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Pinstripe Defection

Author : Clay McKinney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615416557
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Pinstripe Defection written by Clay McKinney and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today says about Pinstripe Defection, "Facing the New York Yankees on the field is one thing, but dealing with the powerful franchise in the international arena and legal proceedings can be just as formidable - and eye-opening." A season of baseball can be made or broken by the right players, so with billions of dollars a year flowing through the world of professional baseball, it's easy to see why scouts who discover the next star player might bend a few rules. It's easy to see, too, why a team might make promises it might not keep in order to sign a talented young player, recently defected from Cuba. International baseball scouting can sometimes seem like the back room of a prohibition-era speakeasy -- dark, daunting and, often times, corrupt. This world was revealed to Jason Browning, a twenty-nine-year-old Arkansas attorney during his five year battle with one of the most powerful sports franchises in the world, the New York Yankees. Along the way, the attorney uncovered evidence of other under-the-table dealings.

Pinstripe Payoff

Author : Clay McKinney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982697412
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Pinstripe Payoff written by Clay McKinney and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pinstripe Empire

Author : Marty Appel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620406810
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Pinstripe Empire written by Marty Appel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the world's greatest baseball team—with an all new afterword by the author.

Patriots in Pinstripe

Author : John Carver Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Patriots in Pinstripe written by John Carver Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voice of Doom

Author : Adrian Wright
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785893289
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of Doom written by Adrian Wright and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950s’ Norfolk teenage cousins Francis and Gordon Jones earn their reputation as ‘The Boy Detectives’ in the first of a series of extraordinary adventures. Adrian Wright’s delightful spoof of boys’ stories of the 1950s comes with a strong dash of retro and a sharp jab of adult perspective. With an eclectic mix of characters – Mrs Jones (Francis’ corset-making mother), the Reverend Challis (who always takes a keen interest in the boys’ progress), Lady Darting (the domineering village grandee), Bunty Rogers (the striptease artiste) – Francis and Gordon unravel six perplexing mysteries. The Voice of Doom is Francis and Gordon’s first foray into the art of mystery solving, taking on cases from the strange happenings at St Mildred’s School for the Advancement of Derserving Girls, to the affair of the Pearl of Thalia. The local constabulary might be scratching their heads, but Francis and Gordon are on the case. Inspired by the ‘Norman and Henry Bones’ stories of Anthony Wilson, The Voice of Doom combines mystery with a sharp comic edge, resulting in a rare treat for fans of comical novels.

John Osborne

Author : John Heilpern
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307557170
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book John Osborne written by John Heilpern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression–reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity. Through a working-class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led a tumultuous life. An impossible father, he threw his teenage daughter out of the house and never spoke to her again. His last written words were "I have sinned." Theater critic John Heilpern’s detailed portrait, including interviews with Osborne's daughter, scores of friends and enemies, and his alleged male lover, shows us a contradictory genius–an ogre with charm, a radical who hated change, and above all, a defiant individualist.

Good Times, Bad Times

Author : Harold Evans
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453232257
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Good Times, Bad Times written by Harold Evans and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned journalist’s “vivid” account of his battle with Murdoch after the global media baron bought the Times of London (Chicago Tribune). In 1981, Harold Evans was the editor of one of Britain’s most prestigious publications, the Sunday Times, which had thrived under his watch. When Australian publishing baron Rupert Murdoch bought the daily Times of London, he persuaded Evans to become its editor with guarantees of editorial independence. But after a year of broken promises and conflict over the paper’s direction, Evans departed amid an international media firestorm. Evans’s story is a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at Murdoch’s ascension to global media magnate. It is Murdoch laid bare, an intimate account of a man using the power of his media empire for his own ends. Riveting, provocative, and insightful, Good Times, Bad Times is as relevant today as when it was first written. With details on the scandalous deal between Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher, this updated ebook edition includes an extensive new preface by Evans, the New York Times–bestselling author of Do I Make Myself Clear?, discussing the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal.

Boardroom Proposal

Author : Margaret Way
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459252543
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Boardroom Proposal written by Margaret Way and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boss's secret… Prospective employee Eve Copeland looked too buttoned-up and prim for the tough world of Australian big business. But somehow, despite her obvious disapproval of him, the vulnerability that Drew Forsythe had glimpsed beneath Eve's cool, professional exterior had got under his skin. Before he knew it, he was offering her the job. It was the career move Eve had dreamed about. But she couldn't help but have suspicions about the reason she'd been hired. Playboy Drew Forsythe did, after all, have a secret to hide. A secret involving Eve—and one he would go to any lengths to conceal…. Marrying the Boss From boardroom…to bride and groom!

The Great Experiment

Author : Strobe Talbott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743294092
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Great Experiment written by Strobe Talbott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed journalist Talbott tells the story of humankinds struggle to band together for protection and profit--and the urgent need for a new birth of American leadership to meet the looming threats of terror, climate change, and nuclear catastrophe.

Pandora

Author : Jilly Cooper
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409032213
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Pandora written by Jilly Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora... Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family - all artists and dealers - for fifty years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers, and giving birth to her four children: Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael. When the painting is stolen during a fireworks party, the police are called and a global search ensues to discover once and for all who stole the masterpiece and who it actually belongs to. Will passionate love triumph, and will Pandora be restored to her rightful home? ---------------------------------- 'Cooper's sheer exuberance and energy are contagious' The Times 'The whole thing is a riot - vastly superior to anything else in a glossy cover' Daily Telegraph 'This is Jilly on top form with her most sparkling novel to date' Evening Standard 'One reads her for her joie de vivre, her maudlin romanticism, her love of arty references and her razor sharp sense of humour. Oh, and the sex' New Statesman

Almost Home

Author : Jim Sides
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1607917408
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Almost Home written by Jim Sides and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Sides draws upon a lifetime of experiences to dovetail stories taking place on opposite sides of the world. Through tragedy, misfortune, and international intrigue the participants discover the difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge. That difference is the great divide illustrated most critically in the matter of a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. The story opens with the hijacking of a Japanese airliner carrying a double agent to North Korea in 1969. Events in both Koreas become interspersed with the story of a spiritual transformation in the United States where the derelict Edwin Scruggs and the outwardly successful Reverend Reagan Ainsworth discover what it means to live true Christianity. The death of Scruggs brings into focus the priorities of Ainsworth, Daniels, the mission worker Betty Hodges, and the pompously religious Paul Johnson. Even after his death Edwin Scruggs serves as a guide to the way home. Tension between right and wrong in the arenas of leadership, sovereignty of nations, personal morality, and the need for worldwide understanding and brotherhood is evident; the importance of relationships is woven into the narrative from beginning to end. Nearly all of the events are based on fact, although they have been fictionalized for the telling. Jim Sides received the Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1965 from Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC, and holds the Master of Church Music (1967) and Doctor of Musical Arts (1982) from Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, TX. From 1967-1971 he served on active duty as an Air Force Administrative Officer, with assignments in Florida, South Korea, and Illinois. He has served churches in the southeastern United States for thirty years and was on college music faculties for seven years.

The Life of John Berryman

Author : John Haffenden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000534898
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Life of John Berryman written by John Haffenden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, The Life of John Berryman draws on extensive research in the USA and on an enormous collection of hitherto unpublished materials – journals, letters, stories and poetry –to build a biography that recounts in absorbing detail the public and private stages of John Berry man’s career. It also offers an intimate portrait of a creative artist: his compulsive self-presentation and self-reproach, his moral and artistic dilemmas, his dedication and his accomplishments. John Berryman occupies a central place among the outstanding poets of recent times. The course of his life ran between the extremes of personal degradation and artistic ecstasy. He suffered the early suicide of his father, the dominance of his mother, poverty and professional setbacks, psychiatric treatment, alcoholism, and sexual and spiritual vexation. He became an electrifying, fearful teacher and a loving, jealous friend. His mentors and close associates included Mark Van Doren, Richard Blackmur, Allen Tate, Robert Lowell and Saul Bellow. The years brought him spells of deep personal joy and artistic fulfilment, but all too heavy a hand of terrible suffering. The book will be an extremely interesting read for students of literature.

The Duke of Havana

Author : Steve Fainaru
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0375506691
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Duke of Havana written by Steve Fainaru and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.

