Kevin Kelly’s Both Sides of the Line tells the story of Jack Clyde Dempsey, a football coach at a Catholic school in Boston who forever changed the lives of countless young men. He brought unity and discipline to a motley group of inner city boys for whom football was a means to escape the many challenges of home life. With a reputation for toughness and unrelenting determination, Dempsey insisted that what he called “the Holy Trinity” of football—quickness, technique, and desire—would trump size and stature every time. And with this message and the success it wrought, he turned kids into believers.
More than winners, his boys became teammates who supported one another. And while his team, his football family, quickly came to respect him for his unwavering faith in their potential, the truth was Dempsey’s storied and mythic “dark side” had preceded him. While revered by the streetwise boys before they ever laid eyes on him, Dempsey revealed in time an unapologetically volatile temper, and his whispered-about dealings with the local mob fed the rumor mill of Don Bosco High.
But when a player was paralyzed in part due to Dempsey’s bad call on the field, linebacker Kevin Kelly begins to reconsider his devotion to the game of football. And though Dempsey stayed on as their coach, the memory of a crippled teammate lingered
for decades.
In the fall of 1974, with team morale at an all-time low, Dempsey’s relentless drive for perfection led his undersized charges to a championship season—the first and only title in the Catholic Conference that Don Bosco’s football team would ever know. The crown became the driving force for many players’ self-esteem and confidence, as well as for their college and career success.
For Dempsey, however, it became the towering peak from which he would tragically spiral, crashing in a blast of violence that ended another life. A football coach who preached God, family, and country, and the need to live a clean, drug-free life, allowed his penchant for drinking and cocaine to finally bring him down.
That was when the hunt for Jack Clyde Dempsey, fugitive, began. Views: 170
Alice Dunbar was a very proper upper East Side woman with a very boring life. There is, in fact, absolutely no reason anyone can think of for Alice to go missing, and yet that's exactly what she does, shortly after the death of an elderly aunt. Henry Gamadge thinks there's more to the story, and as he tracks down Alice's last trip, he turns up a secret life no one suspected. Originally published in 1949. Views: 170
"HELLER has taken the elusive novella & turned it into something fun, quirky & satisfying." -Goodreads reviewer.
Book 1- Piper & Kade
Meet the ever fearless leader and owner of The Den, Piper. You will fall in love with her badassery and her wicked sense of style. And while you're swooning over the sexiest nerd in town, Kade, Piper will still be fighting her growing feelings for him.
Book 2- Pixie & Jake
Pixie will break your heart and Jake will sew it back together. Pixie's start in life was far from perfect, so she ran away, leaving it all behind her and started over. Twelve years have passed by the time her long lost first love, Jake, reappears and demands answers. Pixie is forced to face her past, and her biggest regret, all while falling back in love with the boy who always owned her heart.
Book 3- Tay & Nate
As far from your classic romance as it comes. Tay is desperate for a family of her own, but finding the man to do that with has its challenges. Her biological clock is ticking and it's time to take the leap, and do it on her own... When her co-worker and secret/not so secret crush, Nate, finds out and offers to be her sperm donor, things get HOT, and really weird.
*This is a collection of contemporary romantic comedy novella's.
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Yet again, Crockett finds himself needing to rebuild his life. Too much has happened to go on like he is. Just when he thinks he's got it all figured out, one of Ruby's old friends, Carson Bailey, reaches out to him because there is no one else to turn to. She confesses that she is in the Federal Witness Protection Program but feels that her cover has been blown. From a vicious attack and murder near Chicago to a rogue FBI agent, to hired killers, to the wilds of the Black Hills, Crockett, Cletus, and the gang fight for their lives while trying to help a woman on the run. Views: 170
Foul mouthed Holden Flynn is a policeman on the rocks. His marriage has fallen apart, and now he's the only detective in occupied Greykirk, a city scarred by interplanetary war. Trusted by no-one, supported by no-one, Flynn faces the tangled loyalties of an occupied planet and the broken technology of a shattered city. Everyone knows who killed Annie Talbot, but can Flynn find out why? Views: 170
A world on the brink of war.
All Avaline Hall wants is to enjoy her senior year at Blythewood Academy, the boarding school where she’s been trained to defend humankind from forces of dark magic. But when Ava is shown a glimpse into the future in the enchanted Blythe Wood, she discovers that the evil Judicus van Drood is rallying nations into a war that seems destined to destroy both the human and faerie worlds. Only Ava and her allies have a chance at stopping van Drood, but how many must die in the process? And how can Ava and the boy she loves be together when everything around them is falling apart? Views: 170
When Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only vessel to reach the scene in time to save the lives of any of Titanic's passengers, and, after she arrived in New York, reporters crowded the pier and vied with each other to obtain interviews with the survivors of the disaster. In their zeal to interview survivors, though, the reporters brushed right past other people who could have provided their own eyewitness accounts - namely, Carpathia's own passengers, largely left to their own devices as to how and when they discussed their participation in events. A few wrote letters to relatives, others wrote accounts intended for publication. The author's collection of these rare written accounts and interviews sheds new light on the tragic way the lives of so many were impacted by the loss of the largest passenger liner in the world. Views: 170
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Runnymede And Lincoln Fair: A Story Of The Great Charter; Everyman\'s Library John George Edgar J.M. Dent, 1908 Great Britain
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A dangerous professional fixer. A sweet computer nerd. A passion that borders on the possessive. An attraction that's completely off limits to explore... After Elizabeth Hill is brutally attacked in her apartment by an intruder and then unceremoniously dumped by her ex-boyfriend, she moves in with family that she barely knows for protection. All she remembers about her aunt's stepson, Roman, is that he was the moody, mean boy who played a cruel trick on her when she was just six years old; but soon learns that he is now a complex and multi-layered man who has the ability to protect her, ignite her, and challenge her like no one ever has before. Wealthy Roman Masterson makes his fortune by fixing celebrity problems for big money and by any means necessary. He is a foul-mouthed, bad-tempered, manwhore who doesn't have the time or inclination to babysit a gullible little brat from the suburbs...until he unknowingly spots her in... Views: 170