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Shadow of the Sun Penguin
Literatura faktu
'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft. The Beginning: Collision, Ghana 1958 More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in rain. The airplane drenched in rain. A cold, wind, darkness. But here, from the morning
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GREAT DIVAS CD X 10 PIAF FITZGERALD GARLAND FOLIA
Kultura i rozrywka > Muzyka > Płyty kompaktowe > Jazz, Swing
1 CD 1-1, Ella Fitzgerald
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Doctor Bianco and Other Stories Terra Librorum Terra Librorum
Opowiadania
A postman who develops close friendships with everyone on his postal route, an old man who stops buying the coal he needs to heat his flat so he can afford Christmas presents for his granddaughters, a senile old Holocaust survivor who's suspicious of almost all her neighbours, two young sisters who are fed up with their baby brother, and an old woman squabbling with her tailor while a suit is being sewn for her to wear at her own funeral these are just some of the intriguing characters we meet in Doctor Bianco and Other Stories. Written in terse, spare, unaffected prose devoid of sentimentality, the nineteen stories in this collection gradually reveal the portraits of various people inhabiting one particular apartment building in an unspecified town. The gritty, harsh realities faced by Bielawski's protagonists are at times darkly funny and other times gut-wrenchingly sad. Bielawski sets up a magnifying glass on a small corner of Polish life and allows us to glimpse fascinating, surreal scenes from a tangle of human lives whose heartbreak, despair and various anxieties might feel surprisingly familiar to readers from any walk of life. Brilliant, insightful snapshots of everyday reality. Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Bielawski's characters circulate in a greyish humdrum world, but their hopes and concerns bleed out of the page and become ours in these strange and endearing fictions. Jonathan Gibbs, author of The Large Door
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BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX VONNEGUT KURT
Kultura i rozrywka > Książki i Komiksy > Książki naukowe i popularnonaukowe
BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX VONNEGUT KURTProduct DescriptionNew York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and join the likes of Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut.Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut
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Reggae Fever Marketing Design
Nagrania muzyczneMuzyka rozrywkowa
CD 11: Put it on2: Pressure drop3: Israelite movement4: Crabs in my pants5: Ba ba boom6: Holy mount zion7: Hurry on8: Perfidia9: It's magic10: Sweet jamaica11: Mother nature12: This old heart of mine13: Oh no not my babyCD 21: Israelites2: Sweet & dandy3: Natural mystic4: Get up stand up5: Tu-sheng peng6: The girl is mine7: Cocaine in my brain8: My time9: Sound clash10: Let off11: Hit you like a bomb12: Some guys have all the luck13: BarbwireCD 31: Duppy conqueror2: Pisture on the wall3: Don de lion4: I caught you5: Rain from the skies6: To the dump7: It's no use8: Quando mi amor9: Simmer down10: Moonlight lover11: Dub & come12: It mek13: Monkey manCD 41: 54-46 was my number2: Water melon3: You can get it if yo4: Peeping tom5: Lucky seven6: Ram dance7: Boom shaka lacka8: Baba boom9: Get ready skank steady10: Marijuana in my brain11: John james12: Memories by the score13: Dollar of soulCD 51: Lively up yourself2: It's you3: The wings of a dove4: Come on now5: Oil in my lamp6: If you act this way7: Crystal blue persuasion8: Train to glory9: Sammy dead10: Rich man poor man11: Take me back to africa12: Soul ska13: Nice timeCD 61: Jamaica ska2: Take it easy3: Donna4: Never you change5: War6: Train to skaville7: Get up stand up8: Girl i've got a date9: 007 shanty town10: Shame & skandal in the family11: Island in the sun12: Fever13: Engine 54CD 71: Corner stone2: Riding high3: 400 years4: Soul rebel5: More axe6: No water7: Turn me loose8: Reaction9: Brand new second hand10: Keep on moving11: Soul shakedown party12: Cheer up13: Stop the train14: Caution15: Soon come16: Wisdom17: Thank you lordCD 81: Keep on skanking2: All in one3: Man to man (who the cap fit)4: Mr. chatterbox5: One in all6: Dreamland7: Run for cover8: I like it like this9: Picture on the wall10: Shocks of mighty11: Shocks of mighty (part 2)12: My cup13: Downpresser14: Long, long winter15: Concrete jungle16: Concrete jungle (rhythm)CD 91: Galore2: Where i once lived3: Story book children4: Steal a little love5: Step across my corner6: Ghetto celebrity7: Rock on8: What will your mama say9: Nobody knows10: No have no money11: My day will come12: We're gonna war morning noon & n13: Meet me at the same spot14: Chips are down15: Can never change my love16: Look & you'll see17: All the stones are closed18: We've got a good thing goingCD 101: Let me be the one2: Just want to get red3: It wasn't easy4: It's a shame5: I've been accused6: I'll be waiting at your gate7: I'll meet you at the station8: First degree murder9: You're divine10: You make me feel11: Ungrateful woman12: Sudden destruction13: Put a smile on your face14: No luck15: Come make love to me16: Just having fun17: I don't want to say bye bye18: I can't take it
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PURE MUSICALS CD WYDAWCA
Muzyka > Płyty kompaktowe
PURE MUSICALS CD Disc: 1 1. Cabaret - Various Performers 2. Tomorrow - Sandy Faison, Edie Cowan, Andrea McArdle, Dorothy Loudon, Penny Worth, Barbara Erwin, Raymond Thorne, Reid Shelton, Robert Fitch, Donald Craig, Chorus, Orchestra, Laurie Beechman 3. Johanna (From "Sweeney Todd") - Victor Garber 4. If I Were a Rich Man (From "Fiddler on the Roof") - Milton Greene & Zero Mostel 5. We're in the Money (From "42nd Street") - Wanda Richert, Lee Roy Reams, James Congdon, Joseph Bova, Jeri Kansas, Tammy Grimes, Danny Carroll, Ginny King, Karen Prunczik, Carole Cook, Jerry Orbach 6. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - Carol Channing 7. Getting to Know You (From "The King and I") - Chorus, Orchestra 8. Somewhere (Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon) - Robert Banas, Pennt Stanton, Andre Tayir, Nick Covacevich, Scooter Teague, Tony Mordente, Jay Norman, Ned Glass, Jose de Vega, Gina Trikonis, Joanne Miya, John Astin, Bert Michaels, Harvey Hohnecker, Betty Wand, Marni Nixon, Simon Oakland, Yvonne Othon, Gus Trikonis, Eddie Verso, Russ Tamblyn, Natalie Wood, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, David Bean, Eliot Feld, Tony Abbott, Robert Thompson, Susan Oakes, David Winters, Chorus, William Bramley, Orchestra, Larry Roquemore, Rudy del Campo, Carole D'Andrea, Jim Bryant, Suzie Kaye, George Chakiris, Jaime Rogers, Tucker Smith 9. Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee (From "Grease") - John McDaniel & Rosie O'Donnell 10. Sirens (Marla Schaffel, James Barbour, Marguerite MacIntyre) - Marguerite MacIntyre, James Barbour, Orchestra, Marla Schaffel 11. There's a Fine, Fine Line - Stephanie D'Abruzzo 12. Good Morning Baltimore - Ensemble, Marissa Jaret Winokur 13. When You Got It, Flaunt It - Mel Brooks, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Orchestra 14. Roxie - Gwen Verdon, Boys Disc: 2 1. Big Spender - Helen Gallagher & Thelma Oliver 2. I Could Have Danced All Night - Marni Nixon, Chorus, Orchestra, Mona Washbourne 3. Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Orchestra 4. How Can I Win? - Bernadette Peters 5. Send In the Clowns (Glynis Johns) - Hermione Gingold, Company, Beth Fowler, Patricia Elliott, Benjamin Rayson, Victoria Mallory, Gene Varrone, Laurence Guittard, Len Cariou, Teri Ralston, Mark Lambert, Orchestra, Glynis Johns, Barbara Lang, Original Broadway Cast Recording, D. Jamin-Bartlett, Judy Kahan 6. The Impossible Dream (The Quest) - Brian Stokes Mitchell 7. Tea for Two (Rathburn, Watson) - Loni Zoe Ackerman, K.C. Townsend, Pat Lysinger, Roger Rathburn, Bobby Van, Patsy Kelly, Ruby Keeler, Helen Gallagher, Susan Watson, Jack Gilford 8. Honey Bun (Mary Martin) - Jim Hawthorne, Ezio Pinza, Roslyn Lowe, Biff McGuire, Henry Michel, Myron McCormick, Fred Sadoff, Bill Dwyer, Jacqueline Fisher, Archie Savage, Sandra Deel, Juanita Hall, Alan