Author : Don L. Curry
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Alliteration
ISBN : 9780531266793
The I Can! subset focuses on children's aspirations as well as helping to develop a sense of responsibility and selflessness while building self-esteem and confidence. There's wacky word fun in store for all when Willie and his classmates make up silly sentences using the first letter of their names.
Author : Tom Smith
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781512710953
Willie's World 2 is a collection of Christian puppet skits written to teach young boys and girls valuable lessons from God's Word. In doing so, it is my prayer that they may become better prepared to make right choices as they travel life's long and often difficult highway. Each week, Willie manages to find himself in one sort of dilemma or another. Together with the help of his friends, his wise grandpa, and the delightful Miss Pickles, he takes on the challenges of being a boy in a rapidly changing world of schoolyard bullies, peer pressure, self-doubt, and facing our greatest fears. Throughout these skits, children will be taught many lessons to help strengthen their faith: Lessons about prayer, forgiveness, obedience and how to get along with others. Lessons about sharing their faith, trusting in God, and loving the unlovable. When all is said and done, Willie learns that the road of life can be fraught with many hazards and wrong turns. But navigating around those hazards becomes much less troublesome when, before embarking on that journey, we allow God's Word to have its rightful and necessary place as a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
Author : Tom Smith
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1512710946
Willies World 2 is a collection of Christian puppet skits written to teach young boys and girls valuable lessons from Gods Word. In doing so, it is my prayer that they may become better prepared to make right choices as they travel lifes long and often difficult highway. Each week, Willie manages to find himself in one sort of dilemma or another. Together with the help of his friends, his wise grandpa, and the delightful Miss Pickles, he takes on the challenges of being a boy in a rapidly changing world of schoolyard bullies, peer pressure, self-doubt, and facing our greatest fears. Throughout these skits, children will be taught many lessons to help strengthen their faith: Lessons about prayer, forgiveness, obedience and how to get along with others. Lessons about sharing their faith, trusting in God, and loving the unlovable. When all is said and done, Willie learns that the road of life can be fraught with many hazards and wrong turns. But navigating around those hazards becomes much less troublesome when, before embarking on that journey, we allow Gods Word to have its rightful and necessary place as a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
Author : Willie J. Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501151126
An outspoken Christian reproductive-justice advocate draws on his upbringing in the Deep South and his experiences as a physician and abortion provider to explain why he believes that helping women in need without judgment is in accordance with Christian values.
Author : Marjorie Muir Worthington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN : 9781943679058
A novelist's candid and affectionate record of her life with the author of "The Magic Island" and "Asylum".
Author : John Klima
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0470485221
The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball's endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder who hit 660 career homeruns, collected 3,283 hits, knocked in 1,903 runs, won 12 Gold Glove Awards and appeared in 24 All-Star games. But before Mays was the "Say Hey Kid", he was just a boy. Willie's Boys is the story of his remarkable 1948 rookie season with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, who took a risk on a raw but gifted 16-year-old and gave him the experience, confidence, and connections to escape Birmingham's segregation, navigate baseball's institutional racism, and sign with the New York Giants. Willie's Boys offers a character-rich narrative of the apprenticeship Mays had at the hands of a diverse group of savvy veterans who taught him the ways of the game and the world. Sheds new light on the virtually unknown beginnings of a baseball great, not available in other books Captures the first incredible steps of a baseball superstar in his first season with the Negro League's Birmingham Black Barons Introduces the veteran group of Negro League players, including Piper Davis, who gave Mays an incredible apprenticeship season Illuminates the Negro League's last days, drawing on in-depth research and interviews with remaining players Explores the heated rivalry between Mays's Black Barons and Buck O'Neil's Kansas City Monarchs , culminating in the last Negro League World Series Breaks new historical ground on what led the New York Giants to acquire Mays, and why he didn't sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, or Boston Red Sox Packed with stories and insights, Willie's Boys takes you inside an important part of baseball history and the development of one of the all-time greats ever to play the game.
Author : David Courtney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1477312978
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Author : James S. Hirsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2010-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439171653
The New York Times bestselling, authorized, “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (The Seattle Times) biography of the late, great Willie Mays. Willie Mays (1931–2024) was arguably the greatest player in baseball history, revered for the passion he brought to the game. He began as a teenager in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New York, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball’s bold expansion to California. He was a blend of power, speed, and stylistic bravado that enraptured fans for more than two decades. Author James Hirsch reveals the man behind the player. Mays was a transcendent figure who received standing ovations in enemy stadiums and who, during the turbulent civil rights era, urged understanding and reconciliation. More than his records, his legacy is defined by the pure joy that he brought to fans and the loving memories that have been passed to future generations so they might know the magic and beauty of the game. With meticulous research and drawing on interviews with Mays himself as well as with close friends, family, and teammates, Hirsch presents a brilliant portrait of one of America’s most significant cultural icons.
Author : Walter Stephen
Publisher : Luath Press Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Golf course architects
ISBN : 9781905222216
In the 19th century, Musselburgh was a hotbed of golfing genius and the local links produced five Open Champions. One of these was Willie Park Junior. More than a good golfer, he redefined the image of the golf professional and took the game from being an esoteric pastime to its present status as a world game. As well as winning the Open in 1887 and 1889, Willie played challenge and demonstration matches at home, in Europe and in North America. His workshops turned out golf balls and clubs to his own design and he had retail outlets in Edinburgh, Manchester, London, New York and Montreal. He designed and laid out over 100 golf courses in the British Isles and Western Europe. When he published The Game of Golf in 1896 it was the first book on the game written by a professional. World War I killed off Willie's activities at home, so he moved across the Atlantic. Concentrating on course design he engineered over 40 courses in the US and 20 in Canada. Willie Park was the epitome of Scottish Victorian enterprise. Though not alone, he was the most active of missionaries, taking the skills and equipment of a local game to what were then the two major continents.
Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984854135
"Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a dusty small town in east Texas. Their close relationship ... is the longest-lasting bond in either of their lives. In alternating chapters, this ... dual memoir weaves together their lives as they experienced them both side-by-side and apart with powerful, emotional stories from growing up, playing music in public for the first time, and the trials they each faced in adulthood as Willie pursued a songwriting career and Bobbie faced a series of challenging relationships and a musical career that only took off when attitudes about women began to change in Texas"--
