Great Moments in Baseball History
Title | Great Moments in Baseball History PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Christopher |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 2009-12-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0316093874 |
Capturing the suspense and play-by-play action of nine major league plays and the personalities of the athletes that made them, a fan's treasury includes Willie May's 1954 World Series catch and Jim Abbott's no-hitter.
Great Moments in Architecture
Title | Great Moments in Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | David Macaulay |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0395255007 |
Humorous architectural sketches of known monuments and objects.
Great Moments in Basketball History
Title | Great Moments in Basketball History PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Christopher |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0316082481 |
The history of basketball is chock-full of famous buzzer-beating shots, amazing game-saving plays, and thrilling maneuvers that defy gravity. All fans have their favorite memory, just as they have their favorite team and their favorite player. Now here's a book that offers a look back at more than fifteen of the sport's best moments. The Block, The Steal, The Shot. Chamberlain, Abdul-Jabbar, Bird, Jordan, and James. Each entry captures the nail-biting tension of the minutes leading up to the play, as well as information about the superstar players that made them and the teams that they played for. Packed with facts and action, this is a book young basketball fans will reach for again and again -- and because it comes from Matt Christopher, young readers know they're getting the best sports writing on the shelf.
The Family Tree
Title | The Family Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-02-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575116269 |
Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place. And, strangest of all, Dora can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora. A potential civilization-ending catastrophe is in the making. The nearer Dora gets to a murderer - and to the truth - the more seemingly desperate events begin to entwine. And the answers she seeks today to the salvation of humankind may lie in a far distant future . . . one which is suddenly much closer than anyone imagines.
Great Moments from Great Stories
Title | Great Moments from Great Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
What Makes This Book So Great
Title | What Makes This Book So Great PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Walton |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2014-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1466844094 |
As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series. Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Age of Wire and String
Title | The Age of Wire and String PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Marcus |
Publisher | Dalkey Archive Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781564781963 |
"A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews