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What Makes an Elite Pitcher?
Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no one can lay a bat to; cool heads and confidence in their "stuff" when they get in a jam; and the kind of dexterity that makes difficult plays seem easy. Is elite status revealed through statistics? Though the author of this book considers statistics of both the traditional and sabermetric sort, he argues that the greats are proved not by broad statistical comparison with all other pitchers, but by their record against one another. In a thoughtful discussion of the evidence of head-to-head matchups, he finds the nine pitchers who make up the true elite: Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, Tom Seaver, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux. For each pitcher the book provides biographical information, career highlights, and a list of the feats that put him in the record books.
THE VINBURG
As a child, Taylor sat at the feet of the great Levi and was thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Mikings' who murdered his family, Taylor became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's leader, Alexander, and avenge his father. Sustaining Taylor through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery...the land Levi called "Vinburg".
The Gentlemen
When Artemis Knight is thrown into the world of the Gentlemen, she learns the brutal truth about the world; professional criminals run society, heroes are extinct, and police are nothing but toys to play with. Artemis Knight has been trained her whole life to be normal. Her abusive father taught her everything she needed to learn to survive in the chaotic world, but being normal is the only skill she cant master. With her friend Brendon Urlay by her side, she unknowingly squeaks by the Gentlemens radar. Until one day, one of the most dangerous criminals stops by her bakery. The rule is simple; dont upset the system. If you do, youll be silenced, permanently. As a girl in the male-dominated criminal world, Artemis has already upset the system before making a single move. Unwanted secrets, buried deep in the Gentlemens past, pour out with the mention of her father. The system has never been more off balanced, and someone needs to take the fall. The Gentlemens only threat saunters out of the shadows seeking vengeance, creating fear in the royal family of crime.
Insidious
"Venus Rasmussen, a powerful eighty-six-year-old woman who still runs Rasmussen Industries, an international conglomerate, believes someone is poisoning her. After Savich and Sherlock visit with her, someone attempts to shoot her in broad daylight. Who's trying to kill her and why? A member of her rapacious family, or her grandson who's been missing for ten years and suddenly reappears?"--
Great Lives: David
The Bible tells us that David was a man after God's own heart, but what does that mean in practice? David, the Old Testament shepherd, king, and psalmist, offers an answer in the shape of his own incredible life. Poet, musician, courageous warrior, and national statesman, David distinguished himself as one of God's greatest men. He modeled invincible confidence in the face of impossible circumstances. He made decisions with wisdom and equity. And he wrote with transparent vulnerability and quiet trust. But how well do we really know David? In Great Lives: David, the first volume in Charles Swindoll's bestselling Great Lives series, Swindoll gives us a closer look at this incredible man who h...
From Alexander to Jesus
Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort has been made to connect the mythic life and career of Alexander to the stories about Jesus and to the earliest theology of the nascent Christian churches. Ory Amitay delves into a wide range of primary texts in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew to trace Alexander as a mythological figure, from his relationship to his ancestor and rival, Herakles, to the idea of his divinity as the son of a god. In compelling detail, Amitay illuminates both Alexander’s links to Herakles and to two important and enduring ideas: that of divine sonship and that of reconciliation among peoples.
