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Falling For The Manny

Author : Kayla Nicole
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Falling For The Manny written by Kayla Nicole and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two people who aren't looking for love will find it in the most unexpected place in this sweet and steamy debut romance by author duo Kayla Nicole. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEW MANNY MOVES IN? Georgia Quinn is the CEO and founder of Wo+Mama, a Fortune 500 company, but more importantly, the single-mom to a 5-year-old firecracker, Savannah. When her troublesome ex-husband, Thad, hires a Manny to live in with Georgia and their daughter, it's hard not to fall in love with the new man in their lives. Callum Reid has always wanted to be a teacher, much to the chagrin of his wealthy parents. When he refuses the path that his family has set out for him, he quickly finds himself disinherited, dumped by his girlfriend, and forced to drop out of college. With his future in his own hands, Cal relies on childcare jobs to earn the money he needs to get back to school and finish his degree. When Thad offers Callum a golden Manny position, he can't say no to the hefty paycheck. But some things are too good to be true, and the job comes with an added caveat. Cal must become Thad's inside man and help him with his plan to win Georgia back. Will Cal be able to fulfill his contract with Thad, or will his own heart get in the way?

The Manny Files

Author : Christian Burch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439136181
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Manny Files written by Christian Burch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manny /ma·ne/ n A male nanny or babysitter, known to be handsome, fabulous, and a lover of eighties music. "Be interesting." That's what the manny tells Keats Dalinger the first time he packs Keats's school lunch, but for Keats that's not always the easiest thing to do. Even though he's the only boy at home, it always feels like no one ever remembers him. His sisters are everywhere! Lulu is the smart one, India is the creative one, and Belly...well, Belly is the naked one. And the baby. School isn't much better. There, he's the shortest kid in the entire class. But now the manny is the Dalinger's new babysitter, and things are starting to look up. It seems as though the manny always knows the right thing to do. Not everyone likes the manny as much as Keats does, however. Lulu finds the manny embarrassing, and she's started to make a list of all the crazy things that he does, such as serenading the kids with "La Cucaracha" from the front yard or wearing underwear on his head or meeting the school bus with Belly, dressed as limo drivers. Keats is worried. What if Lulu's "Manny Files" makes his parents fire the manny? Who will teach him how to be interesting then?

Misadventures with a Manny

Author : Toni Aleo
Publisher : Waterhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 1642630055
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Misadventures with a Manny written by Toni Aleo and published by Waterhouse Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera Woods is at her wit’s end. Her husband has run off with the nanny, leaving Vera with a broken heart, three very angry sons, and even less time to juggle the demands of family and her career. After her boys scare away a sixth replacement nanny, Vera is out of time off from work and desperately out of options. Still nursing an aching heart, she turns to an unlikely source for help―a manny. Lincoln Scott is no stranger to family chaos. But rather than grow jaded, he has thrown his natural talents into building his own business―providing live-in childcare for families as a manny. The money is great and the perks are a blast, but when his family of six years moves to Germany and their plans to bring him along fall through, Lincoln is suddenly unemployed and aware of how much of himself he’s given to other people’s families. Brought together by circumstances, Lincoln and Vera’s mutually beneficial business arrangement becomes complicated by the undeniable chemistry they share. Vera needs a manny and Lincoln needs a job, but they both may have found the very thing neither one had realized they needed―a whole lot more. Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. They’re the perfect bedside read, a ‘quick blush’ for the reader who loves a page-turning romance.

