Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9781596063013
A legend has to start somewhere ... Hard-Luck Diggings brings together fourteen pieces from the first twelve years of Grand Master Jack Vance's genre-defining career.
Author : Frank Xeno
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1664167978
While Kathy was making phone calls and sending photos of the tattoo to several tattoo parlors, I went through my father’s cold case logs. When I read the autopsy report from one of the cases, I knew I had a related case. I let Kathy read the report. “What do you think?” I asked. “It’s the same MO as your Jane Doe. The victim was a Native American girl, seventeen to nineteen years of age with a new heart-shaped tattoo. The ink was household enamel. The killer thinned it down with turpentine. The killer used bleach to destroy any DNA evidence and killed her by pouring bleach down her throat. An incision to the wrist drained her blood. No sign of a struggle due to morphine. I’d say you have a serial killer.”
Author : Don Carpenter
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590173902
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Author : Governor Mike Huckabee
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1599951347
Now available in Spanish, the bestselling book in which a leaner Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shares his secrets for creating better health habits that last a lifetime.
Author : Neil Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199601380
The concept of luck plays an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility. Neil Levy presents an original account of luck and argues that it undermines our freedom and moral responsibility no matter whether determinism is true or not.
Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1607748703
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Author : Steve Springer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0762768630
The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants of the Golden Age of Heavyweights (Ali—twice, Frazier—twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy, and pain. And tragedy. Like the man he fought during two highly controversial fight cards in 1970 and ’72—Muhammad Ali—boxing great Jerry Quarry was to suffer gravely. He died at age fifty-three, mind and body ravaged by Dementia Pugilistica. In Hard Luck, “Irish” Jerry Quarry comes to life—from his Grapes of Wrath days as the child of an abusive father in the California migrant camps to those as the undersized heavyweight slaying giants on his way to multiple title bouts and the honor of being the World’s Most Popular Fighter in ’68, ’69, ’70, and ’71. The story of Jerry Quarry is one of the richest in the annals of boxing, and through painstaking research and exclusive access to the Quarry family and its archives, Steve Springer and Blake Chavez have captured it all.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Underwood Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 9780934438988
Author : Howie Carr
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 076532640X
After the murder of a client, former Boston cop-turned-private investigator Jack Reilly is compelled to sift through decades of corruption to discover who is trying to kill him.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1619470012
