Author: Michael Fedo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780886876081
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Baseball players who have had only one great season throughout their careers discuss the events, circumstances, and glory of the limelight, and their return to mediocrity
Suddenly One Summer
Author: Barbara Freethy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The first in a contemporary romance suspense series from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Barbara Freethy, set in the coastal California town of Angel’s Bay. In Angel’s Bay there is a local legend: spirits from an 1800s shipwreck protect the townspeople, bringing about a belief in miracles and an ability of the community to heal wounds and save souls. So when Jenna Davis’s sister left instructions for keeping her daughter, Lexie, safe from her abusive father, Jenna obeyed her late sister’s wishes and took Lexie to Angel’s Bay. For three months, the two live quietly. But when a young woman jumps over the pier into the ocean, Jenna dives in, saving the woman’s life. Now a hero in the eyes of the locals, Jenna tries to lie low, but reporter Reid Tanner is determined to figure out just who she is and what she’s hiding from—without realizing the possible cost.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The first in a contemporary romance suspense series from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Barbara Freethy, set in the coastal California town of Angel’s Bay. In Angel’s Bay there is a local legend: spirits from an 1800s shipwreck protect the townspeople, bringing about a belief in miracles and an ability of the community to heal wounds and save souls. So when Jenna Davis’s sister left instructions for keeping her daughter, Lexie, safe from her abusive father, Jenna obeyed her late sister’s wishes and took Lexie to Angel’s Bay. For three months, the two live quietly. But when a young woman jumps over the pier into the ocean, Jenna dives in, saving the woman’s life. Now a hero in the eyes of the locals, Jenna tries to lie low, but reporter Reid Tanner is determined to figure out just who she is and what she’s hiding from—without realizing the possible cost.
One Shining Season
Author: Michael Fedo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780886876081
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Baseball players who have had only one great season throughout their careers discuss the events, circumstances, and glory of the limelight, and their return to mediocrity
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780886876081
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Baseball players who have had only one great season throughout their careers discuss the events, circumstances, and glory of the limelight, and their return to mediocrity
One Crazy Summer
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060760885
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060760885
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.
One Summer Up North
Author: John Owens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517909505
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517909505
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.
The Summer Girls
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476709009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Mary Alice Monroe captures the complex relations between three half sisters scattered across the country and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476709009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Mary Alice Monroe captures the complex relations between three half sisters scattered across the country and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds.
You Gotta Have Wa
Author: Robert Whiting
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504074084
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
From the author of Tokyo Junkie, “the definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever” (San Francisco Chronicle). One might expect the sport of baseball in Japan to be a culture clash—a collision of American individualism with the Japanese focus on wa, or harmony. Instead, it has turned into a winning symbiosis. Imported American sluggers—some past their primes—have found new life in the East and have given credibility to the Japanese game. A succession of Japanese stars like Hideo Nomo left their teams to find success in the US major leagues, enabling MLB International to make hundreds of millions of dollars selling TV and licensing rights to its games in Japan. While philosophical differences remain, You Gotta Have Wa guides you through the strange and fascinating world of besuboru, or baseball. With a history of the game in Japan and an overview of the Japanese leagues and their rules, this book follows the careers of players and managers who influenced the game in the East and vice versa—including Babe Ruth, Ichiro Suzuki, Bobby Valentine, and Sadaharu Oh, the Japanese homerun king. Whether you are a Yankees or a Red Sox fan, a sports or an enthusiast of Japanese culture, “simply sit back and enjoy the wonderful stories in You Gotta Have Wa, one of the most unusual baseball books of the season” (The New York Times). “A wonderfully entertaining look at baseball and wa.” —Time “A terrific, fast-paced account of Japanese baseball.” —Chicago Tribune “A funny look at baseball in Japan that is as much a work of cultural anthropology as a sports book.” —Playboy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504074084
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
