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Author: Len Ragozin
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780316604970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA horseracing expert explains the system that has made him a legendary figure, detailing the nuts and bolts of handicapping and successful betting, along with his own life story
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007-08-28
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0393330478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStory of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.
Author: Barry J. Moltz
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 143892190X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book debunks the myths of business start-ups by telling the truth: you have to be crazy to start a business. Written by serial entrepreneur Barry Moltz, the book delivers irreverent, straight talk about the complex intersection of start-up business, financial health, physical well-being, spiritual wholeness and family life. This perspective is augmented with other personal tales from the entrepreneurial front. The book offers tidbits of insight that will vaporize isolation, encourage self-reflection and refresh the spirit of anyone who has started a business or is thinking of starting one."--Publisher description
Author: Storm Large
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1439192405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe popular indie rock performer describes her battle against the hereditary mental illness that decimated her mother's health and prompted the author to engage in a self-destructive downward spiral before discovering her musical talent.
Author: Michael Oher
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1101560037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.
Author: Lindell Publishing
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Published: 2020-04-30
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ISBN-13: 9781734283433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Steier
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1438449569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1980 Richard Steier has had a unique vantage point to observe the gains, losses, and struggles of municipal labor unions in New York City. He has covered those unions and city government as a reporter and labor columnist for the New York Post and, since 1998, as editor and featured columnist of the Chief-Leader, a century-old independent newspaper that covers city and state government in greater detail than today's mainstream news organizations. Drawing from his column with the Chief-Leader, "Razzle Dazzle," Enough Blame to Go Around describes in vivid terms how the changed economy has drastically altered the city's labor landscape, and why it has been difficult for municipal unions to adapt. There can be no doubt, he writes, that public employee unions have contributed to the problems that confront them today, including corruption and failed leadership. But at the same time and for all their flaws, he believes unions represent the best chance for ordinary people to receive fair economic treatment.
Author: Robert J. Peterson
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781940207810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an apocalyptic world, Eldridge devises a way to eliminate his debt and save his family by participating in a high-stakes tournament that pits real-life chess avatars against each other in random-chance battles-to-the-death.
Author: Win Blevins
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-04-04
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780765314970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf all the great warriors of Native America, Crazy Horse remains the most enigmatic. Scorned from his childhood for his light hair, he was a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors. Despite these differences, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse's entire life was a triumph of the spirit. In youth, Crazy Horse was set aside by his powerful vision of Rider, the spiritual expression of his future greatness, and by the passion and grief of his overwhelming love for a woman. It was only in battle that his heart could find rest. As his world crumbled, Crazy Horse managed to find his way in harmony with the age-old wisdom of the Lakota—and to beat the US Army on its own terms. He lived, and died, his own man.
Author: Jessica Buchanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1476725160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.
