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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gathers essays, letters, light verse, book reviews, Talk of the Town stories, farewells, haikus, Profiles, Christmas greetings, late thoughts on the costs of war and more by the longtime contributor to and a senior fiction editor of the New Yorker magazine. Angell's fluid prose and native curiosity make him an amiable and compelling companion on the page. Whether the subject is coping with the loss of his wife, Carol, editing John Updike, the seventh...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover of a book jacket. And it ends at a desk in the legendary Time & Life building, with that same boy-now in his early 20s and writing professionally-reflecting on how the hell he got there from what seems like a distant universe. In between, Steve Rushin whisks us along on an extraordinarily funny, tender, and altogether...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 910L
Language
English
Description
Details the life and accomplishments of Mary Garber, the first woman to win the APSE award and inducted into the Hall of Fame of National Sportcasters and Sportswriters Association.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sportswriter Nina Richardson had the perfect life away from her family's famous shadow. But a social media blowup and rejection by her boyfriend brought her back to their peaceful Charleston, South Carolina B&B to figure out what went wrong. So there's no way she's going to trust the crazy-hot sparks flying between her and handsome new employee Clinton Jefferson. It's just reckless, rip-his-clothes-off, one-night-and-forget-it lust--right? Fresh from...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 75
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mitch Albom has a pretty great life. He lives in Detroit and is happily married, he's an award-winning sportswriter, a must-read newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a radio and television broadcaster. Then two men come into his life, and he realizes something's missing. Rabbi Albert Lewis presides over a thriving synagogue in a comfortable New Jersey suburb, and pastor Henry Covington, a recovering drug user and dealer, preaches to the poor and homeless...
Author
Publisher
The Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse racing and found that "There, right in front of him, were so many of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings and goings of the Manhattan night crowd." Runyon didn't...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A lively and colorful account of the 1969 NBA Finals--one of the greatest upsets in basketball history--through the eyes of future sports writing legend Leigh Montville, who was covering the coast-to-coast event as a brand-new twenty-four-year-old reporter for The Boston Globe"--
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007, ©1970.
Language
English
Description
Two divorced New Yorkers, Felix and Oscar, try to live together as roommates despite the fact that one is a neat freak and the other is a total slob. Includes 24 episodes and features audio commentaries, a gag reel, and more.
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