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Author | : Don Carpenter |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-06-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590173902 |
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Author | : Mark Law |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781590307151 |
A founding editor of The First Post recounts his impulsive decision to take up judo when he turned fifty, an activity he came to love and admire in spite of grueling training sessions, in an account that also describes his research into judo history and his attendance at matches between famous competitors. Original.
Author | : Megan Sparks |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 162370023X |
Annie struggles to fit in when she moves from London to the midwest. Will Roller Derby help?
Author | : Chris Jones |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780887846649 |
In Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing, Chris Jones recounts his first year at ringside. He gets dressed down by Don King, gambles his way through Vegas, meets the troubled guy who found Evander Holyfield's ear, goes to Muhammad Ali's birthday party, and witnesses Prince Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson implodes. Like the sport itself, Falling Hard is equal measures of victory and defeat — an intoxicating combination that leaves Jones down for the count more than once. Determined to stay objective, he instead becomes addicted to boxing's special brand of pain, and what begins as a simple curiosity soon escalates into an unhealthy obsession. Jones writes with the rhythm of the sport he covers: hard and fast, with the drama of fiction but the truth of journalism. Sometimes humorous, always suspenseful, Falling Hard is a travelogue for the fight game, boxing distilled to its essence by sportswriting's newest star.
Author | : Jae |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-04-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783955338299 |
Dr. Jordan Williams devotes her life to saving patients in the OR and pleasuring women in the bedroom. Jordan's new neighbor, single mom Emma, is the polar opposite. Family and fidelity mean everything to her. When Emma helps Jordan recover after a bad fall, they quickly grow closer. But neither counted on falling hard-for each other.
Author | : Betsy Franco |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780763634377 |
A collection of one hundred love poems written by teens.
Author | : Renata Adler |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590176332 |
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it. A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthrall a new generation of readers.
Author | : Lexi Ryan |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Football players |
ISBN | : 9781546497882 |
"Former actress Emma Rothschild is partying in Vegas in disguise. But I'm not fooled. Five years ago, I knew that body better than my own, and I haven't forgotten a single detail--not the curve of her hip beneath my hand or the hitch in her breath when I kiss her neck. When Emma's unexpectedly left alone in Sin City, I agree to spend the weekend with her. As friends. Why not? If I can knock down the toughest guys in the NFL, I'm strong enough to keep my hands to myself, even if she is the sexiest woman I've ever met. Emma is part of my past--years so shrouded in secrets that not even my best friends know the truth about who I am. I'm a single dad now and not interested in revisiting my old ways or trying to win back the only woman I ever let close enough to break my heart. But this is Vegas, where all bets are off, and with Emma, nothing ever goes as planned ..."--Back cover.
Author | : Dakota Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-03-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
From USA Today bestselling author Dakota Davies comes a small town family saga full of family secrets and sizzling heat. Does every first love deserve a second chance? Six years ago, my world imploded and the only way to protect the girl of my dreams was to break our pact and set her free. Though I've settled into my new role as a single dad and firefighter, I've never forgotten Lori's bright smile, her determination, the crazy, reckless love we shared night after night that summer. So when a twist of fate brings her back to Penny Creek, I'm hell bent on winning her back. Turns out I can still make her blush, she's still full of surprises, and our chemistry is hotter than ever. But she's made it clear that in two weeks, she'll be returning to the life she left behind without me. Suddenly, I'm in a race against time to get her to stay. And just when I think we've scored our second chance, our pasts come back to push us apart once more. Can I fight hard enough to keep her this time? Fall in love with in Falling for My Fling, the sexy second chance romance readers are comparing to Lauren Blakely and Corinne Michaels. Buy Falling for My Fling today!
Author | : Sara Ney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
"Hard Fall"That's what my mom is always saying: "The bigger you are, the harder you fall." She's talking about love-I've never been in it myself, but that doesn't stop me from secretly matchmaking for my friends. Who would suspect me, a world class athlete, of meddling in other people's love lives? I love Love, especially when it's not me who's doing the falling..."No Thanks."That's what Hollis Westbrooke said when I asked her on a date. Well, propositioned her, actually-but it was all a big joke; one she doesn't think is funny. My stomach is in knots since I might actually like this girl so the joke is one me. Hollis's father is my boss-and she doesn't date players. The bigger they are, the harder they fall-especially when biggest player is me.