Quinn

Quinn
Author: Dan Robson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143196030

A tribute to the larger than life story of a hockey icon and hero. The hockey world mourned when Pat Quinn died in November 2014. Tough guys sobbed. Networks carried montages of Quinn's rugged hits, his steely-eyed glare, and his famous victories. Quinn made a few enemies over the years, but there was no one who didn't respect the tough working-class kid who had fought his way to the very top of the hockey world. He had butted heads with superstars, with management, and with the league itself. And he had also succeeded at every level, finishing his journeyman's career as the captain of an NHL team, then quickly emerged as one of the best coaches in the league. He gathered executive titles like hockey cards, and done things his own way, picking up a law degree along the way. He was brash, dour, and abrasive--and people loved him for his alloy of pugnacity and flair, his three-piece suits and cigars, his Churchillian heft and his scowl. In the end, the player who would never even have dreamed of being inducted into the Hall of Fame was the chair of the Hall's selection committee. That is Quinn's story: an underdog who succeeded so completely that his legacy has become the standard by which others are judged. Told by bestselling author Dan Robson, and supported by the Quinn family and network of friends, Quinn is the definitive account of one of the game's biggest personalities and most storied lives.

Quinn's Quest

Quinn's Quest
Author: Gloria O'Shields
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440193959

Forty-nine-year-old Quinn O'Connor would like to kill her husband for cheating with a younger woman, but the problem is he's already dead. Found at the bottom of a ravine with a blonde, ample-bosomed attorney, her husband has left her with nothing but lies. When Quinn moves to New Mexico to begin a new life after the humiliating circumstances of her husband's death, her quiet existence is turned upside down when a quirky obsession with actor Sam Maxwell takes hold of her life. In an ill-fated attempt to arrange a personal meeting with him, Quinn becomes an extra on the set of his latest movie being filmed in New Mexico and accidentally tumbles into a water trough right in front of Maxwell's eyes. When that doesn't work, she and her best friend, Eddy, begin a relentless pursuit of the elusive Maxwell across two continents. Hot flashes or not, the two middle-aged women journey from Hollywood to Paris, facing unexpected roadblocks and tangled identities along the way. Just as Quinn realizes only she can make herself whole again and gives up chasing Maxwell, he appears and changes the course of her life forever.

All American Boys

All American Boys
Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481463357

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today’s headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.

QUINN'S WOMAN

QUINN'S WOMAN
Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145929467X

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery brings you a fan—favorite story about how learning to trust can make us stronger than we can ever be alone. D. J. Monroe has to be at the very top of her game: it’s her job and her life to teach people how to defend themselves. She needs to be the best—trained and the most highly skilled fighter in order to protect herself and others. So when Special Forces expert Quinn Reynolds defeats her, she vows to give him whatever he wants in exchange for his instruction. After all, if he can best her, she has to do better. But he wants the one thing D. J. isn't prepared to give—herself. Quinn asks too many questions. Makes her feel too much. He sees through too many of her defenses. And what he offers is a lifetime of happiness. But can D. J. trust him enough to seize that chance? Book 10 in Susan Mallery's Hometown Heartbreakers series Previously Published.

Black Widows

Black Widows
Author: Cate Quinn
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728220475

"While Quinn writes with spirit on weighty subjects like domestic abuse, polygamy and religious cults, her primary and most poignant theme seems to be female friendship." —New York Times Book Review "An absolutely thrilling novel. I devoured it over a weekend, unable to put it down. It's a clever and completely original take on a domestic thriller." —Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient Blake's dead. They say his wife killed him. If so... which one? Polygamist Blake Nelson built a homestead on a hidden stretch of land—a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah—where he lived with his three wives: Rachel, the first wife, obedient and doting to a fault, with a past she'd prefer to keep quiet. Tina, the rebel wife, everything Rachel isn't, straight from rehab and the Vegas strip. And Emily, the young wife, naïve and scared, estranged from her Catholic family. The only thing that they had in common was Blake. Until all three are accused of his murder. When Blake is found dead under the desert sun, all three wives become suspect—not only to the police, but to each other. As the investigation draws them closer, each wife must decide who can be trusted. With stories surfacing of a notorious cult tucked away in the hills, whispers flying about a fourth wife, and evidence that can't quite explain what had been keeping Blake busy, the three widows face a reckoning that might shatter all they know to be true. For fans of The Wife Between Us and The Dry comes a chilling murder mystery that takes a domestic thriller's classic question—"Did his wife kill him?"—and twists it into an completely new type of suspense.

Shooting Monarchs

Shooting Monarchs
Author: John Halliday
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003
Genre: Criminals
ISBN: 0689843380

Macy and Danny, two teenage boy who have both grown up under difficult circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a murderer.

Quinn's Socks

Quinn's Socks
Author: Melita Cyril
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781775160816

Using catchy rhymes, this book tells the story of a little boy and his affection for socks. He has beautifully patterned, colourful socks for different seasons of the year and the various sports he plays. This book is ideal for beginner readers and curious toddlers.

The Rose Code

The Rose Code
Author: Kate Quinn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062943480

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...

Dan Quinn

Dan Quinn
Author: Paul Moroney
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483623475

Rip a young boy of fourteen from his Impoverished Irish family in the middle of the twentieth century and send him off to live with virtual strangers in Chicago. Raise him well. Then watch him survive the hell of Viet Nam. Meet Dan Quinn. A story of love and redemption.

Affectionately...In Jesus and Mary

Affectionately...In Jesus and Mary
Author: Edward Makuta
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450297803

This collection of short stories examines the lives of five very different men as they study for the priesthood and experience seminary life. Affectionately in Jesus and Mary presents a collection of related short stories about the lives of five very different men. Each man is studying for the priesthood, but they approach their seminary studies very differently. The stories chronicle the day-to-day sacred, secular, holy, sinful, heroic, and petty thoughts, words, and deeds of the five men as they journey through each of the stages of training and formation that culminate in ordination into the priesthood. Vinnie Lauter tries to account for his need to always be the center of attention, even in the seminary. Eddie Moszka wonders if being a virgin is a blessing or a curse, while JV Delancey constantly struggles with religious obedience and with the demands of community living in the seminary. Jay Kenny increasingly feels that Thomism, the official philosophy and theology of the Catholic Church, has strapped him in an emotional and intellectual straightjacket. The saintly and scholarly Sean Saint-Jean, although he has personally reconciled Christianity and evolution, struggles with the ban on teaching and publishing on the topic. These stories delve into a private world that is normally hidden from view, exploring the lives of menwhether admirable or blameworthywho inhabit this world.