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The Amazing Appleknockers

Author : Anne Ryman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981938622
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Appleknockers written by Anne Ryman and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, Cobden was a quiet village of 900 residents tucked in the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois. The high school's basketball team changed that, grabbing the attention of sports fans throughout Illinois as it made a dramatic run to the finals of the Illinois state high school basketball tournament. An unusually tall and talented team with a catchy mascot, the Appleknockers, Cobden played at a time before schools were divided into classes based on enrollment. The school had just 147 students, and the Appleknockers defeated schools that were many times their size as they moved along the tournament trail.This true account traces the background of the Appleknockers' coach, Dick Ruggles, and how a young man from Boston wound up coaching in the hillside farming community. The story covers the two years that Ruggles served as Cobden's coach, the two most successful basketball seasons in the school's history. It also reveals the obstacles, tragedies, and triumphs the players faced, both on and off the basketball court. The achievements of the Appleknockers were widely covered in newspapers from Evansville, Indiana, to St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago. Their readers were drawn to the underdog team, and the Appleknockers moved from the sports pages into Illinois folklore. People from Illinois and the surrounding states are still talking about the Appleknockers nearly a half century later, which speaks to the enduring and far-reaching appeal of this team and its story.

Once There Were Giants

Author : Scott Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960116652
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Once There Were Giants written by Scott Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a story about a little guy overcoming the odds and winning it big. Maybe that's why Hebron High School's rise to the state championship in 1952 struck a chord with so many fans across the state and the nation. But no victory comes without sacrifice, without hard work, without a little drama. The Hebron story mixes talented twins, spurred on by a pro-athlete older brother; a reed-thin, 6-101⁄2 center, coming late to basketball but getting better with every game; two hot-handed outside shooters overcoming challenges of their own; and a "Little Napoleon" of a coach, utterly focused on putting together just the right ingredients to win a state championship and more importantly, to best his mentor. Desire, devotion, dedication--it all came together for the Green Giants in 1952. They did what it took. They won it all.

A Century of Leadership

Author : O. L. Davis
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617356492
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Leadership written by O. L. Davis and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kappa Delta Pi is an international honor society in Education founded in 1911. This book chronicles the leadership of Kappa Delta Pi across the past century through a collection of short life stories about the 32 individuals who were elected by members to lead the Society. Through their work with their fellow officers, they helped keep alive the flame that called attention to the importance of highly qualified teachers in American schools, in the main, teachers whose academic credentials were very strong. These life stories attend to KDP presidents’ contributions to education, particularly with emphasis a) on high academic scholarship for educational professionals, e.g., teacher candidates, teachers at all levels, school administrators, college and university faculty members in education and in fields related to educational practice and knowledge; b) toward teacher candidates’ mindful learning in and the integration of liberal arts, education, and other fields of study; c) and in the support and fostering of scholarly endeavors, especially substantive research and creative developments in the educational processes of schooling – all or many related to the individual’s involvement in Kappa Delta Pi. A number of elements of Kappa Delta Pi’s purposes and practices during its first century are illuminated in this book. Many others remain obscured, neglected, or unknown. Readers reasonably may discover keys to increased understanding and wonderment as they read and think about the lives of these former presidents, particularly about their contributions to the continuance and strengthening of the Society. One impressive key surely is evident. Their presidencies not only helped Kappa Delta Pi to continue to exist. They also fostered the fruitful creation of this honor society in education. And so also will those members and leaders who, succeeding these former presidents, enter confidently into Kappa Delta Pi’s second century.

Jade Visions

Author : Helene LaFaro-Fernandez
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412736
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Jade Visions written by Helene LaFaro-Fernandez and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009. Selected for "The Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010. Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010. Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when he was only 25 years old. Told by his sister, this book uniquely combines family history with insight into LaFaro's music by well-known jazz experts and musicians Gene Lees, Don Thompson, Jeff Campbell, Phil Palombi, Chuck Ralston, Barrie Kolstein, and Robert Wooley. Those interested in Bill Evans, the history of jazz, and the lives of working musicians of the time will appreciate this exploration of LaFaro’s life and music as well as the feeling they’ve been invited into the family circle as an intimate.

Millbrook

Author : Art Kleps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960038800
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Millbrook written by Art Kleps and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of the early years of American Psychedelianism.

We Will Rise

Author : Steve Beaven
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781503942202
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book We Will Rise written by Steve Beaven and published by Little A. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By 1977 the University of Evansville's Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national championships. With a charismatic young coach and a freshman phenom, this small Indiana city hoped to see its team shine in the national spotlight. Then, on a foggy night, after just four games, the plane carrying the team and its coach crashed after takeoff, killing everyone on board. The tragedy seemed insurmountable, a devastating blow to the identity of a fading factory town. But, with the support of a city in mourning, ambitious new coach Dick Walters promised to rebuild the cherished institution. Assembling a team of castoffs, walk-ons, and overachievers, Walters restored the legacy of the team and its fans. Against all odds, his young men made history. A tribute to those who were lost, and to those who carried on, We Will Rise is the rich and powerful story of an underdog team and its fans and the spirit of a resilient community"--Jacket.

