Download or read book Baseball Dads written by Matthew S. Hiley and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent black comedy about sex, drugs, murder… and children's baseball. Dwayne Devero is just like you and me, except he simply doesn’t give a s**t any more. He’s had enough. He’s done with people living life wrong. You’ll do it right, or he’ll bury you under the bases at the ballpark where he coaches. It’s just that simple. Tired of poor decisions being made all around him, from the politics of player positions on his son's little league baseball team to the philandering of his wife in his own bedroom, Dwayne decides that breaking is better than bending. What follows is a wild ride full of carnage and revenge, led by a man who will stop at absolutely nothing to bring honor back to his family, his community… and children's baseball. Baseball Dads is a pitch black comedy in which one man takes on the duty of bludgeoning honor back into a sometimes dishonorable world.

Download or read book Benchwarmer written by Josh Wilker and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, funny, inventive parenting memoir, written in a surprising form: an encyclopedia of failure in sports What can a new father learn about parenthood from reading sports almanacs? For most dads, the answer to this question is: nothing. But to Josh Wilker, whose life and writing have been defined by sports fandom, all of the joy, helplessness, and absurdity of parenthood are present between the lines. After all, what better way to think about losing control than Eugenio Velez's forty-five consecutive at-bats without a hit? How better to understand ridiculous joy than the NFL career of Walter Achiu, whose nickname was "Sneeze"? In the stories of sports figures large and small, Wilker finds the pathos in success and the humor in losing. As the terrified father of a one-day-old, Wilker recalls the 1986 World Series, when the moment was too big for the Red Sox. When he finds himself stealing away for an hour of alone time, Wilker thinks of boxer Roberto Duran, so beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard that he finally gave up. And yet, even as the frustrations and anxieties build, Wilker remembers Mets pitcher Anthony Young, who broke the baseball record for most consecutive losses -- and never stopped showing up. Finding the richness of life in obscure wrestling maneuvers and pop-ups lost in the sun, Benchwarmer is a book of unique humanity and surprising wisdom.

Download or read book Cool Baseball Facts written by Kathryn Clay and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simple text and full-color photos illustrate facts about the rules, equipment, and records of baseball"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Johnny Bad Ass written by The Big Lefthook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a love story of a young Irish fighter's climb out of a blue collar neighborhood of Brooklyn into the double-dealing, high stakes world of Las Vegas during the 1960's. The road is full of potholes and death defying, hair-pin curves. At every fork, Johnny ("The Kid") takes the wrong turn that sends him into another whirlwind of suspenseful action. A conservative may label Johnny a stone-cold killer but the average reader will fall in love with him because of his deep sense of loyalty and code of honor. Johnny has an "old soul," an attitude from the Wild West but lives in the 1960's-a true recipe for trouble!

Download or read book Heads Up written by Dawn Hunter and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glen and Jacob are best friends and linemates until a new hotshot, Danny, joins their Toronto soccer team. Glen thinks Danny is cool, and together they get deeper and deeper in trouble. Jacob tries to warn his old friend that he's headed for disaster, but Danny's bad attitude threatens to take the whole team down. Heads Up! is a story about the hard choices young people face every day, and how friends can help us make them. [Fry Reading Level - 3.4

Download or read book Spawn Dark Horror written by Todd McFarlane, Darragh Savage and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME! Al Simmons launches a master plan that sets the stage for SPAWN's record-setting 300th ISSUE!!! SPAWN creator TODD McFARLANE and critically acclaimed illustrator JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER kick-start their horror-fueled superhero saga in this epic EIGHT-ISSUE collection. Collects SPAWN #276-283

Download or read book The Mindblower Androids written by Randall Edward Foss and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As androids proliferate, become highly skilled, and become difficult to tell apart from humans, Mytown Mining, Inc. takes full advantage of the situation to secretly rise up from below and give those responsible for top secret plans in the United States Air Force all that it can handle in the remotest western skies. Meanwhile, the three members of the Braun family, Ben, Jenny, and Max, are plucked from their normal routine to participate voluntarily in the top secret plans along with a few others to battle the crooked corporation sometimes underground, but mostly in the air. Ben, the inventor and manufacturer of the Mindblower, a sleek electronic device that boosts memory and enhances mental acuity, disappears on a family hike in the rain forest. When Jenny, his wife and a traveling pharmaceutical sales representative, and Max, his teenage son, try to find him in Jenny’s small plane, they discover the USAF top secret facilities and its latest top secret aircraft and androids. Then as they and their friends continue their search for Ben, they find themselves fighting for their lives and for those humans and androids beside them until they discover much more about what really goes on between the military and the bad mining corporation and the future for both humans and androids. The Mindblower Androids is the second novel in a trilogy by Randall Edward Foss, beginning with The Mindblower Families. The story continues with The Mindblower Orbs, coming soon. Gradually, the recurring characters develop into greater importance as they are thrust deeper into the mysteries behind corporate control over the U.S. government and over energy economics. Mytown Mining, Inc., using android miners instead of human labor to dig deeper in remote regions first on earth and then in space for new energy reserves, must fight off both human and android heroes seeking to curtail its overbearing dominance threatening all human safety and freedom.

Download or read book Snap written by Regan Gillespie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it take to make you snap? To become so consumed with bloodlust and rage that you begin thinking twisted and bizarre thoughts? doing unthinkable things. Losing yourself so completely that you no longer recognize the you that was before. Quinn Darby finds herself blind-sided with her husband's affair, and when she learns she has become the talk of the town, it's more than she can take.

