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Author | : Michael Oriard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252076695 |
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A classic recollection of college and pro football, from a player's inside perspective
Author | : Michael Oriard |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2023-12-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0252056086 |
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Much of Michael Oriard's education took place outside the schoolroom of his native Spokane, Washington, during "slaughter practices" on high school football fields. He was taught to "punish" and "dominate," to rouse his school spirit with religion, and to "tough it" through injuries, even serious ones. At the age of eighteen he entered Notre Dame and walked onto the football team, where studying hard was never harder. By his senior year, playing for Ara Parseghian's Fighting Irish, he was the starting center and co-captain of the team. After graduating, he signed with the Kansas City Chiefs and head coach Hank Stram. There he learned what it meant to be "owned." He rediscovered the game as it was played by grown men with families who were still treated like children and who dreaded nothing more than the end of their football careers. And without their fully realizing the consequences, every hard tackle inflicted its injury, some gradually growing into chronic conditions, some suddenly cutting a player's career short and ushering him off the field to be soon forgotten. In this thoughtful narrative, Oriard describes the dreams of glory, the game day anxieties, the brutal training camps and harsh practices, his starry-eyed experience at Notre Dame, and the cold-blooded business of professional football. Told from the inside, the book leaves aside the hype and the pathos of the game to present a direct and honest account of the personal rewards but also the costs players paid to make others rich and entertained. Originally published in 1982, The End of Autumn recounts the experiences of an ordinary player in a bygone era--before ESPN, before the Bowl Championship Series, before free agency and million-dollar salaries for NFL players. In a new afterword, Oriard reflects on the process of writing the book and how the game has changed in the thirty years since his "retirement" from football at the age of twenty-six.
Author | : Marianne Kaurin |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545889669 |
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An international award-winning novel of World War II, the Holocaust, and first love, set in the snowy streets of Oslo. It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn't know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann's parents, to his boss... to Ilse. And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day?In this internationally acclaimed debut, Marianne Kaurin recreates the atmosphere of secrecy and uncertainty in World War II Norway in a moving story of sorrow, chance, and first love.
Author | : Ali Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143197886 |
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017 Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That’s what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdon is in pieces, divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith’s new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet—four stand-alone books, seperate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)—and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making. Here’s where we’re living. Here’s time at its more contemporaneous and its most cyclic. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, a story about aging and time and love and stories themselves.
Author | : Jim Arnosky |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1996-09-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698114051 |
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Each autumn, just before the onset of winter, a bear shows up in the rugged woodland behind a family farm.
Author | : Kenard Pak |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250777321 |
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In a simple, cheerful conversation with nature, a young boy observes how the season changes from winter to spring in Kenard Pak's Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring. As days stretch longer, animals creep out from their warm dens, and green begins to grow again, everyone knows—spring is on its way! Join a boy and his dog as they explore nature and take a stroll through the countryside, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with everything from the melting brook to chirping birds, they say goodbye to winter and welcome the lushness of spring.
Author | : Lisa Bullard |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404860134 |
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Two friends learn why leaves change colors and fall off the trees in autumn and enjoy raking them into a huge pile for jumping.
Author | : Pico Iyer |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 045149394X |
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Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
Author | : Wong Herbert Yee |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1627797785 |
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Crisp air and gray skies beckon a little girl to thoroughly investigate the outside world: chipmunks, squirrels, insects, and fallen leaves all hint that a change of season is coming. Young readers can explore the signs of autumn along with the adventurous child narrator in this charming conclusion to Wong Herbert Yee's series on the seasons (Tracks in the Snow, Who Likes Rain? and Summer Days and Nights).
Author | : Louis Bromfield |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Early Autumn" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.