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A warrior's heart : the true story of life before and beyond the fighter / by Ward, Micky.; Layden, Joseph,1959-;

"Now, in his own words, "Irish" Micky Ward tells his inspirational life story as only he can. From his first bout at the age of seven, Micky Ward was known foremost for giving as good as he got and for leaving absolutely everything he had in the ring. When he fought, quitting was never an option. It was that indomitable spirit that would allow him to survive, battle against, and overcome the harsh realities that he faced every day of his life. For it was outside the ring that Ward's heart would be most needed, from witnessing his idolized older half brother Dicky's fall from grace, to dealing with his wildly dysfunctional--if frighteningly loyal--family, to harboring the darkest of secrets, which he has never revealed until now. Micky Ward has faced numerous setbacks and defeats that would have stopped a lesser man, but he has remained a fighter, through and through--both as a professional boxer and as a man who finally found his greatest strength in friendship, family, and faith in himself. From the rough streets of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the blood and sweat of the international fight game, to the bright lights and adulation of Hollywood, this is the rousing, moving, tragic, and humorous story of the one and only Micky Ward"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Ward, Micky.; Boxers (Sports); Irish American boxers;

© 2012., Berkley Books,

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Above the bay of angels : a novel / by Bowen, Rhys,author.;

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger's stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself. Best of all, she's been chosen to accompany the queen to Nice. What fortune! Until the threat of blackmail shadows Bella to the Riviera, and a member of the queen's retinue falls ill and dies. Having prepared the royal guest's last meal, Bella is suspected of the poisonous crime. An investigation is sure to follow. Her charade will be over. And her new life will come crashing down--if it doesn't send her to the gallows.

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901; Cooks; Extortion;

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Nosy Parker / by Crewe, Lesley,1955-author.;

"It's 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with her dad to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a whole new neighbourhood full of different kinds of people to spy on. Audrey is a lot of things: articulate, disarming, forthright. And, as her father reminds her often, indecently nosy. Audrey scribbles every observation down in her notebooks -- from which foods her new teacher eats for lunch, to how blue the water is in Greece, to what time the one-legged man across the street gets home. She is certain she will soon root out a murderer or uncover a mystery. But there's only one mystery that really matters to her: her mother. Who was she? How did she die? Why won't her father ever talk about her? Over a year of Audrey's life, we bike with her through the streets of NDG, encountering stray animals, free-range kids, and adults both viciously cruel and wonderful. And we walk with Audrey across the threshold from childhood to adolescence, where she will discover the truth about her mother. Balancing humour and sadness as expertly as ever, author Lesley Crewe -- who has so often captured Cape Breton perfectly on the page -- turns her incisive observations for the first time to the NDG of the 1960s, where she grew up."--Publisher.

Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Coming of age; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Mothers and daughters; Nineteen sixties; Preteen girls;

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Call the midwife. [videorecording] / by Agutter, Jenny.; Ferris, Pam.; Hart, Miranda,1972-; Parfitt, Judy,1935-; Raine, Jessica,1982-; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-; Thomas, Heidi,1967-; Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; Neal Street Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Miranda Hart, Judy Parfitt.The beloved nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart and care for the poorest women in London s East End, where life never stands still. A surprise pregnancy brings unexpected happiness to one mother, while Trixie discovers new purpose in life after alcohol. Could friendship blossom into something more for the vicar and Barbara? And where is Sister Monica Joan? Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Miranda Hart, Judy Parfitt and Helen George star in the award-winning series, inspired by the memoirs of nurse Jennifer Worth.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereophonic.

