We Own This Game

by Robert Andrew Powell
We Own This Game
Author: Robert Andrew Powell
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1555847234
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A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald). Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars bankroll teams; and the stakes are so high that games sometimes end in gunshots. In America’s poorest neighborhood, troubled parents dream of NFL stardom for children who long only for a week in Disney World at the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2001, journalist Robert Andrew Powell spent a year following two teams through roller-coaster seasons. The Liberty City Warriors, former national champs, will suffer the team’s first-ever losing season. The Palmetto Raiders, undefeated for two straight years, will be rewarded for good play with limo rides and steak dinners. But their flamboyant coach (the “Darth Vader of Pop Warner coaches”) will face defeat in a down-to-the-wire playoff game. We Own This Game is an inside-the-huddle look into a world of innocence and corruption, where every kickoff bares political, social, and racial implications; an unforgettable drama that shows us just what it is to win and to lose in America. “Powell elevates We Own This Game well above the average sports book to a significant sociological study.” —San Francisco Chronicle

They Own the Night

by Michael S. Pauley
They Own the Night
Author: Michael S. Pauley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481768050
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The Aliens initial attacks were precise and devastating. Traversing the planet under the cover of darkness, they eliminated most of the Worlds leaders and crippled their militaries all in one night. The horrific assaults continued unchecked as the thousands of alien craft circled the globe like locust, killing anyone in their path. For those who saw their methods and survived, it was clear that the invaders wanted to do one thing, remove all human life from the planet. Our only recourse was to rely on the Continuity of Government plan, and the people with the background to try and maintain a working government. The surviving leadership would do all they could to try and put things back together and to preserve what they could, but would preservation be enough? After a harrowing escape from the initial Alien attack, with his wife and only a part of his family, it was a different world for Lieutenant General, Michael Patrick, United States Army Reserve. No longer would he be just a small town lawyer, or a tired washed-up former special operator and relic of the Cold War. Now it would fall to General Patrick to piece together the military forces that would stop the onslaught. Together with other old soldiers and the survivors of the various armies and navies from around the globe, they would pull themselves together as a fighting force. Their one thought, their one mission, was not just to preserve life, but to take back the night.

We Own the Sky

by Sara Crawford
We Own the Sky
Author: Sara Crawford
Publisher: Sara Crawford
Total Pages: 326
Release:
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:
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What could you create if you fell in love with a Muse? 16-year-old musician, Sylvia Baker, has always been different. She's the only one who can see the "flickering people." When she sees a gorgeous flickering man named Vincent, she learns that they are Muses. With his help, she finds herself creating exquisite songs that she loves almost as much as songs by her favorite bands--Radiohead, M83, and The Black Keys--and she is falling in love in a way she never knew was possible. While trying to maintain her newfound friendships and her band, she falls deeper into the world of the Muses. When the original Greek Muses wake to find a world in which the internet has given everyone the tools to be an artist, a battle between traditional and new methods of creation ensues. As Sylvia discovers how she is connected to the world of the Muses, she learns that this war may put her music, her love, her very life at stake. This young adult urban fantasy romance was a semi-finalist in the YA Books Central 2017 Awards in the "All the Feels" category

After the Olive Harvest

by Birte Leseberg
After the Olive Harvest
Author: Birte Leseberg
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2018-02-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178901039X
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“After the Olive Harvest” is a powerful read, charged with fiery imagery and symbolism that build towards a dramatic and unexpected climax – one likely to move even the toughest of souls. Take it with you on holiday, or even your daily commute, and allow it to transport you to another world.

Fear And Loathing In America

by Hunter S. Thompson
Fear And Loathing In America
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2000-12-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 068487315X
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"Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend."--Jacket.

Post-War Dreams

by Brenda Whiteside
Post-War Dreams
Author: Brenda Whiteside
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509203532
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World War II has ended and the soldiers are coming home. After years of following her crop worker father, motherless Claire Flanagan is also coming home. If she can keep her father in one place long enough, she plans to follow her dreams to Hollywood. Until she meets Benjamin. Benjamin Russell has been working since he was fifteen to support his mother and siblings. What he most wants in life is to own a construction business and take care of the family his father abandoned. The last thing he expects is to fall for his younger sister's best friend. Life, however, throws cruel twists and turns into the path of romance. And when an unrequited love seeks revenge against Claire, and Benjamin learns his ex-girlfriend is pregnant, will lost dreams of a future together be the only thing they have left?

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

by Johnny Mercer
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Author: Johnny Mercer
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2009-10-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0307273229
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The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

The Neighbors

by K. Lucas
The Neighbors
Author: K. Lucas
Publisher: Shadow Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Grief, lies, and murder. What happens when secrets, deceit, and depravity converge in a small town? Still reeling from a devastating loss, Paisley and her husband hope a fresh start in a new state will help them heal. Moving from the crowded city of San Francisco to a rural community in the woods of Washington is supposed to give them room to breathe and a place to rebuild their lives. Instead, it leaves Paisley struggling with loneliness and isolation. The longer they stay, the more troubling this new chapter becomes. Their neighbors are anything but welcoming- harassing Paisley on a near constant basis. She’s at her wit’s end when there’s news of women being brutally murdered in the area. As the body count rises, Paisley discovers the town that was supposed to bring them solace isn’t what it seems, and the secrets she and her husband are keeping could cost them everything. CONTENT WARNING: This novel contains themes that some readers may find disturbing. For more information see the author's website.

The Dicer

by A. B. Kayge
The Dicer
Author: A. B. Kayge
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Homicide Detective Cal Miller is being taunted by the infamous serial killer, whom the media has dubbed as "the Dicer." Unfortunately for Cal, things become very personal, and he is put on a leave of absence with "the Dicer's" most recent kidnapping. When another body turns up, and he is no closer to finding the killer than he was almost a year ago, Cal and his partner, Kenzi, are at a loss. Can Cal and his partner Kenzi find this killer before it's too late? Content and trigger warnings: abuse, graphic violence, harassment, kidnapping, and language. Please be aware that these themes are in this book, and you are being forewarned ahead of time.