The Four Year Hitch By: Don Cox As a sequel to the based-on-a-true-story, Two Hearts, A Romantic Journey from Friendship to Marriage, published in a popular romance magazine, Don Cox’s novel recounts four tumultuous years of the two main characters’ lives after the story ended. Their fairy-tail ending wasn’t true, and Don Cox’s story proves that not everything happens as you are led to believe. With fate being such a strong theme in romantic stories, does fate bring the boy and the girl back together, or does it not?
Who was the best baseball team of all time? This timeless question can most effectively be answered through comprehensive analysis of baseball statistics. Over the course of a season, winning teams tend to score more runs while allowing fewer than their opponents. The greater the difference in runs per game, the more a team can be expected to win. Comparing this data for the top five percent of Major League nines from 1901 through 2014, this book argues that runs above league average is the best statistic for ranking teams. The author sorts 220 teams by era, franchise and skills--hitting, fielding, baserunning, pitching--evaluates their strengths and weaknesses and assigns numerical values to each player's skills to demonstrate how they contributed to team performance.
Perhaps more than any other Central Valley community, Sacramento is changing so rapidly as to become almost unrecognizable. New hou si ng project s a nd ongoi ng redevelopment efforts have led to a decline in the original, elegant homes in this city. Thankfully, this is not the case in Boulevard Park! Preservationists and architectural historians have prevailed in this neighborhood to keep the Colonial Revival and Craftsman homes intact for the most part, even as the city around them grows as never before. Boulevard Park sits on the site of the old Union Park racetrack, where Edweard Muybridges early experiments in motion picture technology (photographing Occidental, Leland Stanfords horse) were pioneered in the 1870s; the street signs here have a horse-andcarriage motif to honor those equine origins. Perhaps more than any other Central Valley community, Sacramento is changing so rapidly as to become almost unrecognizable. New hou si ng project s a nd ongoi ng redevelopment efforts have led to a decline in the original, elegant homes in this city. Thankfully, this is not the case in Boulevard Park! Preservationists and architectural historians have prevailed in this neighborhood to keep the Colonial Revival and Craftsman homes intact for the most part, even as the city around them grows as never before. Boulevard Park sits on the site of the old Union Park racetrack, where Edweard Muybridges early experiments in motion picture technology (photographing Occidental, Leland Stanfords horse) were pioneered in the 1870s; the street signs here have a horse-andcarriage motif to honor those equine origins.
Blind Love is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the “wild” Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish secret society, and becomes unhappily drawn into a conspiracy plot. The Broadview edition of Blind Love includes a critical introduction and primary source materials that address the novel’s focus on movements for Irish independence. Appendices include newspaper accounts of Ireland during the Land War and of the fraud case on which Collins based his story, articles reacting to Collins’s sudden death, Punch cartoons depicting the English attitudes toward the Irish, and contemporary reviews.
A time traveller I shall be, would you care to come with me? For I invite you on a journey into the distant past. I am the seventh mortal to have arrived at the entrance to Hades, where I paused before Cerberus, who sniffed me out, to see whether I was dead or alive. He allowed me through to a place of perpetual music and merriment -- the entrance to the afterlife, the Hades of Herodotus and Odysseus. This, as my other travels and research into history will show, transform myths into facts. Scholars will be hard put to refute my claims, which I back up with geographical, biblical and archaeological evidence. My research into the legends of the ancients has taken me to museums, to Egypt, to Africa, to Crete and to Santorini, and above all into books. The fruit of all this is a new and challenging insight into where Odysseus really was during those ten lost years. It was the revered Roman historian, Tacitus, who commented that the Jews had originated in Crete, during the clash of Jupiter and Saturn, the very clash of the Titans. This is a completely new theory unknown as yet to any historian, yet the more the author looked into this, the more he came to believe that Tacitus was right. However, for the theory to be viable, it had to be shown that farmer Noah, if leaving Crete, had to be at sea. To his amazement, he found it remarkably simple to do this, for all the evidence for it, as his book will show, exists in Genesis. Noah's world was indeed covered in water -- about this he was telling the truth, or the truth as he saw it. Once I understood this, I then had to find historical evidence to support a 'group' called Adam, Cain, and later Moses. This in turn led me to discover three other mysterious peoples of history, and, finally, identify the God of Noah, who must also be the God of Abraham, Moses, and therefore the spiritual father of Jesus. And Herodotus Said: The Pirate's Tale and Odysseus Found; A Conspiracy of Silence and Talking to God; Is this the face of Memnon? Found: The Fabled Mountains of the Moon; Israeli Espionage, Two and a Half Thousand Years Ago; Does Merlin Live?; What Use the Pyramids?; Living Forever; The Day Noah Put to Sea; That Old Hot Chestnut, Atlantis; Ask Moses; From the Future to the Past.
As the front door slammed shut, Terenda’s scream echoed through the hallway. William ran frantically, lurching down the hallway toward the back of the house, arriving just as two men dragged her through the rear doorway. In pursuit, he rounded the outside corner of the house as the door of the Hummer swung open and Terenda was pushed into the dark interior. Yelling to his wife, he caught a glimpse of the massive, heavily bearded profile sitting inside. The door slammed shut as he frantically ran toward the vehicle. The Hummer swung from the curb, and he was left running down the sidewalk screaming for his wife. She turned in the seat; he saw her face through the tinted window. He did not believe what he saw. Strange disappearances and unexplained events have the authorities baffled. People are here one minute, gone without a trace, the next. Or so it would seem. Yet undiscovered, a sheltered new world exists within our world. Terenda has begun the journey.
The 1970s was the high-water mark for motorcycling in Australia. The Japanese motorcycle boom rippled around the nation attracting a new wave of enthusiasts to the sport. Women rode step-thrus, thousands of kids were zipping around on minibikes, and suburban bushlands were filled with burbling trailbikes. Wheel-standing Japanese superbikes were menacing the streets, and race grids were bursting with a sea of new riders eager to try their hand on the race circuits of Australia. Blessed with a great climate, Australia was the only country in the world to stage racing all-year round. But instead of top racers emerging from the big cities, the new wave of Aussie talent would come from the bush. Wollongong's Wayne Gardner was Australia's first world 500cc champion. His firebrand spirit was forged as a young teenager racing his mates on minibikes in the creek beds of Balgownie. Ten years later Gardner would make his world 500cc GP debut and four years after that he would win the fabled world title. The book explores why Australia became the world epicentre of motorcycling for a moment in history and details how the major races of the 70s were won and lost. It also uncovers the fascinating story behind the birth of the world's first Superbike series that went global.This book is tribute to the 1970s and how it shaped motorcycle racing in Australia, and the world. Enjoy the ride!
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