Download or read book A Second Shot written by Alex Kuskowski and published by Saddleback Educational Publ. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes: Hi-Lo, Sports, urban teens, Basketball. Finding the "right book" for struggling learners is essential to build both confidence and proficiency. Reading supports must be seamless, so that struggling readers are not stigmatized. The District 13 series does just that--written using carefully chosen vocabulary and simple sentences, the novels offer compelling teen stories about characters that interest young adult readers. Using sports as a backdrop, these edgy and mature titles confront issues that are of great importance to urban teens, especially teenaged boys: Coming of age, dating, fitting in, friendships, drugs, self-esteem, and school. Straightforward plots move readers through the 48-pages of text quickly and efficiently with satisfying resolutions. Synopsis: Wallace was worried. This was nothing like at his old school. He wasn't giving up basketball. Not for bullies. Not for anyone. He messed up at his old school. This was his last shot. He'd just have to watch his back.

Download or read book Second Shot with 76 written by Piper Rayne and published by Piper Rayne, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mom always said you don’t get a second shot at making a first impression. I’ve remembered that my entire career. Especially since I’m one of the few black men who play professional hockey. I’m calculated and respectful in the way I speak to my coaches, the owners, and the media. I’ve never taken a risk… until her. I could blame it on the fact that for once I pushed away the pressure of my career for the ocean waves, the sand, and good times with my new teammates. But those are excuses because the minute I saw her at the airport, something lit up inside me and the best week of my life was spent with her in my bed. After our week in paradise, we said goodbye, exchanged phone numbers and both assumed that unless one of us was flying through the other’s city on the opposite side of the country, our vacation fling was over. Then one night after practice I see her. She’s here. In my city. Telling me she moved here for a job. If that’s not fate tell me what is. I’ve never wanted a second shot more than I do this time, but she’s determined to leave what we were on the island we left behind.

Download or read book A Second Shot written by Shannon Stacey and published by Shannon Stacey. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andi Morgan was the one who got away—the woman Erik Burke walked away from to focus on the game—but when their paths cross once again, all he wants for Christmas is the chance to take another shot at love. (Previously published in the Hockey Holidays anthology.)

Download or read book How to Hit Your Second Shot First written by David S Watkins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pros have an unfair advantage. They hit driver wedge; we hit drive 5 wood. How is that fair? This is a book for those determined golfers sandwiched below the professional level but above the multitude of non-golfers unable to appreciate the game. The pros have conquered the game; at the same time, there is no sympathy here for the Sub-Optimal golfer nor from anyone who does not play or understand golf. It can be a truly lonely existence for them, with nothing to which they can look forward except the forward tees themselves.

Download or read book The Layton Court Mystery written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned British crime writer’s classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author Roger Sheringham, has his doubts. The bullet wound is not positioned where it could have been easily self-inflicted. With a house full of partygoers and servants, suspects abound. It will take Sheringham’s sharp wit and fearless investigating to deduce who brought the festivities to a fatal end. The founder of the Detection Club in London, along with Agatha Christie and other writers, Anthony Berkeley wrote numerous novels, sometimes using the pseudonyms Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Layton Court Mystery is his first book in the Roger Sheringham Cases, which includes The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Silk Stocking Murders, among other titles. “Certainly, Berkeley’s short and fascinating career deserves to be saluted. For fans of the classic English crime novel, his books remain enjoyable to this day. Nobody has ever done ironic ingenuity better than Anthony Berkeley.” —Mystery Scene “He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, but has languished somewhat in obscurity since. A troubled, dark, incredibly innovative writer . . .” —Shedunnit

Download or read book Two Guns written by Steven Grant and published by BOOM! Studios. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pulp story about cops and thieves and the men that are something in between. Trench has targeted a local bank to rob, and asked Steadman in on the job. Trench figures it's a great way to score -- considering it's a cover for mob money. They'll be thieves ripping off thieves. But what Steadman doesn't know is that Trench is a DEA agent. And what Trench doesn't know is that Steadman's a Naval Intelligence officer. They're both cops! And neither one knows that they're not robbing the mob, they've been set up to steal $50 million from the CIA! A light-hearted crime romp in the vein of Ocean's Thirteen and The Italian Job from comics legend, Steven Grant!

Download or read book Second Shot written by Adam Carpenter and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long summer has kept Jimmy McSwain away from the city he loves, uncertain of what the future holds. But upon his return, tomorrow quickly becomes a deadly today. Jimmy has often done work for his sister Mallory’s law firm, and this time the new partner and his handsome associate want to hire Jimmy to solve the mystery of twin brothers. One of the twins lies in a coma, while the other has gone missing. Aiding Jimmy in this confusing case is Brenden Hendricks, the young lawyer who just happens to have a strong attraction to Jimmy. Then murder rocks the Portnoy clan. Meanwhile, there’s Jimmy’s lingering obsession with the criminal mastermind Mr. Wu-Tin. Jimmy is determined to bring him down, and the NYPD knows that. Brought in to assist the Special Task Force, Jimmy feels he’s being manipulated, but this is his best lead yet. The problem is his partner assigned to the case: his ex, Francis X. Frisano. Soon Jimmy and Frisano are setting traps for Wu-Tin, even as the cornered man is setting his empire ablaze. Complex, confounding, the duality in his life will test more than Jimmy’s loyalty. It could rock his very foundation. Deep down he knows that by solving both cases, he’s got a second shot at a new life.

