Get the Ball, Slim
Author: Marcia Leonard
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0761373683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTim and Jim like to play ball with their dog, Slim. But when Jim hits the ball hard, look out!
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Boys' Life
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Published: 1939-01
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Mystic
Author: Peter A. Lamana, Ed.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 150351031X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Civil War is finally over, and the survivors have returned to their lives to try to rebuild. There was very little time for rest and relaxation. Nothing can be truer for the people of the small country town of Mystic. However, something has come to Mystic with the survivors...a game called Base Ball. For many years the people of Mystic have indulged themselves in various kinds of stick-and-ball games...everything from cricket to rounders, to something called Muffin Ball, but none of the games were ever popular enough to become organized...until Base Ball. As the residents of Mystic struggle establish their own Base Ball club, they discover that Base Ball is taking over the nation by storm. With a faithful group of town leaders, a retired Judge, and several veterans, Mystic finds that it is ahead of the storm, instead of getting caught up in it. As the town team forms, and a simple league with other small towns is established, the Mystic town folk enjoy watching their very own team playing this “city game” their way...making mistakes, fumbling over the bases, and arguing with...everyone, the people of Mystic become a true base ball town. Then when captain of the Drummers contacts the Mystic team with a request to come to Mystic to play a fun exhibition game on the Fourth of July, the initial thought was one of reservation...the Drummers were a traveling team of colored players. To the people of Mystic, a town that sided with the Northern Union forces, the prospect of playing a colored “barnstorming” team was cause to celebrate a game that changed the town of Mystic forever.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
Author: Bruce Jackson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2024-02-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1438496575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such classic toasts as "Stackolee," "The Titanic," "Signifying Monkey," "Dance of the Freaks," and dozens more. This unexpurgated edition offers the raw, vibrant, and still startling imagery of these toasts shaped by decades of oral transmission through the voices of countless rhymers. Just like rap, the toasting tradition enabled previously unheard or stifled topics, including racism, sexual exploitation, economic deprivation, and social oppression, to be expressed in a form that embodied multiple layers of meaning. Jackson helped preserve a rapidly dying art form to ensure that it would be available for many generations to come. In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley, "All you Hip Hop heads need to know this book if you want to know your roots."
Closing Time
Author: Jim Fusilli
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1504053869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis “dead perfect” noir-inflected murder mystery carries readers from New York City’s most elite precincts to its dirtiest gutters (Robert B. Parker). Two years ago, writer Terry Orr lost his wife and infant son when a lunatic pushed them into the path of a subway train. Dissatisfied with the police response, he’s been looking for the killer himself ever since. Somewhere along the way, while raising his precocious daughter and continuing his search, he also becomes a legitimate private eye. First, Terry encounters the brutal murder of a livery cab driver, which he’s determined to solve. Then, he’s drawn into the world of high art and ruthless ambition after a SoHo gallery is destroyed by a bomb blast. And when the two cases collide, Terry might be fatally out of his depth . . . Wall Street Journal writer Jim Fusilli exploded onto the mystery scene with this debut novel hailed as “a gorgeous nightmare” (The New York Times Book Review). Closing Time is the 1st book in the Terry Orr Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Cincinnati Magazine
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Published: 1993-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Pimp
Author: Iceberg Slim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1451617143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” —Dave Chappelle, from his Nextflix special The Bird Revelation Pimp sent shockwaves throughout the literary world when it published in 1969. Iceberg Slim’s autobiographical novel offered readers a never-before-seen account of the sex trade, and an unforgettable look at the mores of Chicago’s street life during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. In the preface, Slim says it best, “In this book, I will take you, the reader, with me into the secret inner world of the pimp.” An immersive experience unlike anything before it, Pimp would go on to sell millions of copies, with translations throughout the world. And it would have a profound impact upon generations of writers, entertainers, and filmmakers, making it the classic hustler’s tale that never seems to go out of style.
Cincinnati Magazine
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Published: 1996-10
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Demonopathia
Author: Richard Voil Webb
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2021-05-12
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1662432321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the heartland of America, in the town of McWreath in Tahoka, Oklahoma, mystery and madness arise in the form of a sadistic, relentless serial killer. Former FBI special agent Robert Wheeler, on a cross-country trip, discovers the body of the second victim, a teenage girl, and clues to the killer soon to be dubbed the Ripple Creek Ripper. He is delayed in McWreath by the mysterious destruction of his motorcycle and by a relationship developed with a beautiful waitress at a local roadhouse. Recruited by Sheriff Eddington to lead the investigation, he soon discovers a strange labyrinth of pure evil and psychopathic destruction that affects the whole county. The lives of the women are at stake, and the lives of the investigators while the suspects are slowly unraveled to reveal a deeply disturbing truth. This is the story of a county in the grips of terror and the secrets it unveils. With his life on the line, Wheeler meticulously searches for the answer to one of the most terrifying murderers in the annals of American history.
Boys' Life
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Published: 1929-05
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
