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Caught in the Act

A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer

By: Jeannie McDonough,Paul Lonardo

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Caught in the Act

A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer

By: Jeannie McDonough,Paul Lonardo

We walked in on a surreal scene. There are few words, if any, to accurately describe the abject horror... What Jeannie and Kevin McDonough saw was a wanted, multi-state serial killer about to take his next victim-their own daughter. What happened next was a thrilling true-crime story of a fight for justice and the harrowing struggle with the unexpected nightmare of "survivor guilt".

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1101189207

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Life, with Cancer

The Lauren Terrazzano Story

By: Frank Terrazzano,Paul Lonardo

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Life, with Cancer

The Lauren Terrazzano Story

By: Frank Terrazzano,Paul Lonardo

With the help of coauthor Paul Lonardo, (Caught in the Act), devoted father Frank Terrazzano tells his daughter's compelling life story through the eyes of the many people whose hearts and lives Lauren touched.

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Health Communications, Inc.

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0757316638

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9780757316630

The New Debtors' Prison

Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom

By: Christopher B. Maselli,Paul Lonardo

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The New Debtors' Prison

Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom

By: Christopher B. Maselli,Paul Lonardo

Debtors’ prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons such as failing to pay a fine. This alarming trend not only affects the poor, who are hit particularly hard, but also ensnares the millions of self-identified middle-class people who are struggling to make ends meet. All across the country people are being fined and even imprisoned for offenses as small as delinquency on student debt or an unpaid parking ticket. However, there is an insidious undercurrent to these practices that the average person might not realize. Many counties depend on a steady supply of citizens to pay fines and court costs in order to make their budgets. Minor vehicle infractions, by design, can rack up hundreds of dollars in charges that go straight to the city’s coffers. Combine this with the fact that many middle-class people cannot handle an unexpected $400 expense and the general lack of awareness about the risk for being repeatedly jailed for failure to pay court costs, probation, and even per day charges for being in jail and you get an endless cycle of men and women either in debt or in prison for debt. While shocking to some, this system makes up today’s debtors’ prisons. In The New Debtors’ Prison, Christopher Maselli draws from his personal knowledge of the criminal justice system based on his experience on both sides of the prison walls as an attorney as well as a former inmate, to take a hard look at our modern prison system that systematically targets the poor and vulnerable of our society in order to fund the prison-industrial complex.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510733264

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9781510733268

Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

By: Leonardo Da Vinci,Murat Ukray,Jean Paul Richter

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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

By: Leonardo Da Vinci,Murat Ukray,Jean Paul Richter

This new Great collection of his art and notes from Cheapest Books. Put together all notes and drawings of Da Vinci as found, not need reordered. A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the MOST FAMOUS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI'S WORKS. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merely by the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of merely a few pages of Manuscript. Leonardos literary labours in various departments both of Art and of Science were those essentially of an enquirer, hence the analytical method is that which he employs in arguing out his investigations and dissertations. The vast structure of his scientific theories is consequently built up of numerous separate researches, and it is much to be lamented that he should never have collated and arranged them. His love for detailed research—as it seems to me—was the reason that in almost all the Manuscripts, the different paragraphs appear to us to be in utter confusion; on one and the same page, observations on the most dissimilar subjects follow each other without any connection. A page, for instance, will begin with some principles of astronomy, or the motion of the earth; then come the laws of sound, and finally some precepts as to colour. Another page will begin with his investigations on the structure of the intestines, and end with philosophical remarks as to the relations of poetry to painting; and so forth. Leonardo himself lamented this confusion, and for that reason I do not think that the publication of the texts in the order in which they occur in the originals would at all fulfil his intentions. No reader could find his way through such a labyrinth; Leonardo himself could not have done it. Added to this, more than half of the five thousand manuscript pages which now remain to us, are written on loose leaves, and at present arranged in a manner which has no justification beyond the fancy of the collector who first brought them together to make volumes of more or less extent. Nay, even in the volumes, the pages of which were numbered by Leonardo himself, their order, so far as the connection of the texts was concerned, was obviously a matter of indifference to him. The only point he seems to have kept in view, when first writing down his notes, was that each observation should be complete to the end on the page on which it was begun.