Download or read book A Second Shot of Coffee with Jesus written by David Wilkie and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people start their day with a shot of Coffee with Jesus, the critically acclaimed online comic strip. Find yourself in your favorite characters and laugh with Jesus at the absurdities of our world and the ways we walk in it with this venti-sized second collection, brought to you by Radio Free Babylon and InterVarsity Press.

Download or read book A Shot to Save the World written by Gregory Zuckerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An inspiring and informative page-turner." –Walter Isaacson Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn’t muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop the virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life’s work into life-saving vaccines in a matter of months, each gunning to make the big breakthrough—and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed. A #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist lauded for his “bravura storytelling” (Gary Shteyngart) and “first-rate” reporting (The New York Times), Zuckerman takes us inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes, and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping, this is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time. It’s a story of courage, genius, and heroism. It’s also a tale of heated rivalries, unbridled ambitions, crippling insecurities, and unexpected drama. A Shot to Save the World is the story of how science saved the world.

Download or read book A Second Shot at Love written by Samantha Michaels and published by Samantha Michaels. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous rock singer, Dean Fox, has had enough of the intense pressure and shallow people that is the L.A. music scene. Especially when he catches his girlfriend in bed with another man. Dean chooses to retire from the music industry and moves back East to a rural part of Pennsylvania after purchasing a newly vacated farm where he can live a quiet life. Away from everyone. Dean’s new neighbor, Alexandra Peterson, runs the farm next door. The problem? She happens to be Dean’s ex-girlfriend… Left behind when he first signed a record deal. The woman he never quite forgot. Will Alex allow Dean to break down the walls that he forced her to build around her heart? Or will they both let the second chance of a happily ever after pass them by forever?

Download or read book Second Shot written by Jake Maddox and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaGrande "Leggie" Peters seems destined to be an all-star runner. But when an accident on the track forces him to the field, he will have to overcome many obstacles to get his second shot.

Download or read book Second Shot written by Cindy Dees and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A pitch-perfect adventure, filled with nuance and dire exploits. Take a breath, hang on, and enjoy the ride with this smart and clever heroine.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author Fans of J.T. Ellison and Julie Clark will be riveted by this exhilaratingly sharp thriller from a New York Times bestselling author and former spy. This taut, action-packed thriller introduces unforgettable heroine Helen Warwick, a highly skilled CIA assassin trying to navigate retirement, settle into a normal life, and reconnect with her family . . . in the midst of mortal combat. Retirement isn’t easy for a former CIA assassin. For fifty-five-year-old Helen Warwick, it may be impossible. Even Helen’s family doesn’t know the true nature of the work she’s done for decades—the secret black ops, the sanctioned executions. But her plan to spend time reconnecting with her grown children has just been blown up—along with her son’s house—by hired killers. Why is she being targeted now—and by whom? Years of eliminating the nation’s enemies one sniper bullet at a time have earned Helen powerful adversaries. Then there are mysterious new foes, including a psychopath dubbed The DaVinci Killer, who wages a twisted war with a rival serial killer to turn murder into art. And when he sets his sights on Helen, she may very well become his next exhibit. From homegrown spies to Russian mafia hitmen, Helen’s ghosts don’t just haunt—they kill. And staying alive long enough to make up for the past, and protect those closest to her, will take every ounce of skill she possesses . . .

Download or read book The Second Shot written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Second Shot written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FBI thrillers ELEVENTH HOUR and BLINDSIDE, together for the first time in one volume A one-two punch of riveting suspense as two bestselling FBI thrillers showcase agents Savich and Sherlock at their very best. Outdoing herself with each FBI thriller that she writes, Catherine Coulter has been hailed as “a one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more” (The Best Reviews). Eleventh Hour—In this “fast-paced” (Booklist) novel, agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in an investigation when a fellow agent’s twin brother—a priest—is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church. Blindside—“Twisted villains…[and] intriguing escapism” (Lansing [MI] State Journal) lure readers into a case that pits Sherlock and Savich against a charismatic evangelist and his wife, who are involved in the kidnapping of a six-year-old boy.

Download or read book Second Shot written by Zoe Sharp and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to the Barry Award-finalist, "First Drop," the latest assignment for former Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard Charlie Fox ends in a bloody shootout, leaving her fighting for her life. Martin's Press.

Download or read book Another Shot written by Dave Martin and published by Emerge Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure and Setbacks are only final if we fail to get back on our feet and try again. It's time for you to get back in the game where you belong. Another Shot is for anyone who has failed to reach a goal or dream the first time around. It is written for people needing encouragement and for those seeking practical advice on rebounding in life. Another Shot highlights the parallels between the game of basketball and life and provides practical coaching to reinforce the attributes and qualities a person needs to rebound. You will never lose if you get back up. You may need to make adjustments along the way, and you may need to realign yourself. But you must constantly come back. Very often success is not achieved on the first attempt. You must always take another shot. Do you need to get back into the championship game of life? You are holding the turnaround book.

Download or read book The Mystery Of The Second Shot written by Rufus Gillmore and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Of The Second Shot is a detective story by Rufus Gillmore. A well-known businessman commits suicide, but police soon presume that he was in fact murdered. An entertaining, if old fashioned, mystery story!