Hard Rain Falling

Author: Don Carpenter
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
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.

Falling Hard

Author: Mark Law
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590307151
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A founding editor of The First Post recounts his impulsive decision to take up judo when he turned fifty, an activity he came to love and admire in spite of grueling training sessions, in an account that also describes his research into judo history and his attendance at matches between famous competitors. Original.

Falling Hard

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 162370023X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Annie struggles to fit in when she moves from London to the midwest. Will Roller Derby help?

Falling Hard

Author: Jae
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783955338299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Dr. Jordan Williams devotes her life to saving patients in the OR and pleasuring women in the bedroom. Jordan's new neighbor, single mom Emma, is the polar opposite. Family and fidelity mean everything to her. When Emma helps Jordan recover after a bad fall, they quickly grow closer. But neither counted on falling hard-for each other.

Falling Hard

Author: Betsy Franco
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763634377
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
A collection of one hundred love poems written by teens.

Falling Hard

Author: Chris Jones
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 9780887846649
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
In Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing, Chris Jones recounts his first year at ringside. He gets dressed down by Don King, gambles his way through Vegas, meets the troubled guy who found Evander Holyfield's ear, goes to Muhammad Ali's birthday party, and witnesses Prince Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson implodes. Like the sport itself, Falling Hard is equal measures of victory and defeat — an intoxicating combination that leaves Jones down for the count more than once. Determined to stay objective, he instead becomes addicted to boxing's special brand of pain, and what begins as a simple curiosity soon escalates into an unhealthy obsession. Jones writes with the rhythm of the sport he covers: hard and fast, with the drama of fiction but the truth of journalism. Sometimes humorous, always suspenseful, Falling Hard is a travelogue for the fight game, boxing distilled to its essence by sportswriting's newest star.

Falling Hard

Author: Kaylea Cross
Publisher: Kaylea Cross Inc.
ISBN: 1928044506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Danger is closing in. Kerrigan Whitaker has spent the past two years reinventing herself into the strong, independent woman she’s always wanted to be, and running her first ultra marathon is the chance to prove to herself and everyone else how far she’s come. Her failed marriage made her wary of relationships, so she’s not ready to get involved with anyone else. Not even the man she secretly fantasizes about—who also happens to be her brother’s best friend. But when people she works closely with are murdered, she goes to the only place she feels safe—Crimson Point, and the man who tempts her like no other. And the killer is closer than they realize. Air National Guard Pararescueman Travis Masterson loves his career and has dedicated his life to saving and protecting others. There’s only one thing missing. Kerrigan—but she’s determined to keep walls up between them. He understands why she’s gun shy, but he can’t let her go. Not when every instinct is screaming that she’s it for him. After a shocking attack leaves her in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded killer, Travis is the only one who can save her. With her life in his hands, he’ll risk it all to stop the killer and protect the woman he can’t live without. For fans of: alpha male heroes, military heroes, athletes, small town romance, Crimson Point Series, friends to lovers, best friend's sister romance

Speedboat

Author: Renata Adler
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it. A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthrall a new generation of readers.

Hard Fall

Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401305164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The tragic bombing of EuroTours Flight 1023 was big news. To FBI Agent Cam Daggett it was more than that. It was personal. His parents and son were on that plane. And for two years he's been after the killer who did it. All he has to go on is a name: Anthony Kort . . . and the knowledge that Kort is in the United States with a detonator no airport security can detect. HE MUST BE STOPPED. Daggett's colleagues at the Bureau and his girlfriend tell him his vendetta has become an obsession. They suggest he leave the investigation to other agents, in order to keep it objective. But having painstakingly constructed a portrait of the terrorist, Daggett believes he's now the only one with any chance of predicting Kort's next target. A novel of madness and revenge, Hard Fall begs readers to fasten their seatbelts.

Falling Hard

Author: B. A. Charnitsky
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606936204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
When a business trip turns into an unplanned adventure, Francine Spencer finds herself in a life or death situation in the wilds of Montana. With her pilot knocked unconscious, she has to keep a cool head and use as much logic as she can muster to save them both from a plane crash. With a little ingenuity, and a whole lot of luck, she gets them both out of a very sticky situation until her pilot wakes up. Win Neer has finally met his match in the no-nonsense professional, Francine. She sets him on his heels as he tries his devil-may-care attitude with her. The time with her after the crash gives him an opportunity to get to know the real her, and to win her heart. But things are not always so certain in life... as Win discovers.