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E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books

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6257959365

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9786257959360

Steel City Mafia

By: Paul N. Hodos

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Steel City Mafia

By: Paul N. Hodos

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don... The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the Youngstown, OH faction of the family launched a brutal mob war against the weakening Cleveland mafia and the Altoona, PA crew violently clamped down on their city. Discover gritty stories of a made member who controlled who a local police department hired, an informant who betrayed his own mafia grandfather and father, numerous unsolved murders and a mob mole in the Pittsburgh office of the FBI. This is the tale of a mafia family at the pinnacle of its power, willing to do anything to hold on to that power and its downfall in the criminal underworld.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439677611

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Silicon Quantum Integrated Circuits

Silicon-Germanium Heterostructure Devices: Basics and Realisations

By: E. Kasper,D.J. Paul

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Silicon Quantum Integrated Circuits

Silicon-Germanium Heterostructure Devices: Basics and Realisations

By: E. Kasper,D.J. Paul

Quantum size effects are becoming increasingly important in microelectronics, as the dimensions of the structures shrink laterally towards 100 nm and vertically towards 10 nm. Advanced device concepts will exploit these effects for integrated circuits with novel or improved properties. Keeping in mind the trend towards systems on chip, this book deals with silicon-based quantum devices and focuses on room-temperature operation. The basic physical principles, materials, technological aspects, and fundamental device operation are discussed in an interdisciplinary manner. It is shown that silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterostructure devices will play a key role in realizing silicon-based quantum electronics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354022050X

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9783540220503

Thrill Killers

A True Story of Innocence and Murder Without Conscience

By: Raymond Pingitore,Paul Lonardo

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Thrill Killers

A True Story of Innocence and Murder Without Conscience

By: Raymond Pingitore,Paul Lonardo

Chronicles the hunt for the killers of Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson, two college students who were murdered in Providence, Rhode Island in 2000.

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0882822918

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9780882822914

Eliot Ness

The Real Story

By: Paul W. Heimel

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Eliot Ness

The Real Story

By: Paul W. Heimel

This is the definitive biography of the famous crimefighter, Eliot Ness. Behind the Hollywood legend portrayed by Robert Stack and Kevin Costner is a fascinating and highly effective lawman whose courage and cunning helped the federal government bring down Scarface Al Capone in gangland Chicago. Ness went on to enjoy a successful law enforcement career in Cleveland, ridding the city of corrupt cops and organized crime figures. You've heard the legend; now learn the REAL STORY.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1620452472

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9781620452479

Diagnostic Pathology and Molecular Genetics of the Thyroid

A Comprehensive Guide for Practicing Thyroid Pathology

By: Yuri E. Nikiforov,Paul W. Biddinger,Lester D.R. Thompson

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Diagnostic Pathology and Molecular Genetics of the Thyroid

A Comprehensive Guide for Practicing Thyroid Pathology

By: Yuri E. Nikiforov,Paul W. Biddinger,Lester D.R. Thompson

The first comprehensive surgical pathology textbook and reference on the thyroid in over fifteen years, this book presents the most advanced concepts on the diagnostic surgical pathology, cytopathology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular genetics of neoplastic and non-neoplastic thyroid diseases. The authors provide a detailed description of the surgical pathology of thyroid diseases side-by-side with major advances in immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics that can be used in evaluating thyroid tumors and non-neoplastic diseases. By combining diagnostic surgical pathology, cytopathology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular genetics, the book effectively mimics the practice of contemporary surgical pathologists. All major chapters have a uniform style of description and include a separate section on molecular genetics. A companion Website will include the fully searchable text and an image bank.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451152957

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9781451152951

Handbook of Liver Disease E-Book

By: Lawrence S. Friedman,Paul Martin

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Handbook of Liver Disease E-Book

