The second in a series of baseball books, The Rollie Fingers Baseball Bible gives readers quick stories and stats as well as both nostalgic and cutting-edge information. Rollie Fingers isn't just another relief pitcher; he is one of only two relief pitchers in history to have won a Cy Young Award, a league Most Valuable Player Award, and to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. It follows, then, that The Rollie Fingers Baseball Bible isn't just another book on baseball. Reading more like Schott's Miscellany or the Uncle John's series than the typical stat-filled snoozer, its hilarious stories, trivia, lists, sidebars, and statistics are presented in a format that's as inventive and engaging as Fingers himself.
In the tradition of the incredibly successful Uncle John's and Schott's Miscellany brands, Rollie's Follies is the first in a series of baseball books that give readers quick stories and stats, nostalgic as well as cutting-edge information. The package is inventive, unique and lively, and the series is supported by www.rolliesfollies.com, where the brand will receive international attention. Author Rollie Fingers, still one of the most recognizable players ever because of his signature handlebar moustache, will appear on tv and radio to tout this breakthrough book that soon will be as recognizable as the man himself.
In the tradition of the incredibly successful Uncle John's and Schott's Miscellany brands, Rollie's Follies is the first in a series of baseball books that give readers quick stories and stats, nostalgic as well as cutting-edge information. The package is inventive, unique and lively, and the series is supported by www.rolliesfollies.com, where the brand will receive international attention. Author Rollie Fingers, still one of the most recognizable players ever because of his signature handlebar moustache, will appear on tv and radio to tout this breakthrough book that soon will be as recognizable as the man himself.
Our fast-paced, technology-dependent world tells you to buy more, do more, and get more. Yet most of us feel more empty, more tired, and less connected to our Creator and one another. Paying Attention II: God’s Extraordinary Movements in Our Ordinary World will help you grow deeper in your relationship with God by helping you to see his movements and fingerprints in our everyday life. Rollie Johnson’s keen observations, insights, and unique writing will help you perceive and know that God is indeed present in all that we do. From the jungles of Mexico to the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming and to the northern wilds of Canada, and Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and the rugged badlands of North Dakota, journey with Rollie as he shares and shows God’s presence in both the adventures of the mountaintop and the ordinariness of our everyday lives.
Mind is the story of a small boy with amnesia who finds himself on a journey across a wasteland, through the depths of the ocean, to a mountain in the sky, and at last in a new world, discovering along the way that life is more than death, worlds are not all they seem to be (and yet are more), and seeds fallen to the dust yet grow.
Most of us race through our days at a hectic and frantic pace oblivious to the Godly and divine in our midst. We are tuned in to the latest electronic gizmos and out of tune with the holy and sacred that moves in and around us throughout our days. Journey with Author Rollie Johnson who has a most unique gift for observing and sensing, and recognizing Godly movements and spiritual truths in our ordinary day to day lives. His observations and unique insights from the natural world of creation and ordinary encounters will inspire you to new depths of trust and intimacy in your walk with God.
Rolff Peters moves back to his hometown of Blue Glacier hoping to find a quieter lifestyle along with his retired parents and friends. What he once knew as a quiet mountain town has been turned into a battleground between corporate ski America and locals fighting the trend. Even more surprising was the budding romance he found with the original owner of the mountain’s daughter Marta. The two had just started to get to know each other when Marta’s dad Michael brings her in on the secret as to why he has been fighting the ski company on selling the remainder of his land for their expansion. Follow along as their bond is tested in their quest to save their families and the town.
Bedroom Rapper is a book for obsessive music fans who are looking for the definitive take on what’s happened in the last two decades of hip hop, from Cadence Weapon, aka Rollie Pemberton: Pitchfork critic, award-winning musician, producer, DJ, and poet laureate. Tracing his roots from recording beats in his mom's attic in Edmonton to performing with some of the most recognizable names in rap and electronic music—De La Soul, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Questlove, Diplo, and more—Polaris Prize winner Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a Cadence Weapon, captures the joy in finding yourself, and how a sense of place and purpose entwines inextricably with a music scene. From competitive basement family karaoke to touring Europe, from fights with an exploitative label to finding his creative voice, from protesting against gentrification to using his music to centre political change, Rollie charts his own development alongside a shifting musical landscape. As Rollie finds his feet, the bottom falls out of the industry, and he captures the way so many artists were able to make a nimble name for themselves while labels floundered. Bedroom Rapper also offers us a wide-ranging and crucial history of hip-hop. With an international perspective that's often missing from rap music journalism, he integrates the gestation of American hip hop with UK grime and niche scenes from the Canadian prairies, bringing his obsessive knowledge of hip-hop to bear on his subject. Rollie takes us into New York in the ’70s, Edmonton in the ’90s, the legendary Montreal DIY loft scene of the 2000s, and traces the ups and downs of trusting your gut and following your passion, obsessively. With a foreword by Gabriel Szatan, music fans and creators alike will relate to the dedication to craft, obsessive passion for what came before, and desire to shift the future that is embodied in every creative project Rollie takes on.
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