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Michael and the Whiz Kids

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080324844X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Michael and the Whiz Kids written by John Christgau and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he’s the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played at the school where a young English teacher was coaching “lightweight basketball,” a competition for smaller players that has since disappeared. The team that Coach John Christgau put together came to be called the Whiz Kids for the way they rocketed up and down the court, led by Michael and invariably winning. Michael and the Whiz Kids tells the story of the team’s 1968 championship season. It is a tale of cliffhanger games and players as outsized in character as they are short in stature, from the wild-haired, bespectacled “Professor” to the well-traveled Latvian dubbed “Suitcase” to the quiet and tenacious “Salt,” as in “of the earth.” But it is also a tale of the time—of counterculture, suburbia, integration, and racial brawls erupting on the court. In Christgau’s deft telling, it is an absorbing, often comic story of coming of age, for coach and Whiz Kids alike.

The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant

Author : Robin Roberts
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394666
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant written by Robin Roberts and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation or so, a team comes along whose march toward victory is so improbable that you can't help but root them along. The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies was that kind of team; young and spirited, the Whiz Kids played a raw, emotional brand of baseball, nipping the Brooklyn Dodgers on the final day of the season to bring the National League's perennial doormat its first title in 35 years. Hall-of-Fame member Robin Roberts, the team's ace starter, peppers his recollections with snippets of oral history from his teammates to produce a book as lively as the team itself.--

The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

Author : Colin Meloy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062342479
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid written by Colin Meloy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets—imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist. It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks. Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued. This is the most thrilling thing that’s happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat. So instead of reporting the thieves, Charlie defends one of their cannons, Amir, to the police, under one condition: he teach Charlie the tricks of the trade. What starts off as a lesson on pinches, kicks, and chumps soon turns into an invitation for Charlie to join the secret world of the whiz mob, an international band of child thieves who trained at the mysterious School of Seven Bells. The whiz mob are independent and incredibly skilled and make their own way in the world—they are everything Charlie yearns to be. But what at first seemed like a (relatively) harmless new pastime draws him into a dangerous adventure with global stakes greater than he could have ever imagined.

Confessions of a Former Wall Street Whiz Kid - Third Edition

Author : Peter Grandich
Publisher : Grandich Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780692549742
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Former Wall Street Whiz Kid - Third Edition written by Peter Grandich and published by Grandich Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED THIRD EDITION! Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid is a thought-provoking, real-life story of the ups and downs and ups again of one of Wall Street's "half-famous" financial geniuses, Peter Grandich. In 1987, at the tender age of 31, this high school drop-out was dubbed "The Wall Street Whiz Kid" by Good Morning America after accurately predicting the Black Monday stock market crash. He has since made so many stunningly-accurate market calls and financial predictions that he may well go down as the Madam Marie of the economic world. As a result, his daily financial blog has become one of the most popular on the web. In this light, witty and painfully honest autobiography, Grandich shares his thoughts about the accumulation of wealth and the hidden flaws of traditional financial planning. He exposes some of the dirty business of Wall Street and takes readers on a journey through his battles against panic attacks, suicide attempts and depression, and he shares how his faith not only helped him regain the will to live, but acts as the foundation for his financial beliefs. A contrarian by nature, Grandich also explains what he sees as the next great threat to the US - not terrorism or bio-warfare, but an economic time bomb of unprecedented proportion. Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid is just that: a complete divulgence of matters of life, health, wealth-and, of course, the ins and outs of Wall Street.

Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid

Author : Peter Grandich
Publisher : Grandich Publications, LLC.
ISBN 13 : 9780615550633
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid written by Peter Grandich and published by Grandich Publications, LLC.. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid is a thought-provoking, real-life story of the ups and downs and ups again of one of Wall Street's "half-famous" financial geniuses, Peter Grandich. In 1987, at the tender age of 31, this high school drop-out was dubbed "The Wall Street Whiz Kid" by Good Morning America after accurately predicting the Black Monday stock market crash. He has since made so many stunningly-accurate market calls and financial predictions that he may well go down as the Madam Marie of the economic world. As a result, his daily financial blog has become one of the most popular on the web. In this light, witty and painfully honest autobiography, Grandich shares his thoughts about the accumulation of wealth and the hidden flaws of traditional financial planning. He exposes some of the dirty business of Wall Street and takes readers on a journey through his battles against panic attacks, suicide attempts and depression, and he shares how his faith not only helped him regain the will to live, but acts as the foundation for his financial beliefs. A contrarian by nature, Grandich also explains what he sees as the next great threat to the US - not terrorism or bio-warfare, but an economic time bomb of unprecedented proportion. Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid is just that: a complete divulgence of matters of life, health, wealth-and, of course, the ins and outs of Wall Street.

All The Answers

Author : Michael Kupperman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501166441
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book All The Answers written by Michael Kupperman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2019 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST REALITY-BASED WORK A NPR BEST BOOK OF 2018 A VULTURE BEST COMIC OF 2018 A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018 WINNER OF THE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2018 GRAPHIC NOVEL CRITICS POLL In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father—the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia—seems to embrace it, really—means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever. Joel Kupperman became one of the most famous children in America during World War II as one of the young geniuses on the series Quiz Kids. With the uncanny ability to perform complex math problems in his head, Joel endeared himself to audiences across the country and became a national obsession. Following a childhood spent in the public eye, only to then fall victim to the same public’s derision, Joel deliberately spent the remainder of his life removed from the world at large. With wit and heart, Michael Kupperman presents a fascinating account of mid-century radio and early television history, the pro-Jewish propaganda entertainment used to counteract anti-Semitism, and the early age of modern celebrity culture. All the Answers is both a powerful father-son story and an engaging portrayal of what identity came to mean at this turning point in American history, and shows how the biggest stages in the world can overcome even the greatest of players.

The Very Inappropriate Word

Author : Jim Tobin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466844736
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Very Inappropriate Word written by Jim Tobin and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael loves interesting words (hard words like ELASTIC, little words like VAST, and big words like SMITHEREENS) and is always on the lookout for words to collect. Then one day, he picks up a new word. A bad word. An inappropriate word. At least, that's what his friend says. But Michael kind of likes the word. He thinks he might try it out. At school. Bad idea.

The Telling Room

Author : Michael Paterniti
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 081299454X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Telling Room written by Michael Paterniti and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • The Christian Science Monitor In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as “the telling room.” Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets—usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family recipe, Ambrosio’s cheese was reputed to be among the finest in the world, and was said to hold mystical qualities. Eating it, some claimed, conjured long-lost memories. But then, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. . . . By the time the two men exited the telling room that evening, Paterniti was hooked. Soon he was fully embroiled in village life, relocating his young family to Guzmán in order to chase the truth about this cheese and explore the fairy tale–like place where the villagers conversed with farm animals, lived by an ancient Castilian code of honor, and made their wine and food by hand, from the grapes growing on a nearby hill and the flocks of sheep floating over the Meseta. What Paterniti ultimately discovers there in the highlands of Castile is nothing like the idyllic slow-food fable he first imagined. Instead, he’s sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery, a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village begins to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti finds himself implicated in the very story he is writing. Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history, The Telling Room is an astonishing work of literary nonfiction by one of our most accomplished storytellers. A moving exploration of happiness, friendship, and betrayal, The Telling Room introduces us to Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, an unforgettable real-life literary hero, while also holding a mirror up to the world, fully alive to the power of stories that define and sustain us. Praise for The Telling Room “Captivating . . . Paterniti’s writing sings, whether he’s talking about how food activates memory, or the joys of watching his children grow.”—NPR

Twinky the Dinky Dog

Author : Kate Klimo
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375981152
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Twinky the Dinky Dog written by Kate Klimo and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world treats Twinky like a dinky dog. The only problem is that Twinky doesn't feel dinky. What can a little dog do to prove the age-old adage that size doesn't matter? With engaging characters, easy-to-follow plots, and popular topics, Twinky The Dinky Dog is an ideal Step 3 reader for children who are ready to begin reading on their own.

