The Braddock Road Club
The Braddock Road Club

Author: Richard Haddock

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1475986742

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While working at the Braddock Road Club when he was eighteen, Rick Kelly was introduced to golf and April Stark. He fell in love with them both. Under the wing of Archie Sullivan, the clubs venerable pro, Ricks innate golfing skills blossomed, earning a college scholarship and rapid movement onto the burgeoning PGA Tour. His love affair with April became a roller coaster ride as she too grew up and pursued her own career. Although never attaining superstar status, Rick won his share of tournaments and played well enough to retain his Tour card for forty years. April traveled in and out of his life, finally affirming her love for him. But now, as age and a debilitating condition begin to erode his skills, he ponders life without the game that has defined him for so long and the woman he loves who has mysteriously disappeared from his life. When the Braddock Road Club is chosen to host this years United States Open, Ricks golfing hopes take a dramatic leap. If he ever had a shot at finally winning golfs most treasured prize, playing the course he knows so well might just be his last hurrah. Rick surprises everyone by making the cut, but his condition has already cost him valuable strokes and threatens to strike again at any moment. As he plays his final rounds, battling the young stallions who now dominate the sport, aching legs, and his emotions, Rick provides golf fans with one of the most thrilling U.S. Open finishes in history. The Braddock Road Club provides an intriguing look inside the lives of those who play golf for a living outside the spotlight of fame. This is the story of one mans quest, the sacrifices he made to follow his dreams, and the retrospection of a life that has come full circle, back to the emotional beginnings of his journey.

Braddock's Road
Braddock's Road

Author: Norman L. Baker

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1625845685

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In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. To transport their sizable train of artillery and wagons, they first had to build a road across the rugged Appalachian Mountains. It was almost 289 treacherous miles from Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Fort Cumberland in Maryland and on to the French fort; the road they built was one of the most impressive military engineering accomplishments of the eighteenth century. Historian Norman L. Baker chronicles the construction of the road and creates the definitive mapping of those sections once thought lost. Join Baker as he charts the history of Braddock's Road until the ultimate catastrophic collision with the combined French and Indian forces.

Congressional Record
Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 1520

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Nothing in Common but Life
Nothing in Common but Life

Author: Richard Haddock

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1532038682

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Nathan - leaves a job he loves to nurse his wife through her final stage of cancer. Lured back to work several years later, he becomes an unwitting participant in a major procurement scam. Meanwhile he encounters the woman he had an affair with years ago who has haunted his dreams. Will he renew their relationship and revive the passion of his youth, or will he go to jail? Annie - devastated by her divorce, she retreats into a shell of embarrassment, anger and guilt. Grudgingly stepping back into the real world, she meets a suave, debonair man who sweeps her off her feet. When her exs affair ends he appeals to Annie for forgiveness. Annies sympathy for him creates a dilemma between old feelings and her new lover. Which man will she choose? Cody - hopes for college end when he is forced to run the family farm after his parents untimely deaths. He falls in love, but is rejected. Humiliated, he joins the Army and serves two combat tours in Afghanistan. He returns home to Texas, starts college, and meets a rich coed. They fall in love and she gets pregnant. What happens next reinforces Codys view of life as bitterly unfair. Carol - the African American Lt. Colonel prosecutes sexual harassment cases in the Air Force. Working a case against a popular officer, she uncovers his seamy underside and his political connections in Washington. She is drugged by associates of the accused and posed for lewd pictures. The accused expects the case to be dropped and that Carol submit to his sexual demands using the pictures as blackmail. Carol agonizes over giving in to the man and saving her career or defying him and ruining her life. Bernie - the night watchman finds three million dollars in cash in a duffel bag. He learns from a police friend that a local gang has had their drug money stolen. Bernie cautiously begins to spend the money and the cop, suspicious, threatens to expose Bernie unless he gets a share of the cash. How can Bernie keep his discovery a secret and use the money to give his family a better life? And what should he do about the cop who can ruin it all?