Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393330478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393330478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393330478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.
Taking it up the Blindside
Author: Jon Prichard
Publisher: Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.
ISBN: 6164560101
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
What goes on tour, stays on tour…UNTIL NOW! All, and I do mean all, rugby players the world over are from the same mould. They are friendly, convivial, generally well mannered, muscular, motivated, heavy drinkers with a high testosterone level, but above all trustworthy...Until now. This treacherous author has let the pussy out of the bag and touring is no longer a simple visa permit from the wife. From the author, Jon Prichard: "I joined the British Club of Bangkok and immersed myself if their rugby team becoming captain for a few years and then as a playing and moaning Chairman. The BC and an Asian based Rhino’s RFC have taken me on innumerable rugby tours throughout Asia and beyond and in late 2017 I decided to make some written tales of those adventures. The tales are true and risqué in every way and some are seriously adult reading. There are also tales of simple experiences of living and working in Asia, but most have a rugby flavour."
Publisher: Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.
ISBN: 6164560101
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
What goes on tour, stays on tour…UNTIL NOW! All, and I do mean all, rugby players the world over are from the same mould. They are friendly, convivial, generally well mannered, muscular, motivated, heavy drinkers with a high testosterone level, but above all trustworthy...Until now. This treacherous author has let the pussy out of the bag and touring is no longer a simple visa permit from the wife. From the author, Jon Prichard: "I joined the British Club of Bangkok and immersed myself if their rugby team becoming captain for a few years and then as a playing and moaning Chairman. The BC and an Asian based Rhino’s RFC have taken me on innumerable rugby tours throughout Asia and beyond and in late 2017 I decided to make some written tales of those adventures. The tales are true and risqué in every way and some are seriously adult reading. There are also tales of simple experiences of living and working in Asia, but most have a rugby flavour."
I Beat The Odds
Author: Michael Oher
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101560037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101560037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling…he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons." —Janet Maslin, New York Times When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family’s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability, his blind side.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling…he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons." —Janet Maslin, New York Times When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family’s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability, his blind side.
The Blind Side
Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504033256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Who killed Ross Craddock? Inspector Ernest Lamb will sift through multiple clues and suspects to find out in this golden age mystery from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries Lucy Craddock has lived at No. 7 Craddock House for years. But now she’s about to be turned out of her home—by her own nephew. She was at his christening, for mercy’s sake! Greed is what drives Ross Craddock, who inherited the once-magnificent family home built ninety years earlier and has since divided it into flats rented by quarreling, passionate tenants. But none is more wicked than Ross himself, his handsome visage concealing an evil heart. He gets his comeuppance when he’s found sprawled on the hearthrug in a pool of blood—shot to death with his own revolver. Who had a motive to kill him? Who didn’t? Is the murderer Peter Renshaw, a soldier with His Majesty’s Army, who may have been protecting pretty young Mavis Grey from Ross’s unwanted advances? Bobby Foster, Mavis’s jealous suitor? Or Lucy’s niece, Lee Fenton, who walks in her sleep? Then there’s Miss Lucy herself. They’re all concealing secrets. But one is worth killing for, as Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard discover in this classic British puzzler that will keep readers guessing until the shocking denouement. The Blind Side is the 1st book in the Ernest Lamb Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504033256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Who killed Ross Craddock? Inspector Ernest Lamb will sift through multiple clues and suspects to find out in this golden age mystery from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries Lucy Craddock has lived at No. 7 Craddock House for years. But now she’s about to be turned out of her home—by her own nephew. She was at his christening, for mercy’s sake! Greed is what drives Ross Craddock, who inherited the once-magnificent family home built ninety years earlier and has since divided it into flats rented by quarreling, passionate tenants. But none is more wicked than Ross himself, his handsome visage concealing an evil heart. He gets his comeuppance when he’s found sprawled on the hearthrug in a pool of blood—shot to death with his own revolver. Who had a motive to kill him? Who didn’t? Is the murderer Peter Renshaw, a soldier with His Majesty’s Army, who may have been protecting pretty young Mavis Grey from Ross’s unwanted advances? Bobby Foster, Mavis’s jealous suitor? Or Lucy’s niece, Lee Fenton, who walks in her sleep? Then there’s Miss Lucy herself. They’re all concealing secrets. But one is worth killing for, as Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard discover in this classic British puzzler that will keep readers guessing until the shocking denouement. The Blind Side is the 1st book in the Ernest Lamb Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
A Bit on the Blind Side
Author: Geraldine Murfin-Shaw
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326774115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Downing tools in the allotment where they have toiled for the last six years, Valerie and her husband Wolfram decide to cycle to Germany to visit his mother. Before they leave, Val's guide the Aztec Priest appears among the bean rows and tells her this will be a Vision Quest - and so it turns out to be, not least due to their involvement in Channel 4's 'Real Holiday Show'. In spite of the dangers they encounter on this trip they develop an appetite for foreign parts and embark on many subsequent cycling adventures, all of which turn out more or less disastrously. Travel with them as they ride through France, Italy and their beloved Black Forest - the stoic Val shouting instructions from behind as the hapless blind Wolf does his best to avoid hitting anything. Share their horrors and delights at the larger-than-life characters they meet abroad and the comradeship of their Asian neighbours on the allotments. A heartwarming and spiritual tale of two lives inextricably intertwined - until Fate intervened.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326774115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Downing tools in the allotment where they have toiled for the last six years, Valerie and her husband Wolfram decide to cycle to Germany to visit his mother. Before they leave, Val's guide the Aztec Priest appears among the bean rows and tells her this will be a Vision Quest - and so it turns out to be, not least due to their involvement in Channel 4's 'Real Holiday Show'. In spite of the dangers they encounter on this trip they develop an appetite for foreign parts and embark on many subsequent cycling adventures, all of which turn out more or less disastrously. Travel with them as they ride through France, Italy and their beloved Black Forest - the stoic Val shouting instructions from behind as the hapless blind Wolf does his best to avoid hitting anything. Share their horrors and delights at the larger-than-life characters they meet abroad and the comradeship of their Asian neighbours on the allotments. A heartwarming and spiritual tale of two lives inextricably intertwined - until Fate intervened.
When I Realized Butterflies Are Beautiful
Author: Barbara Ghoston
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457553708
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
I grew up a middle child, in a small college town in Alabama. We were poor but proud. I managed to work my through college and after moving to northwest Indiana, completed some graduate school. History/Political Science has always been my safe haven, my interest, those subjects intrigued me. I write to ease the pains of life. I write to inspire but mainly to start conversations. I believe that people grown up, not down physically and mentally. This small book allows me to hold hands with you, to garner understanding, to build, to help others and ultimately, to make our America a much better place. Thanks for your support, watch the results of your support.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457553708
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
I grew up a middle child, in a small college town in Alabama. We were poor but proud. I managed to work my through college and after moving to northwest Indiana, completed some graduate school. History/Political Science has always been my safe haven, my interest, those subjects intrigued me. I write to ease the pains of life. I write to inspire but mainly to start conversations. I believe that people grown up, not down physically and mentally. This small book allows me to hold hands with you, to garner understanding, to build, to help others and ultimately, to make our America a much better place. Thanks for your support, watch the results of your support.
Thin Line Between Death and Dishonor
Author: Amir Sanchez
Publisher: Urban Books
ISBN: 1622862309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Born to the game, the younger Santanas found themselves forced to fill their mothers’ shoes after the two sisters were indicted by the feds. Instead of sticking to the blueprints they inherited, they deviated far from the script. The money, power, and respect shot straight to their heads, and they used their status as a weapon. Now, their deadly display of violence and bloodshed has drawn heavy attention and heat to the family name. Once their mothers catch wind of their dangerous activities, they call in a favor from an associate they are confident can guide the boys in their absence. They ask him to help the Santana boys develop their game to a successful level. Little do they know it’s already too late. The feds are already on their every move. In an effort to get a closer look into the family’s affairs, the feds begin recruiting and making deals like it’s an NBA draft. Power struggles ensue that cause the family to be divided and severely weakened. Under those circumstances, the feds take full advantage and go to great lengths to bring the Santanas down—permanently. The deception, disloyalty, and dishonor escalate to an all-time high, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake. When the walls close in, who will live and who will die? Who will snitch, and how many will lie? Who will ride hard when freedom is on the line?
Publisher: Urban Books
ISBN: 1622862309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Born to the game, the younger Santanas found themselves forced to fill their mothers’ shoes after the two sisters were indicted by the feds. Instead of sticking to the blueprints they inherited, they deviated far from the script. The money, power, and respect shot straight to their heads, and they used their status as a weapon. Now, their deadly display of violence and bloodshed has drawn heavy attention and heat to the family name. Once their mothers catch wind of their dangerous activities, they call in a favor from an associate they are confident can guide the boys in their absence. They ask him to help the Santana boys develop their game to a successful level. Little do they know it’s already too late. The feds are already on their every move. In an effort to get a closer look into the family’s affairs, the feds begin recruiting and making deals like it’s an NBA draft. Power struggles ensue that cause the family to be divided and severely weakened. Under those circumstances, the feds take full advantage and go to great lengths to bring the Santanas down—permanently. The deception, disloyalty, and dishonor escalate to an all-time high, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake. When the walls close in, who will live and who will die? Who will snitch, and how many will lie? Who will ride hard when freedom is on the line?
Upper Room Bulletin
Author: Upper Room Bible Class (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Scrum-Half to Full-Back - The Tactics and Techniques of Good Attacking Rugby
Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447489845
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
From Scrum-Half to Full-Back is a comprehensive guide to the tactics and skills required to become a formidable attacking rugby player, with chapters dedicated to each position and diagrams to show foot work and perfect placement on the pitch. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447489845
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
From Scrum-Half to Full-Back is a comprehensive guide to the tactics and skills required to become a formidable attacking rugby player, with chapters dedicated to each position and diagrams to show foot work and perfect placement on the pitch. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.