![]() ![]() She starred on female sports’ biggest and most watched stages, guiding the United States to gold at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and at the now iconic 1999 World Cup on American soil, and in the process became one of the most marketable athletes, male or female, of her era. Hailed by ESPN as the greatest female athlete of the past 40 years, Hamm was the youngest woman to ever appear in a match for the US Senior Squad at just 15 years old in 1987, and during her illustrious career playing for the national team shattered a litany of American records, most notably those for international goals (158) and assists (144). ![]() After 17 years, two World Championships, two Olympic Gold Medals, and near unparalleled success as a marketing icon, Mia Hamm retired from professional soccer in 2004 as not only the best women’s soccer player in history but also as one of the most important and recognizable female figures in the history of sport. ![]()
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![]() Doofenshmirtz goes on with the quick speech. "I guess he likes the cafeteria food."ĭr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, or Doof as he likes to call himself, starts to make a little speech. So after the cheerleaders do a "Jay-mee Grimm" cheer, our school principal, Dr. "They're gonna give you your very own pep rally, dude," says Gaynor. We're on our way to school, where the principal has declared that today is Jamie Grimm Day. Of course my best buds-Jimmy Pierce, Joey Gaynor, and Gilda Gold-are with me, too. He's come to Long Beach to help me train for the comedy competition. "He's going to be a very busy boy," says Howie Mandel, one of the judges from America's Got Talent. And then there are the semifinals in Las Vegas. "First I have to win a regional competition in Boston. ![]() "Jamie Grimm, I hear you're the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic!" Taylor Swift comes to town to ask me to be the opening act at her upcoming concerts. ![]() Derek Jeter, the shortstop from the New York Yankees, shows up at Long Beach Middle School because he wants me to autograph a baseball for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Irving was largely responsible, along with the French writers of the same period, for the Romantic image of Al-Andalus which persists to this day. It weaves a series of short stories around the folk with whom he shared his life there. His best known work " Tales of the Alhambra" which was first published in London in 1832 under the title " The Alhambra a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and the Spaniards". He wrote " Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" (1829). When he took up residence in the Alhambra palace when it was in an abandoned state. In 1829 he journeyed from Seville to Granada where he immediately asked the then-governor of the historic Alhambra Palace as well as the archbishop of Granada for access, which was granted because of his celebrity status. When it collapsed he turned to writing with success of "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" He travelled to Paris in 1821 and thence to Madrid in 1826 as historical document about the Americas had been released. Washington Irving was the son of a New York merchant, he was trained in law but gave it up for the family business. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace in Granada while writing some of the material for his book. ![]() Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it's a story of a sea change in sports, when athletes gained celebrity status and Black players finally earned equitable salaries. "If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you'd have two Hall of Famers," the baseball historian Bill James once said.īut perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson's is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. ![]() He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he's scored more runs than any player ever. From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball's epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America's heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.įew names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson's does. ![]() ![]() ![]() He kept painting apartments and writing stories. He sent these stories around to many publishers and got rejected by all of them. ![]() He took a year off from teaching to write stories for kids. Teaching school, Jon rediscovered how smart kids are, and found the best audience for the weird and funny stories he had always liked to read and write. He started as a first grade assistant teacher, graduated to teaching second grade, taught third and fourth grade math, fifth grade history, and then some sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Not knowing what he was getting into, Jon applied for a teaching job at an elementary school called The Day School in New York City. He earned his MFA in fiction from Columbia University in New York in 1980, then painted apartments. He graduated in 1976, lived in Detroit, then moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., to write instead. ![]() Jon thought about being a doctor and studied both science and English at Albion College. He had some spectacular teachers there, and became Lieutenant Scieszka. Jon went to Culver Military Academy for high school. His dad's parents, Michael and Anna, came to America from Poland. His dad, Louis, was an elementary school principal at Freeman Elementary. His mother, Shirley, worked as a registered nurse. He is the second-oldest, and nicest, of six Scieszka boys. Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Mich., on Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a no BS journalistic account endorsed by many in the special operations community, including a legend in his own right, Major General John K. Soldier of Fortune learned about this book, and the lengths to which Blehm went in his research to get this story right, spending nearly two years interviewing dozens of eyewitnesses to the events portrayed and digging up boxes full of archives and official documents regarding this particular mission, period, and the quest for a long overdue Medal of Honor. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret (Studies and Operations Group) Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped in the Fishhook area of Cambodia, 1968. In LEGEND, bestselling author Eric Blehm takes as his canvas Southeast Asia, and tells the unforgettable account of the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”- Library Journal “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. “What’s not to like about this series?.It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”- SF Site The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”- Booklist (starred review) “Butcher.spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”- Cinescape “Superlative.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”- Midwest Book Review Book 19: Mirror Mirror - alternate Harry who chose differently at the end of Grave Peril turns out a lot darker than Harry Prime, alt-Harry summons HP to try and kill HP to use his corpse to fake his death. “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”- Entertainment Weekly Book 18: Twelve Months - Harry has to survive 12 dates with Lara and put himself back together after all the trauma that’s been suffered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ed continues with his nocturnal walks mainly so he can try to meet the young girl he had seen on his first walk. In the mean time, Holly's ex-roommate, Eileen, comes on to Ed and wants to take Holly's place. Ed needed the fresh air but during his walk he starts to encounter all sorts of "night loonies" including an old hag on a bike and a young girl who prowls the night looking for who knows what. It's about a college student, Ed, who goes out on a long walk late at night after his girlfriend Holly dumps him via a "Dear Ed" letter. Night in the Lonesome October included a lot of Laymon's trademarks including lots of sex but was not quite as gruesome as most of his other novels. His books are usually filled with lots of sex and gore with some humor thrown in and are basically written as a male teenage fantasy. ![]() I have read several books by Laymon and have to admit he is one of my guilty pleasures. ![]() ![]() Whereas in the past these races were all about winning and being the best, his goal now was to make sure he and Gobi’s friendship continued well after the finish line. ![]() The lovable pup, who would later earn the name Gobi, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the Tian Shan Mountains, across massive sand dunes, through yurt villages and the black sands of the Gobi Desert, keeping pace with him for 77 miles.Īs Dion witnessed the incredible determination and heart of this small animal, he found his own heart undergoing a change as well. “Leonard and Gobi’s story represents the power of people working together and the profound depth of feeling possible between a man and his dog.”-Publishers WeeklyĪ man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion.įinding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them. It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. Thomas Aquinas Narrated by: Markson Pips Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins 4.5 (32 ratings) Try for 0.00 Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. ![]() Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. Aquinass Shorter Summa Saint Thomass Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica By: St. ![]() In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. ![]() |