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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jack McVey was a scientific type of boxer who fought in the welterweight and middleweight classifications of boxing from 1920-1936. He made good use of both his left and right hands and was an excellent defensive fighter. Originally from Georgia McVey fought out of Harlem in venues from New York to California. Among the many boxers he faced was KO Phil Kaplan, Lou Scozza, William Sailor Freedman, Gorilla Jones and Maxie Rosenbloom. Before McVey lost...
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Marie Minnich
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of my grief recovery after my daughters overdose death. "So perhaps you think this is going to be a tale of how I traveled to some exotic land, how I left everything behind, and how I met fellow travelers on some road to Zanzibar to recover from my grief. Perhaps you think this is going to be a story of redemption, of how I lost myself in booze and then found myself on some street corner or dark alley, and then got my life back together...
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Olo Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ten thousand joys, ten thousand sorrows." --Chinese proverbEvery life overflows with joy and sorrow. Ten thousand of each, if you believe the proverb. You can always find someone to celebrate with you. But what happens when life rips out your heart? You may find comfort in conventional religion. But if you're someone who can't relate to blind faith or traditional institutions, you might want to explore Buddhism, a philosophy that meets tragedy head-on...
84) The Way It Was
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Publisher
Jean MacIntyre
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Life in the 1920s and '30s was not easy, but there were good things about it as well. Neighbors relied on neighbors, and helped each other. This autobiography tells about conditions during the depression years, and gives us a glimpse into the love story of these two. They raised eleven children, some of whom have contributed their memories of life in a large family, and their interactions with siblings and parents. Excerpts from Book I written by...
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Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Returning for its second year but reimagined in a new impulse format, with a new title, new cover, new mission, and new sensibility, here is The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands, a pithier, quirkier collection of the 164 best page-turning obituaries from The New York Times.Written by top journalists, each story is a gem of a bio, a full life in miniature. There's the famous: Steve Jobs, including the story of how he was reunited with...
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Pat Ritter
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.? Napoleon Hill ?Courage, determination, independence are some of the words to describe George Burtenshaw. His passing, aged one hundred and two years and a half truly showed inspiration with such self-determination, willpower and a 'what he wanted attitude' combined with a deep love for his huge family. Born in 1911 at Newport Wales at seven years old his home destroyed...
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Kenneth Kee
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This book traces my journey from a medical student to become a full family and community doctor. It starts with my first entry into the medical faculty of the University of Singapore full of enthusiasm only to see a hall of cadavers all ready for dissection. Finally I became a medical doctor only to realize that it is conditional upon my finishing 1 year of housemanship or internship. I was sent from one department to another to finish my year of...
88) Asiatic Speed
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Publisher
Al Culler
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bangkok back in the nineties a place where anything could happen to foreigners, a wild energy ran through the city and its citizens that had an addictive quality. Once experienced, you could never quite get it out of your system. If you ran with the madness, nurtured it with wild sex, too much alcohol and bad drugs then all hell could be unleashed,,. --Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Kenneth Kee
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"MY STORY as a Red Blood Cell My name is Red Bull, the red blood cell. They called me Red because of the redness of my color and Bull because I am always charging along the Blood stream like a Bull.There are 5 million red blood cells per cubic millimeter of blood which means that the entire body contains approximately 25 trillion red blood cellsYes it is true that I have 25 trillions brothers in the human body.I was born in the bone marrow of the...
90) Asiatic Moments
Author
Publisher
Al Culler
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nightlife tales from the 90's - Bangkok, Manila, Phnom Penh, Pattaya and more... --Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina are prominent in the history of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and Southern Railway companies. By 1880 they maintained offices in North Carolina's capitol city, on Halifax and Fayetteville Streets (downtown). My eBook is a directory of biographies of railroad employees who worked for SAL Ry and Southern. However there are also profiles of individuals who worked for Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and the Richmond...
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Olo Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Twitter question for health professionals: what's one thing you wished you knew when you had to look after one of your own family members? I needed over 1000 words to respond, although my 140 character- answer is this: I wish I'd known better how to just sit still, or at least act normally, with my father after his diagnosis with brain cancer. Luckily, my infant son Max was a lot wiser than I was. And I knew enough to bring Max and my dad together...
93) Gorilla Jones
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Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
William Landon Gorilla Jones was a middleweight champion in 1932, winning an elimination tournament in Milwaukee a year after Mickey Walker gave the title up. Jones beat Italian boxer Oddone Piazza for the title. Jones conceded the title a year later in France following a unification bout that he lost. Then Gorilla won the title back once more and later retired in 1940. After his ring career Jones worked as a chauffeur/bodyguard for entertainer Mae...
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Rockpool Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Joy of Living is a story that touches the soul and gives us heart-warming, fascinating and deep insights on the hard road from diagnosis to treatment and eventual survival from throat cancer.Barry Eaton, author and radio presenter, describes the careful preparations he made for his journey, using his experience and understanding of the spirit world to deal with and survive the ordeal. Balancing holistic and spiritual methods with modern medicine,...
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"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--
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"This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards shows, and that time I was asked to be a butt model. A hint: all three made me seasick.-- Lauren Graham"--
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"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark...
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Publisher
Alpha Connections
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is the Life Story of Jeffrey Lynn Head, born in June 1956 in Dallas, TX, of Albert Lee Head Jr. and Georgia Mae Spacil. His father served as a combat naval officer in World War II and then spent fifty years working for Vought Aeronautics designing aircraft for the US Navy. His mother was a housewife, a Diet Consultant, and very involved with the PTA, school board, and text book selection in their school district. Jeff was raised on a small Texas...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Harold Giles Hoffman was elected governor of New Jersey in 1935. A gregarious, popular politician he was a former assistant chemist and banker. His supporters touted him as a prospective Republican Presidential candidate for the upcoming 1936 election. Unbeknownst to his backers, however, Hoffman had used stolen bank funds to further his political career. He continued moving money he had taken illegally throughout his term as governor. Many of his...
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