Black Fridays

Author : Michael Sears
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 0425269043
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Black Fridays written by Michael Sears and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to rebuild his life after a two-year prison term for unscrupulous choices, former Wall Street hotshot Jason Stafford is tapped by an investment firm to investigate the suspicious death of a junior trader.

One Love

Author : Cedella Marley
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452110190
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book One Love written by Cedella Marley and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs, One Love brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation. Readers will delight in dancing to the beat and feeling the positive groove of change when one girl enlists her community to help transform her neighborhood for the better. Adapted by Cedella Marley, Bob Marley's first child, and gorgeously illustrated by Vanessa Newton, this heartwarming picture book offers an upbeat testament to the amazing things that can happen when we all get together with one love in our hearts.

Sea Wife

Author : Amity Gaige
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566929
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Sea Wife written by Amity Gaige and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.

The Sport Business Handbook

Author : Rick Horrow
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1718214006
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Sport Business Handbook written by Rick Horrow and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sport Business Handbook provides perspectives from more than 100 of the most prominent figures in the sport industry. Plentiful examples and stories, including insiders' views of major sport deals, make this book a bible of information for those looking to advance their careers in this field.

Last Son of Krypton

Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 1406214841
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Last Son of Krypton written by Michael Dahl and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2010 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distant planet Krypton faces total destruction. Before it explodes, the scientist Jor-El and his wife Lara send their only son into outer space. Later, the child's rocket crashes into a Kansas cornfield where a farmer and his wife discover the boy and his strange powers.

Red

Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062371800
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Red written by Michael Hall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as "red" suffers an identity crisis in this picture book by the New York Times–bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo. This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiple levels, and it offers something for everyone. Funny, insightful, and colorful, Red: A Crayon's Story is about being true to your inner self and following your own path despite obstacles that may come your way. Red will appeal to fans of Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, and The Day the Crayons Quit, and makes a great gift for readers of any age! Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. His teacher tries to help him be red (let's draw strawberries!), his mother tries to help him be red by sending him out on a playdate with a yellow classmate (go draw a nice orange!), and the scissors try to help him be red by snipping his label so that he has room to breathe. But Red is miserable. He just can't be red, no matter how hard he tries! Finally, a brand-new friend offers a brand-new perspective, and Red discovers what readers have known all along. He's blue!

The Love of the Butterfly

Author : Ehud Siton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467040940
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Love of the Butterfly written by Ehud Siton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Love of the Butterfly is the love story of two young people, he the son of a Jewish American millionaire, she a poor Puerto Rican orphan. Despite the difference of class and religion, love conquers all and binds them together. They swear an oath to the love of the butterfly; that, if one dies, the other will follow within twenty four hours. As the husband dies, the young mother left behind has to choose between two of the greatest loves: motherhood or the love for one man. THE OASIS This is a continuation of the Shultz family saga. Violet, feminist daughter of the new world falls in love with a wealthy Arab and goes through heaven and hell in order to survive cultural conflicts. THE OASIS This is a continuation of the Shultz family saga. Violet, feminist daughter of the new world falls in love with a wealthy Arab and goes through heaven and hell in order to survive cultural conflicts.

Not Me

Author : Michael Lavigne
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812973321
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Not Me written by Michael Lavigne and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Me is a remarkable debut novel that tells the dramatic and surprising stories of two men–father and son–through sixty years of uncertain memory, distorted history, and assumed identity. When Heshel Rosenheim, apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, hands his son, Michael, a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins–one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to an improbable love story during the battle for Palestine, from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. The journals, which seem to tell the story of Heshel’s life, are so harrowing, so riveting, so passionate, and so perplexing that Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father. As Michael struggles to come to grips with his father’s elusive past, a world of complex and disturbing possibilities opens up to him–a world in which an accomplice to genocide may have turned into a virtuous Jew and a young man cannot recall murdering the person he loves most; a world in which truth is fiction and fiction is truth and one man’s terrible–or triumphant–transformation calls history itself into question. Michael must then solve the biggest riddle of all: Who am I?Intense, vivid, funny, and entirely original, Not Me is an unsparing and unforgettable examination of faith, history, identity, and love.