By: Lawrence S. Friedman,Paul Martin

Well-organized and vibrantly illustrated throughout, Handbook of Liver Disease is a comprehensive yet concise handbook providing authoritative guidance on key clinical issues in liver disease. The quick-reference outline format ensures that you'll find answers when you need them, and cover-to-cover updates keep you abreast of the recent rapid changes in the field. Written by leading international experts in hepatology, this reference is ideal for hepatologists, gastroenterologists, internists, family practitioners, trainees, and others who diagnose and manage patients with liver disorders. - Uses a highly templated outline format, key points in each chapter, alert symbols, and highlighted review points to provide a "just the facts" approach to daily clinical questions on liver disease. - Features expanded hepatitis chapters, including completely updated coverage of new, safe, and effective oral regimens for the treatment of hepatitis C. - Provides completely updated coverage of: alcoholic liver disease * autoimmune hepatitis * portal hypertension * primary biliary cholangitis * hepatic tumors * cirrhosis * nonalcoholic liver disease * liver transplantation * and more. - Includes the latest information on adolescents with liver disease moving into adult care. - Covers the revised criteria for prioritizing liver transplantation using the MELDNa score, new options for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, and improved management of hepatorenal syndrome.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323478824

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9780323478823

Advanced Metrology

Freeform Surfaces

By: X. Jane Jiang,Paul J. Scott

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Advanced Metrology

Freeform Surfaces

By: X. Jane Jiang,Paul J. Scott

Advanced Metrology: Freeform Surfaces provides the perfect guide for engineering designers and manufacturers interested in exploring the benefits of this technology. The inclusion of industrial case studies and examples will help readers to implement these techniques which are being developed across different industries as they offer improvements to the functional performance of products and reduce weight and cost. - Includes case studies in every chapter to help readers implement the techniques discussed - Provides unique advice from industry on hot subjects, including surface description and data processing - Features links to online content, including video, code and software

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376

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Academic Press

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0128218169

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9780128218167

IASLC Textbook of Prevention and Early Detection of Lung Cancer

By: Fred R. Hirsch,Paul A. Bunn,James L. Mulshine,Harubumi Kato

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IASLC Textbook of Prevention and Early Detection of Lung Cancer

By: Fred R. Hirsch,Paul A. Bunn,James L. Mulshine,Harubumi Kato

With increasing emphasis being placed on screening and early prevention in cancer, this textbook examines the various methods and interventions used in screening in lung cancer, and presents a detailed review of the approaches to prevention and treatment of early disease. It will be of particular interest to lung cancer and respiratory medicine spe

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449

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CRC Press

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0203324528

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9780203324523

EU Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Paul Craig,Gráinne de Búrca

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EU Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Paul Craig,Gráinne de Búrca

Respected as the definitive textbook on the subject, this is the stand-alone guide to EU law. The world-renowned authors offer the ideal balance of commentary, key cases, and materials to provide the most authoritative coverage and analysis.

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0198856644

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Eliot Ness

The Real Story

By: Paul Heimel

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Eliot Ness

The Real Story

By: Paul Heimel

This is the first biography of the famous crimefighter, Eliot Ness, separating the man from the myth. Heimel traces Ness' life from his childhood to his Prohibition-era battles and his entire law enforcement career.

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096558240X

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Life, with Cancer

The Lauren Terrazzano Story

By: Frank Terrazzano,Paul Lonardo

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Life, with Cancer

The Lauren Terrazzano Story

By: Frank Terrazzano,Paul Lonardo

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0757316638

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Caught in the Act

A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer

By: Jeannie McDonough,Paul Lonardo

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A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer

By: Jeannie McDonough,Paul Lonardo

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The New Debtors' Prison

Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom

By: Christopher B. Maselli,Paul Lonardo

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Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom

By: Christopher B. Maselli,Paul Lonardo

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The Luckiest Girl in the World

My Story of Struggle and Hope in Overcoming Pediatric Stroke

By: Jamie Lee Coyle,Paul Lonardo,Tedy Bruschi

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The Luckiest Girl in the World

My Story of Struggle and Hope in Overcoming Pediatric Stroke

By: Jamie Lee Coyle,Paul Lonardo,Tedy Bruschi

Growing up, everyone would always say how lucky I was, but at the time I was not sure what they meant. I was just doing what I always loved; skating and playing ice hockey. Everything seemed to go my way, from winning virtually every raffle I entered to scoring the game-winning goal whenever my team needed it. As I got a little older, I could feel these things before they happened, as if I knew that I was going to catch the corner of the net to get the puck past the goalie as time expired. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Becoming an Olympian was something I thought about as far back as I could remember. By the time I was twelve, I was well on my way to living my dream. Then, on August 9, 2008 I suffered a stroke during a hockey game. No one suspected that such a thing could happen to a twelve-year old, but as the reality of pediatric stroke turned my dream into a nightmare, the journey back to skating and playing hockey again showed me just how much I could accomplish with the love and support of my family and people all around me who cared. And I came to realize that I truly was the luckiest girl in the world.

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1503119270

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When The Last Bell Rang

A Story of Tragedy, Struggle, Faith, Love and Most of All Hope

By: Paul Lonardo,Janine a Passaretti-Molloy

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When The Last Bell Rang

A Story of Tragedy, Struggle, Faith, Love and Most of All Hope

By: Paul Lonardo,Janine a Passaretti-Molloy

In an instant, without warning, without reason, the life my children and I knew was ripped from us and we were left alone. My children were without their father, and I did not have my husband. My incredibly whole and happy family was gone. I didn't know who I was anymore. I went from being someone who was happily married, just beginning the middle of a life with three young daughters, to a single mother and a widow. I was becoming an empty shell of the person I used to be and I had no idea what life was going to become for us. The struggle to survive the overwhelming grief, and emotions of confusion, guilt, anger, debilitating sadness, PTSD, while trying to sustain and rebuild a life was some days close to impossible. There were days I didn't think I was going to survive let alone be happy again. However, it seemed God and the universe had other plans for me. I believe the same is true for each and every one of us. No matter what you believe is supposed to happen, or what direction you think your life should take, fate may have something entirely different in store for you.Author Bio: Janine holds a Bachelors degree in both Psychology and Elementary Education. She is currently attending Graduate school working towards a Masters of Science in Mental Health Counseling. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband Dennis, three beautiful daughters, Jacqueline, Victoria and Olivia and their dog Sonny. Her strong faith in a higher power has kept her moving forward giving her the strength, determination and courage to tell her story. This is her first novel.

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1095898612

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Boy in a Box

A Personal Journey about Overcoming Life's Obstacles, from a Father's Abandonment to a Catastrophic Injury, and the Powers of Inspiration, Motivation and Leadership to Cultivate Positive Change

By: John Cagno,Paul Lonardo

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Boy in a Box

A Personal Journey about Overcoming Life's Obstacles, from a Father's Abandonment to a Catastrophic Injury, and the Powers of Inspiration, Motivation and Leadership to Cultivate Positive Change

By: John Cagno,Paul Lonardo

This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I was five years-old, my father abandoned my mother and three sisters, beginning a whole new life when he started another family. I never saw him again. This presented me with many challenges growing up, but even this heartache was overshadowed by debilitating injuries I sustained as an 18 year-old call firefighter. On January 13, 1980, while performing a training exercise at a vacant mill, my left hand passed through an induction field of a live 35,000 volt transmission line. Approximately 14,000 volts of electricity surged through my body as I ascended a fire department aerial ladder. While I was fortunate that the current did not instantly kill me, or fall to my death, the injuries to both my hands and right leg were catastrophic, altering the path of my life and shaping me in many ways. At times the pain and severity of my injuries were too much to bear and made me pray to God to take me. With the love and support of many people, however, I found an inner strength that exists in all of us, and I made it out of the hospital after a harrowing five month journey. Through years of grueling rehabilitation and dozens of operations, I remained determined to fulfill my life-long ambition of becoming a firefighter. I have always said my life is an open book, and in BOY IN A BOX, I am brutally honest about these, and many other personal adversities, including a battle with prescription pain killers and incidents of brutal bullying experienced by my own son. Even before my accident, I have been a student of leadership and inspiration. While I have read countless books on the subjects and attended numerous conferences and seminars, not a single author or speaker was a "regular" person. That is why I wrote BOY IN A BOX. I feel that I have a mission to complete, or better still, a responsibility, to give back for having been so fortunate in life despite having it groomed by hardship. Now, I have written about my journey, with its ups and downs, accomplishments and adversities, mistakes and failures, the few wins and many losses. I believe that people are basically all the same, and that what differentiates us is how we deal with our problems. I also believe that storytelling can be the best medicine in helping us get through life's many challenges. Those of us who are willing to share our journey in an honest and candid way can help alleviate someone else's suffering and sorrows. I want to inspire, motivate, and empower the ordinary person, so that they might be able to realize their full potential.