Shadows of Pecan Hollow

Author : Caroline Frost
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063065363
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Pecan Hollow written by Caroline Frost and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "This immersive, full-bodied novel will keep its hooks in you long after the last page is read, and marks the arrival of a tremendously wise and talented writer."—Ben Fountain Set in 1970-90s Texas, a mesmerizing story about a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she can’t escape, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Valentine. It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Twenty years after they meet, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees and muddy creeks of the town of Pecan Hollow, far from Manny. But when he shows up at her doorstep a new man, fresh out of prison, Kit is forced to reckon with the shadows of her past. A gritty, penetrating, and unexpectedly tender novel, Shadows of Pecan Hollow is a hauntingly intimate and distinctly original debut about the complexity of love—both romantic and familial—and the bonds that define us. “Paper Moon meets Badlands in this mesmerizing Texas backroads thriller, a twisty story of a runaway girl who finds a home and a desperate love on the road with an opportunistic criminal.”—Janet Fitch

Stay Alive

Author : Manny Fulsom
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098034104
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Stay Alive written by Manny Fulsom and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello, readers. Manny Fulsom here. I wrote a book about what happened to me and events in my life leading up to it. What happened to me? It's actually the first three words in my book. Writing this book was not therapeutic for me at all actually, it was actually very stressful. I literally put blood, sweat, and tears into writing this book. I hope you all get the message of my story. That's the vision behind Stay Alive is to help all people, to Stay Alive, even when life is hard. I wrote the entire book on my iPhone 7. I destroyed my laptop with my friends with baseball bat and a shovel back in the fall of 2016 because I was struggling with porn. That was stupid now that I think about. I could've just sold it. I wrote a very vulnerable story. People say I have "such profound wisdom," but there is being humble. I aim for that. Also, in my first chapter I say,"The world deserves to know." That's not to be narcissistic, it's an amazing testimony I have, but I think everyone has an amazing testimony. Also, the aim is not for people to feel bad for me. The aim is to help the reader if they need it. I'm so glad the cognitive stuff and memory came back quickly. I want people to not have to go through what I went through because it's a tough situation.

My Empire of Dirt

Author : Manny Howard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171661
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book My Empire of Dirt written by Manny Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal was simple: to subsist on what he could produce on this farm, and only this farm, for at least a month. The project came at a time in Manny’s life when he most needed it—even if his family, and especially his wife, seemingly did not. But a farmer’s life, he discovered—after a string of catastrophes, including a tornado, countless animal deaths (natural, accidental, and inflicted), and even a severed finger—is not an easy one. And it can be just as hard on those he shares it with. Manny’s James Beard Foundation Award–winning New York magazine cover story—the impetus for this project—began as an assessment of the locavore movement. We now think more about what we eat than ever before, buying organic for our health and local for the environment, often making those decisions into political statements in the process. My Empire of Dirt is a ground-level examination—trenchant, touching, and outrageous—of the cultural reflex to control one of the most elemental aspects of our lives: feeding ourselves. Unlike most foodies with a farm fetish, Manny didn’t put on overalls with much of a philosophy in mind, save a healthy dose of skepticism about some of the more doctrinaire tendencies of locavores. He did not set out to grow all of his own food because he thought it was the right thing to do or because he thought the rest of us should do the same. Rather, he did it because he was just crazy enough to want to find out how hard it would actually be to take on a challenge based on a radical interpretation of a trendy (if well-meaning) idea and see if he could rise to the occasion. A chronicle of the experiment that took slow-food to the extreme, My Empire of Dirt tells the story of one man’s struggle against environmental, familial, and agricultural chaos, and in the process asks us to consider what it really takes (and what it really means) to produce our own food. It’s one thing to know the farmer, it turns out—it’s another thing entirely to be the farmer. For most of us, farming is about food. For the farmer, and his family, it’s about work.

