Download or read book No Longer the forgotten Player written by Sandra Rim Park and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Child s Antidote to War written by Derek Wolff and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted Ukrainian-Canadian child has one of the biggest challenges of her life ahead of her—one that could put her in the world spotlight. Vnucka, a child-genius, who was born in Canada to the daughter of Ukrainian-Canadian parents, has come up with a novel idea for peace. With the help of her grandfather, she concocts an unconventional peace plan, which becomes their mission to bring a resolution to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Author, Derek Wolff, moves this character and her mission through a world full of intrigue, wonder, surprise, deception, and disappointment—peppered with good and bad actors. From over-zealous HR head hunters to pestering paparazzi, not to mention, zany Hollywood actors and their performing replicate bots, she experiences a world no child her age could ever imagine. True to form, she never lets go of her prime objective, to bring peace to Ukraine. There’s no stopping this girl...
Download or read book Oscar Charleston written by Jeremy Beer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball’s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
Download or read book Nobots written by mcgrew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten million years in the future, several solar bodies have been terraformed and populated, and the inhabitants have evolved into different species of human. One wants to exterminate the rest. An adult lighthearted old fashioned time and space opera.
Download or read book Oscar Charleston written by Jeremy Beer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 SABR Seymour Medal 2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of black America’s most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today. In a long career spanning from 1915 to 1954, Charleston played against, managed, befriended, and occasionally fought men such as Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Jesse Owens, Roy Campanella, and Branch Rickey. He displayed tremendous power, speed, and defensive instincts along with a fierce intelligence and commitment to his craft. Charleston’s competitive fire sometimes brought him trouble, but more often it led to victories, championships, and profound respect. While Charleston never played in the Major Leagues, he was a trailblazer who became the first black man to work as a scout for a Major League team when Branch Rickey hired him to evaluate players for the Dodgers in the 1940s. From the mid?1920s on, he was a player?manager for several clubs. In 1932 he joined the Pittsburgh Crawfords and would manage the club many consider the finest Negro League team of all time, featuring five future Hall of Famers, including himself, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson, and Satchel Paige. Charleston’s combined record as a player, manager, and scout makes him the most accomplished figure in black baseball history. His mastery of the quintessentially American sport under the conditions of segregation revealed what was possible for black achievement, bringing hope to millions. Oscar Charleston introduces readers to one of America’s greatest and most fascinating athletes.
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Download or read book Playing Life by Ear written by Doris Markland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her life stories, Doris Markland has chosen the best and shares them easily with humor and depth. Read about Her grandparents 1828-mile auto trip to California in 1926 (on dirt roads!) How she won big prizes with 25 words or less How she quit smoking and taught hundreds to quit Her surprising connection to Hawaii Our cultural journey from handshakes to hugs The magic of family experience The importance of spiritual heirlooms The wisdom of children The lighter side of aging Her serious poetry is thoughtful, her light verse delightful. This is a side table book for easy reading moments, and a perfect gift for the one who says PLEASE, no more gifts unless it is small, can be used right now, or is something to eat. Youll find plenty of food for thought in this book as Doris Markland looks back over eighty-nine years of living, learning, laughing, loving and believing. As she says on her blog, her writing is for sharp older people and their middle-aged kids. It appeals to those who are religious, those who consider themselves spiritual and those who profess neither but have an interest in pursuing the meaning of life. A potpouri of gifts, this is a remarkable and soul-filled collection of writing. In Playing Life By Ear, Doris Markland takes the reader through tender poignant moments in one chapter, heartwarming chuckles in another. Writing from the fullness of her heart, she draws her readers into a beautiful new friendship and inspires them to meet lifes challenges with understanding and enthusiasm. Addie Scheve, author, motivational speaker, former Nebraska Mother of the Year.
Download or read book On the Clock Dallas Cowboys written by Calvin Watkins and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider history of the Dallas Cowboys at the NFL draft A singular, transcendent talent can change the fortunes of a football team instantly. Each year, NFL teams approach the draft with this knowledge, hoping that luck will be on their side and that their extensive scouting and analysis will pay off. In On the Clock: Dallas Cowboys, Calvin Watkins explores the fascinating, rollercoaster history of America's Team at the draft, from Roger Staubach through Emmitt Smith and beyond. Readers will go behind the scenes with top decision-makers as they evaluate, deliberate, and ultimately make the picks they hope will tip the fate of their franchise toward success. From seemingly surefire first-rounders to surprising late selections, this is a must-read for Cowboys faithful and NFL fans eager for a glimpse at how teams are built.
