Intercepted

Intercepted

Author: Michael McKnight

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 0803245610

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Hailing from suburban Los Angeles, raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. How Henley, in the space of three short years, went from golden NFL role model to federal inmate is one of the most bizarre stories in the annals of sport-stars-turned-criminal. The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, Intercepted has all the dark corners and unexpected twists of the most sophisticated legal thrillers. Michael McKnight takes us into Henley’s fourth season in the NFL, when he met a Rams cheerleader named Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan—a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. The tale devolves from there, as Henley, Donaho, and McGowan embark on a scheme to transport cocaine that lands Henley in federal prison, where he attempts to arrange a Mafia hit on the sentencing judge and the star witness against him: Donaho. Detailing how one of the best and brightest of our professional athletes destroyed himself through temptation, arrogance, and anger at a justice system that he felt had failed him, Intercepted is also a cautionary tale about American culture, as disturbing as it is impossible to ignore.


Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes

Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes

Author: Various

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 1563

ISBN-13:

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This is a guide book that were used in the late 19th and early 20th century, containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes, and money-making methods for practical use by manufacturers, mechanics, housekeepers, and home workers. The value of this great monument to human ingenuity is in the nostalgia of looking back at the actual situation more than 100 years ago, which gives the readers an understanding of what our society went through to get to what we have today.


Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes

Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes

Author: Gardner Dexter Hiscox

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-02-27

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 0557356296

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Thousands of recipes from the ingenious to the horrific are collected in these pages, representing the cutting edge of science and technology -- in 1914. Poison antidotes, pyrotechnics, cosmetics, fireproofing techniques, cleaning formulas, photography, and spirits are just a small sampling of the subjects covered. You will learn to clean pearls by baking them inside a loaf of bread, or how to fix broken porcelain with glue extracted from a freshly dissected snail. You will catch a glimpse of a world on the brink of the Great War, when house keepers needed to detect the presence of formaldehyde in their milk or the ability to save rancid butter. Not only will you see history more vividly than you've ever seen it before -- you can recreate it!A few pages on metal alloys pigments and celluloid have been omitted from the original. Unabridged version available in hardcover.


The Shiniest Jewel

The Shiniest Jewel

Author: Marian Henley

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0446542245

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A moving graphic memoir that poignantly recounts Marian Henley's trials and tribulations in her late 40s: adopting a baby from Russia, deciding whether to marry her younger boyfriend, and coping with her elderly father's illness. At 49, cartoonist Marian Henley hasn't committed to marrying the man with whom she has been dating for seven years. But as the Big 5-0 looms, she realizes that above all else she wants a child. Her story follows the heartbreaking ups and downs of going through the international adoption process; deciding when it's time to grow up and maybe even get married; and in the end, it's the story of a daughter's relationship with her father, and how becoming a mother finally led her to understand him. The Shiniest Jewel is a touching narrative, accompanied by Marian's winsome drawings, that beautifully weaves together her realizations about the joy, and sometimes heartbreak, of building a family.


The Falcon and the Flower

The Falcon and the Flower

Author: Virginia Henley

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2009-07-22

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0307567524

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Astride her white palfrey, surrounded by a nimbus of silver-blond hair, Jasmine was a vision to strike a man mute with desire. But the violet-eyed love child of King Richard's half brother had vowed that no man would ever rule her heart. Until she saw the face of the Devil himself in her crystal ball--the dark, brooding knight who would kill to make her his own. She would risk a dissolute court and a maddened, lustful king to keep destiny at bay, anything to keep her from the hypnotic eyes and burning caresses of...The Falcon. A wickedly handsome warrior who lived by blood and the sword, Falcon de Burgh wanted to wed no woman--until he laid eyes on the exquisite Jasmine, and he vowed to possess her, to teach her all the wondrous ways a man could love a woman, no matter what it might take to conquer her fiery, unyielding heart. Falcon knew only blind, reckless passion as he swore to tame, at the risk of his life...The Flower.


Seduced

Seduced

Author: Virginia Henley

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780440244844

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Shorn of her glorious raven tresses and dressed as a man, Lady Antonia Lamb became Lord Anthony Lamb, desperate to keep the property entailed to her twin brother, who is missing at sea. Trapped--and liberated--by her masquerade, Tony meets her new guardian, the devastatingly dangerous Adam Savage, who has returned from his plantation in Ceylon, determined to turn the innocent "boy" into a worldly man.