Patrick Robinson
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Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show. But a new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid's celebrity status and decides...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wall Street beat writer Larry McDonald chronicles the rise and painful fall of Lehman Brothers, one of the financial district's heavyweights until it filed for bankruptcy in 2008. Utilizing insider's sources and hard facts, McDonald presents listeners with a unique version of Wall Street, the like of which they have never seen.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The inspirational account of a team rising to meet the ultimate challenge of winning back its honor. To Oxford University, "The Boat Race" - an annual rowing competition between Oxford and its archrival Cambridge - is more important than the Olympics. So when Oxford's long winning streak ends in humiliating defeat, they vow victory the next year at all costs. But the method they choose threatens to tear the team apart while setting up a struggle between...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Maggie Cole is the self-appointed oracle of Thurlbury, a close-knit town. When a radio journalist interviews Maggie, she gives him far more detail and embellishment about the locals and their personal lives than he was counting on. When the interview is played in full, all the guarded secrets, indiscretions and gossip are broadcast for the whole county to hear, changing life in Thurlbury forever.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to the NAACP Image Award-winning The Black List: Volume One, interviewer Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders explore 15 new African-American lives on the cusp of this historic moment. Now more than ever, The Black List continues a riveting and singular work of video portraiture."--Container.
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