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Kokomo Joe

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803218974
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Kokomo Joe written by John Christgau and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio ?Kokomo Joe? Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and antagonism of other jockeys. His is a story of the American dream catapulting headlong into the nightmare of a nation gripped by wartime hysteria and xenophobia. The story that unfolds in Kokomo Joe is at once inspiring, deeply sad, and richly ironic?and remarkably relevant in our own climate of nationalist fervor and racial profiling. ø Sent to Japan from Washington State after his mother and three siblings died of the Spanish flu, Kobuki continued to nurse his dream of the American good life. Because of his small stature, his ambition steered him to a future as a star jockey. John Christgau narrates Kobuki?s rise from lowly stable boy to reigning star at California fairs and in the bush leagues. He describes how, at the height of the jockey?s fame, even his flight into the Sonora Desert could not protect him from the government?s espionage and sabotage dragnet. And finally he recounts how, after three years of internment, Kokomo Joe tried to reclaim his racing success, only to fall victim to still-rampant racism, a career-ending injury, and cancer.

Kokomo

Author : Victoria Hannan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0733643337
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Kokomo written by Victoria Hannan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It does not disappoint.' - The Guardian When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Her reclusive mother, Elaine, has left the house for the first time in twelve years. Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk about her sudden return to the world, nor why she's spent so much time hiding from it. Their reunion leaves Mina raking through pieces of their painful past in a bid to uncover the truth. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us apart. 'A timely song of secrets, sex and the meaning of love' - Sydney Morning Herald 'A coming-of-age novel for the Peter Pan generation, Kokomo juggles the dissatisfactions of sex, marriage, and corporate ambition with deceptive lightness and radiant empathy. Reading this book felt like drinking with friends in a cozy pub until last call; I emerged from it shiny-faced, unbothered by the cold, wanting more.' - Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of THE LOVE OF A BAD MAN and BEAUTIFUL REVOLUTIONARY 'This is a book that gets right into your body. It makes you laugh, makes you think, but it doesn't stop there - it plays with your heart and leaves it different. This is smart, raw, tender fiction that feels as real as life.' - Ronnie Scott, author of THE ADVERSARY 'Graceful and raw, this is a remarkable study of the forces of desire and regret. Hannan is both acute witness and masterful reporter of love in all its faulty and essential shapes. Kokomo dazzles, pierces, and stays.' - Robert Lukins, author of THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY 'I can't remember being so excited by a debut novel. Kokomo is a delight, a book I wanted to finish in a greedy rush but one I also wanted to savour. It's so full of life, on each page there are tiny moments of delight, irreverence, tenderness. Kokomo is the Australian response to Normal People, this is Monkey Grip for the new generation of readers. This book will be read and cherished by many, and Victoria Hannan is a name we will see a great deal more in the future.' - J.P. Pomare, author of CALL ME EVIE and IN THE CLEARING 'Hannan's Kokomo is a sharply observed novel of one woman's facade and how it falls; an undoing that is both ordinary and compelling. This debut heralds an exciting new Australian voice with a story of estrangement from kin, friendship, love, self and country - one that will be familiar to many, and surprising, for it is often a shock to see one's reflection.' - Anna Krien, author of NIGHT GAMES and ACT OF GRACE

Key Kokomo

Author : William S. Beatty Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475989466
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Key Kokomo written by William S. Beatty Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just off the Continental Slope, in the aqua-green waters near the Straits of Florida, is Key Kokomo. Purchased in the early nineteen thirties by a French orphan, the key became an opulent tourist resort known as the Key Kokomo, Pier House Resort." Jethro Thurman Billman, or JT, built his resort on a pier jetting out into the crystal clear waters of the Atlantic. On this key, freshly divorced Chet Walker discovers his worst nightmare is not running from an alcoholic broken marriage. He looks beyond Key Kokomos lush tropical palm tree lined beaches, wispy pine forests, and murky mangrove swamps, and sees a true monster in the keys owner JT. The two men become natural enemies, as Chet meeting new friends, wrestles with the ghosts of his past and his dreams for a future, and JT tries to consume yet one more tortured soul. JTs desperate plan, to continue a dying bloodline, starts to unravel, during a freakish early January hurricane, called Annabelle. Key Kokomo a tropical resort paradise, where love and alcohol flow as free as milk and honey, dreams glow as fresh as the morning sun, and reality comes with a sobering price.

