When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories

When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories

Author: E. Ethelbert Miller

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 1947951378

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Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelbert Miller delights and surprises us with his deft imaginings and portraits. Ethelbert’s poems play out in baseball rhythm and express the joy of living, despite the bitter challenges in today’s world. These poems define our time and allow us to see ourselves as human through the lens of baseball, family and music. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories is Miller's second book of baseball poems. Here he touches new bases. There are poems about Marcel Duchamp and Ornette Coleman as well as Whitey Ford and Don Larsen. Miller's poems move the outdoor game indoors where there are moments of disappointment and despair. Baseball can be a blues game. Tommy John surgery is a way of holding onto hope. Many of these poems were written during the Covid pandemic. They beckon fans back to the ballpark. They remind us to enjoy a game that is precious and maybe even essential to our wellness. Coming after If God Invented Baseball, Miller seems to emerge from a literary dugout after a brief rain delay, ready to celebrate the American pastime again.


The Better Book

The Better Book

Author: Jessica May Walker

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780368826849

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The planner designed to help patients and caregivers dealing with long term illnesses stay organized, connected, and healthy.I created this planner for my husband and me to use as we navigated his cancer treatment. We learned a lot, and as it developed, I decided I wanted to create an available printed version. I am excited and grateful to share The Better Book with you now.PERFECT FOR: cancer patients, caregivers, chronic illness, Alzheimer's disease, pregnancy, baby shower gift, get well gift, cancer care package, and more!DETAILS: Book includes sections for Personal Contact Information, Doctor Contact Information, Prescription Log, Important Dates Chart, Appointment Notes, Questions Log, Bills and Payment, Support Log, 6 months of Weekly Tracker, and Daily Journal Pages.


The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

Author: Tommy Tomlinson

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1501111620

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ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).


The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist

Author: Greg Sestero

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1476730407

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"In 2003, an independent film called The room ... made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the head,' the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, The room is an international cult phenomenon ... In [this book], actor Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar and longtime best friend, recounts the film's long, strange journey to infamy, unraveling mysteries for fans ... as well as the question that plagues the uninitiated: how the hell did a movie this awful ever get made?"--


The Push

The Push

Author: Tommy Caldwell

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1405924756

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THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY 'DAWN WALL' 'Heart-stopping, absorbing' Daily Mail 'The most daring free climber on the planet' The Times __________ In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite's vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall - regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before. This odds-defying feat was the culmination of seven years planning and a lifetime of determination. Here, he recounts how he got there, the falls and setbacks - being held hostage, losing his index finger, the break-up of his marriage - the summits conquered and the fears overcome. Fans of Free Solo and Dawn Wall, and climbers and non-climbers alike, will be gripped by this story of drive, focus and achieving the impossible. __________ 'The Push is not simply a book about rock climbing' Guardian 'Probably the greatest living athlete most people have never heard of' Telegraph 'Arguably the best all-round rock climber on the planet' National Geographic 'A real page-turner . . . captivating and deeply moving' Climb magazine 'Captivating and unfailingly honest' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air


MAXI

MAXI

Author: Tommy Clancy

Publisher: The Real Tom Clancy

Published:

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13:

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What is your definition of Flirting? At what point does it cross a line? Can you distinguish between Reality and Fantasy? MAXI is unable to distinguish. How can True Love be an Affair or even wrong?! Come fall in love under the spell of the Silent Seduction Series side note: WHAT IF? the Rekindle prequel novella must be read first https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=SKogEAAAQBAJ


The Party

The Party

Author: J. D. Carter

Publisher: David Hollingsworth

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 095726710X

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