Carpool Diem

Author : Nancy Star
Publisher : 5 Spot
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446511872

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Carpool Diem by Nancy Star Pdf

Annie Fleming's family has always adjusted well to her hard driving career. How could they not? Annie keeps them in line at home with typed, edited, and proofed to-do and not-to-do lists for her husband, her babysitter, and her daughter. (No TV on a school night, please!) But when an obnoxious co-worker conspires to force Annie out of her job, she finds herself out of work and face-to-face with her family, who, it turns out, isn't quite as well-adjusted as Annie thought. Husband Tim doesn't have near the follow-through that Annie does (ordered to downsize his employees, he can't fire anybody!) And daughter Charlotte doesn't even try to make the local soccer team - a cut-throat, take-no-prisoners system run by Winslow West, a man who dreams of the Olympic gold his young charges will someday win for him. Here Annie is unemployed and Charlotte's the one with the quitting attitude? Annie doesn't think so. She's determined to get Charlotte on the A team, but finds that the soccer sidelines are more cutthroat than a boardroom ever was.

Author : Joel Rosenblum
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781475910650

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Memories of Adulthood by Joel Rosenblum Pdf

If only people could be more like books. In that they would give the information we want to know without the information that will make us feel bad. There are so many perfect places to start that there is even no need to continue past this sentence. Anyway, thus saith a poet/punster/poopoo-er who keeps starting over, which is the nature of writing poetry. The only art you can't do fast if you have to is poetry. It's God making us compulsive rhymers. Because God loves everyone. (We have to love the very same bastards.) Humans, however, have all the easy chores: poverty, crime, disease. God has the hard one: how to bring all people to get along together. Poetry is not the same as lyrics. Poetry is simple self-love; lyrics, the poet wanting others to love, where words are made to sing without music. But submitting poetry is also the storm warning before rejection. Although just because one never finishes anything doesn't mean he shouldn't be starting things. After all, what's the verb for what you do?

Author : Bob Batchelor,Danielle Sarver Coombs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780313379895

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American History through American Sports by Bob Batchelor,Danielle Sarver Coombs Pdf

Filled with insightful analysis and compelling arguments, this book considers the influence of sports on popular culture and spotlights the fascinating ways in which sports culture and American culture intersect. This collection blends historical and popular culture perspectives in its analysis of the development of sports and sports figures throughout American history. American History through American Sports: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports is unique in that it focuses on how each sport has transformed and influenced society at large, demonstrating how sports and popular culture are intrinsically entwined and the ways they both reflect larger societal transformations. The essays in the book are wide-ranging, covering topics of interest for sports fans who enjoy the NFL and NASCAR as well as those who like tennis and watching the Olympics. Many topics feature information about specific sports icons and favorite heroes. Additionally, many of the topics' treatments prompt engagement by purposely challenging the reader to either agree or disagree with the author's analysis.

Author : Lee McGowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000693140

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Football in Fiction by Lee McGowan Pdf

Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, and reviews the book demonstrates a topographic perspective of the field – one that captures and establishes its breadth, depth, and distinctive identity. The book uses and adapts two distinct reading models of abstraction, in conjunction with closer textual analyses. Together they assist in realising a set of demonstrable conventions, outline a taxonomy of fictive types, establish the genre’s current state of play, and advance the football novel as a form with its own literary history and traditions. This book is a valuable resource for those studying and researching in the areas of the social and cultural aspects of football, sports fiction, sports writing, creative writing, and literary and genre studies. Furthermore, related industry professionals will find this a fascinating read, particularly football writers, fans of the sport, and those interested in sports history and cultural phenomena.

Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520956698

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Playing to Win by Hilary Levey Friedman Pdf

Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess. Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities outside of the home, especially when family time is so scarce? By analyzing the roots of these competitive afterschool activities and their contemporary effects, Playing to Win contextualizes elementary school-age children's activities, and suggests they have become proving grounds for success in the tournament of life—especially when it comes to coveted admission to elite universities, and beyond. In offering a behind-the-scenes look at how "Tiger Moms" evolve, Playing to Win introduces concepts like competitive kid capital, the carving up of honor, and pink warrior girls. Perfect for those interested in childhood and family, education, gender, and inequality, Playing to Win details the structures shaping American children's lives as they learn how to play to win.

Author : Rebecca Vnuk,Nanette Donohue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610695381

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Women's Fiction by Rebecca Vnuk,Nanette Donohue Pdf

Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre—titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.

Author : Chuck Sambuchino
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781582976600

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2009 Guide To Literary Agents - Listings by Chuck Sambuchino Pdf

Now, more than ever, in a market glutted with aspiring writers and a shrinking number of publishing houses, writers need someone familiar with the publishing scene to shepherd their manuscript to the right person. Completely updated annually, Guide to Literary Agents provides names and specialties for more than 800 individual agents around the United States and the world. The 2009 edition includes more than 85 pages of original articles on everything you need to know including how to submit to agents, how to avoid scams and what an agent can do for their clients.

Author : Chuck Sambuchino
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781582976594

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2009 Guide To Literary Agents by Chuck Sambuchino Pdf

Now, more than ever, in a market glutted with aspiring writers and a shrinking number of publishing houses, writers need someone familiar with the publishing scene to shepherd their manuscript to the right person. Completely updated annually, Guide to Literary Agents provides names and specialties for more than 800 individual agents around the United States and the world. The 2009 edition includes more than 85 pages of original articles on everything you need to know including how to submit to agents, how to avoid scams and what an agent can do for their clients.

Author : Robert Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1696 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781582976785

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2009 Writer's Market Listings by Robert Brewer Pdf

For 88 years, Writer's Market has given fiction and nonfiction writers the information they need to sell their work–from completely up-to-date listings to exclusive interviews with successful writers. The 2009 edition provides all this and more with over 3,500 listings for book publishers, magazines and literary agents, in addition to a completely updated freelance rate chart. In addition to the thousands of market listings, you'll find up-to-date information on becoming a successful freelancer covering everything from writing query letters to launching a freelance business, and more.

Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Railroads
ISBN : CHI:086486860

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Pooling in the United States 1920-1939 by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library Pdf

Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1414419120

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Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation by Dana Ferguson Pdf

Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.

Author : Masters of Sport
Publisher : Masters of Sport
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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NGA Rules & Regulations by Masters of Sport Pdf

National Gymnastics Association rules, procedures and regulations for both Men and Women's gymnastics. Includes judge's compensation package, athlete residency, competition formats and more.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : NWU:35559002514655

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Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Contains a selection of major decisions of the GAO. A digest of all decisions has been issued since Oct. 1989 as: United States. General Accounting Office. Digests of decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Before Oct. 1989, digests of unpublished decisions were issued with various titles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : IND:30000107290037

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Home by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren Mosko
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1582974985

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2008 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market by Lauren Mosko Pdf

For 27 years, fiction writers have depended on Novel & Short Story Writer's Market to help them sell their work and make professional connections in the industry. Listings for more than 1,300 book publishers, magazines, literary agents, writing contests and conferences-more than 60 of which are new to this edition-provide current contact information, editorial needs, schedules and guidelines that save you time and take the guesswork out of the submission process. Inside this edition, you'll also find: Interviews with best-selling and award-winning authors, such as Percival Everett, Sigrid Nunez, Lisa See, John Connolly, and Greg Rucka, offering practical guidance and a glimpse into the successful writing life, Articles on the business of fiction, including advice on hiring a publicist, working with a coauthor, testing the legitimacy of online journals, and bouncing back from rejection, Craft instruction to help you determine if your novel has what it takes to survive the slush pile. Novel & Short Story Writer's Market contains everything you need to know to submit your fiction. We've done your research for you-so you can get back to writing. Book jacket.