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From Darin Strauss, the bestselling author of Chang and Eng (A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year), comes the unforgettable story of "Kid" McCoy: boxer, jewel thief, scam artist, and the most married man in America. A fascinating mirror of the tumultuous backdrop of America at the turn of the century, The Real McCoy is "a muscular and entertaining novel about lies, scams, flimflams, and the inconvenience of truth" (GQ)
A famous historian is brutally murdered on Florida's Casey Key. The murder weapon is a samurai sword that a Japanese colonel surrendered to Professor Hunter McCoy's grandfather at the end of World War Two. With evidence mounting against him, Hunter's dad is arrested for the murder. As they search for the truth, both McCoys are drawn deeper into an increasingly elaborate web of deceit. Working out of the basement of a convent in Wuchang during the war, Dr. Li Qiang Chen, a Chinese country doctor, is believed to have discovered an extraordinary medicine capable of preventing the development of diabetes. The missing research notebook of the long dead physician may be inadvertently linked to a convicted Japanese war criminal. When Hunter becomes convinced that finding the notebook is the key to clearing his dad of the murder charge, he teams up with Billie Chen, Dr. Chen's great-granddaughter. Almost immediately, Hunter finds himself enmeshed in a continuing series of lies and misdirection that only deepens his dad's apparent guilt in the eyes of the law and potentially threatens everything Hunter holds dear.
...one "past" in Kansas City... is a fabricated] success story of prophecies redeemed, boldness vindicated, and the city itself a continuing testimony to triumph over the wilderness...Wohl and Brown, "The Usable Past" (1960)And there is the REAL "past" of Kansas City, recalled by: THE MAN WHO WAS THEREJOHN CALVIN McCOYBut if you think 'Calvin' was a meek bookworm loafing around the cracker barrel, consider this: Child of the raw frontier, he grew up playing bone-cracking, skin-splitting games with Potawatomi boys.A pathfinder, he faced up to Black Dog-an Osage chief who towered 7 feet and weighed 300 pounds.A surveyor, he survived roiling dust storms, deadly floods and icy blizzards in the American wilderness. Yes, he alone saw impenetrable, tangled wilds along the Missouri River in 1830 give rise to Kansas City swarming with 100,000 residents in 1889. And he told us about it JOHN CALVIN MCCOY WAS THE "VERY FATHER OF KANSAS CITY"Montgomery and Kasper, Kansas City: An American Story (1999)
HOW BRIDGE McCOY LEARNED TO SAY I LOVE YOU is an off-center love story about a writer who walks two steps forward and one step backward, hates change, and when he tries to tell the woman he loves that he loves her, all he can say is "I, I, I, I, Lo, Lo, Lo....," and starts choking like there is a meatball stuck in his throat. Set is a weird little art town in New Mexico and filled with a cast of characters that stretch the imagination the novel is funny, snide, sarcastic, and profoundly touching. But most of all it is the truth - all the weird, sad, warm, truth. And, as it isn't always true in life, love wins for all - even the old buildings who did not want to come out of retirement and the vegetarian lampposts who decide eating a hamburger every so often is better than murder.
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In a tale ripe with passion, happenstance, and humor, One Real McCoy is romantic comedy at its absolute finest. New author Anne Harper creates a dazzling and lively experience in this tale of a woman who learns to be true to her heart in a foreign land. Kelly McCoy sets out to make a new life for herself from her native Ireland after she catches her fianc in the arms of another lover. She accepts a position as a nanny with the Russell family in Chicago only to find herself swept off her feet by Parker MacIntyre, a local mining mogul with a troubled daughter who Kelly befriends. Outspoken to a fault, Kelly must battle issues with immigration and the general dysfunction of every American she comes across to discover that to her own self, she must and will be true. In fact, she is the real McCoy-hands down, one hundred percent.
