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Download or read book Tanking to the Top written by Yaron Weitzman and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the City of Brotherly Love and see how the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process-using a bold plan to get to first by becoming the worst. When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best be described as mediocre. Enter Sam Hinkie--a man with a plan straight out of the PE playbook, one that violated professional sports' Golden Rule: You play to win the game. In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst--to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow. The plan, dubbed "The Process," seems to have worked. More than six years after handing Hinkie the keys, the Sixers have transformed into one of the most exciting teams in the NBA. They've emerged as a championship contender with a roster full of stars, none bigger than Joel Embiid, a captivating seven-footer known for both brutalizing opponents on the court and taunting them off of it. Beneath the surface, though, lies a different story, one of infighting, dueling egos, and competing agendas. Hinkie, pushed out less than three years into his reign by a demoralized owner, a jealous CEO, and an embarrassed NBA, was the first casualty of The Process. He'd be far from the last. Drawing from interviews with nearly 175 people, Tanking to the Top brings to life the palace intrigue incited by Hinkie's proposal, taking readers into the boardroom where the Sixers laid out their plans, and onto the courts where those plans met reality. Full of uplifting, rags-to-riches stories, backroom dealings, mysterious injuries, and burner Twitter accounts, Tanking to the Top is the definitive, inside story of the Sixers' Process and a fun and lively behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most transgressive teams. Including exclusive interviews with Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Coach Brett Brown, Sam Hinkie, and more.

Download or read book Sixers written by John Patrick Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freaks Series Bundle written by Maree Anderson and published by Maree Anderson. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of your favorite teenage cyborg heroine's adventures in one eBook bundle: The Freaks Series Bundle is approximately 215,000 words and contains: Freaks of Greenfield High (Book One of the Freaks series), Freaks in the City (Book Two), Freaks Under Fire (Book Three). Book One, FREAKS OF GREENFIELD HIGH: With a covert organization hot on her trail, now’s so not the time for a cyborg to fall in love and get all emotional! Jay’s a cyborg who looks just like a normal teenage girl. She’s super-strong, super-smart, and she can even appear to age like a human. When a covert organization intent on using Jay as a weapon comes after her, she needs to find a place where she can blend in. Greenfield High seems perfect… except that the boys all think she’s totally hot and keep hitting on her, and she has no clue how to handle the attention. Who knew high school could be so perilous? To add to her confusion Jay’s evolving—experiencing human emotions for the first time—and her encounters with ex-jock-turned-outcast Tyler send her logical brain into a spin. She’s just starting to get the hang of this girlfriend/boyfriend thing when her pursuers track her down. Now’s sooo not the time for a cyborg to fall in love and get all emotional! **Optioned for TV by Cream Drama, Inc., Canada; over 2 million reads on Wattpad Book 2, FREAKS IN THE CITY: True love isn't a cakewalk when your girlfriend's a cyborg! For Jay and Tyler, living together is… challenging—especially when the secrets they’re keeping from Tyler’s family blow up in their faces. The last thing they need is the ex-girlfriend from hell showing up on their doorstep. Nessa’s not exactly Jay’s favorite human right now, but Tyler’s ex is destitute, and desperate for a place to stay until the latest hot mess she’s embroiled in gets sorted. Besides, it’s better to keep your enemies close, right? Sure enough, Nessa has designs on Tyler and a hidden agenda. But discovering who is manipulating her behind the scenes isn’t easy, even for a super-smart computer-savvy cyborg like Jay. Everything falls apart when a vulnerable member of Tyler’s family is threatened, forcing Jay to confront a ghost from her past who’ll stop at nothing to destroy her. And this time, the weapon he’s sent after Jay really could be the death of her. Book 3, FREAKS UNDER FIRE: For a cyborg like Jay, life was never going to be simple. Jay’s still reeling from her encounter with a rogue cyborg assassin when she discovers she has a twin—a severely damaged Beta unit. Jay is determined to find the Beta, and help her if she can. Now all she needs to do is convince her boyfriend Tyler that it’s best for him to stay behind. But Jay’s not the only one searching for her twin. With enemies who’ll stop at nothing, and Tyler and his family caught in the crossfire, Jay’s life is about to get a whole lot more complicated… and a whole lot more dangerous. Warning: Contains language and themes more suited to older readers

Download or read book The Aught Sixers written by Robert Bennett and published by Robert Bennett. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Hambone Hamblin, Hal Peterson, and Charles Belcher, three retired working-class heroes who are dismayed by the onset of globalization and the illegal immigration that goes along with it, set out to do something to rectify the situation. Their efforts bring them into conflict with enemies that theyd never recognized as enemies before, and their task becomes overwhelming and daunting. Bonnie Cummings, a young woman with big dreams and high aspirations, encounters a similar problem in another part of California, but she takes a far different tact in an effort to overcome, and is forced to deal with drug lords, street thugs, and sociopathic killers. In the end, their trails become entangled, and the enormity of the problem is exposed from multiple angles.

Download or read book Moon Without Magic written by Michael Tunnell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.

Download or read book Wishes on the Moon written by Michael O. Tunnell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents two novels in which an orphan named Aminah is given a magic lamp, which allows her to alter her life by choosing prosperity and romance, and who, with her genie, must escape from thieves and Princess Badr, who all want possession of the lamp.

