5/30/2023 0 Comments Joe namath all the way![]() ![]() ![]() By 26, with a Super Bowl title under his belt, Namath was quite simply the most famous athlete alive. In an era of raucous rebellion, shifting social norms, and political upheaval, Namath's roughish charm quickly became symbolic of the commercialization of pro sports, while his progressive views on race further pioneered integration on the gridiron. Yet it was the New York Jets who offered a then-unheard-of figure, $427,000, to bring football's Golden Boy to the upstart AFL. Following a knockout four-year run at Alabama, Namath was ceremoniously courted by every professional football team. But before all that, 'Broadway Joe' was just Joe, the small-town kid from Beaver Falls, PA with an arm so impressive that it caught the attention of University of Alabama's Bear Bryant. In what has been remembered as perhaps the biggest upset in football history, that game catapulted the young superstar to not only football immortality but also into a stratosphere of celebrity the likes of which only a few athletes have ever achieved. "I guarantee it." Three days before the now-legendary 1969 Super Bowl III, quarterback Joe Namath promised the nation that he could lead the New York Jets to a clear underdog victory against the seemingly invincible Baltimore Colts. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Name of the wind doors of stone![]() ![]() TableTop: Played Eldritch Horror and the Dungeons & Dragons scenario "Lords of Waterdeep".He also ran a short module called "ISTAR Facilities" in Season 10, available for download here. Acquisitions Incorporated: Plays the roguish intern Viari on the main show and has the semi-regular role as the edgy man-child Driebus Beestinger in The "C" Team Spin-Off series.Torment: Tides of Numenera: Pat wrote the companion character Rhin.Part 2: The Dark of Deep Below (illustrated by Nate Taylor). ![]() Part 1: The Thing Beneath the Bed (illustrated by Nate Taylor).The Adventures of the Princess and Mr.The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014) (a novella published as a stand-alone book illustrated by Nate Taylor).He often works with illustrator Nate Taylor. Patrick Rothfuss is a huge One of Us, who also happens to be the author of The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments America the beautiful moon zappa![]() ![]() First off it’s a super long flight and I know everyone says just take a sleeping pill and you’ll be fine, but I will NOT be fine. ![]() ––Name a place you have no interest in visiting and why.Īttenberg: Thailand. Moon Unit Zappa is the author of the novel America the Beautiful and has written for Details and Harper’s Bazaar. Her latest book, Comfort: A Journey through Grief will be published in May. Visit de Gramont at Ann Hood is the author of seven novels, including The Knitting Circle and Somewhere off the Coast of Maine a short story collection, An Ornithologist’s Guide to Life and a memoir, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time. ![]() Her work has appeared in Isotope, Nerve, Exquisite Corpse, Post Road, Seventeen, and The Harvard Review. Her first novel, Gossip of the Starlings, is forthcoming in June, 2008. Visit Braver at Nina de Gramont is the author of a short story collection, Of Cats and Men, and the co-editor of an anthology, Choice. He teaches at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, and is a Writer-in-Residence at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. His work has appeared in journals such as Daedalus, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Water-Stone Review, West Branch, and Post Road. Lincoln’s Wars, Divine Sarah, and Crows Over the Wheatfield. Visit her online at .Īdam Braver is the author of Mr. She has written for Jane, Print, Nerve, Nylon, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle and others. Jami Attenberg is the author of the story collection Instant Love and the novel The Kept Man. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole![]() Something in that voice made her warm where she should have been cold, the very last thing she should be feeling. “Miss Elle? What the devil are you doing here?” he asked, his voice low. ![]() RELATED: The 24 Best Historical Romance Books That Will Steal Your Heart Had he followed her? Perhaps his earlier deference had been a misdirection. The last rays of winter sunlight glinted off of the buttons of his jacket, like a warning flashed from afar. ![]() ![]() Standing before her, once again, was Malcolm McCall. She’d be a lot more tired working a field all day if the Union were to fall, that was certain.Ī twig snapped behind her and she whirled. There was a time for fatigue, and that was when the infernal war was over. She pushed through it, fighting the undertow of exhaustion that tugged at her skirts and her eyelids. ![]() She pulled her cloak closer and shivered in the river breeze as a familiar weariness descended upon her. The setting sun stretched its fingers down the length of the river, its fiery caress tinting the waves with dabs of orange and gold.Įlle admired the water as it churned by, powerful enough to break free of nearly any restraint, and she was envious. Elle reached the meeting point, a secluded bluff overlooking the James. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. ![]() A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). ![]() His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.ĭuring this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva-as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory. But what if it wasn't an accident at all? What if Barthes was murdered? The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. ![]() The literary critic Roland Barthes dies-struck by a laundry van-after lunch with the presidential candidate Francois Mitterand. From the prizewinning author of HHhH comes The Seventh Function of Language, a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Eat and run by scott jurek![]() ![]() On top of all this, Jurek also happens to be an accomplished home cook and vegan-he shared his story and favorite recipes in his book, Eat and Run. He finished in 46 days, eight hours, and seven minutes. In July, he completed a run across the entire Appalachian Trail, breaking the speed record by over three hours. Not only did he take home the win at the prestigious Western States 100-miler seven years in a row, he also set a course record in 2005 for the Badwater 135, an epic 135-mile race through Death Valley-and it was 130°. As one of the athletes who helped make ultramarathons-any race longer than 26.2 miles-mainstream (well, more mainstream), Jurek has smoked the competition in some of the world's most punishing trail and mountain races. ![]() In a sport that already dances on the fringe of society, ultrarunner Scott Jurek is a true rarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() "They talk every night, deep into the darkness. ![]() ![]() These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.” He saw the starsĪbove his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. ![]() He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. At first he only dipped below the surface of sleep, and skimmed along like a salmon in shallow water, so close to the surface that he fancied himself in air. “The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith (You Are Here) balances Hadley’s dual relationship dramas well, and while the story wraps up neatly, readers will be as caught up as Hadley is by the physical and emotional distances she traverses. Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. But they’ll also savor cinematic moments, like a touching heart-to-heart conversation between Hadley and her father on the dance floor. Hadley is rushing through most of this book, and readers will gladly race alongside her. Now, she has to survive being a bridesmaid, contend with her feelings about her father’s new life, and figure out how to find Oliver before she returns to the U.S. They even share a kiss in the customs line, but Hadley loses sight of him afterward. Smith Trade Paperback ebook Audiobook Download Unabridged 11. When Hadley meets charming Oliver at the gate, they instantly connect and bond during her new flight. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith is the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Storm Makers, You Are Here and The Comeback Season. In a fast-paced and entertaining novel with a superlatively romantic premise, 17-year-old Hadley misses her flight to London, where her father is marrying the woman he left their family for, but she unexpectedly may have found true love in the process. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The shopaholic book series![]() ![]() Her witty, heartrending tales have captured the hearts of readers worldwide – but where to start when it comes to her books?Ĭheck out our pick of the best Sophie Kinsella books – and prepared to be hooked. Me Before Youauthor Jojo Moyes has said Sophie’s books leave her ‘giddy with laughter’. It became a top ten bestseller, and she went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham before re-branding as Sophie Kinsella and hitting the big-time once more with The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic in 2000. ![]() Sophie wrote her first novel, The Tennis Party, under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, aged 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist. To date, she’s sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages. ![]() And when it comes to positive, uplifting books, few people do it better than Sophie Kinsella. In recent months, we’ve all been craving an escape. ![]() |
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