Download or read book The Unbroken Line written by Billy Joe DuPree and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unbroken Line is the riveting story of how truly heartless the business of professional football was and is from the poor pension plans and inadequate medical benefits to the greed of union leadership which the authors argue takes advantage of and turns its back on the very individuals who make the game great. At no time in the annals of sports has the timing of a book been more important. This unique story provides a fascinating inside look at how a group of players and one attorney strategically outwitted the NFL and the Players Union leadership to score an historic and crucial victory for players rights. The year was 1982, a few courageous men stood up to their powerful administrative adversaries when no one else would during the most turbulent time in the history of professional football. What was at stake then and now again in 2010 is the players ability to earn salaries and benefits that are in line with their contributions to their teams. The authors, former Pro Bowl tight end Billy Joe DuPree and highly respected attorney Spencer Kopf, not only reveal the successful plan that began the end of player exploitation, but they also skillfully compare the peril players faced in 1982 to the heart wrenching situations of present-day, retired union members. An SMI Book, imprint of iUniverse, Inc.

Download or read book The Unbroken Line of the Moon written by Johanne Hildebrandt and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this savage saga of love, war, lust, and magic set in the tenth century, young Sigrid is destined to be the mother of the king of the Nordic lands that would become Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and England. A devout believer in the old Nordic gods, Sigrid is visited regularly in her dreams by the goddess Freya, who whispers to her of the future. Though Sigrid is beautiful, rich, arrogant, and matchlessly clever, her uncanny ability to foresee the future and manipulate the present guides her through dangerous politics as a bloody war between Vikings and Christians rages on. Sigrid's father wants her to marry Erik, a local king, to secure the peace between the Goths and the Swedes. Thinking she is doing Freya's will, she accepts the marriage offer, only to find that her destiny lies not with Erik but with Sweyn, a warrior who dreams of dethroning Harald Bluetooth, the legendary ruler of Denmark. Will Sigrid sacrifice her will for the greatest Viking kingdom of all time, or will she follow her heart at the risk of losing everything?

Download or read book The Unbroken Line written by H. Warner Allen and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Download or read book The Unbroken Line written by Case Lane and published by Case Lane. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our dependence on Internet connectivity literally comes back to haunt us in this gripping thriller in the Life Online series.to prevent the greatest technology threat ever seen from starting a world war in this gripping thriller in the Life Online series.  What if your last text triggered the next world war? In the near future, the dead live on as virtual holograms interacting with humans through an omnipresent cyber Network. In Washington, DC, heartbroken U.S. President Arturo Solar is recklessly communicating with an illegal copy of his dead daughter's digital conscience. But his mourning is shattered when terrifying, undetectable drones appear all over the world, and in outer space. Global militaries are left defense-less against the advanced machines capable of targeting and disarming any perceived threat. But where did the drones come from? And who is in control? To his shock, President Solar realizes a connection no one else can see, and scrambles to rally the world's last known thinkers to save the world from inevitable war. Kade Laltanca, the brilliant, beautiful, no-nonsense Commander of UN Special Command, is called back to DC to find and fix an inconceivable cyber conflict. Kade rallies a global team of technologists, intelligence agents and diplomats to search the world for clues to stopping the cyber glitch. But without the help of rogue technologists, their greatest enemies and biggest rivals, global law enforcement may stand no chance on their own. The team must risk the entire infrastructure of global cybersecurity to align with rogue techs and their unpredictable friends in the battle for humanity's survival. Criss-crossing the world from the Amazon rainforest to the heat of Cape Canaveral and the bitter winter cold in Moscow, The Unbroken Line is a thrilling future fiction international adventure from earth to outer space. This is Book 2 in the unprecedented Life Online speculative science fiction thriller series about our battle to survive in the world we are now creating as we come to grips with the disturbing consequence of humanity's dependence on programmed machines, and the visionary benefits of the technology. Each Life Online book can be read independently. The Life Online Series #1 The Motion Clue #2 The Unbroken Line #3 The Probable Cause #4 The Downward Shift

Download or read book The Unbroken Line written by Herbert Warner Allen and published by London : Smith, Elder. This book was released on 1916 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In Unbroken Line written by Amy Morris Lillie and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Unbroken written by C. L. Clark and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A perfect military fantasy: brutal, complex, human and impossible to put down." - Tasha Suri, author of Empire of Sand In an epic fantasy unlike any other, two women clash in a world full of rebellion, espionage, and military might on the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire. Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet's edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren't for sale.

Download or read book An Unbroken Line written by Peter Gzowski and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Unbroken Line and Other Poems written by Florence L. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unbroken A Ruined Novel written by Paula Morris and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to New Orleans.Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty.Where the houses breathe with ghosts. A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have her heart.But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him. Soon Rebecca finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago. But as she tries to right wrongs, she finds more questions thananswers: Is she putting her friends, and herself, in danger? Can she trust this new ghost? And has she stumbled into something much bigger and more serious than she understands?

