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The year was 1961, a year marking the start of the racial unrest that would last throughout the decade. Living in a trailer camp in Maryland with his wife and children, Fred Engh’s future seemed bleak - that is, until he heard a college football coach being interviewed on a local radio show talking about becoming a physical education teacher. The coach’s words would inspire him enough to register at Maryland State College, a then all-black college.

The brutal throat-slashing murder of Crawford Academy's football coach has the city on edge. The fact that his body was found in the gay section of Jefferson Park has created more than a few whispers about the macho coach. That creeps social worker Duffy Dombrowski out enough, but not nearly as much as the fact that the kid he's counseling said he wanted to slit the coach's throat the day before.

Inside this massive two-book resource, you'll discover a treasure chest of over 130 of the top promotional websites and free tools for promoting your blog or website. Inside you'll get all the resources you'll ever need to drive huge swarms of traffic to your door in one big collection. You'll get the hottest sites for testing, tracking, and growing site traffic, sites for building free mailing lists, and much more!

A puzzle takes shape as baseball's World Series unfolds, but the pieces don't fit: a string of missing women, strange threats, gambling problems, kidnappings, and relationships long dormant are all somehow connected, but Marshall Connors - major league umpire - may run out of time before he can solve the mystery. Marshall's season has ended, and he is looking forward to post-season plans that include time in Florida, first helping his mentor teach an umpire training class, followed by a lot of sun. Those plans are cut short when Marshall is given a surprise assignment....

Baseball stories never before published in book form by legendary Hall of Fame New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson, transcribed and edited and narrated by Mathewson biographer and historian Eddie Frierson.

Throughout his baseball career and life, Christy Mathewson often wrote down his observations and philosophies. The most famous collection of these writings was published by John N. Wheeler in the classic baseball book Pitching in a Pinch. He was asked many times to write an autobiography yet never completed one. This audiobook is a compilation of many of those writings not included in Pitching in a Pinch and completes with that book and the brand-new Managing in a Moment, a marvelous and fascinating trilogy of Matty's nonfiction writings.

It is a college story about baseball. The hero is a fine young fellow whom many fans will at once think they recognize as a popular player. He enters a big Eastern University from the far West and gets on the varsity team as an extra pitcher after many trying experiences.

Throughout his baseball career and life, Christy Mathewson often wrote down his observations and philosophies. The most famous collection of these writings was published by John N. Wheeler in the classic baseball book Pitching in a Pinch. He was asked many times to write an autobiography yet never completed one. This book is a compilation of many of those writings not included in Pitching in a Pinch and completes, with that book and the brand-new Managing in a Moment, a marvelous and fascinating trilogy of Matty's nonfiction writings.

The classic book It Works is once again sweeping the world. Its simple yet powerful message has changed countless lives. However, some listeners still struggle to find a clearer meaning within it! Author Dan Howe applies his 10 principles for success to this famous work in order to shine new light on the book's timeless message and tell the listener why it remains an all-time classic.

An expert falconer is shot in the back in the wilds of West Virginia. The police believe he was the victim of a hunting accident, but PI Frank Pavlicek, a falconer himself, isn’t buying the story. Beatings, bombings, warnings from the FBI, and the arrest of his best friend on trumped-up charges only strengthen Pavlicek’s resolve to follow a bloody trail of lies and corpses that leads to a chilling terrorist conspiracy.

Not wanting history to repeat itself, Detective Matt Brady struggles to solve the disappearances of seven young women, but he quickly finds himself pitted against a criminal organization that knows as much about police procedure as he does—an organization that will do whatever it takes to stay one step ahead of him. His troubles are compounded when a young veterinarian injects herself into the investigation and is targeted to become victim number eight. When he tries to protect her, he finds himself in the crosshairs of a professional cop killer.

Newark.... Las Vegas.... Hollywood.... 1954. Years of fight halls and newsrooms have East Coast sportswriter Nick Moretti looking for a change. When a sloppy hustle goes bad and Nick takes a bullet in the shoulder, it's time to go west. Hired by Pinnacle Pictures to write a boxing movie about troubled heavyweight champ Jericho "Rattlesnake" McNeal (who accidentally killed a man in a dark juke joint), Nick joins forces with sexy public relations gal Dillian Dawson for a cross-country tour. What could go wrong?

When Crag Minyac is released from prison, his demons return, begging for blood. As deranged as he is, Crag doesn't put up much of a fight. When he's forced to move into a halfway house as part of his probation, he immediately begins looking for his next victim - a tasty treat to satisfy his wicked cravings. But things get complicated when a ghost that haunts the old Astora Hotel discovers his plot. As it turns out, Crag's blood lust may cost him a higher price than he expected to pay.

This wisdom tale tells the story of how an animal school was transformed from a place where some students were teased (by F.O.X), intimidated (by Little Bull), maligned (by "Princess" Peacock), ostracized (Cathy Crow), belittled (Master Worm), abused (Maurice Mole), and unfairly castigated by faculty (Hunky Hyena) to a bully-free environment. The tale will stimulate discussion and the participation of human students, including the bullied and the bystanders, toward the development of a bully free school.

An engaging story that teaches “how to be happier and more contented in a world of unhappiness, dysfunction, and discontent”. Listen and learn with the widow Cassandra Crawley, whose young adult son recently died in a freakish auto accident. Her son Casey left behind Idea Diaries, in which he had saved rare wisdom insights and little-known practical ways for anyone to develop a lifetime “contentment way of thinking”.

Jesus: Then, Now, Ever. This audiobook fails. How could it not? The author is human; the subject beyond human kind. Still, the challenge compels. Tell the tales, teller, the many tales that still for all can teach. Jesus as a child; his mother guiding his early inquisitive steps then, as a dutiful son, miracles reluctantly began. So many lessons to teach and lives to mold. The mission of God's son never seeming to end. Certainly not to be captured in a human-wrought book.

Dan Howe, author of The Minute Marketer, brings you this list of over 101 freely available resources you can put into action right now to start driving traffic to your website or blog. This list contains a few you may have heard of before but many that are well-kept secrets among successful (yet frugal) bloggers and marketers. What does it take to win a customer for life? First of all, you need a great site....

It's been said many times that "success leaves clues". But that's only half the story. To achieve success in anything, you must also know what sequence and order to follow. Author Dan Howe unlocks the mystery behind the these steps in his latest work - The 8 Principles of Success - Everything You Need to Know to Gain Money Power Respect & Happiness. In this audiobook you'll discover the fast-track method for reaching whatever dream you wish for. You'll learn how to redirect your current focus with laserlike intensity and produce results like never before!

Flutter! is a delightful and fascinating wisdom tale which clearly answers the question, "What happens when you die?" The surprising answer leads inevitably to greater peace of mind for the listener. