![]() ![]() ![]() The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. ![]() Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it-before I had a story to fall in love with. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard).I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He was adorable and loyal and had cute shaggy light brown hair and I hope to someday have a German Shepherd just like him. But it just didn’t have the umph I was looking for! This was a good read in a very shrugworthy kind of way. Now, not only has her dad come out of his depression to be a father again, and a pain as well, but Caleb's enemies know he's imprinted and are after Maggie to stop them both from gaining their abilities and take her from him.Ĭan Caleb save her or will they be forced to live without each other after just finding one another? ![]() She herself is experiencing supernatural changes unlike anything she's ever felt before and she needs the touch of his skin to survive. She learns that not only is she his soul mate, and can feel his heartbeat in her chest, but there is a whole other world of people with gifts and abilities that she never knew existed. They imprint with each other and she sees their future life together flash before her eyes. Things change when they touch, sparks ignite. She saves his life and instantly knows there's something about him that's intriguing, but she's supposed to be on her way to a date with his cousin. Lately she thinks life is all about hanging on by a thread and is gripping tight with everything she has. She was smart and on track, but her mom left, her dad is depressed, she's graduating, barely, and her boyfriend of almost three years dumped her for a college football scholarship. Maggie is a seventeen year old girl who's had a bad year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The couple focus is on Rionna McDonald and Caelen McCabe. Third and last in the McCabe Triology historical romance series set in a medieval Scotland. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Sweet Surrender, Colters' Woman, Sweet Persuasion, Sweet Seduction, In Bed with a Highlander, Darkest Hour, Seduction of a Highland Lass, Colters' Lady, No Place to Run, Men Out of Uniform, Red-Hot Summer, Brazen, Sweet Temptation, Whispers in the Dark, "Colters' Wife", Colters' Promise, Echoes at Dawn, Undone By Her Tender Touch, Four Play, Cherished, The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress, Never Seduce a Scot, Highlander Most Wanted, "Softly at Sunrise", Shades of Gray, Rush, Fever, Forged in Steele, Burn, Colters' Daughter, Colters' Gift, Be With Me, When Day Breaks, After the Storm, Taking It All, Keep Me Safe, Darkest Before Dawn, Enticed by His Forgotten Lover, Sweet Possession, Sweet Addiction ![]() ![]() Historical romance in Paperback edition that was published by Ballantine Books on Octoand has 305 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pages are clean with some age toning, as usual due to the type of paper used. The dust wrapper is excellent with a minor shelf wear only, and a small bookseller sticker to the rear wrap. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. He talks about his books and the movies based on his stories in a series of interviews that King has granted to some of America's most respected interviewers throughout the years.?In the unclipped dust wrapper.? In the original publisher's cloth binding. The first UK edition, published only a year after the American edition.?In?Bare Bones, the ever popular author Stephen King discusses his life, his work, and all his fears and dreams. There are 52 lettered copies of this edition, with this being letter CC. : Los Angeles : Underwood-Miller 1989 Hardcover. A fantastic work edited by Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller. Bare Bones Conversations on Terror with Stephen King by Tim Underwood ISBN 13: 9780450499920 ISBN 10: 0450499928 Hardcover London: Hodder & Stoughton General. Bare Bones by Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Seller Fleur Fine Books Published 1989 Condition Used Very Good ISBN 9780887330247 Item Price 350.95 Show Details Description: Used Very Good. Some exciting insights into the life of Stephen King as a man and as a writer. ![]() ![]() But the keystone of this triumvirate is the most memorable of all, Hideyoshi, who rises from the menial post of sandal bearer to become Taiko-absolute ruler of Japan in the Emperor's name. At the opposite pole is the cold, deliberate Ieyasu, wise in counsel, brave in battle, mature beyond his years. At one extreme is the charismatic but brutal Nobunaga, whose ruthless ambition crushes all before him. Warrior monks in their armed citadels block the road to the capital castles are destroyed, villages plundered, fields put to the torch.Īmid this devastation, three men dream of uniting the nation. In the tempestuous closing decades of the sixteenth century, the Empire of Japan writhes in chaos as the shogunate crumbles and rival warlords battle for supremacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And so if The Rainbow ends on a note of revelatory hope-the potential birth of a new world- Women in Love ends in snowblind Alpine apocalypse, somewhere between the visionary Romantic Frankenstein and the forthcoming modernist summa of Mann’s Magic Mountain. In the seven years between his commencement of the novel in 1913 and the publication of Women in Love in 1920 intervenes his elopement to her native Germany with his former professor’s wife Frieda Weekley ( née von Richthofen), the censorship and burning of The Rainbow in England, and the Great War. Seeking an escape from the accomplished naturalism of his breakout novel, Sons and Lovers, into something more like myth, tragedy, or prophecy, he wanted to write a mighty book with a mission no less grand than to repair the division between men and women and to restore the wholeness of a society torn by industrial modernity. Lawrence conceived The Rainbow and Women in Love as a unity, a single novel under the title The Sisters or The Wedding Ring. ![]() ![]() Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success. Is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. ![]() And when both Frog and Toad are scared, they are brave together.Ĭalled this story collection from Arnold Lobel a masterpiece of child-styled humor and sensitivity. When Toad bakes cookies, Frog helps him eat them. When Toad admires the flowers in Frog's garden, Frog gives him seeds to grow a garden of his own. The beloved classic about friendship-a Newbery Honor Bookįrog and Toad are best friends-they do everything together. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for The Great Gatsby: 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' Sunday Times 'More than an American classic it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream' Guardian 'F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. ![]() **The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition** With a new foreword by Jesmyn Ward, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Sing, Unburied, Sing 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. ![]() ![]() Ganser really enters into the spirit of the project, really bringing these deaths to life, as it were. These are lists of factoids, perhaps?īragg’s style is vivid and conversational, and narrator L. After killing off Caesar, Bragg provides a list of things named after Caesar, and so on. For example, since Beethoven was a Romantic composer, Bragg includes a list of other Romantic composers. Likewise, if there were myths about how someone died (most notably Cleopatra), Bragg makes a point of debunking those.īragg also includes things that aren’t easily classified, and might be considered padding. ![]() If the person’s death had implications or aftermath, like Einstein and the postmortem investigations into his brain, or Curie and her still-radioactive notebooks, Bragg includes those. I can be cooking or washing dishes and still enjoy hearing how many times Julius Caesar got stabbed, and how many of the conspirators failed to land a strike. This sort of content divides easily into units, and, to be frank, can be listened to without the most intense attention. In this book, Bragg discusses sketches the lives of famous people (Madame Curie, Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, etc.), and then discusses their deaths, often in lurid detail and descriptive prose. Some kinds of books are better as audiobooks, and I would argue Georgia Bragg’s How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous is one of those books. ![]() ![]() With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects. ![]() Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. BoingBoingFrom the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you ve read before, weaving elements of folk tales and video games into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Magary underhands a twist in at the end that hits you like a sharp jab at the bell. ![]() |