From the author of Tokyo Junkie, “the definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever” (San Francisco Chronicle). One might expect the sport of baseball in Japan to be a culture clash—a collision of American individualism with the Japanese focus on wa, or harmony. Instead, it has turned into a winning symbiosis. Imported American sluggers—some past their primes—have found new life in the East and have given credibility to the Japanese game. A succession of Japanese stars like Hideo Nomo left their teams to find success in the US major leagues, enabling MLB International to make hundreds of millions of dollars selling TV and licensing rights to its games in Japan. While philosophical differences remain, You Gotta Have Wa guides you through the strange and fascinating world of besuboru, or baseball. With a history of the game in Japan and an overview of the Japanese leagues and their rules, this book follows the careers of players and managers who influenced the game in the East and vice versa—including Babe Ruth, Ichiro Suzuki, Bobby Valentine, and Sadaharu Oh, the Japanese homerun king. Whether you are a Yankees or a Red Sox fan, a sports or an enthusiast of Japanese culture, “simply sit back and enjoy the wonderful stories in You Gotta Have Wa, one of the most unusual baseball books of the season” (The New York Times). “A wonderfully entertaining look at baseball and wa.” —Time “A terrific, fast-paced account of Japanese baseball.” —Chicago Tribune “A funny look at baseball in Japan that is as much a work of cultural anthropology as a sports book.” —Playboy
One Summer in Arkansas
Author: Marcia Kemp Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988376809
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A riveting tale of two families, intersecting across generations, steeped in the bittersweet legacy of the South. A black youth has drowned under mysterious circumstances at a city park and Lee Addison, just out of law school and back home in Arkansas for the summer, is assigned to the legal defense team. Torn between two cultures and two women, he is tested when tragedy strikes his own family"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988376809
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A riveting tale of two families, intersecting across generations, steeped in the bittersweet legacy of the South. A black youth has drowned under mysterious circumstances at a city park and Lee Addison, just out of law school and back home in Arkansas for the summer, is assigned to the legal defense team. Torn between two cultures and two women, he is tested when tragedy strikes his own family"--
The Palette of Life
Author: Barbara Flynn
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595284566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Anyone can relate to the raw emotion within each poem. We all share the commonality of turbulent family relationships, romance problems, marital issues, and perhaps the slicing pain of divorce. Additionally, many of us are trying to cope with personal loss, grief and death. We struggle to find meaning in our lives and our position within the broad spectrum of our human existence, beginning with the illumination of birth and the darkness of death. You will identify with the joy, and grief, expressed so eloquently by the author.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595284566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Anyone can relate to the raw emotion within each poem. We all share the commonality of turbulent family relationships, romance problems, marital issues, and perhaps the slicing pain of divorce. Additionally, many of us are trying to cope with personal loss, grief and death. We struggle to find meaning in our lives and our position within the broad spectrum of our human existence, beginning with the illumination of birth and the darkness of death. You will identify with the joy, and grief, expressed so eloquently by the author.
Popular Educator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Synchronicity
Author: Vin D'Angelo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595194656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Have you ever met a person and felt an immediate bond that you can’t explain? Some people ascribe it to chemistry. Others speak of aura compatibility. Some say it’s just wishful thinking. Synchronicity offers another explanation. It is a story of two souls eternally connected, but forced apart lifetime after lifetime. It is a story about the endurance of spirit and the strength of love. Our bodies wear out, but our spirits go on, and they are forever connected in a family of spirits that transcends lifetimes. In each lifetime our family collects new members whom we never lose. And those closest to us remain nearby in whatever form they have chosen.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595194656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Have you ever met a person and felt an immediate bond that you can’t explain? Some people ascribe it to chemistry. Others speak of aura compatibility. Some say it’s just wishful thinking. Synchronicity offers another explanation. It is a story of two souls eternally connected, but forced apart lifetime after lifetime. It is a story about the endurance of spirit and the strength of love. Our bodies wear out, but our spirits go on, and they are forever connected in a family of spirits that transcends lifetimes. In each lifetime our family collects new members whom we never lose. And those closest to us remain nearby in whatever form they have chosen.