George Plimpton
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
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,...
Author
Series
Newbery Honor Book volume 1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Every one of his Antarctic expeditions ended in failure. His life "off the ice" was a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes. And yet the name of Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) remains a byword for charismatic leadership, raw courage, and endurance in the face of overwhelming odds. Perhaps the greatest hero of the heroic age of polar exploration, Shackleton's crowning achievement was to bring all 28 of his men home safely after their ship was...
7) Paper Lion
Author
Pub. Date
[1966]
Description
A writer-by-trade plays the part of a rookie quarterback with the Detroit Lions in order to write this entertaining inside view of pro football.
8) Infamous
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Anticipating its 1904 centenary, the New York-based Club reprints 51 tales from three previous anthologies, 1931-41; a fourth that was becalmed by World War II; and The Explorers Journal, which began publication in 1921. And every word was gospel truth. It is not indexed. Perhaps Volume Two is being prepared for the bicentenary. Tales of exploration from the world's most exclusive club. For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting...
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"In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a "horseless buggy" - but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here - in Jackson's own words and photographs - is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattled-bones...
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Historical photographs and text help chronicle the 1903 cross-country drive of Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson and his friend Sewall Crocker--the first automobile trip ever made across the U.S.--in a vehicle without a roof, windshield, or speeds higher than thirty miles an hour, without the aid of paved roads or streetlights.
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Sandra Bullock and Jonathan Penner star in this hilarious, sexy comedy. New York advertising executive, Morris Codman(Jonathan Penner), seems to have it all - lots of talent and a beautiful girlfriend, Debbie (Sandra Bullock). When he loses his job he decides to use his advertising expertise to create, package and market a shady product that will make him millions. Debbie tries to convince him that money isn't everything and that she loves him just...
14) The Civil War
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Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
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