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Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home
Part Tuesdays with Morrie, part Field of Dreams—a true American story of World War II and redemption Driven by word of mouth and the author’s heroic efforts to tell the world his father’s story, Playing with the Enemy was a surprise hardcover hit for its independent publisher. Gary Moore’s book about his father—a baseball phenom whose future in the majors was cut short by World War II and a fateful occurrence during a top secret mission for the U.S. Navy—is a warm-hearted memoir of faded dreams and new hope that is destined for the bestseller lists. Filled with memorable characters from an extraordinary time in our country’s history, it is a truly redemptive story that will be read and reread for generations to come..
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Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy
Born in 1903, pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi was the subject of the first book devoted to the scientific study of a single prodigy By twenty-five he had all but disappeared Mismanaged, exploited, and unfashionably romantic, his career floundered in adulthood. He drank heavily, married ten times, and was reduced to penury, sometimes living on the subway. He settled in Los Angeles where he performed sporadically, counting many of Holly-wood’s elite among his friends, including Gloria Swanson, a likely lover. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he enjoyed a sensational and controversial renaissance, before slipping back into obscurity. .
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The Politics of Change: Preparing Real Candidates for Change
Americans want change. Candidates claim the slogan of change, but will they bring real change to politics and policy, if elected to office? Through tested and sound principles of self-development, ethical political strategies, historical analysis, and anecdotes from his life in politics, Mr. Chiu analyzes and provides instruction on the fundamental skills necessary to be an electable candidate for change and on how to achieve real change if elected..
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Prodigy
A thriller set in the future at an ultra-elite prep school that asks: what is the price of perfection?In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education -- and developmental drug regiment --available. Stansbury graduates -- physically and mentally -- are in a class all by themselves. Four out of five go onto Harvard, Yale or Princeton; twenty out of the top thirty Forbes 500 companies have Stansbury CEOs, eight graduates have become U. S. Senators, and two sit on the Supreme Court. But when a string of alumni are murdered, school officials -- looking to avoid a public relations disaster -- decide to keep the police in the dark. They discreetly ask the school's Valedictorian to solve the mystery, but he discovers that the most obvious culprit (the school's resident chemically imbalanced delinquent -- and the Valedictorian's nemesis) is being framed.
Together, the two unlikely allies uncover a massive conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the Stansbury administration and the United States government.
A riveting thriller about America’s obsession with genius and the potential of youth, Prodigy is not only a chilling vision of the very near future, it’s an authentic coming-of-age story for the 21st Century. .
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Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)
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Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
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Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies
Strongly recommended M R JAMES NEWSLETTER Stories of restless spirits returning from the afterlife are as old as storytelling In medieval Europe ghosts, nightstalkers and unearthly visitors from parallel worlds had been in circulation since before the coming of Christianity. Here is a collection of ghostly encounters from medieval romances, monastic chronicles, sagas and heroic poetry. These tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make the hair stand on end. Look at the story of Richard Rowntree's stillborn child, glimpsed by his father tangled in swaddling clothes on the road to Santiago, or the sly habits of water sprites resting as golden rings on the surface of the river, just out of reach. Writer and broadcaster Andrew Joynes brings together a vivid selection of these tales, with a thoughtful commentary that puts them in context and lays bare the layers of meaning in them..
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