The Flights and Plights of Benedict
The Flights and Plights of Benedict

Author: Anne Marie Sciberras

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1524520837

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The Flights and Plights of Benedict: The Racing Pigeon is a book about a young royal racing pigeon living a hard, unfulfilling life. I mean, if you think youre having a bad day, have you ever considered what life is like for a racing pigeon? To be left in the middle of nowhere, being able to rely only on your own instincts under the banner of racing? I can assure you, it isnt a life for the fainthearted. No sooner have you gotten home from a race then youre being sent away again from your loved onesand who knows if youll return this time. And if youre a royal racing pigeon, the expectations that are placed upon you are most unfair. But after suffering a terrible tragedy, Benedict isnt happy to stay living under the control of his cruel master, and he is determined to show his fellow pigeons that life can be better. Unwavering in his beliefs, he sets himself a mission to prove that not all humans are nasty and greedy. Along the way, after many setbacks, he discovers help and hospitality can come from the most unusual of suspects. But will it be enough to alter his grim destiny?

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great
Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Author: Conrad Leyser

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0198208685

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When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid their cloisters. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority.

The Notorious Benedict Arnold
The Notorious Benedict Arnold

Author: Steve Sheinkin

Publisher: Flash Point

Published: 2010-11-09

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1429951354

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New York Times bestselling author, Newbery Honor recipient, and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin presents both the heroism and the treachery of one of the Revolutionary War's most infamous players in his biography of Benedict Arnold. Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest Revolutionary War heroes. Steve Sheinkin's accessible biography, The Notorious Benedict Arnold, introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing American Revolution battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale from history. “Sheinkin sees Arnold as America's ‘original action hero' and succeeds in writing a brilliant, fast-paced biography that reads like an adventure novel...The author's obvious mastery of his material, lively prose and abundant use of eyewitness accounts make this one of the most exciting biographies young readers will find.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Several complex political, social, and military themes emerge, one of the most prominent being that within the Continental army, often simplistically depicted as single-minded patriots, beat hearts scheming with political machinations that are completely familiar today...Arnold's inexorable clash with Gates and his decision to turn traitor both chill and compel.” —Horn Book Magazine (starred review) Also by Steve Sheinkin: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America

Miracle Boy and Other Stories
Miracle Boy and Other Stories

Author: Pinckney Benedict

Publisher: Salt Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907773006

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The story collection Miracle Boy and Other Stories contains fourteen works of short fiction -published in some of America's top literary magazines and anthologies - by one of West Virginia's most well-recognized writers. The stories, set in the author's native Appalachia, concern themselves with the miraculous lives of boys and men.

Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods

Author: Jeff Benedict

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 150112644X

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The inspiration for the HBO documentary from Academy Award–winning producer Alex Gibney. The #1 New York Times bestseller based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life—this “comprehensive, propulsive…and unsparing” (The New Yorker) biography is “an ambitious 360-degree portrait of golf’s most scrutinized figure…brimming with revealing details” (Golf Digest). In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really? Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come. “Irresistible…Immensely readable…Benedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true” (The Wall Street Journal). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is “a big American story…exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure” (The New York Times).