The Lyle Alzado Story Nobody's Invincible

The Lyle Alzado Story Nobody's Invincible

Author: James H. Duffner

Publisher: Trident Films-Publishing, Incorporated

Published: 2021-04-14

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781736906125

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Football legend Lyle Alzado was one of the most intimidating football players of all time is the only player to have an NFL rule named after him, One meant to prevent injury and to possibly save lives. Off the field, however he was a picture of contradictions: prone to rages and abrupt acts of violence, he was also known for his compassionate work with mentally and physically challenged children. The man who feared nobody was, in reality, riddled with a deep seated tear that any kind of failure send him back to the ghetto streets he grew up on. Living with a violent selfish father left him desperate for love, which she often looked or in all the wrong places. Having been teased and ridiculed mercilessly in school left him with a deep seated need for acceptance, leaving him emotionally vulnerable. He was hysterically funny and menacingly frightening, astoundingly powerful and surprisingly gentle, seemingly invincible and ultimately very very fragile. From his early days as a street fighter just trying to survive the mean streets through his astounding football career, his days as a celebrity actor and restaurant owner, his shocking accusation of rampant steroid use in the NFL, and his tragic death from that abuse, this is The Lyle Alzado Story told as only a best friend could share it. Nobody's Invincible Is packed with personal stories, never before seen photographs and insights into Lyle's life that years after his death, can finally be revealed. No holds barred here. You are invited into Lyle's inner circle to rub shoulders with both sports greats and Hollywood superstars and to get to know him better than almost anyone except his closest friends. Some would say Lyle paid the ultimate price for his lifestyle. But I'm here to tell you he didn't he was saved before it was too late. He was a player in every sense of the word, friends with the world's top athletes, Hollywood royalty, and the underworld bad guys. He was the last of a breed and I was proud to call him my best friend.


Simple Flies

Simple Flies

Author: Morgan Lyle

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 081176298X

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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Author: Bernard Waber

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780395137208

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Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.


Lyle Finds His Mother

Lyle Finds His Mother

Author: Bernard Waber

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780395273982

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Lyle leaves his happy home with the Primms on East 88th Street to search for his mother, at the urging of his former employer, Hector P. Valenti, star of stage and screen.


Climbing Glass

Climbing Glass

Author: Lyle Closs

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-08

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Climbing Glass is a unique personal view of climbing, climbers and Tasmanian and Australian climbing and mountaineering from a personal perspective from the 1970s to 2010s. Coverings climbs and expeditions in Tasmania, Greenland, Australia, K2 and Antarctica from the 1970s on.


Scary Monsters

Scary Monsters

Author: Michelle De Kretser

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1646221109

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Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award A profoundly original exploration of racism, misogyny, and ageism—three monsters that plague the world—this novel from a beloved and prize-winning author is made up of two narratives, each told by a South Asian migrant to Australia “When my family emigrated it felt as if we’d been stood on our heads.” Michelle de Kretser’s electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upside down, just as migration has upended her characters’ lives. Lili’s family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she’s teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants, and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbor. All the while, Lili is striving to be A Bold, Intelligent Woman like Simone de Beauvoir. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation and embraces “Australian values.” He’s also preoccupied by his ambitious wife, his wayward children, and his strong-minded elderly mother. Islam has been banned in the country, the air is smoky from a Permanent Fire Zone, and one pandemic has already run its course. Three scary monsters—racism, misogyny, and ageism—roam through this mesmerizing novel. Its reversible format enacts the disorientation that migrants experience when changing countries changes the stories of their lives. With this suspenseful, funny, and profound book, Michelle de Kretser has made something thrilling and new. “Which comes first, the future or the past?”


Lyle at the Office

Lyle at the Office

Author: Bernard Waber

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780395705636

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When Lyle the crocodile visits Mr. Primm's advertising office, he is almost recruited as the Krispie Krunchie Krackles cereal spokesperson.