Miami Fellas
Miami Fellas

Author: G. Goold

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1609766873

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Members of the mafia come in all shapes and sizes. They also come from many countries! Miami Fellas: A Mob Wish Come True tells of a successful young hustler from New York who dreams of running a successful business of his own after graduating from law school (with a little help from his godfather, a local bookie in Miami). Sonny Venture realizes his goal, but soon finds out his dream world is not what it seemed to be. The story begins in New York in 1979, and continues throughout the 1990s in Miami. Meet the enforcers, the mob bosses, and the head of the Colombian cartel before the story ends in present time.

The Last Pirate
The Last Pirate

Author: Tony Dokoupil

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307739481

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A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Old Man. He ran stateside operations for one of the largest marijuana rings of the twentieth century. In all they sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana, and Big Tony distributed at least fifty tons of it. To his son he was a rambling man who was also somehow a present father, a self-destructive addict who ruined everything but affection. Here Tony Dokoupil blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age.

The Boys from Old Florida
The Boys from Old Florida

Author: Buddy Martin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1613212968

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In The Boys from Old Florida, Buddy Martin takes the reader beneath the surface of Florida football as, without bias or sugar coating, he skillfully excavates the truths behind “The Gator Nation.” In this book, Martin, a Florida native, has chronicled the real stories of Gator coaches and players through their own eyes and in their words over a 55-year period since 1950—and not all are valentines. The school asked all but one of the coaches interviewed to leave or move up. Some players became estranged or never really felt appreciated. Yet, others are forever grateful for their experience as Gator players and feel a sense of brotherhood. Liberating moments such as the arrival of Ray Graves come to life through the words of somebody who experienced it firsthand. Martin’s fresh investigations have bolstered his sharp memory of those moments as they unfolded, including Graves’s firing after a fairy tale season with his “Super Sophs.”

Pigskin Warriors
Pigskin Warriors

Author: Steven Travers

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 2009-10-16

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1589794583

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From the leather helmet era to the media circus of college football today, Travers presents a carefully researched examination of college football and its role in our society. Photographs complement the text, providing a deep sense of how the sport has evolved, details our obsession with identifying winners, and uses examples of popular culture— the top 8 football movies of all time—to accent the influence this sport has on our culture.

Six Hours Past Thursday
Six Hours Past Thursday

Author: Jack W. Payne

Publisher: Impact Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 1591134935

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An incomparable "legal" con man's well-ordered life crashes into a bizarre montage of the unexpected following his misguided involvement with a mobster. An elaborate web of deceit leads to an unusual love story, and a hammer-like climax.

Loose Balls
Loose Balls

Author: Terry Pluto

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1439127522

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What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the ABA won the artistic war. With its stress on wide-open individual play, the adoption of the 3-point shot and pressing defense, and the encouragement of flashy moves and flying dunks, today's NBA is still—decades later —just the ABA without the red, white and blue ball. Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports—told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.

On the Boss
On the Boss

Author: Ralph Giles Jr.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1462883109

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Raised on the brutal Southside of Griffin, Gotti and his childhood comrades always dreamed of becoming American gangsters. On graduation night their future's looked so bright and promising but catastrophic events spiraled them into one of the country’s most notorious penitentiaries. Struggling to survive behind atrocious prison walls, death is the around the corner. Forced to be a predator or a prey, Gotti & his crew are scarred for life when things turn fatal. Back on the streets, the Goodfella's have one agenda and that is to be the boss of all Bosses’. When the federallies discover the DNA of the countries most ruthless enterprise the entire world will witness destruction beyond imagination.