5/11/2023 0 Comments Rickey henderson howard bryant![]() ![]() Yet to baseball, Oakland and Tampa Bay - not the financially challenged New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers - are the game's two most troubled franchises.īoth are certainly in trouble. The A's franchise, since its inception as the Philadelphia entry of the newly formed American League in 1901, has won the pennant 15 times, again second only to the Yankees. ![]() Five players - Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley and Rickey Henderson - built their Hall of Fame cases in Oakland. Three thousand miles away, the A's have captured six pennants since arriving in Oakland in 1968, second only to the Yankees in that time frame. Other than that, Tropicana Field is perfect, right? AP Photo/Chris O'Meara Since the club's first winning season in 2008, however, the Rays have won a pennant and two American League East titles, have drafted tremendously, and, after stockpiling 10 first-round picks at this month's amateur draft, are being applauded for their fiscal responsibility and talent evaluation in a division in which the two dominant franchises, Boston and New York, share great advantages over every other team in baseball. Teams that had mismanaged their clubs or complained about the public refusing to build them a ballpark could always point to Tampa Bay and feel better. ![]() For the first 10 years of their existence, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays provided the standard laugh track for big league baseball. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She decided to get to know the youths, gaining the trust of the suspects as well as the other people involved, making them the subject of her book. when she saw the teenagers who had been charged with the murder of the 14-year-old Virk in a detention center and was said to have been surprised by their youth and vulnerability. Godfrey spent almost a decade researching Under the Bridge and was in her hometown of Victoria, B.C. in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence before working as a journalist and editor in Toronto and New York, was the author of The Torn Skirt, a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Prize in 2002, and the nonfiction book Under The Bridge, a nonfiction account of the beating death of Reena Virk. The novel explores the brief affair between Peggy Guggenheim and Samuel Beckett in Paris, 1937. More: Rebecca Godfrey (1967 - 2022) spent her time at MacDowell revising the first 10 chapters of her novel The Dilettante, forthcoming from Knopf. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Middle game seanan mcguire![]() ![]() The story is unique and interesting, the characters are real and flawed and perfect. However once you get used to the format it's easy to get. There were a couple times I thought it might actually be better on paper due to the complexity of the story and the large number of quotes the author utilized. No zoning out and hoping to jump back in at any point and be able to follow along. This isn't brain candy.you must pay attention to the details. I persevered because I'm a huge fan of Seanan McGuire's other books and really wanted to give this a chance. Pray it isn’t attained.Ģ0 minutes in I was ready to turn it off and sigh for the loss of a credit. But he has a plan: To raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. ![]() Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. ![]() ![]() Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. New York Times best-selling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces listeners to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the stand-alone fantasy, Middlegame. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Blue moon series alyson noel![]() ![]() As Ever's powers are increasing, Damen's are fading-stricken by a mysterious illness that threatens his memory, his identity, his life.ĭesperate to save him, Ever travels to the mystical dimension of Summerland, uncovering not only the secrets of Damen's past-the brutal, tortured history he hoped to keep hidden-but also an ancient text revealing the workings of time. ![]() "Alyson's Noel's bestselling Immortals series has been hailed as "addictive" "beautiful" "haunting" and "mesmerizing." In the second installment, Ever can bring her family back from the dead-but only if she's willing to sacrifice the guy she loves more than life itself." Just as Ever is learning everything she can about her new abilities as an immortal, initiated into the dark, seductive world by her beloved Damen, something terrible is happening to him. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller![]() ![]() ![]() Myst: The Book of Dni is read by Elizabeth Swain. Urn:oclc:861531064 Republisher_date 20120711025123 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120710053918 Scanner . Myst: The Book of Atrus Rand Miller 4.7 out of 5 stars 268 Hardcover 62 offers from 1. Myst: The Book of Atrus, by Rand and Robin Miller with David Wingrove, and Myst: The Book of Tiana, by Rand Miller and David Wingrove, are also available from Random House AudioBooks. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:46:18 Asin 0786881887 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA179601 Boxid_2 CH107401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Ink and Shadows by Ellery Adams![]() ![]() Though the death is declared an accident, the ruling can’t explain the old book page covered with strange symbols and disturbing drawings left under Nora’s doormat, a postcard from an anonymous stalker, or multiple cases of vandalism. ![]() Nora and her friends in the Secret, Book, and Scone Society are doing their best to put an end to the strife-but then someone puts an end to a life. ![]() Suddenly, former friends and customers are targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books, but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who’s been selling CBD oil products. A family-values group disapproves of the magical themes, though, and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. Nora Pennington is known for her window displays, and as Halloween approaches, she decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Madeline Miller’s Circe. ![]() Local bookstore owner Nora Pennington is back on the case in Miracle Springs, North Carolina when an accidental death turns out to be something much more sinister… “ New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams is back with the latest in her acclaimed Secret, Book, and Scone Society series.” A Witty and Page-Turning Southern Cozy Mystery ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments A river enchanted book review![]() ![]() But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all. Adaira, heiress of the east and Jack’s childhood enemy, knows the spirits only answer to a bard’s music, and she hopes Jack can draw them forth by song, enticing them to return the missing girls.Īs Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home. ![]() Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. ![]() But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. ![]() Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Loveday Penhale, cosseted daughter of gentry, has her own inventions to build, even as pressure mounts to behave like a proper young lady and seek a husband instead of a design for a high-pressure steam engine. But on a daring and desperate test flight, she is blown off course … and washes up, half drowned, on the shores of Cornwall, in the heart of enemy territory. Whichever side rules the air will win.Ĭeleste Blanchard, daughter of the Emperor’s disgraced Air Minister, is running out of time to develop an air ship that can carry his armies to England and restore her mother to glory. With Russia in the north, the Karlsruhe Confederacy in the east, and a pirate kingdom in the south, Napoleon cannot break out, nor can the English Navy seem to break in. Nothing in England can stop him … except two young lady inventors. Napoleon is determined to conquer the world with his steam-powered weapons. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments A Different Pond by Thi Bui![]() ![]() A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event - a long-ago fishing trip. Publisher's synopsis: Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son - and between cultures, old and new. 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Dad tells the boy, “I used to fish by a pond like this one when I was a boy in Vietnam.” It’s not something Dad talks about often, his time in Vietnam, and we soon find out why: “He and his brother fought side by side. ![]() This particular morning they fish in relative quiet the boy and his father don’t see the Hmong man “who speaks English like my dad and likes to tell funny jokes,” or the African American man with his colorful collections of fishing lures. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Torn by Carian Cole![]() Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service that offers access to over a million e-books, audiobooks, and other content. The books will change your perspective on life and make you feel like a superhuman. It will guide you to use your mind instead of getting used by your mind while explaining to you the most incredible device on the planet, which is knowingly unknown to humans. Naomi is shocked to see her twin sister leaving the town with Naomi’s car and cash. 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