Download or read book Wild Westie written by Hazel Phillips and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Bob Harvey's colourful and varied life sums up the classic 'give it a go' Kiwi attitude. A legend of the eighties' advertising world, influential political strategist, former president of the Labour Party, outspoken environmentalist, long-serving mayor of Waitakere City and daring adventurer, Sir Bob has overseen and made New Zealand history. In this revealing biography of the self-proclaimed 'Wild Westie', journalist Hazel Phillips shares the social, political and personal events that have shaped Sir Bob's remarkable life, as well as fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from a man never far from the epicentre of New Zealand government. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book Borstal Girl written by Eileen MacKenney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By the time she was fourteen she had survived the Blitz, a spell in a care home and her mother's death, but she craved excitement, embarking on shoplifting sprees, liberating fur coats and rolling toffs up west with notorious 'queen of thieves' Shirley Pitts. Eileen soon found herself in borstal, put to work building roads like a navvy. Known as 'Kill', she had a reputation as one of the hardest woman behind bars. Then, in the 1950s she met and married career criminal Harry 'Big H' MacKenney, and she was soon fraternising with the toughest, most colourful characters in the London underworld. She went on to have four children, whom she loved and protected, but life was extremely tough and Eileen fell back into her old ways, thieving and fighting to make ends meet. The 1970s brought police corruption and brutality to Eileen's doorstep. When Harry was banged up, Eileen carried on the 'family business' alone and found herself on the wrong side of the law - again. Yet throughout a catalogue of trouble this defiant London bad girl of the old school always kept her defiant sense of humour. Borstal Girlis a true story of shocking violence and survival that pulls no punches, but it is also a secret criminal history of a London long past. There is no other female memoir like it.

Download or read book Hardcase Cade Book Two written by Neil Hunter and published by Caliber Books. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fans of Blade Runner, Robocop, and I, Robot. In mid-21st century America – over-populated cities harbor ordinary citizens who are oppressed by money manipulators, drug pushers and daily violence. And beyond the cities lay vast wastelands of chemically polluted regions teaming with outlaws and mutants. Law enforcement, as it has always been, is seemingly on the brink of collapse against the ever increasing tide of lawlessness, corrupt political officials, and a system that favors the criminal and not the victims. However U.S. Justice Marshal Thomas Jefferson Cade is one of a new breed of law enforcers. Teamed with his Cyborg partner, Janek, an infuriatingly logical masterpiece of engineering, they take on the criminal elements and deal out sentences that the rules of the law does not find so black and white. HARDCASE: CADE - Book Two: U.S. Justice Marshal T.J. Cade and his Cyborg partner Janek investigate a series of murders and discover a conspiracy involving a multi-billionaire industrialist and military renegade with visions of taking over the U.S. Government. Amos Sinclair is a powerful enemy and has an army of combat androids doing his dirty work. In a high-speed death race the bad guys play very dirty but T.J. Cade and his partner has something new to teach them.

Download or read book Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9

Download or read book Classworks Literacy Year 5 written by Eileen Jones and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher's resource series is designed for teaching Primary Literacy and Numeracy in today's classroom setting. Structured around the blocked units of work, they provide everything teachers need to slot into their medium-term plan. The series consists of Literacy & Numeracy titles which provide a more comprehensive approach to lesson planning, and Literacy Text and Numeracy Practice books, full of great resources.

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Download or read book Sir Charles written by Charles Barkley and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous, irreverent quotes from the 1993 NBA Most Valuable Player reveal his far-reaching appraisal of the game, his fellow players, the officials, the writers, and the fans.

Download or read book Built to Lose written by Jake Fischer and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From front offices to college campuses, Jake Fischer takes you on an engrossing tour of the NBA in its latest golden age, when some of the most captivating teams won by losing." —Lee Jenkins, former Sports Illustrated NBA writer An insider account of modern NBA team-building, based on hundreds of exclusive interviews A single transcendent talent?can change the fortunes of an NBA franchise. One only has to recall the frenzy surrounding recent top pick Zion Williamson to recognize teams' willingness to lose games now for the sake of winning championships later. It's a story that weaves its way behind closed doors to reveal intricate machinations normally hidden from public view. Backed by extensive reporting and hundreds of interviews with top players, coaches, and executives, Jake Fischer chronicles secret pre-draft workouts, feuding between player agents and executives, surprising trade negotiations, interpersonal conflicts, organizational power struggles, and infamous public relations fiascos, making for a fascinating look at the NBA. The definitive account of the NBA's tanking era, when teams raced to the bottom in the hope of eventually winning a championship.

Download or read book Letters From A Dead World written by David Tocher and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a taste for terror? Discover the power of a telepathic teenager who communicates with the living dead. Witness the nightmare visions of a widowed husband whose departed wife warns him of unspeakable interdimensional horrors. Face the wrath of angry ghosts who confront a phony psychic, showing him the true horror of his deceptive commerce. And more. Brace yourself for Letters from a Dead World - six terrifying stories spawned from the macabre imagination of David Tocher. With a uniquely Canadian flavour, this collection will leave you breathless, grappling with the darkest fears that haunt us all. This book contains adult content and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Download or read book The End of Time written by Alan W. Staves and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of Time is the stunning conclusion to the UFO Theory. Operation Time Warp has finally come to an end. Liam Mail is taking a well-deserved break when a stranger turns up, claiming to be his brother. Liam is whisked away on a new adventure, seeking the fabled fountain of youth, which will lead him to the end of time itself.