Download or read book The Blunder written by Joe Kilgore and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blunder is a modern cautionary tale that makes each of us question whether we are captives or architects of that elusive thing called fate.

Download or read book Beach Ball Blunder written by G. Pa Rhymes and published by G Pa Rhymes Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cray and crew are back for another adventure. Their friend Seal Gray loves to spin his beach ball, but when his ball spins out of control he has to make a quick decision on what he should do. "It can be difficult to confess when you know you've done something wrong, but this is a perfect story to open conversations about honesty and learning from mistakes. Young audiences will develop empathy as they see different points of view and how actions have consequences. With endearing characters, sublime illustrations, and fun rhyming text, it's hard not to enjoy Cray and friends. Beach Ball Blunder is great for primary teachers, guidance counselors, or parents!" -Sam Richardson; K Teacher; @littlecubliteracy "G Pa has created yet another perfectly crafted story, and Erica has again expertly brought that story to life with her stunning illustrations. In Beach Ball Blunder, G Pa communicates a powerful and important message in terms that young children can easily wrap their minds around. Erica's illustrations are intricate, clever, and expertly communicate the nuanced emotions that G Pa's characters are expressing throughout the story. This book should be in every elementary classroom and on every child's bookshelf, and I consider it a valuable addition to ours." -Nicole Filippone; Author

Download or read book Dead Balls and Double Curves written by Trey Strecker and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball’s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology. Editor Trey Strecker’s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper’s Home as Found (1838), published the year prior to Abner Doubleday’s alleged invention of the game outside Cooperstown, New York, and concludes with the arrival of the superstar slugger that signaled the end of the dead-ball era in Heywood Broun’s The Sun Field (1923). The sampling of fiction from the eighty-five-year interim loads the bases with the humor, realism, and athletic gallantry of the sport’s earliest years. Not all grandstanding and heroism, these stories also explore cultural and class conflicts, racial strife, town rivalries, labor disputes, gambling scandals, and the striking personalities that decorated a simple game’s evolution into a national pastime. Dead Balls and Double Curves presents a lineup of first-division writers, including Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Christy Mathewson, Edna Ferber, and the game’s poet laureate, Ring Lardner, plus legendary characters such as Baseball Joe, South-Paw Skaggs, Tin Can Tommy, and the sole artiste of the mythic double curve, Frank Merriwell. Throughout the volume, each author’s abiding affection for the game and its characters shines through with diamond-like focus.

Download or read book The Langley Boy to Be Better Than the Best written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, The Langley Boy To Be Better Than The Best! Part 3 of the Langley Boy Trilogy, is the story of the authors ultimate success in fulfilling his long-held ambition to become a chief officer in local government, responsible for engineering, architecture, land management, and direct labour organisations. It details the David and Goliath struggle between local authorities and central government to prevent the privatisation of essential services such as refuse collection and cleansing and the maintenance of highways, sewers, vehicles, parks, and open spaces. It outlines the authors leadership and management skills, his philosophy that failure is inconceivable, and his successful reorganisation of the councils workforces at Swansea and Rushcliffe to protect employees jobs, pensions, and conditions of service. The book contains family anecdotes of moving homes, creating new gardens, a wedding, the joys of grandchildren, the sadness of parents deaths, taking children to theme parks and pantomimes, and the fun of dressing up as hippies, punk rockers, and clowns at family parties. There is a fund of stories involving the author and his wife Hilary, hiring a narrow boat with friends to cruise the Cheshire Ring, buying a caravan to tour parts of the UK, travelling to Germany to sample its wines, and suffering from chateaux fatigue in the Loire Valley. It covers a trip to Spain to solve the first recorded incident of bearnapping, events in Langley, and creating T-shirts and specialty cakes for family special occasions. As a former member and president of the Rotary Club of West Bridgford, the author organised a series of charitable fashion shows, duck races, Christmas collections, and other events to help the less fortunate in the UK and overseas. In retirement, he became chairman of governors at West Bridgford Infant School, during which time the school was designated as outstanding by Ofsted.

Download or read book Mack Sennett s Fun Factory written by Brent E. Walker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films Sennett produced, directed, wrote or appeared in between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book, featuring 280 photographs, also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.

Download or read book Divinity written by Christian Rodriguez and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second chance at life, a second chance to make things right with the world and help the environment more effectively than recycling could ever do. There is a war going on that we have no idea about, there are battles that are fought in the instant of a lightning bolt, some wars quake and shake the Earth, others make us forget just what we we're doing. Our minds and hearts are the prize of this war, the lines that have been drawn to label "good" and "evil" will be shattered and the truth will spill out like a broken bladder; if you are a brave soul, if you have a curious mind to see exactly what this blind Armageddon is, or how it involves you, then I encourage you to sit down and read a few pages. Like Azuru said, "you are free to believe what you like"

Download or read book Far Far the Mountain Peak Book 3 written by Arthur Clifford and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Denby had a troubled childhood and upbringing. His teenage years saw him battling with his homosexuality in an experimental comprehensive school in a notorious sink estate, and he was thrust into a maelstrom of delinquent and criminalised pupils.

Download or read book Primaryplots 2 written by Rebecca L. Thomas and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, k, p, e, t.

Download or read book Baseball s Biggest Blunder written by Brent P. Kelley and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'bonus rule' of 1953-1957 required baseball players who signed a contract for more than $4,000 to remain on the major league roster for two full seasons. Kelley tells the stories of the 'bonus babies' who reaped the benefits, and the others whose careers were destroyed by the rule.

Download or read book Summer Holidays 100 Exciting Stories for Children written by Kat Newnham and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into a world of endless summer fun with "Summer Holidays: 100 Exciting Stories for Children." This captivating collection features a whirlwind of adventures set against the backdrop of sunny days and warm nights. Join whimsical characters as they explore sandy beaches, embark on thrilling treasure hunts, and enjoy exciting activities like surfing, camping, and picnicking. From ice cream truck mysteries to jungle gym jamborees, each story is filled with laughter, friendship, and the magic of summertime. Whether you're looking for a seaside escapade or a campfire concert, this delightful book is sure to spark imagination and bring joy to young readers as they soak up the spirit of summer holidays. Get ready for a rollercoaster ride of excitement and wonder in this enchanting collection that celebrates the carefree joys of the summer season.

Download or read book The Michigan Argonaut written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ben Bravo Space Pilot written by colin owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Human Strategy written by Matt Berry and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Human Strategy: Toward a genuine spirituality It has become increasingly evident to me that it is indecent to reconstruct my life ... perhaps because I have chosen to set my inherited morality aside and look at the world from an "amoral" perspective. Moreover, my neighbor fears the collapse of his own morality through my private concern: "Can there be a more valuable orientation toward life?" Perhaps it is a type of death, just as real as the final death, to cast aside an old identity and become someone new. Whatever the reason, I have undertaken this experiment and in the process ... for the process, have kept notes and am hereby putting them into some form. Let me call it a "book."Perhaps this is the soft underbelly of a book exposed to the modern world: to say that one can be happier and more valuable without a "beyond" ... that one can not only learn to be content with reality, but can aggressively pursue greater and greater joy.

Download or read book Golden Fae written by Terry Spear and published by Terry Spear. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the golden fae get into big time trouble with one fiery dragon? When playing with fire… All the golden fae wanted to do was to pick mushrooms for her mother—in the forbidden dragon fae territory, but Kayla sees dragons practicing for their games, and she gets caught at it. She loses her locket that she needs to have when she comes of age in just a couple of weeks so she can keep her magic as a lavender grower for the golden fae. Only now, one highly annoying dragon shifter fae has got it, and she will do anything to get it back. Alton can’t believe it when the golden fae arrives at his friend’s castle wearing the dragon fae aura now! But he has a mission to go on, save a human and a dragon fae in the human world, and Kayla ends up there offering to help—anything to get him to give her locket back to her. Only a fae seer shoots him with an iron bolt, and Kayla risks everything, trying to get him and the captured maid safely back home again. Now he will do almost anything to learn the mysterious golden fae’s secrets, and protect her from his own kind at all costs.

Download or read book The Only Rule Is It Has to Work written by Ben Lindbergh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team?It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, playing in real time. That's what Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor-league team in California, offered them the chance to run the team's baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read.We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team. We meet colorful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first openly gay player and the first Japanese manager in American professional baseball. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance.Will sabermetrics bring the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their face? Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the old folk wisdom really true after all? Will the players be able to maximize their talents and attract the attention of big-league scouts, or will this be a fast track to oblivion?It's a wild ride, as the authors' infectious enthusiasm and feel for the absurd make the Stompers' story one that will speak to numbers geeks and traditionalists alike. And it proves that you don't need a bat or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.

Download or read book The Cheat Sheet written by Sarah Adams and published by Dell. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Discover the heartwarming friends to lovers romance that became a sensation on TikTok—now with a new chapter and a Q&A with the author! The friend zone is not the end zone for Bree Camden, who is helplessly in love with her longtime best friend and extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. The only problem is that she can’t admit her true feelings, because he clearly sees her as a best friend with no romantic potential, and the last thing Bree wants is to ruin their relationship. But those abs . . . Nope! Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic friendship for Bree. In any case, she has other things to worry about. After a car accident ended her chance at becoming a professional ballerina, Bree changed paths and now owns her own dance studio, with big dreams to expand it. But one more rent increase could mean the end of the studio entirely. Then, as usual, Nathan comes to the rescue and buys the entire building. A stubborn Bree is not happy about it and decides to rebel with a couple—okay, maybe more than a couple—of tequila shots. Then her plan backfires as she spills her deepest, darkest secret to a TMZ reporter. One viral video later, the world thinks Nathan and Bree are the perfect couple. Before they can really talk about her confession, Nathan’s publicist proposes a big opportunity that could mean financial security for Bree. The catch? They have to pretend to be in love. For three whole weeks. What will happen when Bree gives in to the feelings she’s been desperately hiding for so long, and could she be imagining that Nathan is actually enjoying it? Sarah Adams scores more than touchdowns in this exciting romantic comedy.

Download or read book The Cult of Smart written by Fredrik deBoer and published by All Points Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.