TOP o' the WORLD - A Once Upon a Time Children's Fantasy Tale

Author : Mark E. Swan
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8832576198
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book TOP o' the WORLD - A Once Upon a Time Children's Fantasy Tale written by Mark E. Swan and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOP o’ the WORLD is a tale of ONCE UPON A TIME….. This is a child’s fantasy / fairy tale of Maida who visited the Wishing Pole at the North Pole, despite some very wise men with bald heads and long white beards who say there isn’t a Wishing Post at all! This is one of those gems of the children’s literary world that for some unfathomable reason never became a best seller. Not only does it have a cracking story-line it also has six exquisitely crafted full page colour plates but also 20 BnW vignettes to help young readers visualise the story as it progresses. In this book you will read about how Maida, who loves ice-cream, met the “Man with the Growly Voice”, who was an arctic explorer who told her a whole lot of interesting things about his journeys and voyages AND about the wishing post. The last thing she remembered, he was telling her about the time he met Father Christmas at the North Pole – and then she woke up in bed with a desire to find the Wishing Post and Father Christmas. Then he room was flooded with a bright eerie light. So, she went to the window and saw the Man with the Growly Voice who came to her and said, “I’ve come to take you to the Wishing Post.” What happened next you may ask? Well you’ll just have to download this book and find out for yourself. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Top o the World, Maida, Aunt Mary, Man with the Growly Voice, North Pole, Polar Bear, Santa Claus, afraid, airship, alone, Arctic, Arcturia, Aurora Borealis, beautiful, bedtime story, believe, Billy, Candy, children, children’s story, climate, Disconsolate, Eskimos, explorer, fable, Fairy tale, fantasy, Folklore, Forbidden, happy, ice-cream, Illusia, Inuit, journey, Jack Frost, Jack-in-the-Box, Kankakee, Kokomo, Lover, Nortern Lights, poor, scream, Snow, story, three, two, Walrus, White Queen, window, Wishing, wonderful, young

Our Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Our Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boxing Filmography

Author : Frederick V. Romano
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786417935
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Boxing Filmography written by Frederick V. Romano and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days of Chaplin, the "boxing film" had assumed its place as a subgenre, and over the decades it has taken the forms of biographies, dramas, romances, comedies, and even musicals and westerns. Such well known pictures as The Champ, Body and Soul, Don King: Only in America, Girl Fight, The Irish in Us, The Kid from Brooklyn, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Raging Bull, each of the Rocky movies and When We Were Kings are just a few examples of the feature films included in this filmography. Thoroughly researched, this work examines 98 boxing films from the 1920s through 2003. Each entry provides basic filmographic data (the film's studio, its genre, its length, cast and credits); a detailed synopsis of the film; illuminating commentary on the boxing sequences; and excerpts from contemporary reviews. Most entries also summarize the making of the film, with particular attention to the training of the actors for the boxing scenes. The filmography also includes information on studio publicity releases and advertisements, press books and exhibitor campaign materials for each film.

The Great Indiana Touring Book

Author : Thomas Huhti
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931599092
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Great Indiana Touring Book written by Thomas Huhti and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness the beauty, rich history, and diverse attractions of Indiana by car. Twenty tours take you winding through the state, across covered bridges, along rivers and into the heart of the Hoosier State. This book is about fun and discovery, with the trip more than the destination in mind. Features colored photos and detailed maps.

The Top O' Th' World

Author : Manuel Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Top O' Th' World written by Manuel Klein and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coronet

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Coronet written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-05 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fail Up

Author : Tavis Smiley
Publisher : Smiley Books
ISBN 13 : 1401933912
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Fail Up written by Tavis Smiley and published by Smiley Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers anecdotes and experiences with failure in his own life to help readers reconsider how they view past mistakes and to use past failures to overcome hardship and succeed later in life.