Download or read book Spawn 281 written by Darragh Savage and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW HERO PREMIERES! Look for this exciting new character as she makes her heroic debut. Only ONE ISSUE left until the thrilling conclusion of DARK HORROR!

Download or read book Raising Men written by Eric Davis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen, Eric was desperate to maintain the bonds he’d fought so hard to forge when his children were young—particularly with his son, Jason, because he knew how difficult it was to face the challenge of becoming a man on one’s own. Unfortunately, Eric learned the hard way that Quality Time doesn’t always show up in Quantity Time. Facebook, television, phones, video games, school, jobs, friends—they all got in the way of a real, meaningful father-son relationship. It was time to take action. As a SEAL, Eric learned to innovate and push boundaries, allowing him to function at levels beyond what was expected, comfortable, ordinary, and even imaginable, and he knew that as a father he needed to do the same with his son. Meeting extreme with extreme was the only answer. Using a unique blend of discipline, leadership, adventure, and grace, Eric and his SEAL brothers will teach you how to connect, and reconnect, with your sons and learn how to raise real men—the Navy SEAL way.

Download or read book Bad Ass Bitches written by Nicole Michele and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad-Ass Bitches By: Nicole Michele Bad-Ass Bitches is a collection of short stories about ten women who navigate their lives through painful divorces and breakups while struggling to maintain a stable environment for their children. These women are the epitome of strength and goodness - giving their all for the well-being of their families while ignoring their own self-care. Not only do they succeed in overcoming physical abuse, narcissism, and adultery, but they create their own happy endings, all by themselves. These warriors are role models for all women who struggle at the hands of undeserving men. They are bad-ass bitches!

Download or read book Save Baseball written by Larry Hausner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball has been in crisis in recent years. Game attendance is down by millions and fan interest is in free fall. The future of the game is in jeopardy. While the League acknowledges the issues, many are stumped as to how to address them. This book explores in detail the critical challenges facing MLB, and their ramifications, along with some potential solutions. Interviews with baseball insiders, players to executives, give a perspective on baseball's struggle to reinvent itself for future generations.

Download or read book Daddy s Baby written by Landis Lain and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An apocalyptic Junior year.... Raging hormones turn asthmatic Damon Hamilton from nerd to heartthrob - literally overnight. Young ladies splatter against him like bugs on a windshield. For Damon, sudden popularity does not equal smooth sailing. He brutally and publically dismisses possessive, beautiful senior, Sasha Anderson, who has initiated him into the world of sex. Gang members attack him in jealous rage. And Damon has had enough. Senior year, Time for a change... At a new school, Damon gets his head back in the books, falls in love - true love - and turns his attention to one thing, getting into college and as far away from Lansing, Michigan as possible. Damon hasn’t bargained on Sasha detonating a bomb in his life. There is nothing more ferocious than a girl who has been rejected in love, except one who’s been rejected in love and left with a baby on board. What’s a dude to do? Step up.

Download or read book Summer Learning Bundle for Rising Fourth Graders Weeks 1 6 written by and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of reading, math, and critical thinking activities provides six weeks of engaging work for your child. Help your child review key third grade skills while preparing for fourth grade. Don't let your child suffer the summer slump!

Download or read book The Dreamcatcher in the Wry written by Tiffany Midge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry, Tiffany Midge’s bitingly hilarious collection of essays written during the COVID-19 pandemic, builds on the critical acclaim of her earlier book Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s. A Standing Rock Sioux citizen, Midge offers up her unique satire about the foibles of politics, consumerism, world affairs, pandemic anxieties, and other subjects from the pandemic years of 2020 through 2023. The Dreamcatcher in the Wry brims with insight, considering pig heart transplants, wedding-crashing grizzly bears, truffle-snuffling dogs, bison-petting tourists—and a plethora of other animal and wildlife hijinks—not to mention wienermobiles, the controversial Mount Rushmore, meeting Iron Eyes Cody in a parade, Elizabeth Warren’s quaint family lore, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. Midge brilliantly unpacks her observations and day-to-day concerns through the lens of an urban-raised Lakota living in the West, a writer of poetry, op-eds, church bulletins, fridge magnets, and Twitter posts who is allergic to horses and most outdoor recreation—except for berry picking and the occasional romp through a dewy meadow. Turning over the colonizer’s society and culture for some good old Native American roasting, Midge informs as she entertains, gleaning wisdom from the incongruities of daily life with a much-needed dose of Indigenous common sense.

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Download or read book Bad Dad written by Sloane Howell and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My son is my life. Nothing on earth matters but him.Soon, I'll have to send him out into society. The cruel machine that gnashes innocence and spits out the hollowed remains of a child's imagination. It's a place I know all too well, considering my past. I've worked hard to separate myself from it, but it looms in the back of my mind-waiting for the perfect moment to strike.My son, Logan, wants to have birthday parties, make friends, play at the park-all the normal things that seven-year olds want to do. All the things I want to do with him.I've put up walls around our life to shield us from danger. Giant barriers to ward off possible threats.Cora Chapman crashes through them like a wrecking ball. She's intelligent and hilarious with soft curves and a spark that ignites a flame deep inside of me.There's only one problem-she's Logan's teacher.When my past wraps its tentacles around my throat and threatens to strangle the breath from my lungs, I'm given an option-fight for my family's freedom, or die as they're stripped away from me.I can't lose. I won't lose.My name is Landon Lane and I am a warrior.