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Tracey lives in Ryde NSW. She has a 20 year old son who is very fi t and a personal trainer (she isnt) and a very opinionated cat Wally. She loves to write, garden, cook and make greeting cards. She adores music, especially folk and is a pacifi st. She lives mostly in jeans and t-shirts and hope you enjoy this collection of fact, fi ction, musings, recollections and observations. Happy reading!
Odds. To some people, they are the key to success or failure. Eddie Ferguson and Ronnie Costas are experts at two things: playing golf and fi guring odds. To them, calculating the odds on a given day at the golf course was a simple chore. How does he hold the club? What are his mechanics like? How high does the bet have to get to take him out of his comfort zone? When it’s all said and done, what are the chances of walking away with some of the other guy’s cash?
Eddie and Ronnie are back with a driver in one hand and a drink in the other. Their attempts to lie low and live a life of leisurely golf rounds and steaks on the grill with their beautiful wives are thwarted by measures out of their control. The two crazy Mafia golfers somehow figured out that the Michigan hustlers purposely threw their match, and now they want to do it all over again. Meanwhile, Will is following in their footsteps, eager to ply his trade anywhere he can find a gig. The young hustler and his wife, Melissa, are struggling in the financial department. The Battle Creek/Kalamazoo area is not a target rich environment for a guy that needs to make some decent money on the short ...
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Imagine an epidemic that kills over one hundred Americans every day. Now stop imagining. Each year doctors and nurses kill nearly one hundred thousand Americans. By mistake. They operate on the wrong patients, prescribe the wrong drugs, and leave instruments inside body cavities after surgery. Meanwhile, hospitals spend billions on new gadgets, marble lobbies, and slick billboards even as safety continues to be ignored. Until now. Internal Bleeding exposes the dark secrets behind the glistening facade of modern medicine. Doctors Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania, professors at one of America's leading medical schools and two of the world's foremost authorities on medical mistakes, shatter th...
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Under the best of conditions, the Peace Corps experience is somewhat like being parachuted into a human drama unfolding in a different culture. The volunteer may struggle mightily to be understood, but his attempts can be for naught if he misunderstands the framework of his role. Unfortunately, in spite of Peace Corps training, the only way a Peace Corps volunteer can understand the framework of his or her Peace Corps role is to live inside it, or even, as in the case of author James Jouppi, return to the site where he was stationed without the trappings of Peace Corps. In August of 1971, Jouppi arrived in Thailand as part of Peace Corps Thailand Group 38, a civil engineering group slated to...
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