Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death-but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules..."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Strike fast, strike hard-whether it's scoring a homerun or front-page news, Diane K. Shah, former sports columnist, knows how to grab the best story. In her memoir A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps, follow Diane's escapades, from interviews with a tipsy Mickey Mantle, to sneaking into off limits Republican galas, dining with Frank Sinatra, flying a plane with Dennis Quaid, and countless other adventures where she wields her tape recorder and...
3) Fool for you
Author
Series
Crush on you volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sports journalist Melanie Foster has achieved most of her goals: Bomb.com job - check. Tomboy-to-smoking-hottie makeover - check. Convince her best friend, Damien Richards, to slide a ring on her finger and father her two-point-five kids - not so much. When she activates Operation: I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, she never imagines her BFF already has plans to stroll down the wedding aisle with another woman. Damien's in the middle of crisis mode. The...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roger Kahn is one of America's foremost sportswriters. After successful seasons as a newspaperman and magazine writer, he burst onto the national scene in 1972 with his memorable bestseller, THE BOYS OF SUMMER, memorializing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now in his eighth decade, Kahn has again written a book for the hearts and minds of his readers. Chronicling his own life, INTO MY OWN is Kahn's reflection on the eight people who shaped him as a man, a father,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A father takes a break from every guy's dream gig-covering football (and the odd swimsuit shoot) for Sports Illustrated-to give it a go as Mr. Mom, in this hilarious and heartfelt book
After nineteen years as a writer for Sports Illustrated, Austin Murphy should have had it made. Instead, he'd had it-with measuring his life by hotel rooms and Heisman stories, with members of his church assuming that his wife, Laura, was a single mother. With each...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book, the bestselling author of The Boys of Summer shares stories of his Depression-era Brooklyn childhood, his career during a golden era of sports, and his personal acquaintances with a wide range of great ballplayers. His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother's passion was for poetry. Young Roger managed to blend both loves in a career that encompassed writing about sports for the New York Herald Tribune, Sports Illustrated,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon to be a major motion picture, Seeing Home: The Ed Lucas Story is the incredible true tale of a beloved Emmy-winning blind broadcaster who refused to let his disability prevent him from overcoming many challenging obstacles and achieving his dreams. In 1951, when he was only twelve years old, Ed Lucas was hit between the eyes by a baseball during a sandlot game in Jersey City. He lost his sight forever. To cheer him up, his mother wrote letters...
10) Fourth down
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once Ed Buck, sports reporter, and Adam Benson, star quarterback for the Chicago Bears, played football on the same college team. Years later, they are still close friends. In New York for a game against the Giants, Benson hands Buck the biggest story of his career.
Gambling on football is one of the country's leading "industries," and the mob's been forcing Benson to throw games. The quarterback has had enough. Sunday, he tells Buck, he's playing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
God created college football as a grand gift to an imperfect world. I learned this as a very small boy living in the middle of the Texas Panhandle. In time I would come to believe that college football contained all of the joy, faith, pageantry, feeling, failure, and renewal that any person could hope for out of life. It taught me about patience and commitment, about enthusiasm and exasperation, about fatherhood and faith.
Like Norman Maclean's classic,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness ensues as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN - the only place he ever...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dave Kindred is among the greatest living chroniclers of sports. He has covered dozens of Super Bowls, developed a personal relationship with Muhammad Ali, and traveled the country following some of the greatest stars and teams in all of sports. But as he looks back on his life, it's a girls' high school basketball team, the Lady Potters of Morton, Illinois, that stands apart from the rest. In this moving and intimate story, Kindred writes about...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request