Andrea McCoy aka Andre McCoy, a amateur fighter from New Bedford MA. He was 1979 New England Golden Gloves Champion along with Silver Medal winner for 1979 Spartacade Games in Moscow, Russia. He was killed on March 14, 1980 as he an members of the USA National Team were on board LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crash over Warsaw, Poland. Over his career he fought Tony Tucker, Kelvin D. Anderson, Jose Miguel and many others. He had a tremendous upside as did his opponents. Andrea had personal goals of graduating from New Bedford High School, becoming a Gold Medal winner for the USA and also becoming a Heavy-weight Champion. The Gentle Giant is truly missed by family, friends and the boxing world. All proceeds from this book will be donated to the New Bedford Boys & Girls Club, New Bedford, MA 02740
The story of the Hatfields and McCoys, as presented in books newspapers and cinema is largely fiction. It is legends and lies and not history, consisting of a few historical events inside several layers of tall tales and fables reported by the yellow journalists of the late nineteenth century. Almost all the actual events occurred in Pike County, Kentucky, where this author was born in 1940. The feud story came to us by way of big city newspaper reporters who visited Pikeville Kentucky shortly after the last feud violence, in 1888. With a plethora of fictional additions by various writers, the story remained much as it was in 1888, until this book The Pikeville stories were manufactured by men who had two primary goals: 1) They wanted to see a story published which would facilitate the conviction of Wall Hatfield and the other eight members of the Hatfield faction who were in jail in Pikeville, and, 2) They wanted to justify the two cold-blooded murders that had been committed only days before the reporters arrived by a gang organized by the same men who gave the reporters the story. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the fact that none of the original feud story, which forms the basis for all the succeeding iterations, was taken from the actual record. It is all hearsay, and the hearsay came from the most prejudiced sources imaginable. The Pikeville elite not only had "a dog in the fight," they had the whole damn pack in it. The same moneyed interests that owned the newspapers also wanted the vast mineral riches underlying the land occupied by the Hatfields and McCoys, and their reporters' depictions of the people of Tug Valley as immoral and violent barbarians helped to make the swindle more palatable to the public. The Hatfield and McCoy feud is probably unique among all the events in history in that writers of feud-based fiction are more constrained than are writers of feud history. The good fiction writer is always careful to avoid writing something that is patently impossible. A fiction writer would never say that twelve hundred people regularly attended a church in an isolated mountain hollow that had only two dozen members. A "True Story" of the feud, can say that and still have reviewers from prestigious media organs laud its factual accuracy. As fiction can be made just as exciting as the screenwriter or author desires, the 2012 TV epic, "Hatfields & McCoys," and the recent fictional 'history'' books are great entertainment, but they are not history. Some of the books that followed the 2012 Kevin Costner movie contain an even greater ratio of fable to facts than did the movie. With a rare combination of facts and humor, this author calls them all to task. Tom E. Dotson, holder of a Cornell masters degree in labor history, is descended from both the Hatfields and McCoys. Having heard the events described by eyewitnesses while growing up on Blackberry Creek, and, having spent over two thousand hours in the courthouses and archives, Mr. Dotson corrects the record--using the records.
When the children of Pleasantville came up missing Granny was heartbroken. Where could have the children gone to? Granny Mc Coy heirs picks up where she left off. Is there anyone that can stop them?
A psychic who connects with crime victims and a jaded FBI agent are unlikely partners as they team up to take down a serial kidnapper . . . After narrowly avoiding a head-on collision the first time they meet, Julie Hatfield and Robert McCoy pray they never have to lay eyes on each other again. Not going to happen. The psychic and the FBI agent have just been named official partners in finding a missing child—the third in a string of abductions that cross state lines. Haunted by a shattering crime in his past, McCoy is skeptical of Hatfield’s special gifts—until she starts reliving the crime through the eyes of the eight-year-old girl. But it’s only the beginning. Because someone is targeting Hatfield . . . someone who knows everything about her, and not even McCoy will be able to protect the strangely compelling woman who is making him believe in love again.
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![The Family of Daniel Fairchild, Sr., 1768-1835; a Geneology [sic] by Gladys McCoy Wyman, Great-great Granddaughter.](/covers/9781014077196.jpg)
![The Family of Daniel Fairchild, Sr., 1768-1835; a Geneology [sic] by Gladys McCoy Wyman, Great-great Granddaughter.](/covers/9781014781970.jpg)