Download or read book The Land Beyond the Forest written by Emily Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violin Lessons written by Arnold Zable and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisherman playing a flute on the banks of the Mekong, and Paganini in the borderlands of eastern Poland...... Music weaves its way through each of these spellbinding stories. Each tale, each fragment of music, leads to Amal, the woman who saved her life by clinging to a corpse for twenty hours alone in the sea. Arnold Zable takes the reader on an intimate journey into the lives of people he met on travels over the last forty years. These are tales aching to be told. Tales of hardship, of yearning and of celebration. Tales that span the globe, and bring us back to Melbourne to the powerful and heartbreaking story of Amal - her flight from Baghdad, her fears boarding the unseaworthy SIEV X, her survival when it went down, and her desire to have her story told. 'Maybe this is why I am alive,' Amal says, 'to tell the story of the people who sank in the ocean.'
Download or read book Our Players Gallery written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture V 17 written by Clarence L. Mohr and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Download or read book Played in Britain written by Kate Dorney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Musuem, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with photos from the V&A's collections and featuring a foreword by Richard Griffiths O.B.E., the book provides a sumptuous treat for theatre-lovers. It was awarded the 2014 David Bradby Award for research by the Theatre and Performance Research Association. Opening with J. B. Priestley's classic play from 1946, An Inspector Calls, and ending with Laura Wade's examination of class privilege and moral turpitude in Posh over sixty years later, Played in Britain offers a visual history of post-war theatre on the British stage. Arranged chronologically the featured plays illustrate and respond to a number of themes that animate post-war society: censorship and controversy; race and immigration; gender and sexuality; money and politics. An essay on each period first sets the context and explores trends, while the commentary accompanying each play illuminates the plot and themes, considers its original reception and subsequent afterlife, and finishes by suggesting other plays to explore. Photographs from the V&A's extensive collection illustrate each play, providing further insight into stage and costume designs, and include iconic images from the premieres of major plays such as Waiting for Godot and Look Back in Anger. Illustrated throughout with stage production photography, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays presents a unique and visually stunning panorama of key dramatic works produced in Britain over the past seventy years. From An Inspector Calls to The Rocky Horror Show, or Abigail's Party to Waiting for Godot, fresh light is thrown on the impact, aesthetics and essence of these key plays.
Download or read book The Compliment written by Don Lucas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s more than one fish in the sea,” so the saying goes. For Sula this is certainly true, for she lives in an ocean of diverse creatures from tiny to colossal, from gentle to aggressive. Some being so dangerous they seek to make her part of their daily diet. Only the unimaginable and bizarre circumstances of her conception make her existence even possible in this harsh world. This diversity and variety add delight and adventure to her charmed life until she becomes of age and realizes that every creature in her vast world has a compliment - a mate - with which they can produce little ones of their kind. That is, every creature but her. Since they all come from a mating pair, where is she to find the pair that produced her? Her quest leads to adventures and discoveries both delightful and frightening, until it eventually leads her to her mate - her compliment - in a love story to rival the classics as her life unfolds.
Download or read book Level Playing Fields written by Peter Morris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed.
Download or read book The World Forgotten written by Paul Bélanger and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of poems chosen from the first four books published by Paul Bélanger. With Projet de Pablo (1988, a finalist for the Émile Nelligan Award), Bélanger began to cultivate his memory using various kinds of tools. In this first collection Picas-so's works become the pretext for the poet to compare painting to poetry. In Retours (1991, a finalist for the Governor General Award), the poet chooses to travel within and face the strangeness of the world therein. L'oubli du monde (1993) brings us to the more personal realms of memory. Autobiography crosses history in a well-tempered lyricism. Fenêtres et ailleurs (1996) shows us a man tackling more existential issues. This selection was done by Antonio D'Alfonso.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
