Download or read book Buzz Saw written by Jesse Dougherty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely. By May 2019, the Washington Nationals—owners of baseball’s oldest roster—had one of the worst records in the majors and just a 1.5 percent chance of winning the World Series. Yet by blending an old-school brand of baseball with modern analytics, they managed to sneak into the playoffs and put together the most unlikely postseason run in baseball history. Not only did they beat the Houston Astros, the team with the best regular-season record, to claim the franchise’s first championship—they won all four games in Houston, making them the first club to ever win four road games in a World Series. “You have a great year, and you can run into a buzz saw,” Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg told Washington Post beat writer Jesse Dougherty after the team advanced to the World Series. “Maybe this year we’re the buzz saw.” Dougherty followed the Nationals more closely than any other writer in America, and in Buzz Saw he recounts the dramatic year in vivid detail, taking readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, the front office, and ultimately the championship parade. Yet he does something more than provide a riveting retelling of the season: he makes the case that while there is indisputable value to Moneyball-style metrics, baseball isn’t just a numbers game. Intangibles like team chemistry, veteran experience, and childlike joy are equally essential to winning. Certainly, no team seemed to have more fun than the Nationals, who adopted the kids’ song “Baby Shark” as their anthem and regularly broke into dugout dance parties. Buzz Saw is just as lively and rollicking—a fitting tribute to one of the most exciting, inspiring teams to ever take the field.
Download or read book Ride Fly Guy Ride written by Tedd Arnold and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying his father and Buzz on a car ride, Fly Guy is inadvertently blown out of the car window and into a truck driver's mouth before being spit out and tumbled into a boat, a circus train and an airplane. By the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor-winn
Download or read book Buzz Beaker and the Speed Secret written by Cari Meister and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buzz invents a special paint that makes his skis go very fast.
Download or read book A Ride to Remember written by Sharon Langley and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how a 1963 ride on a carousel in Maryland made a powerful Civil Rights statement. A Ride to Remember tells how a community came together—both black and white—to make a change. When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African-American families were not allowed entry. This book reveals how in the summer of 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Co-author Sharon Langley was the first African-American child to ride the carousel. This was on the same day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Langley’s ride to remember demonstrated the possibilities of King’s dream. This book includes photos of Sharon on the carousel, authors’ notes, a timeline, and a bibliography. “Delivers a beautiful and tender message about equality from the very first page.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “Cooper’s richly textured illustrations evoke sepia photographs’ dreamlike combination of distance and immediacy, complementing the aura of reminiscence that permeates Langley and Nathan’s narrative.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “A solid addition to U.S. history collections for its subject matter and its first-person historical narrative.” —School Library Journal
Download or read book Buzz Ride written by P. M. White and published by Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Darkly Comedic Coming of (Middle) Age Adventure - Why would a financially-comfortable, fifty-something father of two-with a Mercedes-drive Uber late at night on the toughest streets of Chicago? Pat White (pseudonym), a financial advisor and business strategist, decided to go undercover to research how the disruptive technology of ridesharing affects commerce. Soon his business study warped into a study of humanity . . . and himself. This reserved Baby Boomer first had to face his fear of picking up strangers in his own car and driving them to unknown locations. Most were over-privileged, over-served Millennials in route to their next adrenaline rush or wherever they were crashing for the night. Some treated him like he was invisible--making out, arguing, discussing sex and drugs, and lying to lovers on the phone about their whereabouts as if no one else were in the car. Others wished him to partake in their partying or craved his counsel on the most intimate details of their lives. Still others were just looking to pick a fight. Rarer were the tired and the timid: those returning to family after working long hours with hopes of a brighter tomorrow, those fleeing abuse, and those just fleeing a thunderstorm. This summer experiment took White down roads he never imagined he would travel. Soon he found himself embracing danger, longing for the thrill of voyeuristic glimpses into private lives made public, and facing the depths of his shadow personality. Come along for the bumpy ride as this sharp-tongued observer shares the always wild, sometimes dark, often humorous, and surprisingly touching side of Chicago nightlife in the smart-phone generation. Hop into the Back of Patrick's Silver Benz and Buckle Up!
Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2017 written by Bob Sehlinger and published by Unofficial Guides. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotels, attractions, and restaurants in all price categories are listed with evaluations based on reader surveys and critiques--compiled by unbiased inspectors of Orlando's most famed attraction.
Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2015 written by Bob Sehlinger and published by The Unofficial Guides. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you purchase The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World in ebook format, receive free monthly updates via your device so you'll be in the know about important changes, making your vacation planning better than ever! March-April 2015 Updates Available! Your Kindle update includes important changes to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot monorail schedules through July 2015; ticket prices, dates, and times for the Magic Kingdom's Night of Joy celebration in September; and updates to Fastpass+ locations for the Magic Kingdom's parades. Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World digs deeper and offers more than any other guide.
Download or read book Day One written by Kelly deVos and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sequel to Day Zero, stepsisters Jinx and MacKenna must put aside their enmity and work together to rescue their little brother…and possibly save the world. A nonstop whirlwind of a read for fans of Marie Lu, Rick Yancey and Alexandra Bracken. RULE ONE: THOSE WHO PANIC DON’T SURVIVE IT’S AS TRUE NOW AS IT WAS THE DAY OUR WORLD EXPLODED INTO CHAOS Jinx Three months ago, all I wanted was to stay up late playing video games and pretending things were fine. But with my parents’ role in a massive political conspiracy exposed, I ended up on the run, desperate to rescue my little brother, Charles, from the clutches of The Opposition. I used to hate my father’s obsession with disaster prepping. But as I fight my way across a war-torn country and into a secret military research facility with only my stepsister to count on, I realize that following Dr. Doomsday’s Guide for Ultimate Survival might be our only hope of surviving to see Charles again. MacKenna Once, I had it all. The right backstory. The right qualifications. But my life as a student journalist was destroyed forever in the explosions that triggered the country’s meltdown. Now I’m determined to help Jinx get our little brother back. But we also have to find our own reasons to survive. Somehow, I’ve become the first reporter of the new civil war. In a world where your story is your ultimate weapon, I have to become the toughest freedom fighter of all.
Download or read book Motorishi written by Robert Greco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden away by a secret society living high in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an ancient codex known only as The Mode teaches a connection between the mechanical and metaphysial aspects of the universe and foretold of the coming of a great teacher, a mechanical messiah. A few millennia later, a group of Seekers wise in the ways of the Mode meet the "Chosen One", a young mechanical genius from Detroit who they initiate into this antediluvian tradition. A prophesy, an unusual birth, mystical teachings, almost a dozen apostles, an amazingly successful ministry, plotting, betrayal, punishment... All of the elements of one of the greatest stories ever re-told. In this gentle but skewed refraction of the Gospels, Robert Greco and Shaun M. Shelton examine what it means to be a messiah in modern society, as well as the deeper question: can faith be funny?
Download or read book Brotherhoods written by Arthur Veno and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty thousand copies sold in Australia, now fully updated and revised. Bikies consider themselves 'the last free people in society'; unrestricted by the laws that rule ordinary citizens. Yet they have strict joining rules and jealously guard their privacy. The twenty-first century has seen bikie culture move from secretive disorganised crime to far more threatening organised criminal activities that led to the death of a Hells Angel's associate at Sydney airport in 2009, and the gang-style killings that preceded it. Arthur Veno's account of bikie culture is as close to firsthand as is ever likely to be published. Australia's leading bikie expert, Veno reveals the true picture of the brotherhoods. Drawing on in-depth interviews, personal stories and years of meticulous research, he explains the rules and rituals of the clubs, tells of landmark incidents and profiles some famous bikies. In this fully revised edition of The Brotherhoods he outlines the rise of the so-called Nike bikies whose drugs and turf wars threaten to spill onto our streets, and the attempts by governments to introduce controversial laws to control the violence. The Brotherhoods is the definitive account of bikie culture in Australia.
Download or read book Rocketman written by Nancy Conrad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the life and career of NASA bad boy Pete Conrad describes his poverty-stricken youth, educational success, efforts to overcome dyslexia, work as an elite test pilot, remarkable accomplishments with the space program, and untimely death in a motorcycle accident. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 written by Bob Sehlinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of how to plan the perfect vacation, with tips on saving money, ratings for area hotels, and evaluations of attractions by age group.
Download or read book The Brotherhoods written by Arthur Veno and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated edition of the definitive account of Australia's outlaw motorcycle clubs.
Download or read book Buzz written by Kenneth Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a thrill-seeker or a chill-seeker? A clinical psychologist lifts the lid on what makes adrenaline junkies tick.
Download or read book The Secret Society of the BRC written by Scott B. Eggert and published by Scott B. Eggert. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet's first interactive weed smoking book. From the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, comes a group of drunks and stoners who stumble their way through one adventure after another. Somehow, this group manages to save not only the planet, but mankind itself. You will laugh your way through this book. Grab your munchies and your weed and join the adventure.
Download or read book Buzz s Sneezy Adventures written by Aj Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buzz thinks he is an ordinary bee - until he discovers that he canâÂÂt stop sneezing when he is around flowers. Follow Buzz and his friends through school and his days working in the beehive. Buzz then sets off on a lifetime adventure with his best friends Wings and Flutter in an attempt to cure his sneezing.
Download or read book The Tek War Chronicles 5 written by Scott Davis and published by Bluewater Productions. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Cardigan's quest to piece together his fractured life continues in the first part of the series' second story arc. Jake's plans are interrupted when a new, deadlier strain of Tek called "Grease" is infecting robots, threatening the Central Net. Reluctant to help, Jake's hand is forced when he must choose between finding his true memories and saving the Avatar Beth Kittridge from the Tek virus.