Subjects: Television programs.; Childbirth; Midwives; Nuns; Poor; Poverty; Pregnant women;

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What you want to see / by Lepionka, Kristen,author.;

"Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she's having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it.Then, just days into the case, Marin is shot to death on a side street in an apparent mugging. But soon enough the police begin to focus on Roxane's client for Marin's death, so she starts to dig deeper into Marin's life--discovering that the elegant woman she's been following has a past and a half, including two previous marriages, an adult son fresh out of prison, and a criminal record of her own. The trail leads to a crew of con artists, an ugly real estate scam that defrauds unsuspecting elderly homeowners out of their property, and the suspicious accident of a wealthy older woman who lives just down the street from where Marin was killed. With Roxane's client facing a murder indictment, the scammers hit close to home to force Roxane to drop the case, and it becomes clear that the stakes are as high as the secrets run deep"--

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiancés; Murder; Secrecy; Women private investigators;

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Your next breath [sound recording] / by Johansen, Iris.; Rodgers, Elisabeth S.;

Read by Elisabeth Rodgers."Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again. Now, just as she is building a relationship with Luke, it seems that someone from Catherine's past is playing a deadly game with her, and using those she cares about as pawns. Three are dead already the former prostitute who helped Catherine when she was out on the street, a CIA agent with whom she worked closely, and the informant who helped her free Luke. Someone is picking off the people Catherine cares about one by one, with the circle narrowing closer and closer to those she loves the most. Catherine has made many enemies throughout her life, and she has no choice but to weed through her past to find out who is targeting her now, and then go after the vicious killer herself."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Chinese American women; Kidnapping; Revenge; Audiobooks.;

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The secret diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho : a novel / by Joseph, Paterson,author.;

"A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century London and inspired by a true story. "I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more." It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have closed their doors for the night, Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse. The man he hoped would help him--a kindly duke who taught him to write--is dying. Sancho is desperate and utterly alone. So how does the same Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the king, write and play highly acclaimed music, become the first Black person to vote in Britain, and lead the fight to end slavery? It's time for him to tell his story, one that begins on a tempestuous Atlantic Ocean and ends at the very center of London life. And through it all, he must ask: Born among death, how much can he achieve in one short life?"--

Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780; Abolitionists; Black people; Freed persons;

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The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words / by Chandler, Raymond,1888-1959.; Day, Barry (Playwright),editor of compilation.;

"Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, with its resulting changing vernacular. Through his fiction and letters, brilliantly woven together, Chandler reveals what it was like to be a writer, and in particular what it was to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction in what was for him "another language." Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Somerset Maugham, among others. Here is Chandler's Los Angeles, a city he adopted and which adopted him in the post-World War I period ... Chandler on his Hollywood, working with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others...Chandler ... organized crime and on his alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armour who walks the "mean streets" in a world not made for knights ... on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcohol -- and loneliness) ... and here are Chandler's women -- the Little Sisters; the dames -- in his fiction -- and his life"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.; Authors, American; Detective and mystery stories;

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Hi five / by Ide, Joe,author.;

"Isaiah Quintabe, the genius PI who combines book smarts, street smarts, and enough blistering action to melt the pavement of East Long Beach, is back with a new adventure. Fresh off the beating he took at the hands of a gang of ex-Abu Ghraib thugs working as paramilitary contractors, IQ is determined to build a life for himself with his new girlfriend, Grace. For once, he wants to be normal--a normal guy, with a normal PI business, doing the best he can. But this is IQ, and trouble is never far behind him. Joined by his faithful band of fast-talking, sharp-tongued partners, Deronda and Dodson, the cases are wild, the mysteries twisty, and the driving fast"--

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Multiple personality; Private investigators;

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Capcom fighting collection. [electronic resource]. by Sony Computer Entertainment.;

Game.Combining hard-hitting classics like Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 with fan favorite brawlers like Power Stone 2 in one knockout package, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 comes chock-full of new features including online play and quality-of-life updates across all eight games!ESRB Content Rating: T, Teen (Blood, suggestive themes, use of alcohol and tobacco, violence).Blu-ray disc compatible with Playstation 4 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p ; in game surround sound ; 2-9 player online multiplayer (paid subscription and broadband internet connection required) ; 5 GB storage required ; online play optional.

Subjects: Sony video games.; Arcade-style video games.; Fighting video games.; Video games.; Playstation 4 (Video game console); Video games.; Capcom fighting collection 2 (Game); Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro (Game); Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (Game); Capcom Fighting Evolution; Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER (Game); Project Justice (Game); Power Stone (Game); Power Stone 2 (Game); Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein (Game); Hand-to-hand fighting; Martial artists; Combat; Dueling;

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