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Don Jones II (born May 14, 1990) is a former American football safety. He played college football at Arkansas State. Early years Played running back and defensive back for the Hazlewood Golden Bears in Town Creek, Alabama, coached by Aaron Goode. He starred as a guard on the basketball team, coached by Shane Childress. As a senior, Jones won the Class 1A 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters in track. Jones ran for 1,869 yards and 22 touchdowns his senior year and had scholarship offers from 10 Division I schools. In July 2007, before his senior year, Jones was timed at 4.38 in a 40-yard dash at the Alabama-Birmingham football camp.Hazlewood High School also has produced former NFL players Antonio Langham, Kerry Goode, Chris Goode, Kalvin Pearson, Joe Manley, and Bob Penchion. College career He played college football for the Arkansas State Red Wolves, where he started as a running back for head coach Steve Roberts. While with the Red Wolves, Jones rushed for 149 yards and two touchdowns on 24 attempts and had 12 catches for 146 yards and a score as a freshman in 2009. He then transferred to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where he played safety. He then returned to Arkansas State in 2011, where he moved to defensive back and linebacker. Professional career Miami Dolphins Jones was selected in the seventh round (250th overall) by the Miami Dolphins. His NFL.com draft profile grade was 50.2 Don Jones made a game-changing play for the Dolphins on September 22, 2013, against the Atlanta Falcons in the Dolphins' first home game of the season. Covering a punt on special teams, Jones forced a fumble when he hit punt returner Harry Douglas with 1:48 left in the third quarter. The Dolphins, trailing at the time 20-13, recovered the loose ball and scored a touchdown on the ensuing drive and went on to win 27-23. The victory improved the Dolphins' record to 3-0. He played on the special teams in all 16 regular-season games for the Dolphins, who finished 8-8 and missed the playoffs. On December 24, 2013, Jones was named to the Professional Football Writers Association's All-Rookie Team as the kick gunner on special teams. On Twitter, Jones wrote "Horrible" and "OMG" shortly after the drafting of Michael Sam by the St. Louis Rams and was promptly fined by the Dolphins and suspended from team activities. He was required to undergo educational training before he can return to the team. Jones was reinstated on May 19, 2014, after completing the training. Jones was waived by the Dolphins on August 31, 2014. New England Patriots The New England Patriots claimed Jones off waivers on September 1, 2014. He was cut on Thanksgiving (November 27). Second stint with the Miami Dolphins Jones signed with the Miami Dolphins on November 28, 2014. New Orleans Saints Jones was signed to the New Orleans Saints practice squad on September 7, 2015, and was promoted to the active roster five days later. After appearing in five games on special teams, he was waived on October 13. Cleveland Browns Jones was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns on October 14, 2015. On March 17, 2016, Jones signed a one-year contract with the Cleveland Browns worth $1,671,000. He was released on October 4, 2016. Houston Texans On October 19, 2016, Jones was signed by the Houston Texans. San Francisco 49ers On March 10, 2017, Jones signed a two-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers. He was placed on injured reserve on September 2, 2017, after suffering an ACL injury. On July 25, 2018, Jones was waived by the 49ers. Personal life In April 2018, Jones returned to Lawrence County, Alabama, to escort a special needs student to her senior prom. References External links Arkansas State bio Media related to Don Jones at Wikimedia Commons. Discover the Don Jones popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Don Jones books.
Best Seller Don Jones Books of 2024
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The Past Is Never
Tiffany Quay TysonWINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern FictionWINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association WINNER of the 2019...
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Roxana
Daniel Defoe & David BlewettBeautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her foolish husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whor...
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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
AnonymousLázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take on Lazarillo (little Lázaro) as his appre...
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The Alexiad
Anna Komnene & E. R. A. SewterA revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman an account of the reign of a Byz...
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Young, Rich, and Dangerous
Jermaine DupriJermaine Dupri has reached modernday mythical status in the music industry. He is the power behindthe music of top artists including Mariah Carey,Usher, Lil Jon, and Janet Jackson....
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The Covert War Against Rock
Alex ConstantineThe connections between government, organized crime, and the music industry are examined, offering compelling evidence that there may be more to the deaths of important popular mus...
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Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Aphra BehnWhen Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surin...
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides & Rex Warner'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocid...
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Parzival
Wolfram Eschenbach & A. HattoComposed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the recreation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It fo...
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The Shadow Catcher
Hipolito AcostaLiving under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in highstakes undercover operations in...
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Little Dorrit
Charles DickensThe Penguin English Library Edition of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking fo...
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The Car Share
Zoe Brisby'I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Amazon reviewer 'Outrageously funny!' Amazon reviewer 'Extremely touching' Amazon reviewer 'An absolute delight' Netgalley reviewerThe PERFECT C...
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Chasing the Boogeyman
Richard ChizmarThe acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel of smalltown evil that “is genuinely chilling and something brandnew and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (...
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What Fresh Hell
Lucy Vine'Totally relatable and hilarious one of the best books I've read' Heat'Laughoutloud funny. Truly, the Bridget Jones for our generation' Louise O'NeillWhat do you get if you cros...
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The Complete English Poems
John DonneNo poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy...
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Faster Than A Cannonball
Dylan JonesDecades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published H...
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Paradise Lost
John Milton'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, aweinspiring cosmos ranging across huge ...
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Trick Baby
Iceberg SlimThe author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor, and race, bestselling author Iceberg Slim brings us the story of a hustler w...
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Death Wish
Iceberg SlimThis is the original mafia story that spawned all the restthe story of Chicago’s ruthless and tireless mafia.Power hungry Don, Jimmy Collucci, is out to become the kingpin of Chica...
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Faust, Part II
Goethe & David ConstantineIn this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classi...
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Mama Black Widow
Iceberg Slim“Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird RevelationThe most gritty and real...
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Becoming the Boogeyman
Richard ChizmarThe “worthy and frightening sequel” (Stephen King) to the acclaimed and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben) New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman.Back in ...
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The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
PlautusOne of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection feat...
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Pepita Jimenez
Juan ValeraPepita Jiménez depicts the gradual realization by a young seminarian of the empty vanity of his vocation, while he falls in love on the eve of his ordination. The novel gives a vie...
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National Populism
Roger Eatwell & Matthew GoodwinA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA crucial new guide to one of the most important and most dangerous phenomena of our time: the rise of populism in the WestAcross the West, there is...
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Something Wilder
Christina LaurenThe “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar) and New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners present a charming and laughoutloud funny novel fill...
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Pimp
Iceberg Slim“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” Dave Chappelle, from his Nextflix special The Bird RevelationPimp sent sh...
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70s House
Estelle Bilson"I loved the 70s and that's both the 1970s and the 1870s. There's obviously always something about a decade that starts with a seven that means the design dial is turned to 11; co...
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Great Jones Street
Don DeLilloFrom the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdr...
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Long White Con
Iceberg SlimIceberg Slim, bestselling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet another riveting classic about the most incredible con man ever to have risen.Picking up where Trick Baby lef...
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The New Spaniards
John HooperA fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continu...
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Just Like Proper Grown-Ups
Christina Hopkinson'You don't really grow up until you either have a kid or one of your parents dies.' Glamorously carefree and nearing forty, Tess shows no sign of settling down. That is, until s...
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The Revolution Was Televised
Alan SepinwallA phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Me...
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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
Iceberg SlimIceberg Slim described himself as “ill…from America’s fake façade of justice and democracy,” an illness that may have been a detriment, but evolved into the tales that serve as a c...
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Maggie
Charles MartinThe moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance. After slipping into a fourmonthslong coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, ...
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Sepinwall On Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Alan SepinwallFrom the updated edition of The Revolution Was Televised, Alan Sepinwall’s analysis of Breaking Bad and Mad Men, featuring new commentary and insights on the complete series and co...