Padres Essential, Everything you need to know to be a Real Fan, Stories, Statistics, Facts, Figures, Anecdotes, Trivia… and More by Bill Center; Foreword by Tony Gwynn; 2007; 229 pages; Triumph Books, Chicago, IL; 978-1-57243-956-6; Interlibrary Loan from Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH; 5/27/09-5/30/09
Why was a book about a team from San Diego by a [...]
Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester; 1996; 158 pages; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.; The United States Marine Corps Reading Program; Interlibrary Loan from Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR.; 5/23/09-5/27/09
This is another book from the United States Marine Corps reading list. I am amazed by the breadth of this list, some very factual and some [...]
Ender’s Gameby Orson Scott Card; 1991; 226 pages; Tor Books, New York, NY; 0-312-85323-8; 5/21/09-5/23/09
Earth has been attacked twice by a bunch of star spanning bugs, and all the old admirals and generals can’t take them on, so we are looking for the brightest and best among our children. We start monitoring them at 2 [...]
Long Lost by Harlan Coben; 2009; 374 pages; Dutton, New York, NY; 978-0-525-95105-6; 5/20/09-5/21/09
Myron Bolitar and Win are back with a globe trotting vengeance. These two are tighter than two brothers. Out of the blue Myron gets a call from an old lover, who asks him to leave Jersey and come to Paris to help [...]
The Goal and The Glory, America’s Athletes Speak Their Faith, Introduction by Branch Rickey, Edited by Ted Simonson; 1962; 128 pages; Fleming H. Revell Company, Westwood, NJ; 5/19/09-5/19/09
Zach Banker has made a career of giving me good books and this one was life changing. I thought it was going to be a collection of athletes [...]