In This Corner . . . !

In This Corner . . . !
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1994-08-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780306806032

Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney ”long count”; Rocky Graziano on showbiz; and dozens of others—including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, José Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore—on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durán and Alexis Argüello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.

In this Corner of the World

In this Corner of the World
Author: Fumiyo Kōno
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9781642752199

1940s Hiroshima. Suzu, a young bride, leaves her home to join her new husband, a member of the Japanese navy, at a military base in the port city of Kure. Confronted with the challenges of a new life, Suzu must also come to grips with a world at war and her beautiful home collapsing around her. Unwilling to give up hope, Suzu holds on to happiness to persevere through the trials of war.

Your Corner Dark

Your Corner Dark
Author: Desmond Hall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 153446073X

“One of those tales that ties you up, turns you inside-out, wrings you like a wet cloth.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family. Things can change in a second: The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle’s gang in exchange for paying for his father’s medical bills, there’s no going back...or is there? As Frankie does things he never thought he’d be capable of, he’s forced to confront the truth of the family and future he was born into—and the ones he wants to build for himself.

This Corner of Canaan

This Corner of Canaan
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1574415034

Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell's pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas. In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell's colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas's history--ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty--to honor Campbell's deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field--as well as rising stars--the volume offers the latest scholarship on major issues in Texas history, and the enduring influence of the most eminent Texas historian of the last half century.

In This Corner

In This Corner
Author: Emile C. Tepperman
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'In This Corner' is a mystery novel written by Emile C. Tepperman. The story follows Tom Atherton, who as he was driving down Central Park West on Monday morning, suddenly realized why he had been feeling restless and discontent for the last few weeks. By rights, he should have been supremely satisfied with himself. He was a young and successful real estate lawyer. His income, after three years of practice, was now large enough so that he and Sally Blaine had been able to set their wedding date for the early part of May. He was a respected member of the Bar, and they were even talking of running him for the Assembly in the 1943 elections. But Tom Atherton wasn't happy. As he automatically tooled the coupe down Central Park West, his big hands tightened on the wheel, and he found his thoughts dipping fondly back to the years preceding his admission to the Bar. In those days he had worked his way through Law School by boxing every Friday night in semi-pro bouts all around New York. Tom's manager, old Jerry Flynn, had almost cried when Tom quit boxing to take his bar exams.

The Corner That Held Them

The Corner That Held Them
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681373882

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.

In This Corner-Kid Death

In This Corner-Kid Death
Author: Arthur Leo Zagat
Publisher: Al-Mashreq eBookstore
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2024-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681184265

In This Corner—Kid Death by Arthur Leo Zagat is a pulse-pounding crime thriller that throws you into the gritty underworld of boxing and criminal intrigue. When a rising boxing star known as Kid Death becomes embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy, he must fight not only for his title but for his very life. As he delves deeper into a web of corruption, deceit, and betrayal, the line between friend and foe blurs. Will Kid Death uncover the truth behind the deadly conspiracy, or will his next fight be his last? This high-stakes drama will keep you on the edge of your seat with its relentless tension and unexpected twists.

In Your Corner

In Your Corner
Author: Sarah Castille
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781402296239

A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book "You have to go. I won't be able to control myself. I've wanted you so bad for so long and after I've been in the cage...I can't think straight." He gives a guttural groan and his fist clenches on my hip. Primitive. Primal. His need speaks to me. I tighten my grip on his neck and rock up to kiss him. He takes over. His kiss is hard and demanding. "Mine." His voice is raw, savage and for a moment I truly believe he may lose control. He rules in the ring Two years ago, Jake and Amanda were going hot and heavy. But when Jake wanted more, Amanda walked away. Jake immersed himself in mixed martial arts, living life on the edge. But that didn't dull the pain of Amanda's rejection-until a chance encounter throws them together. A high-powered lawyer, Amanda was a no-strings-attached kind of girl. But two years after her breakup with Jake, she still hasn't found anyone who gets her heart pumping the way he did. And then he shows up in her boardroom, hot as sin and needing help... But can he rule her heart? Jake is darker, sexier, and impossible to resist. As their chemistry builds, Amanda's not sure if she can stay in control, or if she's finally willing to let him claim her body and soul. Redemption Series Against the Ropes In Your Corner Full Contact Fighting Attraction (coming Spring 2017) More praise for Against the Ropes: A Publishers Weekly TOP 10 Romance for Fall "Smart, sharp, sizzling and deliciously sexy."-Alison Kent, bestselling author of Unbreakable "Fifty Shades of Grey meets Fight Club."-RT Book Reviews

Evans Corner

Evans Corner
Author: Elizabeth Starr Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1967
Genre:
ISBN: 9780030598357

This Corner of Canaan

This Corner of Canaan
Author: Reta Ugena Whitlock
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820486512

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