Kicking Tomorrow

Author : Daniel Richler
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551994380
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kicking Tomorrow written by Daniel Richler and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Robbie Bookbinder is bummed out and bored, cut adrift in the mid-1970s – the decade he calls The Great Hangover. Sex feels outmoded, drugs don’t seem to deliver like they used to, and rock and roll’s a bust in tired old Montreal. Quebec’s arming up for a cultural revolution, and bike gangs are warring in the streets. In Robbie Bookbinder, we meet a character who embodies all the potential, self-delusion, and resilience of contemporary youth. All Robbie thinks he needs is a kick-start. What he gets is scared half to death, as he discovers that life only improves when you take a stand in it.

Author : Katie Hnida
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416547846
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Kicking written by Katie Hnida and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took just 1.28 seconds to make history. On August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman ever to play and score in NCAA Division I football. The struggle to get to that groundbreaking moment took eight long years, a journey filled with dogged commitment, horrifying setbacks, and finally, remarkable triumph. Fate came knocking for the 14-year-old Hnida in the unlikely form of a torn thigh muscle -- an injury that would drive her off the soccer field in search of another outlet for her athletic talent. She found football and with it gender-defying success. The same day Hnida's high school classmates voted her homecoming queen, she donned her helmet and pads and kicked six extra points in the homecoming game. When she is recruited to play for the University of Colorado Buffaloes, her great dream is realized, and she seems set for glory on a much larger stage. But upon arriving in Boulder, she begins a tour of hell inside the University of Colorado's football program, a hell that culminates in Hnida being raped by a teammate. It is here that the story truly begins. Katie is physically and emotionally devastated. She leaves the university and begins climbing her way back to who she was and what she wanted. She learns to speak about what happened to her and to push through harrowing flashbacks of violence. The very thing that drew her into the darkest days of her life will ultimately save her: football. She sends 80 kicking tapes to 80 Division I schools and is invited to visit several top football programs. But it is the blue-collar, no-nonsense team that wins her trust: the University of New Mexico Lobos. Under head coach Rocky Long, Hnida continues her long road to recovery through hard work and the will to never give up. She is not only accepted by her teammates, she also finds herself part of a team that's a family. In Albuquerque, Hnida is reunited with her dream. Under a true leader, she blossoms. Her teammates are teammates, supporting and encouraging her to reach her goal. And with just seven minutes and 20 seconds to go in a game against Southwest Texas, the history-making extra point kick is made in under two seconds, changing everyone's ideas about what is possible.

Author : Daniel Kaler
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1602666415
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Million Dollar Kick written by Daniel Kaler and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dan Kalers journey is a most-interesting story. He found out that his spiritual growth and praising God far outweighed financial gain."--Bob Harlan, Green Bay Packer president and CEO. (Motivation)

Author : William Winston Roper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football, Today and Tomorrow written by William Winston Roper and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonny Dovercourt
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770566082
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Any Night of the Week written by Jonny Dovercourt and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Toronto became a music mecca. From Yonge Street to Yorkville to Queen West to College, the neighbourhoods that housed Toronto’s music scenes. Featuring Syrinx, Rough Trade, Martha and the Muffins, Fifth Column, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Rheostatics, Ghetto Concept, LAL, Broken Social Scene, and more! “Jonny Dovercourt, a tireless force in Toronto’s music scene, offers the widest-ranging view out there on how an Anglo-Saxon backwater terrified of people going to bars on Sundays transforms itself into a multicultural metropolis that raises up more than its share of beloved artists, from indie to hip-hop to the unclassifiable. His unique approach is to zoom in on the rooms where it’s happened – the live venues that come and too frequently go – as well as on the people who’ve devoted their lives and labours to collective creativity in a city that sometimes seems like it’d rather stick to banking. For locals, fans, and urban arts denizens anywhere, the essential Any Night of the Week is full of inspiration, discoveries, and cautionary tales.” —Carl Wilson, Slate music critic and author of Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, one of Billboard’s ‘100 Greatest Music Books of All Time’ “Toronto has long been one of North America’s great music cities, but hasn’t got the same credit as L.A., Memphis, Nashville, and others. This book will go a long way towards proving Toronto’s place in the music universe.” —Alan Cross, host, the Ongoing History of New Music “The sweaty, thunderous exhilaration of being in a packed club, in collective thrall to a killer band, extends across generations, platforms, and genre preferences. With this essential book, Jonny has created something that's not just a time capsule, but a time machine.” —Sarah Liss, author of Army of Lovers

Author : Wendell E. Hutchins II
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664256113
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kicking the Stars written by Wendell E. Hutchins II and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kicking The Stars inspires the reader to see God differently after a national crisis and worldwide pandemic. From a new perspective, we gain a new vision where we behold the works of God from a new vantage. In Kicking the Stars, you’ll gain new strength from God’s Word and the courage to trust God again, for greater things. As a result, you will be encouraged and equipped to overcome fear and the misgivings of a godless culture to dream again about fulfilling God’s purpose in your life. Wendell Hutchins expertly delivers the reader to a cosmic viewpoint, the place where we are kicking the stars and embracing our future because we’ve discovered greater faith and a deeper trust in God. “Pastor Hutchins has been a friend and guiding light to me and my family. He’s always there to give me comfort and advice that is well thought out and from a place of love. Having Pastor Hutchins as my friend is a gift from God!” —Michael Strahan, NFL Hall of Fame, Co-host of Good Morning America, NFL Analyst on Fox NFL Sunday

Author : Sam Kerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1761109588
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Kerr Kicking Goals Collection written by Sam Kerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special collection of stories from Sam Kerr’s Kicking Goals series, with a bonus journal featuring soccer tips and tricks from the Matildas captain and World Cup superstar. Sam Kerr hasn’t always been a soccer legend. She was an Aussie Rules tragic through and through. But when excluded from her team for being a girl, she has to change direction. Her best friends Dylan and Indi reckon she should flip from AFL to soccer but with the pressure of learning the new rules, and the school bully Chelsea on her case, Sam has to learn fast! The Kicking Goals bumper collection includes the first four exciting stories in Sam Kerr’s awesome Kicking Goals series. It follows Sam’s journey from soccer newbie to playing in the finals. Inside you’ll find The Flip Out, A New Knight, Sports Day and Finals Fever along with a bonus Sam Kerr journal packed with soccer know-how, tips, stats, activities and places for you to record your own soccer highlights.

Author : Geraldine Bonner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow's Tangle written by Geraldine Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture of San Francisco life in the 1860s and 1870s with the action of the story set 25 years afterward.

Author : Charles Foran
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0676979653
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mordecai written by Charles Foran and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foran's book is the first major biography with access to family letters and archives: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charles Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage"—the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate—warts and all.

Author : Peter Bilak
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9789077620021
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dot Dot Dot 8 written by Peter Bilak and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal whose very name promises more to come delivers two issues this season. There aren't too many places to find intelligent, passionate, and witty writing about the past, present, and future of visual culture. Dot Dot Dot, the brilliant journal edited by Stuart Bailey and Peter Bilak, is one of the few we've found, and we're happy to be able to present it in our catalog. Issue 8 contains articles by Ryan Gander, Paul Elliman, Stuart Bailey, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anna Gwendoline Jackson, Momus, Brian McMullen, Antonin Kosik, David Reinfurt, Graham Meyer, Katherine Gillieson, Karel Martens, and Peter Bilak, among others. Articles range from "Why Are All These BooksOrange?" to "A Coming of Age Reading Checklist" to "City Turned Upside Down" and concluding with "About Nothing, Really."