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1503127737

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Homegrown

The Making of the 1972-73 Providence College Friars

By: Paul Lonardo

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Homegrown

The Making of the 1972-73 Providence College Friars

By: Paul Lonardo

The Providence College Friars thrilling 1972-73 season began, in some ways, long before the players got together for their first practice. It was the culmination of fate, a little fortune, and the drawing power of this small Catholic college with a history of great former players which ultimately led to what has been called PC's magic carpet ride to the 1973 Final Four of the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Tournament.The thirteen players who were part of the greatest team in Providence College basketball history were all talented young players. Their collective skills and the effort they gave all year contributed to the immense success the Friars had that season. Alongside future NBA player, sharpshooting Kevin Stacom, Nehru King, Fran Costello, Charlie Crawford, Al Baker, and Gary Bello were some of the names that appeared in the box scores after each game, but Providence featured two local players who formed the nucleus of the team and dominated the headlines.PC's dominant 6'9 center Marvin Barnes was born in Providence and grew up in the shadows of Providence College. His development into the punishing rebounder he became, an unstoppable force on both ends of the court, was rooted in the physical style of basketball Barnes learned to play in the inner city of Providence. He would go to play pro ball, becoming the ABA Rookie of the Year, and later play in the NBA. Of all the stars in the constellation of the Providence College basketball universe, perhaps none shines more brightly than the 6'0 Italian kid from North Providence, Ernie DiGregorio, who became widely known simply as Ernie D after a RI sportscaster doing play-by-play had trouble pronouncing his last name quickly enough. Like Barnes, DiGregorio was a local product who played basketball on the playgrounds and in the school gyms just a couple miles away from the Providence College campus. After helping put the Friars basketball program on the map, DiGregorio was drafted in the first round of the NBA draft, and immediately impacted the league by earning Rookie of the Year honors.Today the NBA employs a draft lottery system for teams to select eligible players from the college ranks, but it wasn't always this way. Soon after its formation, the NBA was struggling to survive. In order to increase its fan base, in 1949 the league set out to take advantage of the regional popularity of college stars and instituted the territorial pick. In the territorial draft, teams had the option prior to the regular draft of using their first-round pick to select a player who played college ball within a 50-mile radius.Obviously, this system shaped the early years of the association and the territorial pick controlled the NBA through 1965, when the league voted to phase out the territorial draft. The territorial draft had been dissolved by the time the players who would made up the 1972-73 PC Friars were being recruited to play in college, and although Marvin Barnes and Ernie DiGregorio both had the ability to play for much bigger schools and basketball programs that would potentially garner them greater recognition, they chose the family-like environment of Providence College.You will certainly never see another collection of homegrown collegiate basketball talent on the same court at the same time, the likes of which was produced at PC's Alumni Hall in the early 1970's, becoming the heart of soul of the 1972-73 team that generated so much interest and popular appeal that their home games had to be relocated to a new 14,000-seat arena in downtown Providence to satisfy the unprecedented demand for tickets.Incredibly, it has been nearly fifty years since this magic basketball season in Providence. In this book, readers can relive the excitement of that season, while being taken on a historical journey from the earliest days of Providence College basketball history straight through to the PC's Final Four matchup against Memphis State in the 1973 NCAA tournament.

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1092494634

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