Download or read book Class A written by Lucas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself. Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the story of the 2010 season of the Clinton LumberKings. Along the Mississippi River, in a Depression-era stadium, young prospects from all over the world compete for a chance to move up through the baseball ranks to the major leagues. Their coaches, some of whom have spent nearly half a century in the game, watch from the dugout. In the bleachers, local fans call out from the same seats they’ve occupied year after year. And in the distance, smoke rises from the largest remaining factory in a town that once had more millionaires per capita than any other in America. Mann turns his eye on the players, the coaches, the fans, the radio announcer, the town, and finally on himself, a young man raised on baseball, driven to know what still draws him to the stadium. His voice is as fresh and funny as it is poignant, illuminating both the small triumphs and the harsh realities of minor-league ball. Part sports story, part cultural exploration, part memoir, Class A is a moving and unique study of why we play, why we watch, and why we remember.

Download or read book All Secrets Told written by Samantha Carter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate was born to a mother who had already shown signs of an abusive and cruel nature. Her grandmother unsuccessfully tried to keep her eldest granddaughter safe but when the new family emigrated to the other side of the world, young Kates fate was sealed. As the eldest of a large family she knew it was her job to defend and protect her siblings, be the household slave and try to make her mother happy and her father notice her once in a while. Kates job ended when she was forced to marry a man she feared. Her siblings never forgave her for abandoning them; leaving them in the hands of a woman whose rages never ceased. . The die was cast for a life of abuse, fear and depression. The life of Cinderella the doormat. The one thing that kept Kates indomitable spirit alive and safe was hope and a tiny sliver of self-respect that said she didnt deserve the life that she was living, even though she believed she had no choices. Kates survival strategy was to comply with their mothers demands and do all that was demanded of her, while expecting nothing of herself. After many years the strategy failed and Kate found herself down a rabbit hole of insanity. Her journey to free herself from depression and gain awareness had begun A journey to finally put her past to rest and to discover who she is . Kate is soon to realize what courage really means when evil returns to terrorize her. She discovers that she has little time or energy for the one thing that she had previously given herself so freely to..fear ; so when physical pain threatens her very life, she rediscovers that her spirituality is, as always there to protect, heal and give her the strength to survive once again. Most of all Kate knows that the best that life has to offer can never be destroyed, no matter how hot the flames. This is a heroic journey of a woman who is betrayed, abused and abandoned; who meets the true tests of courage and self-belief and who finally reaches enlightenment to discover what love truly is.

Download or read book Building with Earth written by Gernot Minke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. The author’s presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture.

Download or read book Exoputians written by AJ Pagan IV and published by AJ Pagan IV. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Second American Civil War wanes, Mary the Exoputian awaits her chance to contact the Folbulae—a highly advanced species of extraterrestrial, only to be hunted down by the dictator of the Sovereign States of America, Vladimir Booth. With rising tides and thawing tundra, the Exoputians—a new species of human genetically created to live in Space and communicate with the Folbulae, land in the Republic of Texas following a missile strike on their space station. Mary and the other Exoputians learn of the lies their progenitor taught them, training the space-bred crew to use their novel communication to cure the planet they’d never set foot on. As Mary and the others road trip through racially segregated America, they encounter multiple attempts on their lives to follow through with their once-mission of saving the planet from the climate crisis. Discover with Mary what’s worth saving on a planet prepared to destroy her entire species. Content Warning: This novel is about the Second American Civil War, a race war. As such, it contains references to racism, police brutality, war, profanity, hate speech, violence, violence against minorities, racial slurs, sexual violence, drug use, death/murder, descriptions of gore, school shootings, animal death, slavery, terrorism, torture, kidnapping, homophobia, child death, alcohol/ism, and possibly others.