Farewell, My Lovely

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1400030161
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, My Lovely written by Raymond Chandler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

One Small Town, One Crazy Coach

Author : Mike Roos
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 9780253010285
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book One Small Town, One Crazy Coach written by Mike Roos and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1962, Pete Gill was hired to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. With no starters taller than 5' 10", few wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town's first and only sectional and regional titles. Roos brings to life a colorful and varied cast of characters and provides a compelling account of their struggles, wide-ranging emotions, and triumphs throughout the season.

The Boo Hoo Bible

Author : Art Kleps
Publisher : Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boo Hoo Bible written by Art Kleps and published by Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church. This book was released on 1971 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook

American Cycle

Author : Larry Beckett
Publisher : Running Wild, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1955062099
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book American Cycle written by Larry Beckett and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Cycle, a sequence of long poems inspired by our folklore and past, was written over forty-seven years. Its themes are love, local mythology, history, justice, memory, accomplishment, time. "The books are extraordinary, sustained explosions of authentic American language and energy. Each is entirely different from the others in style, voice, form and narrative content; each so rich in imagery and nuance and texture and event and so finely crafted. . . " —Paul Williams, author of Bob Dylan: Performing Artist.American Cycle holds Spanish words loaned from Old California, rough colloquialisms in Paul Bunyan, the power of African-American vernacular English in John Henry, bare oratory in Chief Joseph, old west phrases in Wyatt Earp, circus ballyhoo in P. T. Barnum, aviation jargon in Amelia Earhart, backwoods dialect in Blue Ridge. As Walt Whitman says, "I hear America singing, the varied carols. . .”

The Hypochondriac Society

Author : Michael Prihoda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948712903
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Hypochondriac Society written by Michael Prihoda and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enigmatic, engaging, strange, these stories arrive like alien transmissions, half-foreign, half-familiar, completely compelling and singular and authentic in tone and voice and wonderful weirdness. The Hypochondriac Society stands wild and real, and Michael Prihoda brings us such fresh news of the world, all of it shot through with his slant rhymes of intelligence and heart. --William Lychack, author of Cargill Falls and The Architect of Flowers Reading The Hypochondriac Society by Michael Prihoda is a delirious summersault into the lives of ordinary people made strange by their yearning for connection and the end of their boredom. Prihoda is an accomplished storyteller, whose inviting voice and sense of brevity will get you to sit down, shut up, and share a few laughs along the way. Prihoda lures you in with laughs, and makes you stay for the warm fire feeling of resonance as you get to know these characters, all along wondering when someone like you will show up, living the multitude of lives you've been missing out on until you sink deeper into these short but stirring tales. -- Tommy Dean, author of Special Like the People on TV The Hypochondriac Society is punchy, tender, ironic, and winningly odd. Infused with Prihoda's laconic wit, these comic gems and twenty-first century parables surprise as often as they charm. Telegrams from the frontier of contemporary fiction. Not to be missed. -- John Bolin, author of Three Pioneers

Courageous Leadership

Author : Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310565723
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Courageous Leadership written by Bill Hybels and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book you hold resonates with this conviction: that leaders such as you have the potential to be the most influential forces on planet Earth. Yours is the staggering responsibility and the matchless privilege of rallying believers and mobilizing their spiritual gifts in order to help people who are far from God become fully devoted followers of Christ. Life transformation and the eternal destinies of real people depend on the redemptive message entrusted to the local church. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to lead your church effectively so God’s message of hope can change the world? Then this book is for you. Courageous Leadership is Bill Hybels’ magnum opus, a book far too important to be written before its time. Only now, after nearly thirty years leading his own church from a handful of people with a burning vision into a globe-spanning kingdom force—only after almost three decades of victories and setbacks, of praying hard and risking big—is Hybels ready at last to share the lessons he has learned, and continues to learn, about Christian leadership. Too much is at stake for you not to maximize your spiritual gift of leadership, insists Hybels. In this passionate, powerful book, he unpacks the tools, tasks, and challenges of your calling. You’ll discover the power of vision and how to turn it into action. You’ll gain frontline insights for developing a kingdom dream team, discovering your leadership style, developing other leaders, making decisions, walking with God, embracing change, staying your God-given course, and much, much more. Drawing on his own richly varied life experiences, Hybels fleshes out vital principles with riveting firsthand stories. This is far more than another book on leadership strategies and techniques. You’ll find those topics in here, to be sure. But beyond them, you’ll find the very essence of one of today’s foremost Christian leaders—his fervent commitment to evangelism and discipleship and his zeal to inspire fellow church leaders even as he seeks to keep growing as a leader himself. If unchurched people matter to you . . . if you love seeing believers serve passionately with their spiritual gifts . . . if God’s heartbeat for the church is your heartbeat as well . . . then this book is a must. Courageous Leadership will convince you to lead with all your might, all your skill, and all your faith. And it will give you the tools to do just that.

Indiana High School Basketball - Hoosier Hysteria - 50's, 60's, 70's

Author : Ric Schaekel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Indiana High School Basketball - Hoosier Hysteria - 50's, 60's, 70's written by Ric Schaekel and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains the author's diverse experiences in playing and coaching high school basketball in small Indiana towns during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Because of a connection he feels with the movie HOOSIERS, he compares situations in his playing and coaching career with episodes that occurred in the movie. He also shares his testimony as to how a medical difficulty which occurred six years ago to his wife has brought them closer together and closer to the Lord. If you enjoy the movie Hoosiers, comeback stories, love stories and stories of people over coming adversity, you should connect with this book.

Factories in the Field

Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925181
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Factories in the Field written by Carey McWilliams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

The Watchmage of Old New York

Author : C. A. Sanders
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781518835636
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Watchmage of Old New York written by C. A. Sanders and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1855, and Nathaniel Hood walks between two worlds. As the Watchmage of New York City, Nathaniel is charged with protecting, regulating, and administering justice to the myriad supernatural beings immigrating to the city. When his policeman son, Jonas, is brutally beaten by Veil Dwellers while investigating a kidnapping, Nathaniel breaks his vow not to interfere with mundane society and joins the search. Together and apart, the father and son uncover the secret lives of the supernatural and the broken lives on the Bowery, only to find a terrible secret. The Watchmage of Old New York-Book 1 of The Watchmage Chronicles-is an expansion of the award-winning serial of the same name. It's a blend of fantasy, history, humor, and mystery, wrapped in a vivid mid-19th century New York.

The A.R. Morlan MEGAPACK ®

Author : A.R. Morlan
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479404853
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The A.R. Morlan MEGAPACK ® written by A.R. Morlan and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.R. Morlan's work is quirky, often hard to categorize, and non-stop inventive and imaginative. She has gathered a cult following for her science fiction, fantasy, horror, suspense, and erotic fiction of the last four decades. (And sometimes she writes in all those genres at once...) This volume, a "best of" selected from her short fiction by Mary Wickizer Burgess, presents 22 mind-bending tales of the fantastic. Included are: INTRODUCTION, by Mary Wickizer Burgess GARBAGE DAY AT EWERTON THE GERMAN LADY HUNGER DUET ON THIN ICE “...AND THE HORSES HISS AT MIDNIGHT” THE UPPYROAKE KAMIKAZE AND THE VIRGIN SHREDDER THE HEMINGWAY KITTENS THE CAT-TRACKER LADY OF ASAD ALLEY NO HEAVEN WILL NOT EVER HEAVEN BE...v IN THE GREAT MILK-WHITE EYE OF GOD ABOVE THE CAPITANS, SOUTH OF CORONA, NEAR ARROYO DEL MACHO THE SECOND MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLDv DORA’S TRUNK THE TIME OF THE BLEEDING PUMPKINS AT FUNLAND BY THE SWINGS, WITH BIG CHUCK DECORATING DEAD PEOPLE, UNDER THE LAWNS BETWEEN LONG. 150 W. AND 90 W., ONE DEGREE ABOVE HELL THE CUTTLEFISH “’RILLAS” “CONTINGENCIES AND PENTI-LOPE-LOPE” THE FOLD-O-RAMA WARS AT THE BLUE MOON ROACH HOTEL SHOWDOWN BETWEEN THE UNNATURAL-BORN CHIMERA AND THE SHADOWFOX GRIEFER STREET COFFINS If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the more than 170 other entries in the series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more--always at a terrific price!

Wisdom and Nonsense: My Adventures as a Train Rider and Hobo Queen

Author : Julianna Porrazzo-Ray
Publisher : Mediamix Productions
ISBN 13 : 9780983198789
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom and Nonsense: My Adventures as a Train Rider and Hobo Queen written by Julianna Porrazzo-Ray and published by Mediamix Productions. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979 at the age of 30, Julianna Porrazzo gave herself the hobo moniker of "Minneapolis Jewel" and hopped her first freight train to ride to Britt, Iowa, to attend the National Hobo Convention. She would take this trip every year for the next 40 years, becoming fully part of the hobo family, meeting gritty, one-of-a kind individuals (one she even married) and being elected Queen of the Hobos five times. Wisdom and Nonsense is the story of her train rides, hobo friendships, adventures, and tragedy.