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The Last Innocents

Author : Michael Leahy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062360582
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Last Innocents written by Michael Leahy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s—a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in history. Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these seven players—friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies—and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition. Bringing into focus the high drama of their World Series appearances from 1962 to 1972 and their pivotal games, Michael Leahy explores these men’s interpersonal relationships and illuminates the triumphs, agonies, and challenges each faced individually. Leahy places these men’s lives within the political and social maelstrom that was the era when the conformity of the 1950s gave way to demands for equality and rights. Increasingly frustrated over a lack of real bargaining power and an oppressive management who meddled in their personal affairs, the players shared an uneasy relationship with the team’s front office. This contention mirrored the discord and uncertainty generated by myriad changes rocking the nation: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, and growing hostility to the escalation of the Vietnam War. While the nation around them changed, these players each experienced a personal and professional metamorphosis that would alter public perceptions and their own. Comprehensive and artfully crafted, The Last Innocents is an evocative and riveting portrait of a pivotal era in baseball and modern America.

Hairs Vs. Squares

Author : Ed Gruver
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285582
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Hairs Vs. Squares written by Ed Gruver and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players’ strike in the history of North American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played by two of the game’s greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a sign of the times it was Hippies vs. Hardhats, a clash of cultures with the hirsute, mod Mustache Gang colliding with the clean-cut, conservative Big Red Machine on the game’s grandest stage. When the Oakland A’s met the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 Fall Classic, more than a championship was at stake. The more than two dozen interviews bring to life a time when controversy was commonplace, both inside and outside the national pastime. In baseball, Willie Mays was traded, Hank Aaron was chasing down Babe Ruth’s home run record, and Dick Allen was helping to save the Chicago White Sox franchise while winning the American League’s Most Valuable Player award. Outside the American pastime the war in Vietnam was raging, campus protests spread throughout the country, and Watergate and the Munich Olympics headlined the tumultuous year. The 1972 Major League Baseball season was marked by the rapid rise of rookies and young stars, the fall of established teams and veterans, courageous comebacks, and personal redemptions. Along with the many unforgettable and outrageous characters inside baseball, Hairs vs. Squares emphasizes the dramatic changes that took place on and off the field in the 1970s. Owners’ lockouts, on-field fights, maverick managers, controversial trades, artificial fields, the first full five-game League Championship Series, and the closest, most competitive World Series ever, combined to make the 1972 season as complex as the social and political unrest that marked the era.

The Innocents

Author : Francesca Segal
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401342779
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents written by Francesca Segal and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Newly engaged and unthinkingly self-satisfied, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. He has been dating Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now, to the relief and happiness of the entire Gilbert family, they are finally to marry. To Adam, Rachel embodies the highest values of Temple Fortune; she is innocent, conventional, and entirely secure in her community--a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates. Marrying Rachel will cement Adam's role in a warm, inclusive family he loves. But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum, Adam feels the first faint touches of claustrophobia, and when Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York, she unsettles Adam more than he'd care to admit. Ellie--beautiful, vulnerable, and fiercely independent--offers a liberation that he hadn't known existed: a freedom from the loving interference and frustrating parochialism of North West London. Adam finds himself questioning everything, suddenly torn between security and exhilaration, tradition and independence. What might he be missing by staying close to home?

The Innocents

Author : Ace Atkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698190637
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents written by Ace Atkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinn Colson returns to Jericho, Mississippi, and gets pulled back into a world of greed and violence in this gritty, darkly comic tale from New York Times bestselling Southern crime master Ace Atkins. After being voted out of office and returning to the war zone he’d left behind, Quinn Colson is back in Jericho, trying to fix things with his still-married high school girlfriend and retired Hollywood stuntman father. Quinn knows he doesn't owe his hometown a damn thing, but he can't resist the pull of becoming a lawman again and accepts a badge from his former colleague, foul-mouthed acting Sheriff Lillie Virgil. Both officers have fought corruption in Tibbehah County before, but the case they must confront now is nothing like they've ever seen... When a former high school cheerleader is found walking a back road completely engulfed in flames, everyone in Jericho wants answers for the senseless act of violence. As Quinn and Lillie uncover old secrets and new lies, the entire town turns against them, and they soon learn that the most dangerous enemies may be the ones you trust most.

The Innocents

Author : Lili Peloquin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1595145028
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents written by Lili Peloquin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the innocent don't kiss and tell... “…the quick pacing will keep readers engrossed in this series kickoff as Alice and Charlie try to sort through the soap opera that is their new lives and figure out who they can trust. It’s Gossip Girl for Connecticut’s Gold Coast.” –Publishers Weekly The Innocents weaves a saga of nail-biting drama, breathless romance, and gothic mystery perfect for fans of ABC's Revenge. Though they share the same blood, Alice and Charlie couldn’t be more different. Alice is older (by one year and one day), shy and reserved, a cool blonde, a painter, a reader, a thinker. Charlie is feisty and uninhibited, a wild brunette, the kind of girl who punches a bully right in the mouth. They hate each other. They love each other. They stand by each other, when no one else will. They’re sisters. Then their parents divorce. Soon, Alice, Charlie, and their mother are leaving their old life behind. They’re saying goodbye to their cramped Cambridge apartment and driving along the rocky Connecticut coastline—to their stepfather's summer estate in the wealthy town of Serenity Point. The minute they drive through the gates, they wish they never had. Their arrival reopens old wounds, memories of lost loves, best friends—and bitter rivals. The people of Serenity Point thought the past was dead and buried. They were wrong.

The Death of Innocents

Author : Helen Prejean
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781853116827
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Innocents written by Helen Prejean and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sr Helen Prejean has accompanied five men to execution since she began her work in 1982. She believes the last two, Dobie Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Dell in Virginia, were innocent, but their juries were blocked from seeing all the evidence and their defence teams were incompetent. 'The readers of this book will be the first "jury" with access to all the evidence the trail juries never saw', she says. The Death of Innocents shows how race, prosecutorial ambition, poverty and publicity determine who dies and who lives. Prejean raises profound constitutional questions about the legality of the death penalty.

Innocents Lost

Author : Jimmie Briggs
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786738502
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Innocents Lost written by Jimmie Briggs and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ida, a member of Sri Lanka’s Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu militiamen to hack to death his sister’s Tutsi children.More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world, but growing exploitation of children in war is staggering and little known. From the “little bees” of Colombia to the “baby brigades” of Sri Lanka, the subject of child soldiers is changing the face of terrorism. For the last seven years, Jimmie Briggs has been talking to, writing about, and researching the plight of these young combatants. The horrific stories of these children, dramatically told in their own voices, reveal the devastating consequences of this global tragedy.Cogent, passionate, impeccably researched, and compellingly told, Innocents Lost is the fullest, most personal and powerful examination yet of the lives of child soldiers.

The Innocent

Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446573000
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Innocent written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the trigger. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and is on the run. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway--her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life...and perhaps his own.

Hand in Hand

Author : Emily Kimbrough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Hand in Hand written by Emily Kimbrough and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

Author : Philip P. Hallie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060925175
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed written by Philip P. Hallie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-04-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town in southern France called Le Chambon. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death.

Blood of Innocents

Author : Mitchell Hogan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062407279
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Blood of Innocents written by Mitchell Hogan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world—or be the instrument of its destruction—in Mitchell Hogan's Blood of Innocents, the second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery. Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen. As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the time of the Shattering begin to close in. With Miranda’s mind broken by forbidden sorcery, Caldan does the unthinkable to save her: he breaks the most sacrosanct laws of the Protectors. But when the emperor’s warlocks arrive to capture him, Caldan realizes that his burgeoning powers may be more of a curse than a blessing, and the enemies assailing the empire may be rivaled by more sinister forces within. And soon, the blood of innocents may be on Caldan’s own hands.

The Innocents Abroad

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846051764
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Hard Lessons

Author : Michael Leahy
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316518154
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Hard Lessons written by Michael Leahy and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Innocents and Other Stories

Author : Gertrud von le Fort
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586176404
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents and Other Stories written by Gertrud von le Fort and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly translated into English for the first time, these four novellas from the acclaimed German writer Gertrud von le Fort are from her later works of historical fiction. Ominous and mysterious, these page-turning stories bring to life momentous chapters in from the past. The Innocents, set in Germany after the Second World War, is a poignant family drama about the horrors of war, the suffering of the innocent, and the demands of justice. The Ostracized Woman traces the fate of a Prussian family at the end of World War II to the heroic deed of an ancestor done centuries before. The Last Meeting imagines the last encounter between Madame de La Valliére and Madame de Montespan, rival mistresses of King Louis XIV of France. The Tower of Constancy leads the reader into the heart of the infamous French prison of the same name while exploring the role of conscience in the religious and philosophical conflicts of the eighteenth-century.

The Innocents Abroad

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a book by a classic of the American literature, Mark Twain. This very book started his literary career. A young journalist spent six months on board of “Quaker City” with his fellow countrymen who went on a journey to Europe and the Holy land. They were in Morocco, Venice, Rome, Paris, Jerusalem and Odessa, crossed the Atlantic twice and came ashore in the New-York harbour safe and sound. This story about travelling has the aim to show a reader what Europe and East would look like if he (or she) saw them with his (her) own eyes, rather than with the eyes of someone who had been there before.

The Innocents Abroad

Author : Twain, Mark
Publisher : Delmarva Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Twain, Mark and published by Delmarva Publications, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (This Book is Illustrated) The Innocents Abroad is a humorous book by Mark Twain and about his travels on what Twain his great Pleasure Excursion on board the chartered vessel Quaker City Through Europe and the Holy land with the group of American Travelers in 1867. It was one of Mark Twain's Bestsellers during his lifetime.

The Innocents Abroad

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: