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"The Fiction Factory: Being the experience of a writer who, for Twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully" is authored by William Wallace Cook. The author known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and author of popular fiction. The book tells how he got started as a fiction writer and the ups and downs of freelancing at the turn of the last century. In addition to how fascinating reading in its own right could be, the book shows how much harder writing used to be.
A little boy and his friends celebrate fall by taking in the sights, smells, and sounds of the seasonNand by playing backyard football. Full color.
Based on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the directors ruled.
Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the a...
A collection of short fiction by an O. Henry Award-winning author explores the transcendent and magical qualities that transform even the most mundane life in Midwestern Kansas, capturing the unique and extraordinary world of a young boy hunting for a runaway hourse, a couple ostracized in their small town, a grieving high school basketball star, and other colorful characters.
The autobiography of The Church of England`s leading Anglo-Catholic, greatly loved and revered.
The great champions through history, the great fights, and the fascinating world of boxing explored.
This is the personal and revealing football diary of the 1994-1995 season of Manchester United's manager, Alex Ferguson. This book offers a behind-the-scenes account of what Ferguson goes through everyday in the football season, what he thinks, eats, breathes and does. As the game lurched from one crisis to another during the 1994-1995 season, Ferguson had his own problems to deal with. The diary reveals the reasoning, thoughts and decisions of United's manager as he and his team battled their way through the Premier League, European Champions League and FA Cup. This book is endorsed by Manchester United.