From FIFA World Cup Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and bestselling author Alex Morgan comes the eleventh book in an empowering and fun-filled middle grade series that inspired the streaming original series, The Kicks!Devin is finally on her way to Connecticut to visit her best friend, Kara, and she couldn't be more excited! Not only that, but the Kicks have just made it into the playoffs! Except Devin's good fortune seems to have run out. First, the airport sends her luggage to Albuquerque. Then, when she finally gets to hang out with Kara, all they do is fight. And what's worse, Devin thinks her parents are planning to move them back to Connecticut! Devin's not sure what to make of her unfortunate homecoming. Are she and Kara even friends anymore? Is Devin ready to leave all her friends behind again to move back to Connecticut? And can she get her head back in the game in time to win the Kicks's first playoff match? Views: 552
Dive in to Lisa Childs's new series, Liaisons International, kicking off with a story of matchmaking, seduction and secret identities!Billionaire Matteo Rinaldi needs a date to his sister's gallery opening to stop her from setting him up with women only interested in money. So he accepts a matchmaker's offer to find his supposedly perfect date. "Savannah" is everything he could want: fun, smart and their connection is off the charts. What started as a game becomes the best night of his life—until he wakes to an empty bed. And she never even told him her last name...Because "Savannah" is Blair Snyder, a former air force pilot who flies private jets for the company she founded. She's been burned by guys who couldn't handle her as she is: tough and determined. Their date was too good to be true, so she left. When a client refuses to let a woman fly his plane, she shows up in disguise, planning to prove the jerk wrong—and the client turns out to be... Views: 552
A snowy Christmas gathering on an island off the Cornish coast goes murderously wrong in this festive Golden Age mystery.December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael's Mount—and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary—interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins.Pivoting on a real moment in history, the ninth novel in the Josephine Tey series draws on all the much-loved conventions of the Golden Age Christmas mystery, while giving them the contemporary twist which has come to distinguish the books so far. Views: 552
It was a wonder, the way she found herself. Not in her name, but in his arms...Merial Hanraham has no recollection of who she is.Found unconscious in a dinghy with nothing but a mysterious coffer, she is taken on board by a crew of British sailors heading to England.Christopher Buckthorn, son of the Duke of Heyerdahl and proud captain of the “Valkyrie”, never expected to find a woman with no memories floating in the middle of the ocean. Especially not one as stunning as Merial.Amidst old superstitions turning the crew against her and pirates constantly on their tail, Merial and Christopher must piece together the fragments of her returning memories.And the key to the truth might just lie in a riddle carved on the mysterious coffer; a single word to unveil not only Merial’s true identity but also the name of the person hunting her… Views: 552
Hades retired from the business. Now it's just me. Look at me now... Bitter... angry... depressed. I resent my former friend so much, even hate the guy, but I've never been the same since he refused to forgive me. I meet a woman. She's like all the others...beautiful, interesting, good at the fun stuff, but I don't feel anything. One woman will love you for you, not your money or your power, but you'll lose her. And once she's gone...she's gone. That gypsy wasn't right about me too, right?I've got trouble on my doorstep when the new Skull King shows up. He wants a cut of my business. Like he's getting anything. This is all I have left. Once again I become swallowed by the underworld. Will I survive it? Views: 552
Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a “southpaw?” Why are major league pitchers normally limited to 100 pitches per game? Why was Jack Roosevelt Robinson the first African-American ever to play as part of an official lineup for a team in Major League Baseball? Why is a baseball field sometimes referred to as a diamond? This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of the national pastime. Organized by the sport’s five eras—Dead Ball, Live Ball, Golden Age, Expansion, and Steroid Era—it answers questions about hitting, pitching, fielding, base running, managing, scouting and ownership that vex even the most ardent fans of the game. Moreover, this book is an appreciation of how baseball’s traditions began. Views: 552
