We Own This Game

We Own This Game
Title We Own This Game PDF eBook
Author Robert Andrew Powell
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 225
Release 2007-12-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1555847234

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A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald). Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars bankroll teams; and the stakes are so high that games sometimes end in gunshots. In America’s poorest neighborhood, troubled parents dream of NFL stardom for children who long only for a week in Disney World at the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2001, journalist Robert Andrew Powell spent a year following two teams through roller-coaster seasons. The Liberty City Warriors, former national champs, will suffer the team’s first-ever losing season. The Palmetto Raiders, undefeated for two straight years, will be rewarded for good play with limo rides and steak dinners. But their flamboyant coach (the “Darth Vader of Pop Warner coaches”) will face defeat in a down-to-the-wire playoff game. We Own This Game is an inside-the-huddle look into a world of innocence and corruption, where every kickoff bares political, social, and racial implications; an unforgettable drama that shows us just what it is to win and to lose in America. “Powell elevates We Own This Game well above the average sports book to a significant sociological study.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Melanie Bluelake's Dream

Melanie Bluelake's Dream
Title Melanie Bluelake's Dream PDF eBook
Author Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion
Publisher Coteau Books
Pages 225
Release 2014-12-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1550505904

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Melanie Bluelake, a ten-year-old Cree girl, finds herself pulled between the familiar and the new when she moves from a northern reserve to a Saskatchewan city.

"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot

Title "Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot PDF eBook
Author Ruth Ann Ingraham
Publisher Purdue University Press
Pages 280
Release 2014
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1557536848

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Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest actively flying pilot. The mid-1920s to the mid-1950s were Cornish's most active years in aviation. During that period, sod runways gave way to asphalt and concrete; navigation evolved from the iron rail compass to radar; runways that once had been outlined at night with cans of oil topped off with flaming gasoline now shimmered with multicolored electric lights; instead of being crammed next to mailbags in open-air cockpits, passengers sat comfortably in streamlined, pressurized cabins. In the early phase of that era, Cornish performed aerobatics and won air races. He went on to run a full-service flying business, served as chief pilot for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, managed the city's municipal airport, helped monitor and maintain safe skies above the continental United States during World War II, and directed Indiana's first Aeronautics Commission. Dedicating his life to flight and its many ramifications, Cornish helped guide the sensible development of aviation as it grew from infancy to maturity. Through his many personal experiences, the story of flight nationally is played out.

Summers at Blue Lake

Summers at Blue Lake
Title Summers at Blue Lake PDF eBook
Author Jill Althouse-Wood
Publisher Algonquin Books
Pages 344
Release 2007-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781565124967

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Returning to the Pennsylvania lake town where she had spent her summers as a child, BJ hopes to put her life back together after her husband's abandonment, but is confronted by the secrets of her past and by a reunion with her teenage crush.

Blue Lake Lore

Blue Lake Lore
Title Blue Lake Lore PDF eBook
Author Cynthia Brooks Holmberg
Publisher
Pages 250
Release 2002
Genre Blue Lake (Oneida County, Wis.)
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Injun and Whitey to the Rescue

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue
Title Injun and Whitey to the Rescue PDF eBook
Author William Surrey Hart
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 173
Release 2022-08-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Injun and Whitey to the Rescue" by William Surrey Hart. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post
Title The Saturday Evening Post PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 2184
Release 1919
Genre Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN

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