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Again to Carthage

2010-09-28 Fiction
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Release : 2010-09-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Again to Carthage by : John L. Parker

Download or read book Again to Carthage written by John L. Parker. This book was released on 2010-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Again to Carthage is the "breathtaking, pulse-quickening, stunning" sequel to Once a Runner that "will have you standing up and cheering, and pulling on your running shoes" (Chicago Sun-Times). Originally self-published in 1978, Once a Runner became a cult classic, emerging after three decades to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, in Again to Carthage, hero Quenton Cassidy returns. The former Olympian has become a successful attorney in south Florida, where his life centers on work, friends, skin diving, and boating trips to the Bahamas. But when he loses his best friend to the Vietnam War and two relatives to life’s vicissitudes, Cassidy realizes that an important part of his life was left unfinished. After reconnecting with his friend and former coach Bruce Denton, Cassidy returns to the world of competitive running in a desperate, all-out attempt to make one last Olympic team. Perfectly capturing the intensity, relentlessness, and occasional lunacy of a serious runner’s life, Again to Carthage is a must-read for runners—and athletes—of all ages, and a novel that will thrill any lover of fiction.

Once a Runner

2009-04-07 Fiction
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Release : 2009-04-07
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Once a Runner by : John L. Parker

Download or read book Once a Runner written by John L. Parker. This book was released on 2009-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undisputed classic of running novels and one of the most beloved sports books ever published, Once a Runner tells the story of an athlete’s dreams amid the turmoil of the 60s and the Vietnam war. Inspired by the author’s experience as a collegiate champion, the novel follows Quenton Cassidy, a competitive runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school’s athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes’ protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team. Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life against the greatest miler in history. A rare insider’s account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners, Once a Runner is an inspiring, funny, and spot-on tale of one individual’s quest to become a champion.

Racing the Rain

2015-07-14 Fiction
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Release : 2015-07-14
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 869/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Racing the Rain by : John L. Parker

Download or read book Racing the Rain written by John L. Parker. This book was released on 2015-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Timesbestselling Once a Runnercomes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age.

Carthage

2014-01-21 Fiction
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Release : 2014-01-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 76X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Carthage by : Joyce Carol Oates

Download or read book Carthage written by Joyce Carol Oates. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.

Carthage Must Be Destroyed

2011-07-21 History
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Release : 2011-07-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 034/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Carthage Must Be Destroyed by : Richard Miles

Download or read book Carthage Must Be Destroyed written by Richard Miles. This book was released on 2011-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist ) Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as a Mediterranean empire whose epic land-and-sea clash with Rome made a legend of Hannibal and shaped the course of Western history. Carthage Must Be Destroyed reintroduces readers to the ancient glory of a lost people and their generations-long struggle against an implacable enemy.

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