Daddy and the Manny

Author : Bella Flint
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549835025
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Daddy and the Manny written by Bella Flint and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood bad boy Hayden Reynolds is plagued by scandal after scandal. After one too many fights with the paparazzi and more than a few trashed hotel rooms, his agent holds an intervention. He needs to shake his bad boy image and work on a squeaky clean and wholesome new look if he wants to keep his career on track. Just as he's trying to turn his life around, the ultimate bombshell is suddenly dropped on him. Hayden discovers he has a young daughter he never knew about - the product of a long passed and short-lived relationship - and she's coming to live with him. Hayden has no idea about being a dad, he barely knows how to take care of himself. When Hollywood Mannies sends James to help, he thinks things will fall into place immediately. What he doesn't expect is that while things with Violet get better, his personal feelings for his manny only grow complicated.James Everett is the complete opposite of Hayden. He's sweet, geeky, down to earth and his love for children has made him one of the most sought-after nannies in Los Angeles. The only trade-in is he has to deal with the children's often snooty parents with more money than sense. He can tell straight away that Hayden has no clue about raising a child. Then again, it's his job to do most of that anyway. When he takes the live-in position at Hayden's mansion, he thinks he's landed his dream job. Little Violet is sassy, funny and smart. She's also troubled by the sudden death of her mother and being thrown into a whole new world she never knew about. She warms to James quickly but doesn't seem to want to know her father. James is used to playing mediator so this isn't new for him. However, falling for the man whose daughter he's supposed to be helping is. When a man from Violet's past threatens to destroy the world Hayden and James have created for her, questions are raised. Hayden must navigate his newfound fatherhood and do what he can to protect the little girl he'd do anything for. Even if that means breaking his heart in the process. Can Hayden really have his career, his daughter and a man to love by his side? And can James really put his heart on the line for a man who's afraid to love him in public? Daddy and the Manny is a full-length novel about love, discovery, and family. It contains some steamy scenes and a whole lot of sweetness and of course has a wonderful HEA.

American Road Trip

Author : Patrick Flores-Scott
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1627797424
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book American Road Trip written by Patrick Flores-Scott and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwrenching YA coming of age story about three siblings on a roadtrip in search of healing. With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro “T” Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny, returns from a tour in Iraq with a devastating case of PTSD. In a desperate effort to save Manny from himself and pull their family back together, T’s fiery sister, Xochitl, hoodwinks her brothers into a cathartic road trip. Told through T’s honest voice, this is a candid exploration of mental illness, socioeconomic pressures, and the many inescapable highs and lows that come with growing up—including falling in love. Christy Ottaviano Books

Punk 57

Author : Penelope Douglas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059364199X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Punk 57 written by Penelope Douglas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets, deception, and passion consume two pen pals in the TikTok sensation from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with exclusive bonus material! They were perfect together. Until they met. In fifth grade, Misha’s teacher set him and his classmates up with pen pals from a different school. For the next seven years, Ryen was his everything. She kept Misha on track and accepted him as he is. They only had three rules: No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. There was no reason to ruin the good thing they had going…until Misha runs across a photo of a girl online named Ryen. He knows he has to meet her. But he didn’t expect to hate what he finds. Ryen has gone three months without a letter from Misha. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha like she does, neither would be a stretch. She needs to know someone is listening to her. But really, Ryen knows this is her own fault. She should’ve gotten his phone number, or picture, or something. As a mysterious vandal leaves messages in Ryen’s school, she’s possessed by the handsome new student who knows just how to hurt and heal her. But she can’t stop thinking of Misha. He could be gone forever. Or right under her nose, and she wouldn’t even know it…

Skeleton Justice

Author : Dr. Michael M. Baden
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307272044
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Justice written by Dr. Michael M. Baden and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The star crime-solving pair of Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, and top litigator Manny Manfreda, return in a gripping new thriller. New York City is on high alert for a serial killer—a strange kind of thief who stalks his victims for the purpose of extracting a vial of blood, earning him the tabloid nickname “the Vampire.” As the attacks escalate to torture and then to murder, Jake and Manny begin to suspect there is a connection between the killer’s seemingly random victims. But how do they link it to a case that Manny’s been working for a kid whose high school prank-gone-wrong has earned him the moniker the Preppy Terrorist? They soon discover that their case is a tragic tale of corruption interlaced with cover-ups, conspiracies, death squads, and dictators who committed crimes that to this day go unpunished.

