Download or read book Take Me Out to the Cubs Game written by John C. Skipper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's too much nature in that ballpark"--Harry Chiti And make no mistake, whether it's the wind full-tilt off Lake Michigan, an early-season snowstorm at Waveland and Sheffield, or spring ivy hiding the batted balls of the visiting nine, nature seems to have Wrigley Field and the Cubbies under its thumb. In this book, John Skipper talks with 35 former Chicago Cubs who relive their ball-playing days and speculate on the eternally middling and undeniably popular Northsiders. This troop of now-grizzled bears, including Claude Passeau, Hank Wyse, Alvin Dark, Don Kessinger, Joe Niekro, Pete LaCock, and slugger Hank Sauer, hold forth on the front office moves, gruelling day-game scheduling and sometimes agonizing play of one of baseball's oldest, unluckiest and yet most revered franchises.
Download or read book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh written by Michael Chabon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Download or read book The S written by Ralph W. Will Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in his eighties, author Ralph W. Will Jr. takes a look back at his long, eventful life. In The S, he shares the details of his experiences to help others understand the value of families and the importance of treating them with understanding, love, and respect. In this memoir, starting with his birth in 1929 in Pennsylvania, Will hits the highlights of his lifebeing raised on his grandparents farm; working in a coal mine at age thirteen; dropping out of college and entering the army; operating his fathers appliance store; meeting his future wife, Barbara, in 1954 and marrying her in 1955; earning a college degree; being employed in a variety of jobs; raising a family; retiring in 1992; and dealing with the death of his wife in 2012. A story of a life well lived, The S narrates Wills journeythe ups and downs, the successes and challengesand shows how he was able to overcome hurdles to achieve his goals.
Download or read book Six Angry Girls written by Adrienne Kisner and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrienne Kisner's Six Angry Girls is a story of mock trial, feminism, and the inherent power found in a pair of knitting needles. Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren’t much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But then, an advice columnist unexpectedly helps Raina find new purpose in a pair of knitting needles and a politically active local yarn store. This leads to an unlikely meeting in the girls’ bathroom, where Raina inspires Millie to start a rival team. The two join together and recruit four other angry girls to not only take on Mock Trial, but to smash the patriarchy in the process.
Download or read book Carnegie s Maid written by Marie Benedict and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USA Today Bestseller From the bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room comes a mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that asks what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the woman who shares her name has vanished, and assuming her identity just might get Clara some money to send back home. Clara must rely on resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for and an uncanny understanding of business, attributes that quickly gain her Carnegie's trust. But she still can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Revealing her past might ruin her future—and her family's. With captivating insight and heart, Carnegie's Maid is a book of fascinating 19th century historical fiction. Discover the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist to the world's first true philanthropist. Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Marie Benedict: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie Lady Clementine The Only Woman in the Room The Other Einstein
Download or read book Dream Real written by Eugene Napoleon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dream Real offers critical, insider knowledge for teens serious about making it to the professional sports level. The book also explores Napoleon's personal trials and tribulations as an African-American youngster from a single-parent home in one of the country's toughest projects. Determined not to become another statistic, Napoleon went on to play professional football, won Teacher of the Year honors, and is now one of the country's top sports agents."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Take Me to Pittsburgh written by Maximus Designs and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel diary / travel journal - with many useful checklists for optimal organisation. ►► For a short time at a reduced price - Buy now ✘ You would like to have an extensive and clear travel planner with many useful checklists, diary pages, to do lists as well as an overview of the most important travel information such as flight times, accommodations, etc. ? ►►► Then you have finally found what you are looking for ◄◄◄ In this holiday planner you will find the following features: ✔ Travel expenses planner ✔ Packing slip Checklist ✔ Outfit Planner ✔ Flight and hotel information overviews ✔ To Do Lists ✔ Daily Overview / Daily Planner ✔ Diary and much more The travel journal contains 150 pages in 8x10 100% satisfaction guarantee - if the planner does not meet your expectations, you can return it within 7 days via Amazon.
Download or read book Healing in His Presence written by Joan Gieson and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the Untold Secrets of Kathryn Kuhlmans Healing Ministry and Walk with God from a Behind-the-Scenes EYE-WITNESS! Joan Gieson received a miraculous healing under the ministry of evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman, one of the most intriguing Christian personalities of the twentieth century. Joan went onto work with Kuhlmans ministry, receiving exclusive glimpses into her private walk with the Holy Spirit. Now, Joan wants to share those with you! We are in a season of transferring mantles. The power that was carried by a few in one era is being poured out upon the masses in our day! To flow in Gods miraculous power, like Kuhlman and Gieson, its not about repeating some principle; its about experiencing the Masters Presence! Through incredible stories, miraculous testimonies and transferable teaching, you will discover: The power link between releasing the miraculous and friendship with the Holy Spirit. The importance of atmosphere: creating space for Gods anointing to flow freely. The supernatural connection between compassion and signs and wonders. The miracle-working impartation that is available for all believers to receive and walk in! More than a collection of miracle stories and testimonies, you will discover secrets to Kuhlmans supernatural ministry and learn how to flow in that same anointing. Joan Gieson received exclusive access to one of the greatest healing ministers of all timeKathryn Kuhlman. Now, she wants to share what she saw and what she learned with you!
