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Join Tim Smith as he travels the perilous and sometimes heartbreaking journey to fatherhood at the age of 48.

Meet Josh Raines. He's about to be a senior at McMinn County High School. He runs cross country and track. Josh Raines is dying. Meet Tully Kismet. Smart. Pretty. She's about to be a senior at McMinn Central High School. She runs cross country and track. Tully has a secret, and when she meets Josh she doesn't tell him her secret until it's too late for either of them to run away. Is it possible for a young adult novel to be heart wrenching...

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You know Mrs. Gibbins?" "Yeah, " John David said, looking straight into my eyes. "She's my teacher." "Your teacher?" I asked. Now I was really confused. "Sure, " he said, "and this book is the last thing I remember." John David closed the book, turned it around so I could read the cover, and pushed it across the desk toward me. My blood ran cold when I read the inscription: THE COVEN OF WESTLAKE ELEMENTARY. "For some reason, " John D...

In The Boiler Room Boys: An Underground Story of Science, Religion, and the Faith that Fuels Both, Tim Smith describes how from too-young an age he followed two seemingly alternate paths, religion and science, only to find that they are not alternate at all. His so-called "yellow brick road" began with a group of boys meeting independently in his grade school's boiler room. Conflicting teaching by religious and scientific fundamentalists led h...

In The Boiler Room Boys: An Underground Story of Science, Religion, and the Faith that Fuels Both, Tim Smith describes how from too-young an age he followed two seemingly alternate paths, religion and science, only to find that they are not alternate at all. His so-called "yellow brick road" began with a group of boys meeting independently in his grade school's boiler room. Conflicting teaching by religious and scientific fundamentalists led h...

After landing in his dream job, Chet Miller is living on borrowed time. Coaching the worst team in baseball and with his team owner selling his best players, he must find a way to win. When he discovers three ninjas practicing in a local dojo he thinks his prayers may have been answered. Join the insanity of the funniest and zaniest season ever.

McMinn had never had a cross country champion, but a group of runners from Athens had other things in mind. Join them on their quest to make history.

In this 1994 book, Tim Smith examines the economic and political pressures which have affected fisheries science.

Lifelong Vanderbilt fan Joe Daily would like nothing better than seeing the Commodores win the SEC title and the National Championship. Then he meets Allistair Appel who promises to make him the greatest player to ever play the game and maybe even give his team a title as well. But will the price be too high? Will Joe Daily, now Joey Goodman, be able to turn back before it's too late?

A collection of short stories by one of the most creative and brilliant writers of our generation.

Since the industrialisation of fishing, fisheries scientists have been subject to intense economic and political pressures, which have affected the way the science has developed. The origins and effects of these pressures are traced in this book to concerns about determining the causes of fluctuations in fish and whale catches, and to resistance to regulation of fishing activity when populations are depleted. The development of partial theorie...