Author: Sidner J. Larson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Eventually Larson found his father, but he first found himself, and that took more time and trouble. Along the way he experienced schools that didn't like Indians and career counselors eager to diminish his expectations. He also found friends to box, to play baseball with, and to drink with.
Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780064401579
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Based on the author's musical "The catch colt." Letty's parents refuse to allow her to marry a cowpuncher unless he can find out who his parents are.
Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749704766
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Author: George Howe Colt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416547789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Blends history and memoir in an account that in alternating chapters explores the author's quest to understand the impact of his brothers on his life and the complex relationships between iconic brothers, including the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, and the Marxes.
Author: Lauran Paine
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print
ISBN: 9780753162477
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Why was miserly rancher Davy Barber wiling to pay for young George Jefferson to be apprenticed to the harnessmaker? What is the significance of the woman's corpse found in the hills of Sheridan County?
Author: George Howe Colt
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501104799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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*A New York Times Notable Book* *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-notch reporting and relevance for our own time” (The Boston Globe) about the young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents of one of the most transformative years in American history. On November 23, 1968, there was a turbulent and memorable football game: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players, it was a triumph; to others a tragedy. And to many, the reasons had as much to do with one side’s miraculous comeback in the game’s final forty-two seconds as it did with the months that preceded it, months that witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, police brutality at the Democratic National Convention, inner-city riots, campus takeovers, and, looming over everything, the war in Vietnam. George Howe Colt’s The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it. One player had recently returned from Vietnam. Two were members of the radical antiwar group SDS. There was one NFL prospect who quit to devote his time to black altruism; another who went on to be Pro-Bowler Calvin Hill. There was a guard named Tommy Lee Jones, and fullback who dated a young Meryl Streep. They played side by side and together forged a moment of startling grace in the midst of the storm. “Vibrant, energetic, and beautifully structured” (NPR), this magnificent and intimate work of history is the story of ordinary people in an extraordinary time, and of a country facing issues that we continue to wrestle with to this day. “The Game is the rare sports book that lives up to the claim of so many entrants in this genre: It is the portrait of an era” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345522745
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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With such acclaimed works as The Devil’s Gentleman, Harold Schechter has earned renown as the dean of true-crime historians. Now, in this gripping account of driving ambition, doomed love, and brutal murder in an iconic American family, Schechter again casts his gaze into the sinister shadows of gaslit nineteenth-century New York City. In September 1841, a grisly discovery is made aboard a merchant ship docked in lower Manhattan: Deep in the cargo hold, bound with rope and covered with savage head wounds, lies a man’s naked corpse. While a murderer has taken pains to conceal his victim’s identity, it takes little time to determine that the dead man is Samuel Adams, proprietor of a local printing firm. And in less time still, witnesses and a bloody trail of clues lead investigators to the doorstep of the enigmatic John Colt. The scion of a prosperous Connecticut family, Colt has defied his parents’ efforts to mold him into a gentleman—preferring to flout authority and pursue excitement. Ironically, it is the ordered science of accountancy that for a time lends him respectability. But now John Colt’s ghastly crime and the subsequent sensational murder trial bring infamy to his surname—even after it becomes synonymous with his visionary younger brother’s groundbreaking invention. The embodiment of American success, Sam Colt has risen from poor huckster to industrious inventor. His greatest achievement, the revolver, will bring him untold millions even as it transforms the American West. In John’s hour of need, Sam rushes to his brother’s side—perhaps because of the secret they share. In Gilded Age New York, a city awash with treacherous schemers, lurid dime-museum curiosities, and the tawdry excesses of penny-press journalism, the Colt-Adams affair inspires tabloid headlines of startling and gruesome hyperbole, which in turn drive legions of thrill-seekers to John Colt’s trial. The dramatic legal proceedings will fire the imagination of pioneering crime writer Edgar Allan Poe and fuel the righteous outrage of journalist Walt Whitman. Killer Colt interweaves the intriguing stories of brooding, brilliant John and imaginative, enterprising Sam—sharp-witted and fascinating brothers on vastly divergent journeys, bound by an abiding mutual devotion and a mystery they will conceal to the end. Harold Schechter has mined the darkly macabre vein of a bygone era and brought forth a mother lode of storytelling gold. From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Ron Swoboda
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 1250235677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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In time for the 50th anniversary of the Mets' miraculous 1969 World Series win, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of that amazing season, the people he played with and against (sometimes at the same time), and what life was like as an Every Man ballplayer. Ron Swoboda wasn’t the greatest player the Mets ever had, but he made the greatest catch in Met history, saving a game in the 1969 World Series, and his RBI clinched the final game. By Met standards that makes him legend. The Mets even use a steel silhouette of the catch as a backing for the right field entrance sign at Citi Field. In this smart, funny, insightful memoir, which is as self-deprecating as a lifetime .249 hitter has to be, he tells the story of that magical year nearly game by game, revealing his struggles, his triumphs and what life was like for an every day, Every Man player, even when he was being platooned. He shows what it took to make one of the worst teams in baseball and what it was like to leave one of the best. And when he talks about the guys he played with and against, it’s like you’re sitting next to him on the team bus, drinking Rheingold. Here's the Catch is a book anyone who loves the game will love as much.
Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822201908
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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THE STORY: Owner of the largest ranch in his part of Wyoming, Jepson Heath is a proud and determined man. He manages his affairs with a firm hand, including the engagement of his beautiful daughter, Letty. The only man Jepson considers to be good e
Author: Rosalee Wren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680527773
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Little Colt follows a day in the life of...a little colt! Little ones will learn all about the baby horse. What do they do when they are born? How and what do they eat? When do they sleep? Mixing sweet illustrations with interesting facts for grown-ups and toddlers alike makes this a great early learning book. Come explore today! Follow a day in the life of this little pony on the farm Shaped board book with thick pages perfectly sized for little hands and fingers to turn the pages and read along. Nostalgic, retro artwork and beautiful pages A perfect little gift to complete any birthday gift, Easter basket or holiday present Collect all the fun shaped board books in this series from Cottage Door Press and strengthen a love for books & reading at the earliest ages