Becoming Manny

Author : Jean Rhodes
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9781416577072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Manny written by Jean Rhodes and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorized by the twelve-time all-Star and future Hall of famer himself, and written by the nation’s leading expert on youth mentoring and an award-winning investigative journalist, the incredible story behind one of the greatest baseball sluggers of all-time. Manny Ramirez is a future Hall of Fame outfielder who has played in Los Angeles, Boston, and Cleveland. He ranks 17th in career homeruns and eighth in career slugging percentage—the only players above him on both lists are Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Barry Bonds. Manny is the hottest icon in baseball right now, and that will continue throughout the offseason, where speculation regarding his free agency will be the top baseball news on ESPN and throughout sports media. In contrast to most sports biographies, Becoming Manny brings an unusually thoughtful analysis to the territory, examining Manny’s life through the lens of larger issues like youth-mentoring and immigration, while also telling the story of a great career. Manny has perplexed the baseball world for years now with his amazing hitting and his unique approach to life and the game. Incredibly focused at the plate and incredibly carefree everywhere else, Manny has become a constant topic of discussion on national sports radio and television, on sports websites, and in print. With unprecedented access, Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg have uncovered fascinating stories and family photos spanning from Manny’s early years in the Dominican Republic to the present. This is an authorized inside look at the roots, development, and career of an individual and player on his way from Washington Heights to the Hall of Fame.

Pilgrims’ Passage

Author : Joe Buda
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669822133
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrims’ Passage written by Joe Buda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does Pilgrims’ Passage matter? Why can greed and deceit still manipulate us? Why do people choose power over family? Working to address these questions and more, Pilgrims Passage: Rebuilding the Past is a journey brimming with adventures through turbulent times during the transition into the twenty-first century. For Paul Bardeck and Claudia Weiss, discovering a thousand-year-old monk’s journal fuels their quest to rebuild a mysterious ancient monastery perched upon the foothills in the Slovakian High Tatras, with the promise of releasing boundless energy stored within ancient ruins, as well as the Book of ONE. Concurrently, Karl Vloda’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for wealth and power, fueled by the Black Star Pact’s dark energy, seems to make the quest for ancient truths a sideshow. As the pilgrims’ paths entangle, will the promise of timely truths finally come to light? Does standing against the powers of darkness really matter today?

The Taker

Author : Nicholas Serpa
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1646549317
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Taker written by Nicholas Serpa and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob is a young outdoor wildlife photographer and writer living and working in Seattle, Washington, where he meets the love of his life, Maria. The two fall in love fast, but their love story is short-lived when Jacob dies while protecting Maria. In the afterlife, Jacob is chosen to be a Taker. Jacob learns that a Taker is someone that is sent to retrieve the souls of those who have just died. The Taker guides that person to the afterlife, where they stand before the Council, who will determine their fate: heaven, hell, or reincarnation. Jacob is taught how to be a Taker by a member of the Council named Barry. The two build a quick bond and become close friends. Jacob’s new life as a Taker changes when he learns the terrible news that the love of his life has also passed away. Jacob will do anything to be with her again, including breaking the Taker’s number one rule. When Jacob manipulates the Council and interacts with his reincarnated love, it sets in motion several unexpected events that he must get through to prevent losing Maria again. These unexpected events go deeper than Jacob could ever imagine and unlocks what his true destiny really is.

Inadmissible

Author : B. Phoenix
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489714006
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Inadmissible written by B. Phoenix and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of author B. Phoenixs adult life has been spent working as a human resources professional for nonprofit organizations and some of the most prestigious law firms in the nation. In Inadmissible, she gives a glimpse of life as shes known it and shares the unbelievably wacky and wild events of her career as an HR professional for several multimillion-dollar law firms and other companies throughout several decades. Although Phoenix worked with many brilliant, good citizens, she also worked with individuals who personified the darkest level of ambition, and she saw greed at an unprecedented level. She shares a variety of information from files she maintained working in HRmany of which describe some real doozie disingenuous artists. Additionally, she relays stories of even wilder behaviors she encountered in more than thirty years as an HR professional. From theft, to tardiness excuses and absenteeism, lies, and terminations, and more, Inadmissible offers insight into employees, employers, and the oftentimes crazy work world.

Movie Love in the Fifties

Author : James Harvey
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Movie Love in the Fifties written by James Harvey and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Romantic Comedy ("brilliant, meticulous, a monumental work of scholarship" --Margo Jefferson, "New York Times), a fresh, illuminating look at the films of the 1950s. Harvey begins by mapping the progression from 1940s film noir to the living-room melodramas of the 1950s. He shows us the femme fatale of the 1940s (Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett) becoming blander and blonder (Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds) and younger and more traditionally sexy (Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly) in the 1950s. And he shows us how women were finally replaced as objects of desire by the new boy-men--Clift, Brando, Dean, and other rebels without causes. Harvey discusses the films of Hitchcock ("Vertigo), Ophuls ("The Reckless Moment), Siodmak ("Christmas Holiday), and Welles ("Touch of Evil, perhaps the single greatest influence on the "post-classical" movies). He writes about the quintessential 1950s directors: Nicholas Ray, who made movies in the old Hollywood tradition "(In a Lonely Place, "Johnny Guitar), and Douglas Sirk, who portrayed suburbia as an emotional deathtrap ("Imitation of Life, "Magnificent Obsession). And he discusses the "serious" directors, such as Stanley Kramer and Elia Kazan, whose films exhibited powerful new realism. Comprehensive, insightful, written with intelligence, humor, and affection, Movie Love in the Fifties is a masterful work of American film, and cultural, history.

Trading Manny

Author : Jim Gullo
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306821028
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Trading Manny written by Jim Gullo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of how a father and his young son recaptured their love of baseball—a winning testament to why the game matters and how it can still bring us together in spite of itself. In recent years something hasn't been quite right with baseball. Ask Jim Gullo: he'll tell you even a seven-year-old kid knows it. In December 2007, just as Jim's young son Joe was beginning to develop a true passion for the game, the bombshell news of players' steroid use made it clear that America's pastime wasn't what it claimed to be. Suddenly, Jim found himself struggling to answer questions from Joe that had nothing to do with batting averages or World Series champions: What are steroids? Who was using them? Wasn't it cheating? Why weren't the players who got caught suspended or punished by baseball? While Jim searched for the right words and Major League Baseball dithered, Joe took matters into his own hands: he removed the players who had been named as likely drug users from his prized baseball card collection and created a cheaters pile. Then he created a different category of suspected "juicers" to keep an eye on. He took these players' poster -- even the poster of his favorite slugger, Manny Ramirez -- down from his bedroom walls. The steroid scandal had clearly hit home. Rather than wait for an official explanation and apology from Major League Baseball that would never materialize, Jim and Joe set out to find their own answers. They traveled the country from coast to coast, from Spring Training contests to major and minor league games—speaking with players, prospects, and managers while tracking down the legends and ghosts of baseball's golden age. And one day they discovered an aging but dedicated prospect who would become not only a true role model for Joe, but also the unlikely inspiration to lure both father and son back to the game they loved. By turns humorous, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Trading Manny tells the story of their journey back to baseball -- how along the way Joe traded his idol Manny for a more worthy hero, and Jim discovered something invaluable about being a father.

Shuffle

Author : Steven Till
Publisher : Steven Till
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shuffle written by Steven Till and published by Steven Till. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven-year-old girl stood on the summit of Mount Washington, overlooking downtown Pittsburgh. She clutched her blood-soaked teddy bear in her right hand as she chewed. The city was ablaze in napalm fire. Gunshots rang out as soldiers struggled to fend off the growing horde of undead. Sunshine took another bite. Bridges collapsed as the military tried in vain to contain the outbreak. After countless millennia of waiting, her time had finally come. The girl took one last bite from the severed arm that she clutched with her left hand and dropped it atop the dead soldier who lay at her feet. Turning away from the ruined city, she faced her undead brood. Tens of thousands of monsters awaited her command. Her lips pulled back in a bloody grin as she walked into the mouth of Hell itself. All will be judged. All will be punished. All will be lost...