Download or read book White Privilege written by Sylvia Morgan Auten and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Privilege? By: Sylvia Morgan Auten White Privilege? embodies the theme of working hard in order to achieve your goals. Through narrations and tales of childhood, Sylvia Morgan Auten depicts a life of overcoming obstacles. The author encourages readers to live the best they can with what they have and keep trying to improve your own situation.
Download or read book The Family written by J. Andrews Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, J. Andrews Smith, MSW, makes a unique contribution to the fields of North Carolina historiography, sociology and social work. Almost 20 years ago, Clyde F. McSwain published a detailed account of his life at the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford, North Carolina. Nearly 10 years later Richard McKenzie published a penetrating memoir of his life in the Presbyterian Orphanage at Barium Springs, North Carolina. A few other full-length recollections of orphanage life may have been written and published, but there is no other book, I think, similar to this one by Mr. Smith. His is no less than a collection of firsthand accounts of life as lived by a succession of children in the Free Will Baptist Orphanage (or Children's Home) at Middlesex, North Carolina, over a period of nearly 90 years-from the second decade of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century. George Stevenson Jr. Archivist (1970-2008) North Carolina State Archives Raleigh, North Carolina
Download or read book The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates written by Ronald T. Waldo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season after a monumental deal with the Louisville Colonels. The addition of star players such as Fred Clarke, Honus Wagner, Tommy Leach and Deacon Phillippe allowed Pittsburgh to become the first baseball dynasty of the twentieth century as they won National League pennants in 1901, 1902 and 1903. Without question, the 1902 Pirates aggregation was the greatest of those three squads. This definitive historical account examines the record-breaking 1902 Pittsburgh season, the politics that shaped baseball's landscape during that era and the players responsible for that squad's claiming its rightful place in baseball history.
Download or read book Consensus Organizing written by Mike Eichler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering a community takes more than organizing and mobilizing its people; it takes a simple, yet radical, notion that consensus can be reached by creating mutual self interest between key individuals in the community and players of interest. In Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest, author Mike Eichler shows how even poor and disempowered communities can achieve lasting results by implementing some key consensus organizing strategies. Through personal, lively, and relevant examples, Eichler takes the reader on a road trip through various communities and shows how collectively they were able to reach lasting results by finding key areas where consensus could be reached. Key features: The author shares his twenty-five years of experience as a community organizer, including the development of a national effort to train young people as consensus organizers in diverse locations such as Las Vegas, New Orleans, and New York City. Demonstrates how consensus organizing can be applied to a variety of settings, including public education, housing, economic development, health and crime. Gives readers the opportunity to learn more about themselves: It helps students to see the other side of any situation and understand how common ground can be achieved. It is written in a student-friendly, conversational manner, which will make students feel as if they have taken a journey with the author, struggled with the various communities, won the victories with the disempowered, and had a few laughs along the way. Intended audience: This book can be used as a core textbook for courses in community organizing and as a supplemental volume in various macro social work courses on community practice. It can also be used in departments of social work, urban planning, public administration, and public health.
Download or read book The Ornament Book written by Dennis Kelly and published by E-Books Publisher. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book repeat telecast written by Hridima Patwal and published by simply read. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fiction short story for all ages written by Hridima Patwal is a very unique book with adventures in a repeating life.
Download or read book Morning Glory written by Linda Dahl and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz. The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother, Williams began performing publicly at the age of seven when she became known admiringly in her native Pittsburgh as "the little piano girl of East Liberty," playing one day for the Mellons at bridge teas and the next in gambling dens where the hat was passed for change. She grew up with the jazz of the early part of the century, championed by the likes of Earl Hines and Fats Waller, yet unlike so many other musicians of her time, she was open to new forms in jazz -- she was an early champion of bop, and a mentor and colleague to its central figures, such as Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell -- and in broader musical styles as well (after her conversion to Catholicism, she wrote masses and other sacred music). Most of the other famous women in jazz -- Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald -- have been singers. Williams was instead a phenomenal pianist who performed solo, with small groups and big bands, in vaudeville and clubs, and on numerous records. But she is equally well known today as a composer and arranger of remarkable versatility and power, having worked with, among others, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. Her compositions have been recorded by artisits as varied as Marian McPartland, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat "King" Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and herself -- and, more recently, by cutting-edge players Geri Allen and Dave Douglas. But Williams was more than "just a musician"; her interests were catholic in both senses, and she struggled to combine her love of music with her love of God. She was a tireless humanitarian, and made ongoing attempts to help dozens of down-and-out musicians; in the 1950s, her apartment was, at times, virtually a rehab. Though she was often in emotional despair, she found comfort for her many disappointments and hurts not only in her music but in her spirituality. Linda Dahl, granted unprecedented access to the large Williams archive, has given us the whole of Williams's very full life, from her often harrowing days on the road to her tumultuous marriages and love affairs, from the ups and downs of her unique fifty-year career to the remarkable spirituality that came to inform both her daily life and her music. This is a striking protrait of one of our least understood and most important musicians.
Download or read book The Last Chairlift written by John Irving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In the “generously intertextual” (The New York Times) The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
