Author : David J. Weeres
Publisher : North Star Press of St. Cloud
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780878393565
"Practices are a little like a classroom--you're teaching," says John Gagliardi. Since 1953, John, as head football coach at Saint John's University, has been "teaching" young men how to play -winning football. His "classroom" has been the -beautiful natural bowl of Clemens Stadium. His college teams have won 471 games, 63 more than those of his closest rival.
Author : John Mercer
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category :
ISBN :
Kangaroo... a cute, cuddly animal, from the land down under, right? Except when it's not. Except when it's really a six-foot tall demon-monster from the land of the dead. Then it's not so cute and cuddly. And that's just one of Mikey's problems. Trying to figure out girls and dealing with bullies, deciding who you can and cannot trust and of course, helping out angry ghosts who need favors; and that's all before lunch. No one said Junior High would be easy, but it's even worse when you're back from the dead.
Author : Michael Schoenholtz
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2021-03-26
Category :
ISBN : 9780578877037
New Jersey, 1928. A 14-year-old boy disappears from his home without a trace. Ninety years later, a series of chance DNA matches reveals what became of him. John had to grow up quickly - changing his identity, earning a living, and navigating love, friendship and death during some of the toughest times in American history.With nothing more than an 8th grade education, his journey takes us through Prohibition, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the gold mines of Colorado and the Second World War to eventually become a success in his own right. Based on a true story.
Author : John Ed Bradley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1442497947
From former football star and bestselling author John Ed Bradley comes a searing look at love, life, and football in the face of racial adversity. "Heartbreaking," says Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak. Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, Tater Henry has experienced a lot of prejudice. His town is slow to desegregate and slower still to leave behind deep-seated prejudice. Despite the town's sensibilities, Rodney Boulett and his twin sister Angie befriend Tater, and as their friendship grows stronger, Tater and Rodney become an unstoppable force on the football field. That is, until Rodney sees Tater and Angie growing closer, too, and Rodney's world is turned upside down. Teammates, best friends--Rodney's world is threatened by a hate he did not know was inside of him. As the town learns to accept notions like a black quarterback, some changes may be too difficult to accept. "John Ed Bradley skillfully shines a beam of humanity through the prism of the game, revealing to us the full spectrum of its colors, from love to hate, bigotry to tolerance, and devotion to betrayal. Anyone who ever played high school football or loved someone who has should read this book." --Tim Green, retired NFL player and bestselling author
Author : John Wooden
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780071424912
An autobiographical portrait of UCLA basketball coach John Wooden highlighting his career and personal life and insights on how his top players shaped and changed the NBA.
Author : John H. Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 9780533032204
Author : Jory John
Publisher : RH Childrens Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385389922
The talented creators of I Will Chomp You! brilliantly frame the struggle to buck stereotypes and learn empathy in this monster’s hilarious lament. Floyd Peterson is so much more than shaggy purple fur and pointy monster teeth— why can’t people just see him for him? Jory John and Bob Shea have struck gold in creating a knee-slapping, read-it-again story that will start a valuable discussion about how we treat others and how it feels to be seen as “different.”
Author : D. J. Herda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0762774517
A fresh, lively retelling of the life of one of the most infamous characters of the Old West, Doc Holliday, by an imaginative, yet accurate storyteller.
Author : Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544944607
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you."--Wall Street Journal "A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bola o and Borges." --New York Times Book Review Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature--even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are Zebra's only companions--until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic; their time together fraught. Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. He thinks she's unhinged; she thinks he's pedantic. Neither are wrong; neither can let the other go. They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or lust, can free Zebra from her past. An adventure tale, a love story, and a paean to the power of language and literature starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as introspective as Virginia Woolf, as whip-smart as Miranda July, and as spirited as Frances Ha, Call Me Zebra will establish Van der Vliet Oloomi as an author "on the verge of developing a whole new literature movement" (Bustle).
Author : Abdi Nor Iftin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525433023
Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills to post secret dispatches, which found an audience of worldwide listeners. Eventually, though, Abdi was forced to flee to Kenya. In an amazing stroke of luck, Abdi won entrance to the U.S. in the annual visa lottery, though his route to America did not come easily. Parts of his story were first heard on the BBC World Service and This American Life. Now a proud resident of Maine, on the path to citizenship, Abdi Nor Iftin's dramatic, deeply stirring memoir is truly a story for our time: a vivid reminder of why America still beckons to those looking to make a better life.