Journal (Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers, and Brass Workers' Union of North America)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal (Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers, and Brass Workers' Union of North America) written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baseball Prospectus 2012

Author : Baseball Prospectus
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118197690
Total Pages : 1910 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Prospectus 2012 written by Baseball Prospectus and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 1910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business The essential guide to the 2012 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2012 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team. Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams Projects each player's stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated) From Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball Now in its seventeenth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.

Ransoming Pagan Babies

Author : Warren Hinckle
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597144258
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Ransoming Pagan Babies written by Warren Hinckle and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected works by the muckraking journalist on subjects like San Francisco politics, the murder of Harvey Milk, and the Jonestown tragedy. From his galvanizing exposés in Ramparts magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first career-spanning collection of writings by this key figure of American journalism, Ransoming Pagan Babies contains an astonishing thematic sweep: Joseph Mitchell–esque portraits of old San Francisco and its characters; insightful reporting on conflicts in Selma, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam; forays into local politics; and piercing depictions of a Bay Area riven by inequality and assassination. Reading Hinckle drops the reader into the heart of history—and, just as importantly, it’s fun. Hinckle wrote about his subjects with bluster, tenacity, heart, and a desire for adventure and justice. This book is the first to capture his swashbuckling energy and expansive talent in a single volume. “A much-needed, welcome gathering of work by the radical journalist and crusading author. . . . A pleasure for anyone who values lively prose.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Rise and Fire

Author : Shawn Fury
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250062179
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Rise and Fire written by Shawn Fury and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sportswriter Shawn Fury's Rise and Fire: The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot presents an exploration of the play that revolutionized basketball and provided the greatest moments in the sport's history—from Michael Jordan's legacy-defining jumpers to Ray Allen’s mastery and more. It’s hard to believe that there was a time when the jump shot didn’t exist in basketball. When the sport was invented in 1891, players would take set shots with both feet firmly planted on the ground. Defenders controlled the sport, the pace was slower, and games would frequently end with scores fit for a football field. It took almost forty years before players began shooting jump shots of any kind and sixty-five years before it became a common sight. When the first jump shooting pioneers left the ground, they rose not only above their defenders, but also above the sport’s conventions. The jump shot created a soaring offense, infectious excitement, loyal fans, and legends. Basketball would never be the same. Rise and Fire celebrates this crucial shot while tracing the history of how it revolutionized the game, shedding light on all corners of the basketball world, from NBA arenas to the playgrounds of New York City and the barns of Indiana. Award-winning journalist Shawn Fury obsesses over the jump shot, explores its fundamentals, puzzles over its complexities, marvels at its simplicity, and honors those who created some of basketball’s greatest moments. Part history, part travelogue, and part memoir, Rise and Fire bounces from the dirt courts of the 1930s to today’s NBA courts and state-of-the-art shooting labs, examining everything from how nets and rims affect a shooter to rivalries between shooting coaches to how the three-pointer came to rule the game. Impeccably researched and engaging, the book features interviews and profiles of legendary figures like Jerry West, Bob McAdoo, Ray Allen, and Denise Long--the first woman ever drafted by the NBA, plus dozens more, revealing the evolution of the shot over time. Analyzing the techniques and reliving some of the most unforgettable plays from the greats, Fury creates a technical, personal, historical, and even spiritual examination of the shot. This is not a dry how-to textbook of basketball mechanics; it is a lively tour of basketball history and a love letter to the sport and the shot that changed it forever.

American Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book

Author : American Angus Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book written by American Angus Association and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse: Volume 3

Author : Namekojirushi
Publisher : J-Novel Club
ISBN 13 : 1718300301
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse: Volume 3 written by Namekojirushi and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rekka has just finished another adventure and saved a new series of heroines. But when he gets back home, he finds a new girl who demands that he run away and marry her! When a disaster involving Harissa makes him realize how dangerous it is to be around him, he runs away with the new girl, Hibiki Banjo, leaving the other heroines behind. But how can Rekka fight when he's cut off from all the girls he's worked so hard to save?