Author: Chuck Culpepper Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0767928083 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 274
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Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer. After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world—the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.” Writing in the vein of perennial bestsellers such as Fever Pitch and Among the Thugs, Chuck Culpepper brings penetrating insight to the vibrant landscape of English soccer—visiting such storied franchises as Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool . . . and an equally celebrated assortment of pubs. Bloody Confused! will put a smile on the face of any sports fan who has ever questioned what makes us love sports in the first place.
Author: Sandipan Deb Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447242432 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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The Greatest Story Ever Told...Again Bombay 1955. Aging Parsi businessman Rustom Pestonjee chances upon brilliant archer Yash Kuru at the Gateway of India. Struggling to make ends meet to feed his two nephews and adopted son, Yash accepts Pestonjee’s offer to become a hitman for one night, the start of a unique relationship. When Pestonjee dies, Yash pledges to be regent of his mentor’s empire of crime, and hand it over one day to the most deserving man from a yet-unborn generation of Kurus. Yash’s august ‘dharma’ will now determine the destinies of three generations of Kuru men and women. Mumbai 2007. A family torn asunder and an empire up for grabs. Yash’s grand-nephews battle it out for control of the city’s underworld, as Rishabh, Vikram and Jeet try to reclaim what Rahul and Ranjit had seized from them through deceit. Can the wily Kishenbhai’s strategy defeat Karl Fernandes’ deadly warcraft? Will pitiless Jahn get the revenge she yearns for? Who will own Mumbai? A modern-day version of The Mahabharata, The Last War is a page-turning account of brothers in arms and families at war. In the gritty expanse of India’s most dynamic city, from its ritzy high-rises to its mean streets and slums, loyalties are tested, blood is drawn and only ‘dharma’ can justify the means to a devastating end.
Author: Geoff Dickinson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1514499770 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
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Slippery When Wet follows Mike Tyler, the villain from the novel Jinxies Wish, to his new life in Hong Kong. Mike Tyler leaves the UK and goes to Hong Kong to try to revive his career in publishing and to start a new life. Security expert Jack Beecham goes to Hong Kong on vacation and to meet with Joe Tan to look at his personal and business security needs. Joe is an electronics manufacturing genius with a major empire but is troubled by security threats to both his business and his family. Joe makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse, and Jack moves to Hong Kong. Mike settles in well as a publisher of consumer magazines in Hong Kong and initially reverts to his old habits of being manipulative and devious to pursue power and glory. Mira Tan, the beautiful daughter of Joe, is an editor on a womens fashion magazine. She is smart and headstrong. Joe would like his daughter to work in the family business, but she insists on working in magazine publishing despite her fathers disapproval. Mike sets about trying to romance Mira as he can see a fast-track route to riches. Despite Mikes initial bad motives, he falls deeply in love with Mira. To Mike and Jacks surprise, they develop a friendship and everything is looking good. Jack falls for Joe Tans PA, Lanie, unaware that she and her son, Gary, were plotting revenge on Joe and his family. Mike is caught in bed with Lanie by Joe, and everything falls apart for Mike. He loses Mira and his job, and his whole world falls apart. Mike and Jack uncover Garys plot to seek revenge on Joe and his family, and they are forced to unite to try to protect the family. Will Mike and Jack prevail and save the family and will Mike manage to win Mira back?
Author: Zara McDonald Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 1760144991 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 324
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There’s this weird gap in life that’s fuelled by cheap tacos and even cheaper tequila – also known as our twenties. It’s a specific limbo between being a teenager and a Proper Adult, and though it’s wildly confusing, often lonely, sometimes embarrassing and frequently daunting, there’s also a whole lot of magic to be found in the chaos. It’s a time when we’re finding our own voices, cementing our relationships and starting to fulfil our big ambitions (or simply just working out what they are). Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, creators of the award-winning pop culture podcast Shameless, are two of the many twentysomething women trying to make sense of it all. They definitely don’t have all the answers but they know that mapping out our place in the world is a little bit easier when we do it together. Brimming with wit and unflinching honesty, these are their stories and personal puzzles about life as twentysomethings: from heartbreak and mental health challenges to overcoming career setbacks and letting go of fear. (Not forgetting the deeper meaning behind the states of their fridges and why it’s so damn good to ghost out of a friend’s party.) Join Zara and Michelle as they figure out who they are now and who they want to be. You just might find tiny pieces of yourself in the space between the first page and the last.
Author: Tom Reilly Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1453540407 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 709
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Four young people graduate from one of America’s finest universities NYU. They have been more than friends during their freshman years but for the class 2008 graduation brings the shock of reality as they face the real world. The NYU graduates decide to go their different ways unaware of the tragedies that will befall them in their pursuit of wealth and fame in the real world of materialism and man’s inhumanity to man. Their families are from different walks of life, from excessive wealth to working class. We live in an insanely competitive and individualistic world . . . one that worships, money, possessions, perfection and celebrity that never let us take a step off the treadmill. This is a drama of insurmountable proportions where, tragedy, murder, betrayal, fraud and industrial espionage are all part of their tremulous journey in the real world and the reality that with every decision we make there is always a price!
Author: Dr Harry Reid Publisher: Saint Andrew Press ISBN: 0715209736 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 316
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Religion is at the very core of Scotland's turbulent, action-packed history and its unique cultural heritage. Indeed, you could argue that Scotland has been, for most of the past 1600 years, an intensely religious country. It is home to some of the most significant early Christian art anywhere in the entire world, and has an amazing 53 cathedrals. In a fast-paced and enthralling epic celebration of Scotland's spiritual heritage, this amazing voyage of discovery reveals that there are echoes of the upsides and downsides of religion everywhere. The distinctive spiritual beauty of Scotland is inspiring and to be found in the most unexpected places. The author also casts a canny eye over some ever-controversial issues such as witchcraft, sectarianism, the Clearances and the DIsruption. Other topics include the Isles, literature, the differences between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Calvanism, Margaret Thatcher, the Declaration of Arbroath, The National Covenant, church buildings, special spiritual sites, spiritual leaders, kings and queens, little-known influential women, religious revivals, Celtic Christianity - and many other elements of the diverse essence of spiritual Scotland. Scotland's Christianity always mixed with politics and was a key part of our national identity....until now, that is. Now Scotland is an apparently secular country, often oblivious to its Christian foundations. Can Christianity be revived in Scotland - or is it dead and buried for ever? Harry Reid has some controversial and perhaps surprising answers.
Author: Lester Bernard Dent Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 103
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Terrible Stork: A Doc Savage Adventure" by Lester Bernard Dent. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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