Hero Of The Underground
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Hero Of The Underground
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Author : Jason Peter
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2009-06-23
Hero Of The Underground written by Jason Peter and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This New York Times bestselling gritty memoir Hero of the Underground offers a no-holds-barred look at the twisted underbelly of a seemingly perfect life. Jason Peter, an All-American football player, captain of the National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers, first round NFL draft pick. . . and heroin addict. I wasn't afraid of death. How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined by dollar amounts but by the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. . . . I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn't going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out. "Had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan, this is the book he'd have written. Flat-out, mash-your-face-in-the-dirt amazing." —Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
Harriet Tubman
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Author : Lori Mortensen
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2007
Harriet Tubman written by Lori Mortensen and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn how Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and led others to freedom on the underground railroad.
Heroes Of The Secret Underground
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Author : Susanne Gervay
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-04-01
Heroes Of The Secret Underground written by Susanne Gervay and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A timely and powerful time-slip story inspired by the author's family in Budapest during the Holocaust Louie lives with her brothers, Bert and Teddy, in a hotel run by their grandparents. It is one of Sydney's grand old buildings, rich in history ... and in secrets. When a rose-gold locket, once thought lost, is uncovered, it sends Louie and her brothers spinning back in time. Back to a world at war: Budapest in the winter of 1944, where their grandparents are hiding secrets of their own ... From bestselling author Susanne Gervay comes a heart-racing timeslip story inspired by her own family's escape from Budapest during the Holocaust. AWARDS Longlisted - ARA Historical Novel Prize 2021 (Children's and Young Adult Category) PRAISE 'Impossible to stop reading' -- Jackie French 'A story of light and love and exceptional courage' -- Ursula Dubosarsky 'Riveting, encouraging, and authentic, Heroes of the Secret Underground introduces the topic of World War II in a fresh and enlightening way. My heart was left racing after each page turn, and I'm sure you'll feel the same way too.' --Better Reading
Hero Of The Underground
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Author : Jason Peter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Hero Of The Underground written by Jason Peter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Football players categories.
How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined in dollar amounts, but in the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. Yet at the end of every binge, every night of lining up six, seven, eight crack pipes and hitting them one after the other bam! bam! bam! every night of smoking and snorting bag after bag of heroin ... after all of that, when you still wake up to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you start to think that instead of dying, maybe your punishment is to live--to be stuck in this purgatory of self-abuse and misery for an eternity. Sometimes you start to think that death would come as a blessed relief. Toward the end, I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn't going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out. And then all-- of my problems-- would be solved.
Edmund Campion
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Author : Harold C. Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 1992
Edmund Campion written by Harold C. Gardiner and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Some illustrations. An inspiring dramatic account of the colorful and courageous life and death of the martyr, St. Edmund Campion, "hero of God's underground" during the persecution of Catholics in England in the 1500's.
Who S Your Death Hero
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Author : Supervert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09
Who S Your Death Hero written by Supervert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09 with categories.
The Scarlet And The Black
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Author : J. P. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2009
The Scarlet And The Black written by J. P. Gallagher and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller:
Going Underground
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Author : Amie Jane Leavitt
language : en
Publisher: Purple Toad Publishing
Release Date : 2016
Going Underground written by Amie Jane Leavitt and has been published by Purple Toad Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Abolitionists categories.
The Underground Railroad was not a transportation system with metal tracks and whistling trains that zipped along a grid of tracks through tunnels below the ground. Instead, this system was an organized network of people who--in utmost secrecy--helped others escape the bonds of slavery. The routes to freedom were filled with danger, but the risks were worth it. Climb aboard to travel back in time and find out how this system of "passengers," "conductors," and "stationmasters" saved thousands of lives and helped change the nation.
Hero Worship
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Author : Christopher E. Long
language : en
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-01-08
Hero Worship written by Christopher E. Long and has been published by North Star Editions, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-08 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Ever since becoming an IWP—Individual with Powers—Marvin Maywood has dreamed of joining the Core, a group of gifted heroes who save lives and stop crimes. But because he’s a homeless teenager who is forbidden to use his amazing powers, wanting and achieving that dream are two very separate things.
The Volunteer
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Author : Jack Fairweather
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-06-27
The Volunteer written by Jack Fairweather and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020 One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war ... this insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life' -- Economist Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre -- Auschwitz. It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi's terrifying plans. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities out of Auschwitz. His reports from the camp were to shape the Allies response to the Holocaust - yet his story was all but forgotten for decades. This is the first major account to draw on unpublished family papers, newly released archival documents and exclusive interviews with surviving resistance fighters to show how he brought the fight to the Nazis at the heart of their evil designs. The result is an enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances, and one man's attempt to change the course of history.