Hit Time
Hit Time

Author: Ardella Garland

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0684873761

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When the body of Fab Weaver, the head of Big Time Records, is found floating in Lake Michigan during a charity event, Georgia and her twin sister Peaches delve into the mystery when a close family friend is wrongly accused of the crime.

Pete Rose
Pete Rose

Author: William A. Cook

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2003-12-31

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786426950

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On September 11, 1985, with a sell-out crowd of 52,000 fans on hand at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium and millions of others watching on television, Pete Rose collected hit number 4,192 of his career and passed Ty Cobb as the all-time career hits leader. As he reached first base, thousands of cameras flashed, his teammates mobbed him, fireworks exploded and the crowd overwhelmed him with a seven-minute standing ovation. Rose was on top of the world. Less than four years later, he would be banned for life from baseball for allegedly betting on major league games, roundly criticized in the press by both fans and fellow players, and then convicted for tax evasion. In 2003, fourteen years after he was made ineligible for the Hall of Fame, Commissioner Bud Selig took up Rose's application for reinstatement, igniting once again an intense debate about his legacy and baseball's long-standing zero-tolerance policy on gambling. This book gathers the available facts of Rose's life and career, as well as the scandals he was embroiled in, leaving the reader a more informed participant in the ongoing discussion.

Hit Lit
Hit Lit

Author: James W. Hall

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0812970950

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DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jaws. From tempting glimpses inside secret societies, such as submariners in The Hunt for Red October, and Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code, to vivid representations of the American Dream and its opposite—the American Nightmare—in novels like The Firm and The Dead Zone, Hall identifies the common features of mega-bestsellers. Including fascinating and little-known facts about some of the most beloved books of the last century, Hit Lit is a must-read for fiction lovers and aspiring writers alike, and makes us think anew about why we love the books we love.

Language and Bilingual Cognition
Language and Bilingual Cognition

Author: Reader in Applied Linguistics Vivian Cook

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 113686640X

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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals, bringing together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines . It is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in language and cognition, or in bilingualism and second languages.