Pride and Avarice

Author : Nicholas Coleridge
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429954341
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Pride and Avarice written by Nicholas Coleridge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by The New Yorker as "wickedly enjoyable," Nicholas Coleridge's newest novel is a sharp comedy of manners about two powerful men engaged in a bitter rivalry. Their feud rages from the boardroom to the bedroom as old money takes on the new Gazing from his magnificent Chawbury Manor, Miles Straker has it all. But when noveau riche Ross Clegg buys and builds on the land adjoining his country estate, ruining his perfect view, Miles is irate. Even worse, Ross is quickly taken up by the country gentry, who admire his success and his down-to-earth manners. But Miles is a dangerous enemy and he vows to take the Clegg empire apart piece by piece. A rich read full of wit, Pride and Avarice is sure to be Coleridge's biggest selling book to date.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451691580
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th anniversary edition of “the best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process” (The New York Times Book Review) featuring a new foreword from Johnny Knoxville. A half-century after its original publication, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompson’s searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency—from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon—is infused with the characteristic wit, intensity, and emotional engagement that made Thompson “the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism” (The New York Times). Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever written—and that is just as relevant to the many ills and issues roiling the nation today. As Johnny Knoxville writes in his foreword to this 50th anniversary edition: “Hunter predicted it all.”

Intimate Companions

Author : David Leddick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312271271
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Companions written by David Leddick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the late 1920s through the early 1950s, photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein helped to create a new aesthetic and redefine the institutions of the American art world. With an overlapping circle of friends, lovers, collaborators, and models, Platt Lynes, Cadmus, and Kirstein created a world of gay aesthetics and desire in art that was astonishing at the time and remarkable even today. Through hours of conversation with surviving members of their circle as well as unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photographs, David Leddick has vividly brought to life the lives and loves, connections and interconnections, and the inspirations and influences of this vanished art world. Meticulously researched, completely forthright, and lavishly illustrated, Intimate Companions is a celebration of the art, lives, and impact of this groundbreaking circle."--Back cover

Shifter Squad: Bundle 2

Author : J.C. Diem
Publisher : J.C. Diem
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifter Squad: Bundle 2 written by J.C. Diem and published by J.C. Diem. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle includes books 4 - 6 of the Shifter Squad series. Rogue Wolf: On the heels of completing their latest mission, Lexi and Reece sense another werewolf hunting in the same area. One glance into his mind tells them that there is something very wrong with him. When a body is found in the woods nearby, their intuition is proven to be correct. The shifter has turned rogue and it is their job to hunt him down. Mark relocates the Squad to their base in West Virginia. He begins digging into a series of deaths that have taken place during the past few years. It quickly becomes apparent that it wasn’t an accident that they crossed paths with the unstable shifter. When a camper mysteriously goes missing just a few hours away from their compound, Lexi and Reece are sent to investigate. Lexi has a feeling that Mark knows more about the rogue wolf than he is willing to admit. When their two missions unexpectedly collide, they are caught in a trap that could end up changing everything forever. Corpse Thieves: With the vampire virus slowly but surely working its way through Lexi and Reece, they must soon face down the being that has infected them or risk losing their souls to darkness. While on their way to confront Lexi’s mother, the squad is called away to investigate a slew of missing corpses. Reece has his own problems to face. He is torn between his duty to his team and the lifelong dream that is now being offered to him. While he can postpone the inevitable, he will eventually have to make a decision. Not even he knows what his final choice will be. It doesn’t take long before their newest mission takes a turn for the worse. Lexi is confronted with an awful truth about herself that she has been trying her hardest to deny. Her survival depends on tapping a talent that could cause her own team to turn against her if they learn of its existence. Snake Charmer: Defying the cycle of the moon that binds all shape shifters, Lexi transforms into her alter ego in an attempt to flee from her sorrow and anguish. Little does she know that no matter how far or fast she runs, she can’t escape from her grief at being abandoned by her mate. Locked in her werewolf form, it takes a catastrophe to force her to become human again. Stepping back into her normal life isn’t easy, but Lexi must set aside her personal problems when one of her friends goes missing during their next mission. The team needs her to step up and become an alpha in deed rather than just in name. Even during her prolonged time spent as a werewolf, the vampirism has been insidiously spreading through her. The time is coming when Lexi will reach the point of no return. Soon, she will become the very thing that the Shifter Squad hunts down and destroys.