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21) Dodgers: a novel
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East, a 15-year old gang member from South L.A., sets out for Wisconsin with three other teenage boys at the behest of his uncle, on a mission to kill a key witness in an upcoming trial. Along for the ride is East's brother, Ty, an emotionless killer at 13. The revelations experienced by the young men as they drive cross-country through America's heartland are life changing, and in some cases, life ending.
22) Nimble Dodger
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DIA operatives Dan Radivich and Naomi Markof are recruited for yet another dangerous mission. This time, they work to infiltrate an Iranian-backed terrorist cell operating in Frankfurt, Germany that is planning a major attack against the West. Can they stop the threat? Can they trust anyone? Just who or what is the Nimble Dodger?
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He was told that the color of his skin would keep him out of the big leagues, but Joe Black worked his way up through the Negro Leagues and the Cuban Winter League. He burst into the Majors in 1952 when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the face of segregation, verbal harassment, and even death threats, Joe Black rose to the top of his game; he earned National League Rookie of the Year and became the first African American pitcher to win a World...
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Although this is generally a storybook for children, JIMMY AND THE DODGER, like ALL its counterparts in the JIMMY DIARIES SERIES also go out to do a number of things. First, they have been made humorous enough to pull kids away from the TV. Second, they attempt to teach morals to children by examining a number of issues affecting children from parenting to bullying and the like to teach kids one or two home truths about growing up. Third, they are...
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I started writing as a kind of therapy. Now it is a career choice. My Fiance and I were laughing the other day about being famous when you are dead. I was quite cheeky and in high spirits. I sent a prayer to god. "When I get inside the pearly gates. Can I borrow a typewriter please?"
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Australian bush poetry at its best... entertaining and thought-provoking.
Comical antics and diabolical yarns as told through the eyes of Dinkumous J. Dodger, a true-blue Aussie larrikin, are outrageous, provocative and hilariously funny.
Political correctness is swept aside and daring opinions are openly expressed to challenge governments, politicians, and international conspirators. Probing questions are posed about political motivations, foreign...
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In this intriguing, techno-spy thriller is is March 1999 and a NATO air armada is ready to strike strategic targets in Belgrade.But the end of the Cold War has taken its toll on human intelligence in the Balkans. The CIA is unable to come up with the assets to support a war effort, so it seeks assistance from the Defense Intelligence Agency.A U.S. Undersecretary of Defense, along with a former, aging OSS operative, select a team of covert operators...
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This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine,...
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Oliver Twist has been rescued and is safe and well. Bill Sikes is dead. Fagin is in prison under sentence of death by hanging. His gang of pickpockets and thieves has been disbanded.
One of the gang, Jack Dawkins, is in Newgate prison awaiting transportation to Australia. His crime? Theft of a silver snuffbox. What happens to him is the story of a young man trying his best to survive in the harshest of worlds. How does he fare?
It is not for...
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Nine-year-old Teddy Caldwell had no idea the summer was going to be so pivotal for so many folks, or that his very bad day was going to be the beginning of a grand adventure. When a solid line drive connects with his neighbor's window, Teddy is sure he'll end up in jail and his parents will never let him stay home alone again! What starts as a disaster becomes a turning point in Teddy's life. He and his strange neighbor, Uncle Drew Weems, begin a...
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Being an assassin is no stroll in the park. Which is why Sickly Dodger, recent attendee of the Dalton College for Men in Black, has decided to hang up his cloak and dagger and walk toy poodles for rich old ladies.
Unfortunately, for him, assassination is a job for life. When a mysterious letter arrives on his breakfast table, he must decide whether to buy some new body armor and solve a murder case the City Watch have given up on, or put his tail...
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If you love baseball, then you will love reading about the history of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Inside you will read about every season in Dodgers history. Since 1883 when they started in Brooklyn to the current day since they moved to Los Angeles in 1958, the Dodgers have a rich history and part of American lore for baseball fans across America. Relive some of the great seasons, games, and moments in Dodger history. Updated through the 2022 season....
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By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.
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Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.
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Powdermaker's study of the Hollywood film industry was an early example of anthropological research on contemporary American society. Her observations of the tensions between business and art in the film world led her to suggest that the social relations of the filmmaking process significantly affect the content and meaning of movies. Chapters include: Chapter 1-Habitat and People, Mythical and Real Chapter 2-Mass Production of Dream Chapter 3-Taboos...
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Dennis the Menace volume 31
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The mayor agrees to give the team new uniforms if Mr. Quigley can get Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers to play an exhibition game in town.
39) The best team money can buy: the Los Angeles Dodgers' wild struggle to build a baseball powerhouse
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Simon & Schuster
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"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--
40) Branch Rickey
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The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie “42”
The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio...
The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio...
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