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The Fast Ride
In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes--and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories--but his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never been accurately reported. In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened that day the Bid lost the biggest race of his life. Along the way, he introduces the reader to a cast of characters from the gilded age of late twentieth-century horse racing, from Bid's owners, the renowned Meyerhoff f...
Fire in a Canebrake
In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946—the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first time. July 25, 1946. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes in America's history: the shotgun murder of four black sharecroppers—two men and two women—at Moore's Ford Bridge. Fire in a Canebrake, the term locals used to describe the sound of the fatal gunshots, is the story of our nation's last mass lynching on record. More than a half century later, the l...
Collision of Wills
In their seven years together, quarterback Johnny Unitas and coach Don Shula, kings of the fabled Baltimore Colts of the 1960s, created one of the most successful franchises in sports. Unitas and Shula had a higher winning percentage than Lombardi’s Packers, but together they never won the championship. Baltimore lost the big game to the Browns in 1964 and to Joe Namath and the Jets in Super Bowl III—both in stunning upsets. The Colts’ near misses in the Shula era were among the most confounding losses any sports franchise ever suffered. Rarely had a team in any league performed so well, over such an extended period, only to come up empty. The two men had a complex relationship stretch...
Bloody Jack
"While disguised as a boy, Jacky Faber experiences adventure and romance on the high seas"--
My College Boyfriend Dumped Me for You
If you haven't heard of Facebook, you've probably been living under a rock. Facebook has become one of the greatest social networking sites to ever hit the World Wide Web. It has spawned new terminology and has a range of users from middle school kids to the elderly to major organizations and small businesses. All over the world, people are on Facebook. When Jennifer A. Carle joined the ranks, she discovered she had a lot to learn. Facebook world was different from the real world. There were old emotions to sort through, new etiquette to practice, the question of what was appropriate to say or do, and she had to figure out how to navigate through the site. But as usual, Jennifer came at it with a sense of humor and good nature. Facebook world, as it turned out, wasn't that much different than the real world. Come along as she starts posting statuses, friending and unfriending, and sending messages like My College Boyfriend Dumped Me For You—Can I Add You as a Friend?.
Tales from the Triple Crown
In Tales from the Triple Crown, award-winning racing writer Steve Haskin takes readers behind the scenes to introduce them to the trainers, jockeys, and horses seeking the world’s most elusive sports prize. Feel the keen disappointment of trainer Bud Delp after Spectacular Bid loses his Triple Crown bid because of a stray safety pin. Witness Angel Cordero’s frustration after winning the Kentucky Derby aboard Spend a Buck, only to encounter a series of misadventures on his way home. Mourn the untimely loss of Barbaro in a Preakness that shook the racing world. Their stories are among the twenty-four—including three that are new to this paperback edition—that bring a new dimension to the repertoire of Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes reporting. Horse racing is no stranger to triumph and tragedy, and in Tales from the Triple Crown Haskin shares both the adrenaline charge of victory and the disappointment of close losses. Haskin’s personal involvement, keen eye for a good story, and engaging writing style make readers feel like they are living the moments with him.
Street Cops
Jill Freedman brings you the world of NYC cops at eh beginning of the 1980's. It's gritty and sometimes harsh, but always honest and dignified when protraying the lives of these men and women. This amazing photographer got amazing access, before there was a "COPS" on TV.
Your Resource is Human
Remote working is here to stay. But 65% of remote workers say they feel isolated, and many managers struggle to know how to support them. In Your Resource is Human award-winning marketer and global remote business leader Melissa Romo explores the five unspoken remote work emotions, and identifies the five remote-ready leadership behaviors that can help all teams, large or small, rise above the sometimes emotional undertow of working apart. This book aims to give remote leaders the counsel and courage to embrace empathy, adapt their communication and inspire optimism that will drive culture, build connection and help their people do their best work. Melissa Romo has more than 20 years’ expe...
Loserville
Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta’s pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.
