their efforts. Tensions mount with each attempt on Jubals life. Finally, Monica discovers a letter from her father naming John Lofton, a local, as the man who killed his friend in France during World War I. Soon after Eddies murder, Lofton is the victim of an apparent suicide. Monica Porters says, Case Closed! Mason Scott, however, remains unconvinced. The case reaches an exciting climax when Jubal Scott recognizes the real killers picture in a newspaper. Discover how Eddie Porters final corageous act of love changed his vengeful quest into a remarkable legacy of love.

Retail Gangster

Author : Gary Weiss
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306924560
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Retail Gangster written by Gary Weiss and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time Back in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, "Crazy Eddie" as he was known to millions of people, the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history. Few things evoke the New York of a particular era the way "Crazy Eddie! His prices are insaaaaane!" does. The journalist Herb Greenberg called his death the "end of an era" and that couldn't be more true. What's insane is that his story has never been told. Before Enron, before Madoff, before The Wolf of Wall Street, Eddie Antar's corruption was second to none. The difference was that it was a street franchise, a local place that was in the blood stream of everyone's daily life in the 1970s and early '80s. And Eddie pulled it off with a certain style, an in your face blue collar chutzpah. Despite the fact that then U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoffcalled him "the Darth Vader of capitalism" after the extent of the fraud was revealed, one of the largest SEC frauds in American history after Crazy Eddie's stores went public in 1984, Eddie was talked about fondly by the people who worked for him. They still do--there are myriads of ex-Crazy Eddie employee web pages that still attract fans, and the Crazy Eddie fraud scheme is now taught in every business school across the United States. Many years have passed since the franchise went down in spectacular fashion but Crazy Eddie's moment has endured the way that iconic brands and characters do--one only need Google the media outpouring that accompanied his death. Maybe it's because it crystallized everything about 1970s New York almost perfectly, the merchandise and rise of consumer electronics (stereos!), the ads (cheesy!), the money (cash!). In Retail Gangster, investigative journalist Gary Weiss takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most unbelievable business scam stories of all time, a story spanning continents and generations, reaffirming the old adage that the truth is often stranger than fiction.

Memories of My Life and Travels

Author : Antoinette Brown
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1553691954
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Memories of My Life and Travels written by Antoinette Brown and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful journey into the author's life experiences and her desire to share with others that there is hope no matter what we've been through because God loves each one of us. Memories of my life and travels is a compelling drama!

Eddie Cicotte

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680191
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Eddie Cicotte written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Cicotte, who pitched in the American League 1905-1920, was one of the tragic figures of baseball. A family man and a fan favorite, he ascended to stardom with nothing more than a mediocre fastball, endless guile and a repertoire of trick pitches. He won 29 games in 1919 and led the Chicago White Sox to the pennant. Although he pitched poorly in the World Series that October, fans did not hold it against him--a slump can happen to anybody. A year later, the public learned the truth: Cicotte's poor performance was no slump. He had taken a bribe to throw the Series. Along with seven teammates, he was implicated in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal, the most disgraceful episode in the history of the sport. Overnight, he became a pariah and would remain so for the rest of his life. This is the first full-length biography of Cicotte, best known today not as a great pitcher but as one of the "Eight Men Out."

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2067 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] written by Linda De Roche and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 2067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.

Mo' Meta Blues

Author : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455501360
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Mo' Meta Blues written by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!? But Mo' Meta Blues isn't just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book like Mo' Meta Bluesreally is. It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind. It's a rare gift that gives as well as takes. It's a record that keeps going around and around.

Willie's Game

Author : Willie Mosconi
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453295267
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Willie's Game written by Willie Mosconi and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating” memoir by America’s greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal). Willie Mosconi’s father never wanted him to play billiards. At night, the boy would lie awake listening to the clatter of balls downstairs in the family pool hall, and when his father wasn’t around, he would climb onto an apple crate to practice his shots. When his dad started locking up the balls and cue, young Willie improvised with potatoes and a broom handle. By the time he was 7 years old, he was good enough to play against Ralph Greenleaf in a match billed as “The Child Prodigy vs. The World Champion.” It was the start of a magnificent career that would include an unprecedented 15 world championships and the record for most consecutive balls run without a miss: 526. Nicknamed “Mr. Pocket Billiards,” Mosconi was instrumental in popularizing pool in America, serving as a consultant for iconic films such as The Hustler and The Color of Money and facing off against the famed hustler Minnesota Fats in 2 celebrated matches. Cowritten with journalist Stanley Cohen, Willie’s Game is the colorful, captivating autobiography of an illustrious champion who lifted his sport to new heights and played by one simple rule: If you don’t miss, you don’t have to worry about anything else.

Fiction 2000

Author : George Edgar Slusser
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820314498
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Fiction 2000 written by George Edgar Slusser and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millennium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. A movement less than a decade old, cyberpunk is driven by deep concerns about society, ethics, and new technology and has been defined as the literature of the first generation of science-fiction writers actually to live in a science-fiction world. These essays were first presented at the 1989 annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the field's most prestigious international gathering. They address concerns common not only to cyberpunk and traditional science-fiction scholars, critics, and writers but to their counterparts outside the genre as well. Interdisciplinary in perspective, the essays consider the origins of cyberpunk, the appropriation of its conventions by the mass media, the literature's paradoxical retrogressive/iconoclastic nature, cyberpunk's affinities to and deviations from both traditional science fiction and postmodernist literature, the parameters and components of the cyberpunk canon, and the movement's future course. Some essays are theoretical, but all are grounded in works familiar to serious science-fiction readers: Neuromancer, Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart, Islands in the Net, Great Sky River, the Mirrorshades anthology, and others; cyberpunk TV and cinema like the Max Headroom programs, Blade Runner, and Tron; and precursory literature, including Frankenstein, Le Roman de l'avenir, Ralph I24C 41 +, and A Clockwork Orange. Useful for its views on a volatile science-fiction subgenre, Fiction 2000 is also valuable for what it tells us about the fate of mainstream literature.

Len Jenkin's Theatre

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761853243
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Len Jenkin's Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart. Imagination creates wonder by transforming nature to suggest more than nature. Love engages the heart on the quest to experience wonder, for though Jenkin is an experimental playwright, his plays are not abstruse symbols.

Trailing the Schoolchildren's Blizzard

Author : B. Lois Thieszen Preheim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666703257
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Trailing the Schoolchildren's Blizzard written by B. Lois Thieszen Preheim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of the January 12, 1888 blizzard as experienced by families living in ten locations along the storm’s route. The storm struck suddenly and caught people off guard as it trailed through the Great Plains of Canada, the United States, and Territories. Many found ingenious ways to reach safety and/or pass the time while waiting for the storm to subside. Family stories are capsulized in a poem preceding the ten stand-alone chapters. Tying the chapters together is the common thread of experiencing the storm’s fury. People of all ages will identify with elements of decision-making.

Weekly World News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-08-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.

The Stephen King Universe

Author : Stanley Wiater
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781580631600
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Stephen King Universe written by Stanley Wiater and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work of popular criticism of the stories and characters of author Stephen King embraces and explains the entire body of his work. The authors also demonstrate King's impact on popular culture and include a chronology of his life and career.

Dark Delicacies III: Haunted

Author : Del Howison & Jeff Gelb
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625672918
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Dark Delicacies III: Haunted written by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third installment of the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology series, editors Del Howison and Jeff Gelb examine what it means to be Haunted in all of its different permeations. From the constant haunting visits of a locale to being haunted by our own thoughts and memories to being haunted by the spirit of evil, Haunted explores the emotions of obsession, desire and pain. We are all haunted by something. The horror is in how we deal with it. Join twenty of the genres finest authors as they deal with their ghosts. Includes stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Clive Barker, Michael Boatman, Heather Graham, Richard Christian Matheson, David Morrell, Chuck Palahniuk, Victor Salva, Simon R. Green, and many more!

Hollywood – a Challenge for the Soviet Cinema

Author : Franz, Norbert P.
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN 13 : 3869564903
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood – a Challenge for the Soviet Cinema written by Franz, Norbert P. and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features four essays that illuminate the relationship between American and Soviet film cultures in the 20th century. The first essay emphasizes the structural similarities and dissimilarities of the two cultures. Both wanted to reach the masses. However, the goal in Hollywood was to entertain (and educate a little) and in Moscow to educate (and entertain a little). Some films in the Soviet Union as well as in the United States were conceived as clear competition to one another – as the second essay demonstrates – and the ideological opponent was not shown from its most advantageous side. The third essay shows how, in the 1980s, the different film cultures made it difficult for the Soviet director Andrei Konchalovsky to establish himself in the US, but nevertheless allowed him to succeed. In the 1960s, a genre became popular that tells the story of the Russian Civil War using stylistic features of the Western: The Eastern. Its rise and decline are analyzed in the fourth essay.

The Murmurs

Author : Michael J. Malone
Publisher : Orenda Books
ISBN 13 : 1914585836
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Murmurs written by Michael J. Malone and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman starts experiencing terrifying premonitions of people dying, as it becomes clear that a family curse known only as The Murmurs has begun, and a long-forgotten crime is about to be unearthed... On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die. How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions ... a rekindling of the curse that has trickled through generations of women in her family – a wicked gift known only as 'the murmurs'... With its reappearance comes an old, forgotten fear that is about to grip Annie Jackson. And this time, it will never let go... A compulsive gothic thriller and a spellbinding supernatural mystery about secrets and small communities, about faith, courage and self-preservation, The Murmurs is a startling and compulsive read from one of Scotland's finest authors.