The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History

The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History
Don Larsen (Author), Mark Shaw (Author), Yogi Berra (Foreword)
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It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in the half a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone’s face, strikes were called only on the field, and New York was baseball’s battlefield, Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter ever recorded in the World Series. Joe DiMaggio called it the best-pitched game he ever saw as a player or spectator. Yogi Berra said he felt like a kid on Christmas morning. And Mickey Mantle said, “For one day, Don Larsen was the greatest pitcher in baseball history.”
Now readers can relive that moment of greatness in the newly revised edition of The Perfect Yankee. With a deft pen and an announcer’s enthusiasm, Larsen walks readers through each inning of that miraculous game. A must-read for any baseball fan.

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• Published on: 2013-04-26
• Released on: 2013-04-26
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'Tis: A Memoir

'Tis: A Memoir
Frank McCourt (Author)
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Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.And now we have ’Tis, the story of Frank’s American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this “classless country,” and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank’s incomparable voice—his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue—that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should “stick to their own kind” once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach—and to write—that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela’s Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela’s Ashes, “It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best.” Frank McCourt's ’Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

• Rank: #83055 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-28
• Released on: 2000-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.74" h x .98" w x 5.75" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Daughter of Destiny: Kathryn Kuhlman

Daughter of Destiny: Kathryn Kuhlman
Jamie Buckingham (Author)
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Jamie Buckingham's book is the definitive biography of Kathryn Kuhlman perhaps the foremost woman evangelist of our century.

• Rank: #10921 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.49" h x .83" w x 6.50" l, 1.15 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Tis: A Memoir

Tis: A Memoir
Frank McCourt (Author)
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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

• Rank: #12074 in eBooks
• Published on: 1999-09-22
• Released on: 1999-09-22
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Rurally Screwed: A Memoir of Losing Myself for Love

Rurally Screwed: A Memoir of Losing Myself for Love
Jessie Knadler (Author)
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A magazine editor in New York, Jessie Knadler had a habit of always looking over her shoulder for better options. She wasn’t quite sure moving to Montana and marrying a cowboy was a better option—but, head over heels in love, she did it anyway.

At a loss in her new rural environment, she hoped that activities like chicken farming and fence building might provide her with a more profound, virtuous sense of self (and make her husband Jake love her even more). It all led her to some strange situations—and surprising realizations. Written with huge personality and searing wit, Rurally Screwed is an immensely entertaining and moving memoir about the things we do for love—and the lengths we’ll go to find our true identity.

• Rank: #1319666 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-02
• Released on: 2013-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .83" w x 5.51" l, .61 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Tis: A Memoir (No Series)

Tis: A Memoir (No Series)
Frank McCourt (Author)
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The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia

The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia
Sal Polisi (Author), Steve Dougherty (Author)
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I Am the Central Park Jogger : A Story of Hope and Possibility

I Am the Central Park Jogger : A Story of Hope and Possibility
Trisha Meili (Author)
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Shortly after 9:00 P.M. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room -- comatose -- with a fractured skull, an 85-degree body temperature, and she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it's a miracle she's still alive.

Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. It was a crime that stunned New Yorkers, the nation, the world. Even today, more than a decade after the attack, the Central Park Jogger -- who disclosed her name upon publication of this book -- is still in the news as startling new information about the perpetrators develops. Because of the nature of her injuries, Trisha Meili remembers nothing of the attack. But for Meili, the crime was not the climax but the beginning of an extraordinary journey. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Meili tells us who she was before the attack -- a young Wall Street professional with a promising future -- and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life.

• Rank: #10928 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-30
• Released on: 2004-03-30
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

The Sinatra Club

The Sinatra Club
Steve Dougherty (Author), Sal Polisi (Author)
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Big Russ and Me, Father and Son: Lessons of Life

Big Russ and Me, Father and Son: Lessons of Life
Tim Russert (Author)
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"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t remember something that Big Russ taught me." Over the last two decades, Tim Russert has become one of the most trusted and admired figures in American television journalism. Throughout his career he has spent time with presidents and popes, world leaders and newsmakers, celebrities and sports heroes, but one person stands out from the rest in terms of his strength of character, modest grace, and simple decency—Russert’s dad, Big Russ. In this warm, engaging memoir, Russert casts a fond look back to the 1950s Buffalo neighborhood of his youth. In the close-knit Irish-Catholic community where he grew up, doors were left unlocked at night; backyard ponds became makeshift ice hockey rinks in winter; and streets were commandeered as touch football fields in the fall. And he recalls the extraordinary example of his father, a WWII veteran who worked two jobs without complaint for thirty years and taught his children to appreciate the values of self-discipline, of respect, of loyalty to friends. Big Russ and Me, written in Russert’s easygoing, straight-talking style, offers an irresistible collection of personal memories. Russert recalls the dedicated teachers who stimulated his imagination and intellect, sparking a lifelong passion for politics and journalism, and inspired a career that took him from editor of his elementary school newspaper to moderator of Meet the Press. It has been an eventful and deeply satisfying journey, but no matter where his career has taken him, Russert’s fundamental values still spring from that small house on Woodside Avenue and the special bond he shares with his father—a bond he enjoys now with his own son. As Tim Russert celebrates the indelible connection between fathers and sons, readers everywhere will laugh, cry, and identify with the lessons of life taught by the indomitable Big Russ.

• Rank: #141045 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-10
• Released on: 2004-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.13" w x 6.00" l, 1.19 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-year-old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-year-old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
Laura Schroff (Author), Alex Tresniowski (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator)
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When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald's across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years until both of their lives had changed dramatically. Nearly thirty years later, that young boy Maurice has gotten married and has his own children. Now he works to change the lives of disadvantaged kids, just like the boy he used to be.An Invisible Thread is the true story of the bond between a harried sales executive and an eleven-year-old boy who seemed destined for a life of poverty. It is the heartwarming story of a friendship that has spanned three decades and brought meaning to an over-scheduled professional and hope to a hungry and desperate boy living on the streets.

• Rank: #298872 in Books
• Published on: 2011-12-26
• Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 6
• Dimensions: 1.09" h x 6.51" w x 5.47" l, .43 pounds
• Running time: 25200 seconds
• Binding: Audio CD

Promises Kept

Promises Kept
Ernest W. Michel (Author)
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Author Ernest Michel survived the Holocaust against incredible odds. After fleeing from the Nazis, he made his way to the U.S. but couldn't forget the promises he'd made to friends, many of whom had died. Among the book's highlights is Michel's description of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, as well as his dramatic encounter with Herman Goerring.

• Rank: #70848 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-03-13
• Released on: 2013-03-27
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Perfect Yankee

The Perfect Yankee
Don Larsen (Author), Yogi Berra (Foreword)
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It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in the half a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone’s face, strikes were called only on the field, and New York was baseball’s battlefield, Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter ever recorded in the World Series. Joe DiMaggio called it the best-pitched game he ever saw as a player or spectator. Yogi Berra said he felt like a kid on Christmas morning. And Mickey Mantle said, “For one day, Don Larsen was the greatest pitcher in baseball history.” Now readers can relive that moment of greatness in the newly revised edition of The Perfect Yankee. With a deft pen and an announcer’s enthusiasm, Larsen walks readers through each inning of that miraculous game. A must-read for any baseball fan.

• Rank: #14323 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-02-28
• Released on: 2012-02-28
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
Anjelica Huston (Author, Reader)

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• Rank: #1438240 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-19
• Released on: 2013-11-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages