Paper Lion

Author: George Plimpton
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316284432
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
The book that made a legend -- and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, featuring a foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, Paper Lion is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football -- or anything!"

Paper Tiger

Author: Ted A. Kluck
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description

Mad Ducks and Bears

Author: George Plimpton
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031632647X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and roguish linemen and former teammates -- Alex Karras ("Mad Ducks") and John Gordy ("Bears"), both of whom went on to achieve brilliant post-football success. A more reflective, less madcap book than Plimpton's other work, Mad Ducks and Bears is no less truthful and searching. In this fond exploration of football's values and follies, Plimpton rejoins his two teammates to discuss their careers in this brutal but captivating game. The result is an astute exploration into the fascinating lives and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.

Obsidian Mirror

Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101603135
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and save his life. But only one can succeed. The mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back. With superb world-building that includes the real world, the faery world, and a dystopic future, this hauntingly astonishing adventure is the start of a new trilogy from the master of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, Catherine Fisher. Fans of Orson Scott Card, Dr. Who, Shakespeare, and Blade Runner won't be disappointed.

BLACK PAPER SKETCH BOOK Only for Artists

Author: Lyes BACHA
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
✓ Makes a Great Gift for Artists & Designers! ★ Black Paper Sketchbook ★ Derwent Black Paper Sketch Book - 110 Pages 8.5" x 11" Portrait. Perfect for creating distinctive artwork with colored pencils, Acrylic markers, opaque pens, inks, gouache, and pastels. This BLACK PAPER BOOK really has it all, ensuring that your artistic journey is one of enhanced techniques and inspiring results you will be excited to share. Creating beautiful art should be easy and fun.

Birds, Bees and Educated Fleas - An A-Z Guide to the Sexual Predilections of Animals from Aardvarks to Zebras

Author: Bruce Montague
Publisher: Metro Publishing
ISBN: 178418229X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
'Birds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it . . . 'So wrote Cole Porter in his famous song from 1928, 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love'. To which Bruce Montague, author of this enlightening and amusing collection, silently replied, 'Yes, but how do they do it?'Birds, Bees and Educated Fleas is an amusing A-Z of the courtship and mating habits of animals - including Homo sapiens sapiens. From well-hung South American drakes to shy camels arranging secret love trysts, female chameleons whose skin darkens when they're no longer in the mood to giraffes who swing their hips and swish their tails when they're feeling frisky, oysters that can change sex pretty much at will to stud rhinoceroses that can copulate three or four times a day for a week, this is a wide-ranging, light-hearted but well-researched look at the world of animal love and lust. Arranged alphabetically by species, here is the perfect handbook for any peeping Tom or Tomasina who wants to know what goes on in the animal world behind the - metaphorical - bedroom curtains.

The Door in the Moon

Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444912666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
TIME TRAVEL MEETS SCARY FAIRIES ... with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream thrown in, from 'the leading lady of British fantasy' (The Times) It's Midsummer Night, it's hot, and everyone in Wintercombe Abbey is dreaming strange and disturbing dreams. But what wakes Jake is the cold muzzle of a pistol pressed to his forehead. Who is the mysterious thief waiting for him beyond the Obsidian Mirror? And where will he find his father in the lost ages of the past? In the third volume of the Chronoptika Quartet Jake and Sarah are swept into a nightmare world of revolution and murder, while Oberon Venn has to face the choice between staying mortal or losing his soul in the tangled green wildwood of the Shee. With a masked ball, priceless emeralds, an enchanted monk and a desperate struggle at the very foot of the guillotine, Catherine Fisher continues her breathtaking series of sorcery and amazing worlds with this adventure of magic and the dangerous search for those who Time has snatched away.

Sketch Book

Author: BeeBee c
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720420934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
This Sketch Pad notebook has 110 blank pages. Good Quality white paper. Size 8.5 x11 (extra large). You can use this book to sketch, draw and paint. The choice is all yours. Enjoy! Good choice for personal used and great gift for all. Get your journal today! pages Journal Book Journal Book For Kids Journal Book For Women Journal Books Notebook Journal Boys Journal For Teens Journal For Writing Journal Lined Pages Journal Lined Paper Journal Men.

Math Graph Paper Notebook

Author: Notes By Hand
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781731206800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
- Features an adorable cover with a cute animal- 100 lined pages for math homework or notes- Perfect for kids or teens to bring to school or use at home

Daytime Visions

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701957
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Collage illustrations introduce the letters of the alphabet.