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261) Street warrior: the true story of the NYPD's most decorated detective and the era that created him
Author
Publisher
St.Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend. Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield and was the most decorated detective in the NYPD's 170-year history. Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname "Fort Apache," Friedman...
263) Waffle street
Publisher
House Lights Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a VP of a $30 billion hedge fund who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at Papa's Chicken and Waffles. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits, and who just might be the right mentor to help Jimmy realize his full potential.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"No sooner is a child walking and talking than the ABCs and 1-2-3s give way to the full-on alphabet soup: the ERBs, the OLSAT, the IQ, the NCLB for AYP, the IEP for ELLs, the CHAT and PDDST for ASD or LD and G&T or ADD and ADHD, the PSATs, then the ACTs and SATs-all designed to assess and monitor a child's readiness for education. In many public schools, students are spending up to 28% of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"ENDURE is the ultimate book on the necessity of setting higher goals and expecting more from yourself every day--written by one of the world's deadliest bowhunters. At 20 years old, nothing great was happening in Cameron Hanes' life. Living in a small town where dreams were dismissed and bouncing between the homes of divorced parents, he carried low expectations and no hope for a life of fulfilled potential. He wasn't looking down the road, nor was...
266) Plaster City
Author
Series
Jimmy Veeder Fiascos volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Veeder and Bobby Maves are back at it, two years after the events of Dove Season--they're not exactly the luckiest guys in the Imperial Valley, but, hey, they win more fights than they lose. Settled on his own farmland and living like a true family man after years of irresponsible fun, Jimmy's got a straight life cut out for him. But he's knocking years off that life thanks to fun-yet-dangerous Bobby's booze-addled antics--especially now that...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In their first book, the Junk Gypsies--sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show--combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson. Amie and Jolie Sikes, the Thelma and Louise of the design world, are the Junk Gypsies: a family with an addiction to flea markets, wanderlust, and Americana...
Author
Series
Old man Logan volume 7
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"OLD MAN LOGAN'S PAST comes back to haunt him when a former love drags him into battle with the deadly ninja clan, who have bolstered their forces like never before. And just when he thought things couldn't possibly get any worse, Logan encounters the mysterious Scarlet Samurai! She is willing to do anything to put an end to Logan once and for all - and she just might have the power. Does Old Man Logan have enough grit left in him to fight his way...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Happy Feet: Emperor penguins are born to sing. All except young Mumble, who was born to dance...tap dance. Mumble gets kicked out of Emperor Land and embarks on a journey that proves that, by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world! Happy Feet 2: Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly!...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. Has the young nurse finally succumbed to the mounting emotional toll caused from months of caring for the sick and wounded just behind the front lines of General Patton's Third Army? On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load (over...
Publisher
VEI
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Adventure/mystery series set in contemporary Southern California. Follows the exploits of struggling private investigators Nick Ryder (Penny) and Cody Allen (King), two Vietnam veteran Army M.P. buddies who open the Pier 56 Detective Agency. They recruit a third Army buddy, bumbling electronics genius Murray "Boz" Bozinsky (Bray), for support. The second season sees Kirk "The Dool" Dooley (Olandt) join the cast as the detective agency handles a wide...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Amazing Story of One Man, His Passion, and the Community He Inspired. In 1975 Robert "Raven" Kraft, a high school dropout and aspiring songwriter, made a New Year's Resolution to run eight miles on Miami's South Beach each evening. Over 125,000 miles later, he has not missed one sunset. Along the way, Raven has changed the lives of thousands who have run with him-many of them hundreds of times. From all fifty states and dozens of countries, across...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An inspirational, practical, and research-based guide for embracing risk and making a powerful impact at work. Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss in a meeting? Speak up about your company's lack of diversity or unequal pay practices? Make a tough decision that you know will be unpopular? We all have opportunities to be courageous at work. But since courage requires risk-to our reputations, our social standing, and, in some cases, our...
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Becky Powell faced the unthinkable on May 16, 2013. Her husband Mark called and said, "I've done something terrible." Within hours, she learned that he had taken his own life and, over a period of several years, millions of dollars from friends and colleagues. Everything she believed to be true, the very fiber of her marriage, was called into question. Within a week, rather than planning carpool runs and volunteer fund-raisers, she owed almost...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A provocative retelling of the workings of self-interest in contemporary market society, which claims the world increasingly belongs to passionates, obsessives, and fanatics: those who do things for their own sake, rather than as means to other ends. In our capitalist market society, we have come to accept that the way to get ahead is through strong will, grit, and naked ambition. This belief has served us well: it has contributed to making our affluent...
Author
Publisher
Black Sparrow Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory."
This book follows in the...
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