![]() ![]() You kind of feel bad for the kid because you know he could do so well if he really wanted to be. In the 1st chapter we meet one of the protagonist's, a guy named Darryl Thomas who was a mellow, laid back kid, who lacked motivation. This book is written to show what Bob Knight does when his back is against the wall and what he needs to do to get himself and his team success. We are introduced in this story to Bob Knight who in the past years had went to the olympics and won a gold medal, and the season after he won gold in 1985 he had his worst season of his career at Indiana. The climate is mostly dreary cool, rainy days. The Setting for most of the book except for road games is Bloomington, Indiana. By the way, the entire book is in Feinstein's point of view. I felt like Feinstein's point of view allowed us the audience to see the good, the bad, and the ugly of Bobby Knight. John Feinstein wrote this book masterfully, which is why this book was once a best seller. It shed new light in the life of Bobby Knight. ![]() ![]() I am so glad that I chose this book "Season on the Brink". ![]()
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![]() May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does. Freeman imagines that in time, they may even have reached the New World. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. The Greek kingdoms under Alexander the Great’s successors would have continued and Carthage might have become a global maritime power, sending ships around the African coast to India. If Hannibal had won, the Latin language would have died, meaning no French or Spanish and a different evolution for the English language. ![]() “One of the greatest joys in studying the past is to imagine what would have happened if events had turned out differently,” Freeman writes. He recruited spies and allies, promising liberation for the subject peoples of the Italian peninsula. ![]() He was bold but not impulsive, understood the psychology of his opponents and was a leader who inspired his men by sharing their hardships as well as through his oratory. Hannibal is still studied in military schools for his daring strategy and masterful tactics. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Romes growing empire. Philip Freeman adds nothing new but retells the story for a new generation in a pleasing prose style. ![]() Despite being cut-off from reinforcements and facing an enormous army on their own soil-not to mention political backstabbing in his home city of Carthage-Hannibal nearly won. The North African nobleman led an army, including war elephants, across the Alps to strike at Rome from behind. ![]() After more than 2,200 years, the story of Hannibal has lost none of its fascination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “True Confessions” by John Gregory Dunne. Chandler will always be the linchpin of L.A. “It’s an almost perfect fusion of voice and story - funny, mean, tragic. “I read this novel every five years or so and it surprises me in new ways every time,” said crime novelist T. Tinged with sadness and loss, it is one of Chandler’s most personal novels, inspiring a 1973 film of the same name directed by Robert Altman. Marlowe’s back again in a dangerous friendship with hard drinker Terry Lennox. Marlowe, enshrined in film by Humphrey Bogart, became so much a part of Chandler’s imagination that the author once noted: “It begins to look as though I were tied to this fellow for life.” A classic mystery of blackmail and murder, this novel gave the world Philip Marlowe, the hard-boiled, quick-witted, proud, ever-suspicious private eye. ![]() The list has familiar names and some not so, but the books have left a mark, a fingerprint, if you will, on a crime genre that since the days of Raymond Chandler has become distinctive and at times revelatory. The collection was compiled with help from writers, readers, critics and local booksellers. But the canon, which includes two nonfiction books, is a starting point for a conversation on crime writing and how it has informed a city driven by myth, desire and the cruel realities between. The stories vary in tone, style and subject. In the spirit of exploring crime novels set in and around Los Angeles, a city where noir is instinctive and eerily resplendent, here are 20 essential books that rouse the darker angels of our metropolis. ![]() ![]() ![]() While fiddling with an odd chess set she is started by a attractive dark boy. Macy goes in search of her dad to let her know of Graces arrival, leaving grace alone with many prying eyes and unwanted attention. ![]() Once arrived at the school, Grace is overcome with altitude sickness. And now someone wants to wake a sleeping monster, and I’m wondering if I was brought here intentionally―as the bait.Īfter the tragic death of her parents, Grace Foster finds herself on a tiny puddle jumper plane to Healy, Alaska, When arrived she is greeted by her cousin Macy who takes her to Katmere Academy. Sweet Vengeance Author Tracy Wolff Publisher Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2023 ISBN 1649371578, 9781649371577 Length 608 pages Subjects Young Adult Fiction Fantasy General Young Adult Fiction. But there’s something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what’s broken in me.īecause Jaxon walled himself off for a reason. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn’t felt anything for a hundred years. ![]() I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. ![]() I still can’t decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, reflecting Andersen's own travels in Italy in 1833, reveals much about his own life and aspirations as experienced by Antonio, the novel's principal character." (Wikipedia). ![]() First published in 1835, it was an immediate success and is considered to be Andersen's breakthrough. "The Improvisatore (Danish: Improvisatoren) is an autobiographical novel by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). ![]() Beloved stories such as The Little Mermaid. Many of the photographs in this gift style book are in very nice condition with good tonal quality. The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen was a prolific writer of novels, travelogues, poetry and fairy tales. Gilt decorations on spine and extending