Retired businessman Worthy McGuire knows he cannot put it off any longer. Time is not on the side of the gruff World War II veteran racing to fulfill a promise he made amid the horrors of the D-Day invasion. As he plans a pilgrimage from Michigan to the site of both his best and worst day, Worthy now must rely on the those he trusts the least-his family. With no one else to help him meet the physical demands of the trip, Worthy grudgingly includes his two grandchildren, David and Shannon, who are each battling their own insecurities. As his controlling son, Ted, and his manipulative daughter-in-law, Angela, follow Worthy and his grandkids to France, they have one goal: to drag the aging man home where they hope to take command of his finances and place him in a nursing home. As Worthy searches for a family from his past, only time will tell if he can patch the crumbling relationships with his family before it is too late. In this historical tale, a World War II veteran takes a journey of honor and courage as he sets off to complete the most important mission of his long life.
Tim McGuire's popular character, the Rainmaker, returns to finally clear his name and confront the false charges that have kept him a fugitive for so long.
The debut novel by a brilliant new voice of the Old West! Clay Cole is a man with a shadowy past. Few people know that the army is out to court martial him for something he didn't do. But the few who did are aiming to kill the Rainmaker along the trail. And the easiest place to do that is the treacherous spot few men make it through alive--Danger Ridge.
When gambler and con-artist Rance Cash wins a pile of cash and a champion racehorse named Lone Star in a poker game, he also wins the hatred of Don Pedro Cuellar de Meyor, a wealthy landowner who claims that Lone Star is his property.
A man on the run for a crime he didn't commit stops to help an English lord and a beautiful woman search the Texas desert for the legendary lost gold of Cortes.
The newest title from a Western fiction star introduces gambler Rance Cash, who knows that the West has a way of wearing a good man down. Luckily for Cash, he's on the safe side of bad and knows just how to beat the odds--in games of chance, women, and hot lead. Original.
Clay Cole, the man known as The Rainmaker, comes to San Francisco to find the woman he loves, but he soon lands square in the middle of a range war. Original.
Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member. But in the aftermath of a bloody battle, a dying cultist makes claims that cause Indigo to question her own origin and memories"--
It's election time at Hillridge Junior High! But when the only candidates for school president are way-too-popular (and way-too-snobby) cheerleader Claire Miller and geek-boy Larry Tudgeman, Lizzie's friends convince her to run for office. But as Lizzie's popularity skyrockets, so does her ego. Can Lizzie become Hillridge's new prez without ditching her friends? Plus, Mr. Dig helps the kids prepare for an academic competition . . . where they'll be facing Kate, Claire, and Larry!
Follows the adventures of Lizzie McGuire, a fourteen-year-old girl who experiences friendship, crushes, school, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager.
Lizzie is sure her "Rock and Roll" float idea will be the winner at the Christmas Parade. She just needs a little help. But everyone has deserted her to help some old guy. Lizzie's furious. Is she forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? Plus, Lizzie makes a Christmas wish to meet pop star Aaron Carter.
The elections for Class President are coming up. And it's time for someone normal to run. No more annoying cheerleaders. No more gross Tudgeman. It's Lizzie time She's normal, right? She could be the voice of the people. So why, on the eve of the election, does Miranda have a bad feeling about this?
Former ESPN basketball commentator Digger Phelps is regarded as one of the most charismatic and opinionated analysts in the profession. And he was the same personality during his twenty years as the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. In this book, first published in 2004, Phelps teams up with Tim Bourret and recalls the most successful period in Notre Dame basketball history. In his twenty seasons, seventeen of Phelps’s teams advanced to postseason play, including fourteen NCAA Tournament teams. In the book, Phelps recalls his initial expression of interest in Notre Dame through a 1965 letter he wrote to football coach Ara Parseghian. It recounts the scenes of his seven wins over number one-ranked teams, including the landmark game in 1974 when the Irish ended UCLA’s eighty-eight-game winning streak. Two chapters concentrate on the coach’s former Notre Dame players, concluding with the selection of his All-Digger teams. He also recalls the twenty Hall of Fame coaches he competed against, including Bobby Knight, Al McGuire, Ray Meyer, and John Wooden. Tales from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Locker Room also contains a chapter entitled “Domers,” which documents Phelps’s relationships with Notre Dame coaches, administrators, and student-athletes, including Father Theodore Hesburgh, the man who made Notre Dame what it is today. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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