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Nine Days in October

By: Ron Terpening

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Nine Days in October

By: Ron Terpening

An American in Italy, victim of a daring but botched heist, must thwart an international conspiracy in order to save his daughter's life"--Provided by publisher.

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0975576186

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Present at the Creation

My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game

By: Upton Bell,Ron Borges

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My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game

By: Upton Bell,Ron Borges

To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history or you can live its history as an active participant. Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL’s first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial ruin after World War II but was one of its greatest innovators. Coining the phrase “On any given Sunday,” Bert invented the pro football draft and proposed sudden death rules. Present at the Creation details Bell’s firsthand experiences, which started as he watched his father draw up the league schedule each year at the kitchen table using dominoes. There he learned the importance of parity, which is a hallmark of the league’s success, and also how to create it. Over the past fifty-three years, Bell has been an owner, a general manager, a personnel executive, a scouting director for two Super Bowl teams, a television commentator and analyst, and a talk-radio host. He has seen the NFL from the inside and has experienced many of the most important moments in NFL history. Bell was player personnel director for the Baltimore Colts when the team played in three championship games and appeared in two Super Bowls (1968 and 1970). At thirty-three, he became the youngest general manager in NFL history when he joined the Patriots in that role in 1971. He left the NFL in 1974 to compete against it, joining the upstart World Football League as owner of the Charlotte Hornets, which lasted just two years. In 1976 Bell began his forty‑year career as a radio and TV talk-show host, yet he remains a football guy who was in the middle of the game’s most significant moments and knows that half the story has never been told, until now. Watch a book trailer.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496204611

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9781496204615

The Turning

A Novel

By: Ron Terpening

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The Turning

A Novel

By: Ron Terpening

Set in the 1960s in a small town in Oregon, this quiet story is a touching tale about a teenager caught between adolescence and manhood. The adventures of a sixteen-year-old boy in Oregon who encounters three girls--and faces other risky situations--during a magical summer night in 1964.

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0962145211

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9780962145216

One-Game Wonder

A Hoops Memory and Compilation

By: Ron Johnston

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One-Game Wonder

A Hoops Memory and Compilation

By: Ron Johnston

On Friday night, January 8, 1965, the 5-1 Churchville-Chili boys' basketball team hosted Greece Arcadia in the Saints gym at approximately 8 p.m. It was the first game of the new year and would turn out to be school record-breaking as C-C won 101-55. 101 points, WOW! All 14 Saints on the roster played and scored. Ron Johnston, a junior non-starter and the author of this book, became a one-game wonder when he scored a game-high 16 points in almost two quarters of action on the hardwood. He couldn't miss, draining seven straight perimeter shots in the "pre-3-pointer era." Thing is, Ron had a condition known as bronchiectasis that he has never revealed until this narrative now. Only his parents, immediate family, and doctors knew about it. The lung disease which he has had all his life has not hindered in any way his participating in athletics on both the prep and collegiate level. In fact, competing in sports, running, and walking have benefitted him. Ron never had a prep varsity basketball game like the school record-breaking January 8 one ever again. But this story is more than him being a "one-game wonder." ("Better a one-game wonder than not," he would tell you, laughing.) It's also kind of a love story back in a time of teenage innocence. It's about teammates, cheerleaders, classmates, coaches, teachers, soldiers, and...people. GOOD PEOPLE, who have gone on to have families and been successful in life. Being a newspaper sports editor/writer has been very helpful to Ron on this life journey. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy...and maybe you'd better have a box of Kleenex tissues handy. Because "One-Game Wonder" evokes emotion.

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283

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669859215

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9781669859215

Storm Track

A Novel

By: Ron Terpening

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Storm Track

A Novel

By: Ron Terpening

Determined to track down his wife's murderers, Derek Stone, a commercial diver, gradually realizes he is being manipulated by Carlo Spugna, an international arm's dealer

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Walker & Company

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0802710697

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9780802710697

Nine Days in October

By: Ron Terpening

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Nine Days in October

By: Ron Terpening

An American in Italy, victim of a daring but botched heist, must thwart an international conspiracy in order to save his daughter's life"--Provided by publisher.

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