Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports.
What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero–turned–New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton’s...
What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero–turned–New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton’s...
Author
Language
English
Description
A two-time Coach of the Year, Brian Arians has had a hand in developing more Pro Bowl quarterback than any coach in NFL history--from Peyton Manning to Ben Roethlisberger to Andrew Luck to Carson Palmer. If NFL quarterbacks are the kings of the sporting world, then Arians is the ultimate kingmaker.
Author
Language
English
Description
To football fans, Aaron Hernandez was a superstar. A standout at the University of Florida, he helped the Gators win the national title in 2008. He was drafted by the New England Patriots, and in his second season with the team, he and Rob Gronkowski set records for combined touchdowns and yardage. In 2012, along with Tom Brady, they led New England to Super Bowl XLVI. But Aaron's NFL career ended as quickly as it began. On June 26, 2013, he...
4) Karma
Author
Language
English
Description
What goes around, comes around...
The sudden death of an alcoholic, lying and manipulative mother sets off a chain of events that forces two worlds to eventually collide, releasing secrets and pain that could change lives for everyone involved.
Janice Williams is finally living the life that she's always dreamed. A respected dean of a university, with an adoring husband, she is finally happy -- except for the hole in her heart that remains from...
Author
Language
English
Description
Recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America's finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation's greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The story begins with the massacre of the Sioux by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee in 1890, then moves to rural Pennsylvania and the Carlisle Indian School, an institution designed to "elevate" Indians by uprooting their youths and immersing them in the white man's...
Language
English
Description
On November 13, 1997, over 4,200 fans, followers, and colleagues of Goodman gathered at the Medinah Temple in the Windy City to pay homage to Goodman, with a tribute concert where the performers included Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, Iris Dement, Arlo Guthrie, Todd Snider, John Prine and many others. This hour-long film brings together the most dynamic performances from that legendary event.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for its horrifying and creative murder sequences. Friday...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin, home of the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This was a mistake. Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity decided to stop studying war was because they were so very good at it.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amazing performances of the 2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. Features poignant reunions, moving and often hilarious induction speeches, and performances from various artists.
Amazing performances of the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. Features poignant reunions, moving and often hilarious induction speeches, and performances from various artists.
Amazing performances of the 2016 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train - a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These...
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction ... For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like...
Language
English
Description
In this stand-alone collection of Scrooge McDuck's amazing comics adventures, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of the iconic character created by Carl Barks, Scrooge and Donald return to the site of their first meeting! In 1947, Carl Barks's comics story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" didn't just introduce the Scrooge McDuck character -- it took Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Scrooge's Bear Mountain cabin, where beastly bruins made for holiday...
Language
English
Description
Featured here are a few of the Big Time Wrestling moments with the wisdom of veteran mic man Chuck Allen and his partner Terry Sullivan filling us in on the action and shows coming up and the lastest news. But the bonus here is the Memphis match that features the silver tongue, Lance Russell. - container.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This reference book describes literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors. It includes series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name and posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer"--Provided by publisher.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request