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1) Golden arm
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In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty--one strike at a time. By "a premier author of provocative YA sports novels" (The Bulletin). Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When...
2) Golden Arm
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world where women are beautiful badass beings who know how to fight and win.They arm wrestle for money. And they love it! This is not a world familiar to our hero Melanie.When we open the film, Melanie is living in a small town in Kansas working as a baker. She’s just got out of a horrible marriage. Straddled with debt and self-doubt, her confidence is in the dumpster, right next to yesterday’s scones. When she’s forced to close her...
3) Golden Arm
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A SXSW Official Selection, GOLDEN ARM, is a feel-good female buddy comedy from director Maureen Bharoocha (NBC's Superstore, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live) about a wimpy baker who gets roped into the world of ladies arm wrestling by her truck driving best friend. Featuring a who's who from Amy Poehler's famed Upright Citizens Brigade including: Mary Holland (HBO's Veep, Starz's Blunt Talk, Comedy Bang! Bang!), Betsy Sodaro (Adam Sandler's Hubie Halloween,...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
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In this classic Oscar-nominated drama, illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) gets out of prison and decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer, small-time con man Schwiefka (Robert Strauss), and Frankie's old drug dealer, Louis (Darren McGavin), re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually...
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Johnny Unitas' great accolades achieved on the football field were legendary. There have been many volumes written about his achievements, and many people call him the real football GOAT (Greatest of All Time).
But this fascinating, feel-good book by D.P. Smith is more about Johnny's incredible persona off the field, his relationship with the community and his true fans, and how he was adored by a whole generation. A generation that was fortunate...
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Johnny Unitas is widely considered the finest quarterback ever to play the game. Much has been written about his life, but for the first time, Unitass son, John, writes about his father and reveals information about his family and fathers career that has never before been brought to light. For anyone who holds an interest in either Unitass life or NFL history, John Unitas Jr.s revealing and touching biography honoring the life and times of his father...
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English
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Author Nelson Algren reads from his award-winning novel, The Man with the Golden Arm. The passage tells of Frankie Machine's wife, Sophie, who confined to a wheelchair since a drunk-driving accident caused by Frankie. The narration implies that Sophie's paralysis is psychological in origin, and is unconsciously used to keep Frankie with her. Frankie is in hiding, being sought by the police for murder. Sophie waits anxiously for his return, recalling...
Publisher
Education 2000
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Man with the golden arm: An ex-convict recovering from heroin addiction returns to the Chicago slums and struggles to become a musician. Suddenly: A band of paid killers takes over a house in a small town, with a mission to assassinate the arriving President of the United States.
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