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The Just Friends Syndrome

Memoirs of a Shy Guy's Search for True Love

By: Johnny L. Williams

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The Just Friends Syndrome

Memoirs of a Shy Guy's Search for True Love

By: Johnny L. Williams

If I had been alone, I may have kept up my hopes after what she said. She did say a lot of nice things about me. She said she liked being with me, said how sweet I was, said she liked that I was so patient with her. But he shook me back into reality. He said that while he was sure she meant all those things, she was just letting me down gently. Fact was, I'd heard it all before. History was repeating itself. It was, as Yogi Berra put it so eloquently, 'dj vu all over again'. Rarely has a book explored so intimately the deep feelings and emotions experienced by a guy looking for love. Based on a true story, this serious comedy highlights the author's Charlie Brown-like experiences with life and relationships. Through his interactions with nine different girls-eight of whom give him the dreaded "just friends" speech-Williams learns the ups and downs of love. Visit www.thejustfriendssyndrome.com for more information and links to buy this book.

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240

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iUniverse

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0595810470

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9780595810475

"The Scream That No One Heard."

By: Johnny Watson

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"The Scream That No One Heard."

By: Johnny Watson

Tells about in how I had to survive in the Inner City as a child.

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266

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Lulu.com

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1312960248

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9781312960244

The Kansas City Cowboys

By: Johnny D. Boggs

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The Kansas City Cowboys

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player—and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes.

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489

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Blackstone Publishing

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1504788486

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9781504788489

How to Watch the Olympics

The Essential Guide to the Rules, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport

By: David Goldblatt,Johnny Acton

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How to Watch the Olympics

The Essential Guide to the Rules, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport

By: David Goldblatt,Johnny Acton

The must-have guide to the Summer Olympic Games This summer, millions of Americans will tune into the Olympic Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. Yet while it's easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few of us know the real width of a balance beam, the intricate regulations of dressage, or the origin of those crowd-pleasing legs-in-the-air swimming formations. Luckily, David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton have created this utterly thorough and always fun guide to the rules, strategy, and history of each sport. Originally timed to 2012 London Games, their book is every bit as useful for Rio de Janeiro in 2016. With witty, detailed descriptions and clever illustrations, How to Watch the Olympics will help anyone grasp handball, archery, wrestling, fencing, and every other Olympic event like a true pro.

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512

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Penguin

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1101589108

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9781101589106

Sports on Film

By: Johnny D. Boggs

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Sports on Film

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the key moments in sports in America. Sports on Film documents key events in American sports history through the films that depict them, starting with the integration of major-league baseball when Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Other significant events and personalities examined include the college basketball point-shaving incident of the 1950s; journalist George Plimpton's attempt to go through the Detroit Lions' NFL training camp in the early 1960s; the originations and popularity of rodeo; the brief run of women's professional baseball during World War II; the underdog racehorse Seabiscuit during the Great Depression; the rise of African American boxer Muhammad Ali; the unique 1970s "Battle of the Sexes" tennis event between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King; and Ford Motor Company's run in the 1960s to take motorsports to Europe's premier event in Le Mans, France.

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252

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440875561

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9781440875564

Percussion Pistols and Revolvers

History, Performance and Practical Use

By: Mike Cumpston,Johnny Bates

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Percussion Pistols and Revolvers

History, Performance and Practical Use

By: Mike Cumpston,Johnny Bates

In the early transition from the long-lived flintlock system, handgun development closely paralleled that of the long arms. With the advent of the revolving pistols, however; came patents that created monopolies in revolver production and the through-bored cylinder necessary for self-contained metallic cartridges. The caplock revolvers took on a separate evolution and remained state of the art long after the widespread appearance of cartridge firing rifles and shotguns. They rode in the holsters of of explorers and adventurers across the world and granted safe conduct in the back-alleys of the Industrial West right up until the last quarter of the 19th Century. Handguns possess a mystique distinctly different from that of other firearms. They are tools of personal empowerment-chosen by their owners to provide independence and freedom of movement. In the ambitious, optimistic early years of western industrial civilization they were the emblem of liberty and equality and the bane of repressive governments and social movements. Largely because of the traditions that emerged in the time of the caplock pistols and revolvers, they remain so in the early years of the 21st Century.

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iUniverse

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0595357962

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9780595357963

A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

By: Rick Billstein,Shlomo Libeskind,Johnny W. Lott

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A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

By: Rick Billstein,Shlomo Libeskind,Johnny W. Lott

The text allows for a variety of approaches to teaching, encourages discussion and collaboration among students and with their instructors, allows for the integration of projects into the curriculum, and promotes discovery and active learning. Students using this text will receive solid preparation in mathematics, develop confidence in their math skills and benefit from teaching and learning techniques that really work.

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984

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Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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0805303901

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9780805303902

Winning Golf Made Easy

By: Johnny M. Anderson

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Winning Golf Made Easy

By: Johnny M. Anderson

Sets out to help players to improve their power, increase their accuracy, and lower their golf score, whatever their handicap.

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148

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Sterling Publishing (NY)

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0806984023

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9780806984025

I Call the Shots

By: Johnny Miller,Guy Yocom

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I Call the Shots

By: Johnny Miller,Guy Yocom

A straight-shooting look at the hottest issues and controversies in golf today, from the game’s most popular and provocative commentator Johnny Miller’s brilliant career as a professional golfer—including U.S. Open and British Open championships—has been followed by a fourteen-year tenure in the broadcast booth as America’s most respected television golf analyst. In I Call the Shots he offers his no-holds-barred opinions, with trademark insight and wit, on all things golf: from the decline of playing etiquette to boorish fans; from legendary victories by the game’s greatest champions to monumental chokes that have destroyed careers; from the current state of the PGA Tour to the future of the game itself. Packed with the best and worst Johnny has seen in more than thirty years as a champion player and cherished announcer, I Call the Shots is a must-read for any golfer or fan of the game and is sure to be fuel for controversy and conversation on fairways, in locker rooms, and at nineteenth holes across the country.

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314

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Penguin

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1101216603

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9781101216606

Fighting Talk

Flimsy Facts, Sweeping Statements and Inspired Sporting Hunches

By: Colin Murray,Johnny Vaughn

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Fighting Talk

Flimsy Facts, Sweeping Statements and Inspired Sporting Hunches

By: Colin Murray,Johnny Vaughn

The Sports Fact: the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the pub conversation. We cant quote Shakespeare or remember our loved ones birthdays - superfluous! - but we can list, in alphabetical order, the last three strikers for our teams to have a 20-goal season, together with the names of their wives, children, aunts, favourite TV shows, golf handicap...glory! And so it is that Fighting Talk, the Saturday morning bastion of world-class punditry, introduces five years of accrued knowledge, one liners, quips, and anecdote all gleaned from, or in the style of, the hugely popular show. Discover Sports Facts as pithy as what kind of chocolate bar Victoria Beckham was munching on as she gave birth to first son Brooklyn, or whether a World Cup victory have any effect on the victorious nations GDP, or even Also, be challenged by the divisive Defend the Indefensibles in which our crack team of writers support motions as scurrilous as the best thing about the Grand National is seeing a horse gets shot, or that its really true women really cant throw.

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182

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Hodder & Stoughton

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184456925X

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9781844569250

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

By: Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

By: Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

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Knopf

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0307265196

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9780307265197

Hoopers

By: Johnny Boateng

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Hoopers

By: Johnny Boateng

Set in Toronto, Hoopers is about a Black youth who wants to live the basketball dream of fame and acclaim. Jojo and his friends know that once they make the Squad, their high-school team, they will have the time of their lives. But their no-nonsense coach is strict, even mean, and seems to repeatedly target Jojo. Emphasizing the real qualities of hard work and dedication, Hoopers shows how Jojo learns how to be a skilled player and leader for his team — a real Hooper.

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130

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James Lorimer & Company

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1459416368

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9781459416369

Still Standing…

My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra

By: Tom Dreesen,Darren Grubb,Johnny Russo

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Still Standing…

My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra

By: Tom Dreesen,Darren Grubb,Johnny Russo

From shining shoes in dark saloons on the south side of Chicago to traveling the country as the opening act for Frank Sinatra, this is the story of Tom Dreesen’s unlikely journey to a fifty-plus year career as a pioneer of stand-up comedy and a legend of the entertainment industry.

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Post Hill Press

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1642933627

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9781642933628

Spark on the Prairie

By: Johnny D. Boggs

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Spark on the Prairie

By: Johnny D. Boggs

The trail of the Kiowa chiefs.

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324

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Signet Book

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0451209125

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9780451209122

Raggedy Ann and the Paper Dragon - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle

By: Johnny Gruelle

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Raggedy Ann and the Paper Dragon - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle

By: Johnny Gruelle

Raggedy Ann and the Paper Dragon' is written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle. Gruelle (1880 - 1930), was an American artist and political cartoonist, as well as a children's book illustrator and author. The books of 'The Raggedy Ann Series' all feature their central protagonist, with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose - charting her considerable adventures. Gruelle created Raggedy Ann for his daughter, Marcella, when she brought him an old hand-made rag doll. He drew a face on it, and from his bookshelf, pulled a book of poems by James Whitcomb Riley, combining the names of two poems, 'The Raggedy Man' and 'Little Orphant Annie.' From this moment on, the much-loved children's series went from strength to strength. Sought after by collectors, this re-printed edition showcases Gruelle's original text, further enhanced by his wonderful colour drawings, in order that the two may be fully appreciated by young and old alike.

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123

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Read Books Ltd

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1528782518

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9781528782517

Problem Solving Approaches to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

By: Rick Billstein,Shlomi Libeskind,Johnny W. Lott

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Problem Solving Approaches to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

By: Rick Billstein,Shlomi Libeskind,Johnny W. Lott

This best-selling text emphasizes solid mathematics content, problem-solving skills, and analytical techniques. The seventh edition focuses on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Principles and Standards 2000. The text allows for a variety of approaches to teaching, encourages discussion and collaboration among students and with their instructors, allows for the integration of projects into the curriculum, and promotes discovery and active learning. Students using this text will receive solid preparation in mathematics, develop confidence in their math skills and benefit from teaching and learning techniques that really work. For mathematics teachers.

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Addison-Wesley

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0201611414

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9780201611410

Book's by Johnny Ball

The Just Friends Syndrome

The Just Friends Syndrome

"The Scream That No One Heard."

"The Scream That No One Heard."

The Kansas City Cowboys

The Kansas City Cowboys

How to Watch the Olympics

How to Watch the Olympics

Sports on Film

Sports on Film

Percussion Pistols and Revolvers

Percussion Pistols and Revolvers

A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

Winning Golf Made Easy

Winning Golf Made Easy

I Call the Shots

I Call the Shots

Fighting Talk

Fighting Talk

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

Hoopers

Hoopers

Still Standing…

Still Standing…

Spark on the Prairie

Spark on the Prairie

Raggedy Ann and the Paper Dragon - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle

Raggedy Ann and the Paper Dragon - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle

Problem Solving Approaches to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

Problem Solving Approaches to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

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