Gilbert, Pat Northrop, Harvey Stephens, Alex Nicol, Betta St. John, Jack Fontan, Noel DeLeon, Mary Ann Reeve, Mardi Bayne, Bernice Saunders, Mary Martin, Evelyn Colby, Helena Schurgot, Barbara Luna, Eugene Smith, Gloria Meli, Dickinson Eastham, William Tabbert, Don Fellows, Beau Tilden, Chin Yu, Michael DeLeon, Orchestra, Musa Williams, Richard Loo, Martin Wolfson, Thomas Gleason, William Ferguson, Richard Silvera, Henry Slate 9. Put on a Happy Face (Dick Van Dyke) - Allen Knowles, Judy Keirn, Jim Sisco, Dick Crowley, Tony Mordente, Kay Medford, Don Farnworth, Jessica Albright, Pat McEnnis, Lynn Bowin, Ed Becker, Michael J. Pollard, John Coyle, Tracy Everitt, Marijane Maricle, Lada Edmund, Kasimir Kokich, Johnny Borden, Oran Osburn, Jerry Dodge, Sharon Lerit, Chita Rivera, Norma Richardson, Barbara Doherty, Bob Spencer, George Blackwell, Will Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Lee Howard, Penny Ann Green, Amelia Haas, Michael Vita, Karin Wolfe, Paul Lynde, Dean Stolber, Vicki Belmonte, Louise Quick, Jeannine Masterson, Dick Van Dyke, Susan Watson, Dick Gautier, Bud Fleming, Charles Nelson Reilly, Dori Davis, Ed Kresley, Marissa Mason, Gary Howe 10. If He Walked into My Life (Lansbury) - Charles Braswell, Diana Walker, Jerry Lanning, Frankie Michaels, George Coe, Willard Waterman, Margaret Hall, Angela Lansbury, Sab Shimono, Charlotte Jones, Beatrice Arthur, Jane Connell, Johanna Douglas, Diane Coupe, John C. Becher, Randy Kirby 11. Act II: If Ever I Would Leave You - Richard Kuch, Richard Burton, John Starkweather, James Gannon, Leland Mayforth, Robert Coote, Robert Goulet, John Cullum, Me'l Dowd, Leesa Troy, Christina Gillespie, Robin Stewart, Jack Dabdoub, Julie Andrews, Michael Kermoyan, Male Ensemble, Bruce Yarnell, Virginia Allen, Roddy McDowall, Peter De Vise, Michael Clarke-Laurence, Mary Sue Berry, Original Broadway Cast Recording 12. And I Was Beautiful - Charles Welch, Michael Davis, Charles Karel, Pamela Hall, Milo O'Shea, William Larsen, Clifford Fearl, Kurt Peterson, Joe Masiell, Gene Varrone, Carmen Mathews, Zale Kessler, Ted Agress, Angela Lansbury, Miguel Godreau, Jane Connell, Ty McConnell, John Taliaferro 13. Old Man River (from "Showboat") - Franz Allers & William Warfield 14. Fifty Percent (Dorothy Loudon) - Svetlana McLee Grody, David Evans, Patricia Drylie, Bernie Knee, Dorothy Danner, Gene Kelton, Carol Flemming, Marilyn Cooper, Dorothy Loudon, Rudy Tronto, Barbara Erwin, Roberta Haze, Peter Alzado, Victor Griffin, Liz Sheridan, Danny Carroll, Adriana Keathley, John Hallow, Lynn Roberts, Peter Gladke, Michael Vita, Navis Ray, Orchestra, Janet Stewart White, Terry Violino, Howard Parker, Jayne Turner, Mary Ann Niles, Sally-Jane Heit, Vincent Gardenia 15. Getting Married Today - Charles Braswell, Harold Hastings, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, Donna McKechnie, George Coe, Marilyn Saunders, Charles Kimbrough, John Cunningham, Cathy Corkill, Dona D. Vaughn, Susan Browning, Teri Ralston, Dean Jones, Steve Elmore, Pamela Myers, Beth Howland, Merle Louise, Carol Gelfand 16. Day by Day - (From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Godspell") - Company, Robin Lamont 17. Overture / Ballad of Mack The Knife - Various Performers Disc: 3 1. There's No Business Like Show Business - Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, M-G-M Studio Orchestra 2. Singin' in the Rain - M-G-M Studio Orchestra, Gene Kelly 3. Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - Howard Keel 4. 'Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry - Vocal Quartet, Doris Day with Paul Weston & His Orchestra, Orchestra 5. Standing on the Corner (From "Most Happy Fella") - Various Performers 6. I Got Rhythm (Mary Martin) - Eddie Chappell, Mary Martin, Louise Carlyle 7. I Can Cook, Too - Adolph Green, Cris Alexander, Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Orchestra, John Reardon, Leonard Bernstein 8. Put on Your Sunday Clothes (From "Hello, Dolly!") - Company 9. Everything's Coming up Roses - Orchestra 10. Glitter and Be Gay - Lewis J. Stadlen, Renee Semes, Mark Baker, Maureen Brennan, Jim Corti, June Gable, Deborah St. Darr, Chorus, Orchestra, David Horwitz, Sam Freed, Robert Henderson 11. Ohio - Jack Fletcher, Cris Alexander, Isabella Hoopes, Jordan Bentley, Sydney Chaplin, Joseph Buloff, Jacquelyn McKeever, Michele Burke, Ted Beniades, Sam Kirkham, Rosalind Russell 12. Stranger in paradise - Richard Kiley, Orchestra, Doretta Morrow 13. Ten Minutes Ago (Jon Cypher, Julie Andrews) - Ensemble, Julie Andrews 14. Love, Look Away - Pat Suzuki 15. Almost Like Being in Love (from "Brigadoon") - Marion Bell & David Brooks 16. Once-a-year day! (John Raitt, Janis Paige, Company) - Jack Waldron, John Raitt, Eddie Foy, Jr., Jack Drummond, Janis Paige, Rae Allen, Ralph Chambers, Buzz Miller, Ralph Dunn, Stanley Prager, Carol Haney, Peter Gennaro, William David, Ralph Farnsworth, Reta Shaw, Jim Hutchison, Thelma Pelish, Marion Colby 17. Wunderbar - Patricia Morison, Alfred Drake 18. Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland, M-G-M Studio Orchestra Disc: 4 1. One - Company, Don Pippin, Orchestra 2. Guido's Song - Company 3. I Am What I Am (From La Cage Aux Folles) - George Hearn & Donald Pippin 4. Not for the Life of Me - Sutton Foster 5. Half a Sixpence - Polly James & Tommy Steele 6. Someone to Watch over Me (Barbara Ruick) - Barbara Ruick, Chorus & Orchestra, Bernard Leighton, Allen Case, Roger White, Jack Cassidy 7. You'll Never Walk Alone - Franz Allers & Katherine Hilgenberg 8. Losing My Mind (From "Follies") - New York Philharmonic Orchestra 9. How Could I Ever Know - Various 10. In My Own Lifetime (Hal Linden) - Hal Linden, Jon Peck, Robby Benson, Leo Leyden, Michael Maitland, Kenneth Bridges, Mitchell Spera, Timothy Jerome, David Garfield, Chris Sarandon, Jill Clayburgh, Leila Martin, Allan Gruet, Thomas Trelfa, Original Broadway Cast Recording, Keene Curtis, Paul Hecht, Lee Franklin 11. Not a Day Goes By (From "Merrily We Roll Along") - Paul Gemignani & Jim Walton 12. We'll Meet Tomorrow (From "Titanic") - Brian d'Arcy James, Company, Don Stephenson, Martin Moran 13. You're Nothing Without Me - James Naughton, Gregg Edelman 14. Louder Than Words - Raul Esparza 15. Damn It, Janet - Jarrod Emick
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The Tender Bar, English edition Hyperion
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
The New York Times bestseller and one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club , a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar. §J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar--including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler--took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak--and eventually from reality. § In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, THE TENDER BAR is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.
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Saga of Tom Horn University of Nebraska Press
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
"Today few stories are more alive, colorful and controversial than are those of Tom Horn of Wyoming...The state of Wyoming took his life--yet mystery shrouds the entire affair. An atmosphere of taboo often greets the prober...[The Horn trial] involved the life and death of a ...code of the range."--Dean F. Krakel An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead shot, and one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in the history of the Old West. Some radicals in the powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association turned to the man who once boasted, "Killing men in my specialty; I look to it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market." Cattle thieves were duly warned, blood was shed, and Tom Horn was implicated but never charged. Then on the morning of July 18, 1901, Willie Nickell, the fourteen-year-old son of a Wyoming sheepman, was shot. Horn's career was ended.The arrest, trial, and execution of Tom Horn ignite fireworks in Dean Krakel's book, and a colorful cast of cattle barons and lawmen adds to the sizzle. A jury convicted Tom Horn, but his hanging did not settle the specter of guilt. Recognized as the leading authority on the Tom Horn trial, Dean F. Krakel is vice president and general manager of the High Plains Heritage Center, Spearfish, South Dakota.
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Tender Bar Hodder & Stoughton
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
**Now a major film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck**'Highly entertaining . . .constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York TimesIn the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, The Tender Bar is by turns riveting, moving, and achingly funny. An evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, it's also a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys. JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a DJ who disappeared before JR spoke his first words.As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disappeared, JR found new voices in the bar on the corner. A grand old New York saloon, the bar was a sanctuary for all sorts of men -- cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums.The flamboyant characters along the bar taught JR, tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. Torn between his love for his mother and the lure of the bar, JR forged a boyhood somewhere in the middle. When the time came to leave home, the bar became a way station -- from JR's entrance to Yale, where he floundered as a scholarship student; to Lord & Taylor, where he spent a humbling stint peddling housewares; to the New York Times, where he became a faulty cog in a vast machine.The bar offered shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality, until at last the bar turned JR away.
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Lessons Vintage Publishing
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When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life.From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - music, literature, friends, sex, politics and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past?Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime.
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All American Boys Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature.In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens-one black, one white-grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement?There were witnesses: Quinn Collins-a varsity basketball player and Rashad's classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan-and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team-half of whom are Rashad's best friends-start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before.Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today's headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
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Shoe Dog Scribner Book Company
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Young, searching, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year, 1963. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In this age of start-ups, Knight's Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is more than a logo. A symbol of grace and greatness, it's one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world.But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. Now, in a memoir that's surprising, humble, unfiltered, funny, and beautifully crafted, he tells his story at last. It all begins with a classic crossroads moment. Twenty-four years old, backpacking through Asia and Europe and Africa, wrestling with life's Great Questions, Knight decides the unconventional path is the only one for him. Rather than work for a big corporation, he will create something all his own, something new, dynamic, different. Knight details the many terrifying risks he encountered along the way, the crushing setbacks, the ruthless competitors, the countless doubters and haters and hostile bankers-as well as his many thrilling triumphs and narrow escapes. Above all, he recalls the foundational relationships that formed the heart and soul of Nike, with his former track coach, the irascible and charismatic Bill Bowerman, and with his first employees, a ragtag group of misfits and savants who quickly became a band of swoosh-crazed brothers.Together, harnessing the electrifying power of a bold vision and a shared belief in the redemptive, transformative power of sports, they created a brand, and a culture, that changed everything.
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Submarine Penguin Books
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'Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out' Independent on SundayMeet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, ('a hippy-looking twonk'), he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out . . .'A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags' Time Out'Perfectly pitched . . . transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales . . . Dunthorne can make you laugh like did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon' Observer'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent' The Times
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Teddy Atlas - Atlas HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
In "Atlas", Teddy recounts his incredible life, from juvenile delinquent, to his induction into the legendary Cus D'Amato's Boxing Camp and his first major challenge - training 14-year-old Mike Tyson. An amateur boxer trained by D'Amato, Atlas captured the Adirondack Golden Gloves title at 139 pounds in 1976. Forced out of competition because of injury, Teddy turned his talents to training fighters, including Mike Tyson, Barry McGuigan, Tracy Patterson, Joey Gamache, Simon Brown and Donny Lalonde. In 1994, in a memorable performance as trainer and corner man, Teddy inspired Michael Moorer to beat Evander Holyfield for the world heavyweight championship. Teddy has also employed his talents outside of the ring appearing in 2 films and choreographing fight scenes for the television series "Against the Law". "Atlas" is the remarkable story of all of these achievements, told in Atlas' completely inimitable voice. As you'd expect from a boxing memoir, it pulls no punches.
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Tender Bar Hodder & Stoughton
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disappeared, JR found new voices in the bar on the corner. A grand old New York saloon, the bar was a sanctuary for all sorts of men -- cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The flamboyant characters along the bar taught JR, tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. Torn between his love for his mother and the lure of the bar, JR forged a boyhood somewhere in the middle. When the time came to leave home, the bar became a way station -- from JR's entrance to Yale, where he floundered as a scholarship student; to Lord & Taylor, where he spent a humbling stint peddling housewares; to the New York Times, where he became a faulty cog in a vast machine. The bar offered shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality, until at last the bar turned JR away.In the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, THE TENDER BAR is by turns riveting, moving, and achingly funny. An evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, it's also a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.
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