Download or read book Playing Away written by Adele Parks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's sexy. It's roguish. It's hilarious. It's a sensational debut novel from London, a joyously comic take on modern marriage and its fallout. Single people may feel they have it rough...but wait until you see what happens when married folk fall in lust. Connie Green's life should be perfect. She has a hot career, her wonderful husband Luke, and a bunch of great girlfriends. But Connie has a big problem. She has just met overwhelmingly sexy John at a business conference. Her head and her heart said, "no way," but her traitorous body shrieked, "yes, YES!" Now Connie's deep into a tawdry affair, which is destroying her peace of mind and her grand plan for Happily Ever After. Maybe John is her destiny. After all, she's losing weight. It can't be a bad thing if she's losing weight. Can it? Connie longs to confide in her girlfriends. They've always discussed their sex lives before, preferably over cocktails. But this infidelity thing makes it a trifle awkward. Rose would be horrified. For her, it's pretty clear-cut; nice girls don't have affairs. And Daisy is too busy being in love. Sam knows about John but she doesn't want to believe it. How could and why would Connie cheat on her lovely husband? Sam's working hard to ignore the fact that Connie's shagging John every chance she gets. Maybe Lucy would understand; she's bonking a married man herself. Connie just wishes Lucy would be a little less cynical about the whole thing. What Connie wants is...Well, Connie's not quite sure what she wants. And that's exactly the trouble. A novel for every woman juggling the untidy mix of work, romance, sex, and marriage, Playing Away shimmers with equal parts comic relief and penetrating insight. As Connie and her brave, silly, colorful friends search for answers along the precarious paths of love and lust, we glimpse more than a little bit of ourselves. With bold strokes both moving and outrageously funny, Adele Parks has crafted a stunningly revealing portrait of the lives of hip, urban women, poised at the cusp of a millennium.

Download or read book Flip Your Classroom written by Jonathan Bergmann and published by International Society for Technology in Education. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!

Download or read book The Italian s Secret Baby written by Kim Lawrence and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no way he would ever forget this woman, so how is she the mother of his child? A passionate puzzle from the USA Today–bestselling author. Scarlet Smith has kept millionaire Roman O’Hagan’s child hidden from him—and now the arrogant Italian is determined to discover why a woman he’s never slept with is claiming to have his son! Can she keep the truth behind the baby’s birth a secret? Not when Roman wants to take his revenge . . . by sharing Scarlet’s bed!

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Download or read book The Knowing written by Sharon Cameron and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Cameron returns to the rich world of #1 New York Times bestseller The Forgetting with a companion novel as thrilling and intricately crafted as the first. Samara is one of the Knowing, and the Knowing do not forget. Hidden deep in the comfort and splendor of her underground city, a refuge from the menace of a coming Earth, Samara learns what she should have never known and creates a memory so terrible she cannot live with it. So she flees, to Canaan, the lost city of her ancestors, to Forget.Beckett has flown through the stars to find a dream: Canaan, the most infamous social experiment of Earth's antiquity. Beckett finds Samara in the ruins of the lost city, and uncovers so much more than he ever bargained for -- a challenge to all he's ever believed in or sworn to. When planets collide and memories clash, can Samara and Beckett save two worlds, and remember love in a place that has forgotten it?At once thought-provoking and utterly thrilling, this extraordinary companion novel to Sharon Cameron's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling THE FORGETTING explores the truth and loss that lie within memory, and the bonds that hold us together.

Download or read book Sixteen Souls written by Rosie Talbot and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spooky, swoony YA debut by BookTok star Rosie Talbot (@Merrowchild) -- the "TikTok Made Me Buy It" sensation dubbed Heartstoppers with ghosts! Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Aiden Thomas. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts. To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys. Charlie is determined to stay out of it, but Sam, the irritating new seer in town, expects him to track down who -- or what -- is responsible and uncover the dark purpose behind these disappearances. But when one of Charlie's ghostly friends vanishes, he has no choice but to face the shadows -- and his growing feelings for Sam. The boys must be willing to risk it all to save York’s spirits, because this adversary will stop at nothing to complete their devastating plan. Afterlives are at stake, and Charlie is running out of time ...

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Download or read book Reverend Margot Quade Cozy Mysteries Volume 2 A Christian Amateur Detective Mystery Collection written by S.E. Biglow and published by Biglow Mystery Reads. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this faith-filled cozy collection by S.E. Biglow... Will a new year bring new twists to small-town life? When a New Year’s getaway turns deadly, Reverend Margot Quade dives in, teaming with a fellow amateur sleuth to unravel the mystery. And when local Port Marie families begin suffering strange ailments that may point to a long-standing feud, Margot races against the clock, praying she’s not too late to repair the damage done by a broken soul. But even as she guides her town toward healing, tragedy is poised to strike at the heart of all Margot holds dear. Determined to not let history repeat itself, Margot races headlong into danger, with only a prayer that the Lord will see her through REVEREND MARGOT QUADE COZY MYSTERIES Vol 2. box set bundles the final three stories in this inspiring, Christian cozy mystery series: My Brother’s Keeper, Love They Neighbor and Brothers In Arms. Great for readers who love small town charm, heroic women sleuths and faith-based who-dun-its. If you’re a fan of V.M. Burns, CeeCee James, Hope Callaghan, Rosie Point, Tonya Kappes, Maria DiRico, Kelsey Browning and London Lovett, you’ll love this fast-paced, small-town mystery. Binge the last three books in this fast-paced, faith filled series today. ◆◆◆ Here’s what cozy mystery fans are saying about Reverend Margot Quade: ★★★★★ “I couldn’t put this book down!” – Jodi Sweet (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “This engaging Christian cozy mystery is short but well written with a diverse set of characters.” – Heather W (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “Keeps you guessing until the last page” – Grannylovestoread (Bookbub review)