Download or read book Homegoing written by Yaa Gyasi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.

Download or read book The Unbroken Line written by J. Briggs and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unbroken Line ...Finding Our Way HomeFrom a hospital bed, a father and daughter recall a trip they made together 30 years ago to Grandmom's. The daughter had a difficult Catholic school assignment and he was going to his 30th school reunion. The setting is 2025 and the same daughter now has a daughter of her own facing an almost identical assignment and is trying to learn from her mother's experience. It amounts to one day in the life of a family that involves four generations in time. Discussion of race, religion, neighborhood culture, and family heritage figure into the daughters' quest for understanding, and address the many issues and problems faced by society today striving to maintain their own unbroken line of family ties.Faith is a like a two-way road wherever there are unbroken lines, those solid double yellow lines that are there for one's own protection. It serves as a precaution for one never knows what might be approaching, especially when it can't be seen. We go forward in life trying to observe the rules laid down by those that came before us, trusting that there is a good reason for them. When we do not appreciate the wisdom of the past, we often must test the limits and learn by trial and error. Sometimes this doesn't go well. Every parent knows what it feels like to lose control of the steering wheel of life when their child reaches the late teenage years and decides they know better. The influences of the world are many and mightily powerful. It is a risky time and one worth wearing out the knees of one's pants, if they are to get any sleep at all.But there is hope. An unbroken line of family descendants from Abraham leads to the birth of the Savior, the hub of the universe, and He brings us closer to each other as we draw closer to Him. An unbroken line extends from Jesus' appointment of Peter to the present- day Pope. We take the guidance of the Old and New Testaments and the Magisterium to the present day. The goal is to strive to live according to an unbroken line between the Great Commandment to love God and others as self as in an ever-connected circle of thought and action. This is the purpose of life, to know and serve, and Jesus is the way. When life brings brokenness, we have forgotten who He is and why we need Him. Broken lines come about when we fail to depend on Him every step of the way.

Download or read book Unbroken written by Jay Crownover and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men series comes a captivating novella about a rugged rodeo star who will do anything to protect the people he loves. When rodeo star Crew Lawton loses everything in a bad bet, he has no choice but to take a new job to pay off his debts - even if it means becoming the face of an expensive male skincare line. Crew is used to getting sweaty and rustling in the dirt, not posing for photo shoots. And he's certainly not used to being bossed around by a woman who doesn't even know the difference between bulls and broncs. But Crew owes money to dangerous criminals, and he'll do anything Della says in order to pay them back and keep them far away from his family in Loveless, Texas... The launch of her new men's line for her family's company means everything to Della Deveaux, and she's not willing to let some rugged, arrogant cowboy ruin her campaign. Crew Lawton is the last man she would have chosen to represent her chic, sophisticated brand. Unfortunately, her father already invested millions in Crew's stupidly handsome face. Yet the more time they spend together, Della and Crew realize that opposites do attract. But when the time comes for Crew to face his past mistakes, will he be able to protect his family...and the woman he's come to love?

Download or read book The Unbroken Line written by Billy Joe DuPree and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982 pro football was very different. Though top players were national names, they weren't yet the bank-breaking superstars whose every move was followed by a ravenous sports media and who received million-dollar bonuses before they ever played a down. The strike that was called in 1982 had more to do with union leaders' egos and self-interested power grabs than truly gaining benefits for their members. Unfortunately for the league and the union, things didn't work out that way"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book The Unbroken Thread written by Sohrab Ahmari and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselves—but at what cost? An influential columnist and editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaning. “Ahmari’s tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now.”—Rod Dreher, bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict Option As a young father and a self-proclaimed “radically assimilated immigrant,” opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son’s moral fiber, today’s America is woefully lacking. For millennia, the world’s great ethical and religious traditions have taught that true happiness lies in pursuing virtue and accepting limits. But now, unbound from these stubborn traditions, we are free to choose whichever way of life we think is most optimal—or, more often than not, merely the easiest. All that remains are the fickle desires that a wealthy, technologically advanced society is equipped to fulfill. The result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that, for all their apparent freedom, are marked by alienation and stark unhappiness. In response to this crisis, Ahmari offers twelve questions for us to grapple with—twelve timeless, fundamental queries that challenge our modern certainties. Among them: Is God reasonable? What is freedom for? What do we owe our parents, our bodies, one another? Exploring each question through the lives and ideas of great thinkers, from Saint Augustine to Howard Thurman and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Andrea Dworkin, Ahmari invites us to examine the hidden assumptions that drive our behavior and, in doing so, to live more humanely in a world that has lost its way.