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Running to Glory

An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream

By: Sam McManis

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Running to Glory

An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream

By: Sam McManis

The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They’re from low income families, many of whom are migrant workers. With little time to devote to their passion, they give everything they have to their quest for the Washington State High School Cross Country Championship. Running to Glory is a celebration of grit, perseverance, and the American Dream. It follows the cross country team from Eisenhower High in Yakima, Washington, through a tumultuous and challenging season with excitement, suspense and pathos. Despite enormous economic disadvantages, the Eisenhower runners compete with affluent schools in the Seattle-Tacoma area, where parent involvement is strong and funds are readily available. Their coach Phil English knows how his runners feel. He grew up poor in rural Ireland in the 1960s during The Troubles and emigrated to the U.S. for a college track scholarship. Over 37 years coaching in Yakima, Coach English won 11 state titles, and sent more than 100 kids to college with scholarships for running. Author Sam McManis crafts a compelling narrative, which follows the team from summer workouts in the blistering sun to the state championship meet in the bitter cold. Readers will discover how these young men and women overcome their environment or succumb to it—on the course and in the classroom.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493041533

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9781493041534

Running to Glory

An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream

By: Sam McManis

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Running to Glory

An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream

By: Sam McManis

Running to Glory, by veteran journalist Sam McManis, follows the cross country team from Eisenhower High in Yakima, Washington, through a tumultuous and challenging season with excitement, suspense and pathos.

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Lyons Press

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1493057804

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9781493057801

A Cold Welcome

The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

By: Sam White

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A Cold Welcome

The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

By: Sam White

Cundill History Prize Finalist Longman–History Today Prize Finalist Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize “Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.” —Times Literary Supplement When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, winters in which everything froze, even the Rio Grande. A Cold Welcome tells the story of this crucial period, taking us from Europe’s earliest expeditions in unfamiliar landscapes to the perilous first winters in Quebec and Jamestown. As we confront our own uncertain future, it offers a powerful reminder of the unexpected risks of an unpredictable climate. “A remarkable journey through the complex impacts of the Little Ice Age on Colonial North America...This beautifully written, important book leaves us in no doubt that we ignore the chronicle of past climate change at our peril. I found it hard to put down.” —Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age “Deeply researched and exciting...His fresh account of the climatic forces shaping the colonization of North America differs significantly from long-standing interpretations of those early calamities.” —New York Review of Books

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Harvard University Press

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0674981340

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9780674981348

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent

A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich

By: Sam Wilkin

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Wealth Secrets of the One Percent

A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich

By: Sam Wilkin

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!) From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors. Wealth Secrets of the One Percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% who achieve billionaire status: we love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a "wealth secret" -- a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition.

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432

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Little, Brown

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0316378925

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9780316378925

Crossing California

A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness

By: Sam McManis

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Crossing California

A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness

By: Sam McManis

Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful. Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the urban sophisticates with the quirky desert dwellers; the Hollywood power brokers with the outsider artists. Brought together in a bouillabaisse of voices, Crossing California will make you see the state in an entirely new light.

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Linden Publishing

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1610353277

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9781610353274

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Running to Glory

Running to Glory

Running to Glory

Running to Glory

A Cold Welcome

A Cold Welcome

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent

Crossing California

Crossing California

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