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Horse Crazy by Sarah Maslin Nir
epub |eng | 2020-08-04 | Author:Sarah Maslin Nir

SHADER It was so dark I couldn’t tell where the gorse ended and the horizon began. In the Hither Hills of Montauk, the dark was like snow: a soft, dampening ...
( Category: Riding August 7,2020 )
Pipe Dreams by Kelly Slater
epub |eng | 2020-01-24 | Author:Kelly Slater

There were specific reasons why I had been losing heats, and I set out to find them. I got a folder and kept every judge’s sheet from when I lost ...
( Category: Surfing August 6,2020 )
The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Calamity Jane
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Calamity Jane [Burke, Marthy]

I remained around Deadwood locating claims, going from camp to camp until the spring of 1877, where one morning, I saddled my horse and rode towards Crook city. I had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 6,2020 )
The Divine Miss Marble by Robert Weintraub
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Robert Weintraub [Weintraub, Robert]

Chapter Twenty-Seven Pain & Gain One of Franklin Roosevelt’s first initiatives after winning his third term as president in November 1940 was to announce to a national conference of doctors, ...
( Category: Women August 6,2020 )
The Bedsers by Alan Hill
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Alan Hill [Alan Hill]

Trevor Bailey has paid high tribute to the partnership of Alec Bedser and Arthur McIntyre. It is a pairing which Bailey believes would have revelled in one-day cricket today: ‘It ...
( Category: Biographies August 6,2020 )
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
epub |eng | | Author:David Halberstam

The controversy over Bill Walton’s foot, which was to lead to his departure from Portland, and much acrimony, some of it legal, began on January 31, 1978, in a game ...
( Category: Essays August 6,2020 )
A Flick of the Fingers by Michael Burns
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Michael Burns

Crawford was among many who were unable to watch, ‘“Hutch” and I could not stand the strain so we strolled to the Grand Hotel and awaited the news there in ...
( Category: Biographies August 6,2020 )
How to Disappear by Akiko Busch
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Akiko Busch [Busch, Akiko]

SIX AT THE IDENTITY SPA I feel I’m anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren’t self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear. —CINDY SHERMAN ...
( Category: Human Geography August 6,2020 )
Talent Is Not Enough by Danny Buderus
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Danny Buderus

I PUT myself slap bang in the middle of a media controversy in August 2007 over the massive clean-out at the Knights. I didn’t know who to turn to during ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 6,2020 )
The Way Forward by Paul Ryan
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Paul Ryan [RYAN, PAUL]

* * * The Progressive Party was founded in Madison, Wisconsin, about forty minutes from my home as a vehicle for native son Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette’s 1924 presidential ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
The Master (Wildside #5) by Melanie Jackson
mobi, epub |por | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melanie Jackson

"I'm not certain it would be safe," Zee began. Then, seeing the almost human elevation of the dragon's brow ridge, she added, "It's the goblin darts. They made us all ...
( Category: Gothic August 6,2020 )
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHANGES II From the start, the atmosphere at the 2002 US Open at Bethpage Black on Long Island in New York felt more like a Giants football game ...
( Category: Golf August 6,2020 )
Thanks, Johnners by Jonathan Agnew
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Agnew

Chapter Six Not Cricket With his conversational style and natural ability to communicate, Brian Johnston was instrumental in broadening Test Match Special’s appeal when he joined the programme full-time in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 6,2020 )
The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates by Ronald T. Waldo
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Ronald T. Waldo

8 Pirates Rooters Demand a Shift to the American League Ban Johnson and other members of the American League hierarchy believed that Pittsburgh was ripe for the picking due to ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic August 6,2020 )
My Story by Steven Gerrard
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:Steven Gerrard [Gerrard, Steven]

The honest voice in me still needed to be heard and I conceded: I keep saying to myself, ‘How and why?’ There are no answers because it was a slip. ...
( Category: Soccer August 6,2020 )

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