Download or read book Reverend Margot Quade Cozy Mysteries The Complete Series written by S.E. Biglow and published by Biglow Mystery Reads. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this faith-filled cozy collection by S.E. Biglow... Can one Reverend shepherd her small town through a valley of mystery? When Reverend Margot Quade returned home from serving in the Army, she didn’t expect to stumble right into a murder but, when she ends up at the heart of a mystery, she can’t help but solve it. And as her time home unearths the town’s oldest secrets, she can’t help but seek out the truth, even when it means putting herself in peril. From neighborly rivalries to painful blasts from her past, Margot’s faith serves as her guide to unraveling each new mystery. REVEREND MARGOT QUADE COZY MYSTERIES THE COMPLETE SERIES box set bundles all six books in this inspiring, Christian cozy mystery series. Binge the complete series collection in this fast-paced, faith filled series today. ◆◆◆ Here’s what cozy mystery fans are saying about Reverend Margot Quade: ★★★★★ “Everything you look for in a good mystery” – Mimi (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “The plot is captivating and infused with enough twists to keep us guessing to the end.” – Alan (Goodreads Review) ★★★★★ “This was a fun page-turner with wonderful characters who will keep you entertained from start to finish.” – faithejackson (BookBub review) ★★★★★ “I am loving this series.” – Sherri Geisler Locke (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “I like that Margot is a strong, compassionate person who works to help others, no matter who they are.” – Dorothy Scott (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “If you love cozy mysteries then I recommend this series.” – hbane12 (BookBub review) KEYWORDS: amateur sleuth, women detective, small-town mystery, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery book, amateur detective, cozy mysteries, woman sleuth, who-dun-it book, faith, religious detective, Christian suspense, bundle, cozy collection, cozy omnibus If you’re a fan of V.M. Burns, CeeCee James, Hope Callaghan, Rosie Point, Tonya Kappes, Maria DiRico, Kelsey Browning and London Lovett, you’ll love this fast-paced, small-town mystery.

Download or read book Black Belt written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most respected martial arts title in the industry, this popular monthly magazine addresses the needs of martial artists of all levels by providing them with information about every style of self-defense in the world - including techniques and strategies. In addition, Black Belt produces and markets over 75 martial arts-oriented books and videos including many about the works of Bruce Lee, the best-known marital arts figure in the world.

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Download or read book True Strength written by Kevin Sorbo and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring memoir, the star of Hercules shares the story of the sudden aneurysm and multiple strokes that left him incapacitated--but ultimately redefined his definition of success. On television, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demigod; in his real life, an aneurysm caused strokes that left him partially blind and incapacitated at just thirty-eight years old. Yet since appearances are everything in Hollywood, he hid the full details about his condition from the press and continued to film Hercules, which was the number one TV series in the world. True Strength is the story of transformation, persistence, and hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Sorbo reflects on his childhood in Minnesota and his early acting days in Hollywood, to his charmed life as television's beloved Hercules, and where he is today. He recounts the onset of his symptoms, his frightening hospitalization, and his arduous path to recovery. With this honest account of personal tragedy and triumph, Sorbo aims to blaze a trail for those who have ever suffered acute illness or a serious setback in life and are now struggling to find their way back.

Download or read book The Blind written by A.F. Brady and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A razor-sharp debut about a woman who goes so far off the deep end, she might never make it back up… Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can’t save herself, she’ll save someone else. It’s this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons, though it leads Sam down some dark paths and opens her eyes to her own mental turmoil. When Richard, a mysterious patient no other therapist wants to treat, is admitted to Typhlos, Sam is determined to unlock his secrets and his psyche. But she can’t figure out why Richard appears to be so normal in a hospital filled with madness. As Sam gets pulled into Richard’s twisted past, she can’t help but analyze her own life, and what she discovers terrifies her. And so the mind games begin. But who is the savior and who is the saved? In this unexpected and addictive psychological debut, A.F. Brady takes readers into the psyche of a deeply disturbed woman desperately trying to keep her head above water, showing that sometimes what’s most terrifying is what exists in your mind.