Wait Till Next Year

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781313164
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Till Next Year written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When historian Goodwin was six years old, her father taught her how to keep score for ‘their’ team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, which forged a lifelong bond between father and daughter. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is a coming-of-age memoir in the era of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, when baseball truly was a national pastime that brought whole communities together. With her radio by her side and scorecard to hand, she recreates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. Weaved between the games and the seasons, Goodwin tells the story of a changing America – from the lunacy of the Cold War alarm drills to McCarthy and the Rosenburg trials – as well as her own loss of innocence encapsulated by her mother’s death, her father’s lapse into despair and the Dodger’s departure from Brooklyn in 1957 following the destruction of the iconic Ebbets Field stadium. Poignant, unsentimental and deeply eloquent, Wait Till Next Year is a profound memoir about childhood and loss, baseball, and the power of sport to bind families and heal loss and reveal as metaphor the evolving heart of a nation.

Author : William Goldman
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553282269
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Till Next Year written by William Goldman and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big names and big games are all in this story of the 1987 New York Baseball Season. Two pros pool their talents for an inside ticket to a season's worth of legends and louses. "Read the book Steinbrenner and a host of other sports notables will want to burn. It's a beauty".--Elmore Leonard.

Author : Carl Thomas Rowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Till Next Year written by Carl Thomas Rowan and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547346034
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Till Helen Comes written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.

Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807001139
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Can't Wait written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”

Author : Erma Bombeck
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0307778231
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! written by Erma Bombeck and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Remember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bil Keane, these really funny, too-true observations on family and kids and why it shouldn't work but does, is a wonderful antitdote to the daily problems and crises that every family faces. With Erma Bombeck in your corner, laughter is the best coach you can have....

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476750572
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Time written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a social history of the United States in 1940, along with a moment-by-moment account of Roosevelt's leadership and the private lives of the president and First Lady, whose remarkable partnership transformed America. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

Author : M. L. Buchman
Publisher : Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1637210396
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Until Dark written by M. L. Buchman and published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quiet mechanical genius—with an untenable past and a doubtful future. “Suzanne Brockmann fans will love this!” – Booklist Connie Davis despises helicopters and joins the Army’s Night Stalkers specifically to work on these ultimate war machines. Why? Because they are the devil that killed her father and she must solve how, before they kill her. Always the lead mechanic, until now, Big John Wallace remains baffled by his fellow mechanic’s dark side—he embraces life at every turn. But when a weapon of mass destruction slips into the hands of a bloody dictator, they must join their passions for anyone to survive. “High-energy military romance at its best.” – RT Book Reviews “OMG! Who knew a guy could write such a great romance!” – Kirkus Reviews [Can be read stand-alone or in series. A complete happy-ever-after with no cliffhangers. Originally published in 2013. Re-edited 2021 for improved reader experience but still the same great story.] Buy now to join the military romance adventure.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679742203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Wait for Last Year written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death. Now Wait for Last fear bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is.

Author : Linda Lee Maifair
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780307004567
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Can't Wait Until Christmas written by Linda Lee Maifair and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Bird finds it difficult waiting till Christmas despite his Grandmother's helpful advice.