half-way across the front and rear panels are somewhat dulled. Rebound in a vellum binding withpage edges tinted red. This copy extra illustrated with 29 albumen photographs on plates inserted throughout the text, usually one image per leaf, occasionally one on each page. Small bookseller (?) ticket "C Glingler Via Mercede Roma" on rear pastedown. ![]() ![]() The time a major movie star stole his girlfriend.His first visit to college, with his son, who is going to receive the education his father never got.How his great, great, great, great, great grandfather may have inspired everything from his love of The West Wing to his taste in classic American architecture.His hilarious account of coaching a kid’s basketball team dominated by helicopter parents.How an actor prepares, for Californification, Parks and Recreation, and numerous other roles. ![]() What it’s like to be the star and producer of a flop TV show.The time, as a boy growing up in Malibu, he discovered a vibrator belonging to his best friend’s mother.His visit, as a young man, to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, where the naïve actor made a surprising discovery in the hot tub.Among the adventures he describes in these pages are: The result is Love Life, a memoir about men and women, actors and producers, art and commerce, fathers and sons, movies and TV, addiction and recovery, sex and love. ![]() ![]() On the heels of his New York Times bestselling Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe is back with an entertaining collection that “invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness” ( Kirkus Reviews).Īfter the incredible response to his acclaimed bestseller, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe was convinced to mine his experiences for even more stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() You know, if you’re into that sort of thing. ![]() ![]() Here's hoping that The Midnight Club is just as well received, and just as terrifying. Mike Flanagan has seen great success with the horror genre, with the likes of The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass garnering critical acclaim and high viewership figures for the streaming giant. Based on the 1994 novel of the same name, 'The Midnight Club' tells the story of a group of terminally ill teenagers living together at a hospice-like place called Rotterdam Home. "His books were full of things I found really exciting and thrilling and dark. By Samantha Nelson Christopher Pike wrote dozens of YA thrillers and horror stories during the ’80s and ’90s. "He wrote some pretty advanced stuff for his younger readers, and it was not at all uncommon for his teenage characters to die, pretty shockingly," Flanagan explained. The True Story Behind Christopher Pike’s ‘The Midnight Club’ The beloved YA horror author discusses writing about death, inspiring Mike Flanagan and his upcoming adaptations. Flanagan went on to issue a warning that viewers should not expect The Midnight Club to shy away from the scares. This assumption is not with merit, as Flanagan and the team behind Netflix’s The Midnight Club looked to the source material for inspiration. "One of the big things we assumed was that the younger viewers could handle scares," Flanagan explained during a recent interview with Empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() It applies to a lot more than just addiction. I keep coming back to this book and idea, Never Enough. It's almost like watching one of those billionaire kids crying about their birthday party. ![]() But what any readers will learn soon, it isn't enough. For his time, he has everything anyone could want. He is the elite class, survives to adulthood, is good looking, has falcon like physical attributes. ![]() Siddhartha wins the jackpot in the birth lottery. "In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahmin." Here is the sentence ( ebook free, public domain): Positive connotation, but not too far off from a shadow or dark. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only the beautiful rose-red slippers her master gives her can make Rhodopis smile.So when a falcon swoops down and snatches one of the slippers away, Rhodopis is heartbroken. She is a slave, from the far-off country of Greece. and is retold here by folklorist Shirley Climo.Poor Rhodopis! She has nothing-no mother or father, and no friends. A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations. "An inventive twist on the classic tale" (Publishers Weekly).This Egyptian spin on the classic Cinderella tale was initially recorded in the first century by a Roman historian. The Egyptian Cinderella is a Used Trade Paperback available to purchase and shipped from Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown, PA. Buy The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo for 53.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. ![]() ![]() "A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations" (School Library Journal). ![]() ![]() ![]() Lulu and the Dog From the Sea by Hilary McKay Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age by David Zeltser Lug, Blast from the North by David Zeltser Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace by Nan Marino Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies Going Where It's Dark by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Girl with More than One Heart by Laura Geringer Bass Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities by Mike Jung The Fortune of Carmen Navarro by Jen Bryant ![]() The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kellyįat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonadoįlying the Dragon by Natalie Dias Lorenziįlying Lessons & Other Stories, edited by Ellen Oh The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berkĭarth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Anglebergerĭear America The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce by Lois Lowryĭevine Intervention by Martha Brockenbroughĭiary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinneyĭiary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff KinneyĪ Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder Dairy Queen trilogy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock ![]() |