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A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose, and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the sa...

Striking coffee table book, with bilingual captions, full of pictures of Trawsfynydd, famous for it's association with Welsh war poet Hedd Wyn, winner of the infamous black chair.

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today.“Propulsive...A mighty work of historical journalism...A glorious quotidian thriller about people forced to find and use their inner strength.” —The Boston Globe Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, a...

From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters.Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls...

From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters.Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls...

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Maths Progress International has been designed specifically for international students and provides seamless progression to Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Maths (9-1), as well as complete coverage of the Pearson Edexcel iLowerSecondary Award and the UK Curriculum objectives. These write-in, full colour Workbooks offer extra practice of key content, along with progression checkers at the end of each Unit and plenty of dynamic student suppo...

From #1 New York Times best-selling author Keith O'Brien comes this thrilling young readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s-and won. In the years between World War I and World War II, airplane racing was one of the most popular sports in America. Yet women who flew planes were often ridiculed by the press, and initially they wer...

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From NPR correspondent O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition that celebrates a little-known slice of history wherein tenacious, trailblazing women braved all obstacles to achieve greatness in the skies. Photos.

A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed-until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice. Fly Girls weaves together...

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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in national air races of the 1920s and 1930s. "At the dawn of aviation, when every flight was a test of courage, a remarkable band of female pilots proved that a woman's place is in the sky--or anywhere else she wants to be."--Mitchell Zuckoff, author of "13 Hours."hardcover.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Exhilarating." -New York Times Book Review "Riveting." -People "Keith O'Brien has brought these women-mostly long-hidden and forgotten-back into the light where they belong. And he's done it with grace, sensitivity and a cinematic eye for detail that makes Fly Girls both exhilarating and heartbreaking." -USA Today The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air...

A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account... Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals-and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story." -Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book ReviewThe Cardinals of Scott County High School were beloved once---and with good reason. For years, the boys and their legendary coach gave fans in central Kentucky, deep in the h...

Rarely reprinted, rarely staged, and often entirely unpublished, Flann O'Brien's works for the stage and television are speculative, inventive, and as wickedly funny as his novels.

A welcome gift for every Flann O Brien fan, this collection at last assembles his short fiction including a final, incomplete novel, and other never-before-published pieces into a single volume.