Rope Burns

Author : Robert Scott
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780786038602

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The true crime story of a killer couple from California, their gruesome torture chamber on wheels, and the terror they left in their wake. The true story of one of the most notorious crime couples in recent American history is told. Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio forged a perverse alliance in late 1997. After customizing Michaud's minivan into a mobile torture chamber, the pair hit the road and began a nightmare spree of incest, kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder. Sixteen Pages of Shocking Photos! Michaud and Daveggio’s case was featured on Oxygen’s Snapped: Killer Couples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784703850

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Rope Burns by Anonim Pdf

Author : William W. Johnstone,J. A. Johnstone
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643585746

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Rope Burn by William W. Johnstone,J. A. Johnstone Pdf

Those Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, find themselves on the wrong side of the law -- and the raw end of justice -- inside the meanest, dirtiest prison in the Arizona territory . . .

Author : F. X. Toole
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453253984

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Million Dollar Baby by F. X. Toole Pdf

The boxing stories that inspired the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film: a New York Times Notable Book from “a heavyweight fiction contender” (Publishers Weekly). F. X. Toole knew boxing. Between bouts, he wrote, and two years before his death he published this collection of stories, giving readers an unprecedented look at the gritty life around the ring. He tells of a cutman with a sweet tooth, young fighters with dreams of celebrity, and a talented boxer who goes to Atlantic City for his biggest bout, only to be humiliated by the prejudices of a callous promoter. In “Million $$$ Baby,” the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film, an aged trainer takes on a female fighter, guiding her through disappointment, pain, and tragedy. And in “Rope Burns,” Toole realizes his epic vision, showing that even the purest fighter can succumb to the pressures of the world outside the sport. Throughout these stories, boxing’s violence is redeemed by the respect these men and women share, as they strap on gloves and prepare their bodies for the ultimate test. This ebook features an illustrated biography of F. X. Toole including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Jan Siebold
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780807571118

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Rope Burn by Jan Siebold Pdf

Richard gets frustrated by most of Mr. Best's assignments, but this latest one is the worst. He has to write a composition about a proverb that illustrates something that has happened in his life. And as if that isn't bad enough, Mr. Best has told him he needs to find his "writing voice." While working on the assignment, Richard finds his voice in more ways than one. He discovers that being himself makes a big difference in his writing and in his life.

Author : F. X. Toole
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060938382

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Rope Burns by F. X. Toole Pdf

In this hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales, F.X. Toole breathes life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit: An aging cut man with an incorrigible sweet tooth Fearless Maggie Fitzgerald and her quest to become a champion boxer Señora Cabrera who makes low-fat refried beans to keep a local fighter in top form

Author : Ian Probert
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Boxers (Sports)
ISBN : 1785312006

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Rope Burns by Ian Probert Pdf

This is the true story of what can happen when an obsession takes over your life, sucks you in and spits you back out again. Set during the world of boxing in the 1980s, it is a tale littered with wasted ambition and shattered hopes; a journey through boxing that begins with the summary execution of Muhammad Ali by Larry Holmes in 1980 and ends with the spectacle of yet another young life battling for survival on the surgeon's table; as injuries sustained by boxer Michael Watson during his world title fight with Chris Eubank left him fighting for his life. It seeks to answer why a man should risk his life in the ring and why so many are compelled to watch.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593470954

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Pdf

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

Author : F. X. Toole
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061860270

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Pound for Pound by F. X. Toole Pdf

Following his remarkable fiction debut, Rope Burns, author F. X. Toole's Pound for Pound is a big, brawny novel of honor, perseverance, family, and forgiveness, set in towns where violence is the norm and success stories take on an almost mythic importance. It is the story of Dan Cooley, an aging, legendary Los Angeles trainer, who takes on Chicky Garza, a troubled young fighter hungry for glory in the notoriously corrupt San Antonio boxing circuit. Written in the masterful style that has earned the author glowing comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Frank McCourt, this unforgettable posthumous novel celebrates a unique and powerful bond, and the courage that overcomes insurmountable obstacles in and out of the ring.

Author : Jan Siebold
Publisher : Albert Whitman
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807571105

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Rope Burn by Jan Siebold Pdf

Richard gets frustrated by most of Mr. Best's assignments, but this latest one is the worst. He has to write a composition about a proverb that illustrates something that has happened in his life. And as if that isn't bad enough, Mr. Best has told him he needs to find his "writing voice." While working on the assignment, Richard finds his voice in more ways than one. He discovers that being himself makes a big difference in his writing and in his life.

Author : Ben K. Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307772398

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Wild Cow Tales by Ben K. Green Pdf

In thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin’ tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a “stove-up old cowboy,” and readers of this book will learn soon enough where the broken bones came from. Green tells of his adventures with wild steers, sharing with readers the years he worked in thorny brush and canyon country delivering those animals that were too wily or too wild for the normal roundup. Finding them was hard, even dangerous, work. Few cowboys looked for such chores. Green declares, “I got real good at it, but of course in those days I didn’t know any better.”

Author : Maggie Shayne
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459241114

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Mark of the Witch by Maggie Shayne Pdf

She was born to save what he is sworn to destroy A lapsed Wiccan, Indira Simon doesn't believe in magic anymore. But when strange dreams of being sacrificed to an ancient Babylonian god have her waking up with real rope burns on her wrists, she's forced to acknowledge that she may have been too hasty in her rejection of the unknown. Then she meets mysterious and handsome Father Thomas. Emerging from the secrecy of an obscure Gnostic sect, he arrives with stories of a demon, a trio of warrior witches—and Indira's sacred calling. Yet there's something even Tomas doesn't know, an inescapable truth that will force him to choose between saving the life of the woman he's come to love—and saving the world.

Author : Brandon Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674970991

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End of Its Rope by Brandon Garrett Pdf

Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.

Author : Paul Tawrell
Publisher : Paul Tawrell
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Camping
ISBN : 0974082023

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Camping & Wilderness Survival by Paul Tawrell Pdf

Extensively researched and illustrated guidebook of nearly every conceivable aspect of outdoor camping and survival in all types of terrain and climate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Animals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005926345

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Wildlife Leaflet by Anonim Pdf