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Dream Season

A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team

By: Bob Cowser

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Dream Season

A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team

By: Bob Cowser

A rookie outsider chases his sports-obsessed dream to relive his football glory days in “the ultimate fan book” (The New York Times). Bob Cowser, Jr. is a happy husband, father, and English professor in upstate New York. Only one thing is missing: the exhilaration he felt as a young man in sports-crazy Tennessee when he took the field for high school football games. In what is every Monday morning quarterback’s fantasy, Bob joins the Watertown Red & Black, the country’s oldest semi-professional football team, hungry to win its first championship in two decades. Over the next five months, and with the hesitant blessing of his wife, Candace, Cowser drives the lonely sixty miles for try-outs in a former mill town of soldiers, corrections officers, and blue-collar workers. A far cry from his leafy campus, the “Professor,” as his teammates call him, must work hard to earn the respect of these hard-edged men—some of them local celebrities—and the confidence of his coach, a former mill worker who has never used a playbook. Balancing the demands of family and academe with the rigors of practice and game play, Cowser must find a way to fit his childhood dream into his real life as an adult. “Deserv[ing] to join the ranks of great football books like George Plimpton’s Paper Lion, Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes, and William Morris’s The Courting of Marcus Dupree” (Publishers Weekly), Dream Season invites us onto the line of scrimmage for each heartbreaking loss and breathtaking win, into the locker room of a fabled team challenged by a roller-coaster season, and ultimately into the heart of a man with a persevering thirst for glory. “Real, vivid, sensitive, accessible, warm, brutal, and wholly consuming,” this remarkable story reminds us why we love the games we play (Lee Gutkind, author of Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather).

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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1555846262

ISBN 13

9781555846268

Bird Atlas 2007-11: The Breeding and Wintering Birds of Britain and Ireland

By: Dawn Balmer,Simon Gillings,Brian Caffrey,Bob Swann,Iain Downie,Rob Fuller

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Bird Atlas 2007-11: The Breeding and Wintering Birds of Britain and Ireland

By: Dawn Balmer,Simon Gillings,Brian Caffrey,Bob Swann,Iain Downie,Rob Fuller

Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. The Bird Atlas 2007–2011 is the definitive statement on breeding and winter bird distributions in Britain and Ireland.

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4348

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HarperCollins UK

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0007593015

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9780007593019

Scorekeeping

Essays from Home

By: Bob Cowser

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Scorekeeping

Essays from Home

By: Bob Cowser

In 1970 Esquire named the rural West Tennessee college town of Martin as one of the nine happy towns left in the United States. Bob Cowser Jr. offers a dissenting opinion on this assessment of the bucolic environs of his youth in his collection of forthright reflections on boyhood in Martin and his experiences in the other locations (New Orleans; Lincoln, NE; Canton, NY) that have constituted "home." Ranging in tone from confessional and contemplative to candid and comic, the stories in Scorekeeping conjoin to form an exceptional portrait of smalltown life as lived by the son of English professors with an unflinching eye and creative wit.

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109

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1570036527

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9781570036521

Dream Season

A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team

By: Bob Cowser

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A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team

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Green Fields:

Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between

By: Bob Cowser

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Green Fields:

Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between

By: Bob Cowser

A narrative reconstruction and reconsideration of the 1979 murder of Cary Ann Medlin, the author's third grade classmate, and the execution twenty years later of Robert Glen Coe, the man convicted of the crime, the first in Tennessee in forty years. Reminiscent of the best crime writing of Capote, Didion and Baldwin.

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173

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University of New Orleans Press

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160801018X

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9781608010189

Bob Artley's Cowtoons

Living with Cows

By: Bob Artley

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Living with Cows

By: Bob Artley

Bob Artley's Cowtoons is a delightful look at the author's own relationship with cows. His genuine affection for cows comes throughon every page, in every illustration and caption. AS with his previous books, Artley presents farm life with just the right amount of whimsy, nostalgia, and wisdom.Bob Artley's Cowtoons is a collection of drawings from his popular series "Memories of a Former Kid" that has been syndicated in daily and weekly newspapers across the United States since the 1970s. It was originally published as Living with Cows.

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Voyageur Press (MN)

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0896586146

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9780896586147

A Guide to Western Civilization, Or, My Story

By: Joe Bob Briggs

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A Guide to Western Civilization, Or, My Story

By: Joe Bob Briggs

The author of "Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In" brings his distinctly western irreverent humor to a "100 per cent fact-free autobiography" covering his poor childhood, vision of a drive-in Jesus, and his philosophy of life--and sin

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204

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New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press

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0385296711

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9780385296717

Bob Funk

Doctor of Hope

By: Bob Burke,Dave Gillogly

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Bob Funk

Doctor of Hope

By: Bob Burke,Dave Gillogly

Bob Funk wanted to be a preacher -- to help people. Instead, he found another way to assist people in need -- finding them jobs. In the past quarter century, he has led Express Personnel Services to become to largest franchised, privately-held staffing company in the United States and has put millions of people to work."--Publisher's description

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272

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1885596545

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9781885596543

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Dream Season

Dream Season

Bird Atlas 2007-11: The Breeding and Wintering Birds of Britain and Ireland

Bird Atlas 2007-11: The Breeding and Wintering Birds of Britain and Ireland

Scorekeeping

Scorekeeping

Dream Season

Dream Season

Green Fields:

Green Fields:

Bob Artley's Cowtoons

Bob Artley's Cowtoons

A Guide to Western Civilization, Or, My Story

A Guide to Western Civilization, Or, My Story

Bob Funk

Bob Funk

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