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The Lineup

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316071826

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A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Jack Reacher a drifter? How did a brief encounter in Botswana inspire Alexander McCall Smith to create Precious Ramotswe? In The Lineup, some of the top mystery writers in the world tell about the genesis of their most beloved characters -- or, in some cases, let their creations do the talking.

The Lineup

Author : Meghan Quinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1713478765

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Want to know a secret?It's about that girl over there.Don't look, but she's the one in the power suit-with the long, black hair and the serious expression, the one I'm about to go on a date with . . .Yeah, according to her, she "accidentally" donated an obscene amount of money to my charity - The Lineup - to win said date but I found out the truth. Miss. Button Up Blouse has a secret, passionate crush on me. I didn't know her name until two days ago, despite the friends we have in common. Was I oblivious? Probably.Was I blind to it? Definitely.But I'm no fool, I see it now. The High Heel Harlot wants more than just a date with Jason Orson, she wants to be able to claim the best butt in baseball as hers. Here's another secret . . . she has no idea I know.

The Line Up Book

Author : Marisabina Russo
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780688062040

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"Lunch!" Sam heard his mother calling. But Sam was very busy. "Just a minute," he called back. Sam wasn't ready in a minute. Sam's mother was about to lose her patience, but when she saw what Sam had been doing, all was forgiven. An ingenous first picture book with bold, brilliant illustrations.

The Book

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781597973656

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Baseball "by The Book."

Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups

Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0756780527

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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups by Rob Neyer Pdf

Looking at every position on every major-league team, the ESPN.com baseball columnist presents a series of lineups for each franchise and explores the careers of players both famous and obscure. 25 photos.

Professor Baseball

Author : Edwin Amenta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780226016689

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It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.

The Lady with the Books

Author : Kathy Stinson
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525306006

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A fictionalized retelling of how books from around the world helped children in Germany recuperate after WWII. Anneliese and Peter will never be the same after the war that took their father’s life. One day, while wandering the ruined streets of Munich, the children follow a line of people entering a building, thinking there may be free food inside. Instead, they are delighted to discover a great hall filled with children’s books — more books than Anneliese can count. Here, they meet the lady with the books, who will have a larger impact on the children’s lives than they could have ever imagined. The place between despair and hope can often be found between the covers of a book.

The Starting Lineup

Author : A. C. Moses, Jr.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523404728

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Based on one's Life Experience* A True Story!

The Girl in the Corn

Author : Jason Offutt
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780744304510

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Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don’t exist. At least that’s what Thomas Cavanaugh’s parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents’ farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy’s world and his sanity. Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy’s world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

Long, Last, Happy

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802196200

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A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection. A fitting summation of one of America’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Barry Hannah’s final unfinished collection, Long, Last, Happy. The astonishingly varied stories in this collection span nearly five decades of unremitting brilliance. Praised for writing “the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America” (Sven Birkerts), Hannah’s ferocious, glittering prose and sui generis worldview introduced readers to a literary New South—a fictional landscape that encompasses “women, God, lust, race, nature, gay Confederates, good old boys, bad old boys, guns, animals, fishing, fighting, cars, pestilence, surrealism, gritty realism, the future, and the past . . . tossed together in glorious juxtapositions” (Vanity Fair). Long, Last, Happy confirms Barry Hannah as one of our most brilliant voices. “Hannah is the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction; an electrifying Mark Twain—a wailing genius of literary twang, reverb, feedback, and general sonic unholiness that results in grace notes so piercing you heart melts like an overloaded amp.” —Interview

Line Up

Author : Logan Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Surfer photography
ISBN : 1988550246

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"Regarded internationally as one of the surfing world's top line-up surf photographers, Logan Murray has had a long New Zealand career spanning five decades. 'Line-up' is his second book, and features his best contemporary work, stunning images for the surfing connoisseur of perfect New Zealand waves. These photographs come from Murray's home patch on the east coast of the North Island, as well as the Bay of Plenty and Coromandel, though their appeal is universal. Many of these images have been cover shots or double-page spreads for the world's most prestigious surf publications. Publicity-shy, Logan Murray remains an enigma to many New Zealand surfers, but he has never stopped writing stories and taking photographs of amazing waves in pristine New Zealand locations."--Publisher's description.

The Time Traveler's Almanac

Author : Ann VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466841451

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The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Henry Aaron's Dream

Author : Matt Tavares
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763632243

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A picture book biography of African-American baseball player Hank Aaron.

Going There

Author : Katie Couric
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316535878

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This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she’s never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is.” Beginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism . . . challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. Couric talks candidly about adjusting to sudden fame after her astonishing rise to co-anchor of the TODAY show, and guides us through the most momentous events and news stories of the era, to which she had a front-row seat: Rodney King, Anita Hill, Columbine, the death of Princess Diana, 9/11, the Iraq War . . . In every instance, she relentlessly pursued the facts, ruffling more than a few feathers along the way. She also recalls in vivid and sometimes lurid detail the intense pressure on female anchors to snag the latest “get”—often sensational tabloid stories like Jon Benet Ramsey, Tonya Harding, and OJ Simpson. Couric’s position as one of the leading lights of her profession was shadowed by the shock and trauma of losing her husband to stage 4 colon cancer when he was just 42, leaving her a widow and single mom to two daughters, 6 and 2. The death of her sister Emily, just three years later, brought yet more trauma—and an unwavering commitment to cancer awareness and research, one of her proudest accomplishments. Couric is unsparing in the details of her historic move to the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News—a world rife with sexism and misogyny. Her “welcome” was even more hostile at 60 Minutes, an unrepentant boys club that engaged in outright hazing of even the most established women. In the wake of the MeToo movement, Couric shares her clear-eyed reckoning with gender inequality and predatory behavior in the workplace, and downfall of Matt Lauer—a colleague she had trusted and respected for more than a decade. Couric also talks about the challenge of finding love again, with all the hilarity, false-starts, and drama that search entailed, before finding her midlife Mr. Right. Something she has never discussed publicly—why her second marriage almost didn’t happen. If you thought you knew Katie Couric, think again. Going There is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom. In these pages, you will find a friend, a confidante, a role model, a survivor whose lessons about life will enrich your own.

Piece of Cake

Author : Bernadette Mayer,Lewis Warsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581771878

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Piece of Cake by Bernadette Mayer,Lewis Warsh Pdf

Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote Piece of Cake as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976-the bicentennial year of the America's Declaration of Independence. It recounts the quotidian details of daily activities, negotiating the exigencies of young, married-with-children life, the artistic path and citizenship. It has the classic "I did this, I did that" of a New York School of Poetry text, as characterized by the poetry of Frank O'Hara, and is somewhat reminiscent of Mayer's work Studying Hunger Journal, written not long before taking up Piece of Cake. Another distinguishing feature of this work is that it is arguably the first significant male-female collaboration in 20th century American poetry. Regarding the possible derivation of the work's title, and exemplary of the work's tenor, is the start of Warsh's entry of August 29: "I also recall getting up and eating a piece of left-over cake (a very sweet store-bought cake with green or possibly pinkish icing) and drinking a glass of milk at the kitchen window. Empty streets, no moon. Michael and Twinkie asleep on the floor of Bernadette's room, Guy and Karen in mine, Bill on the couch in the living room. Marie in her crib. Everyone 'dead to the world,' a phrase I dislike, what a full house."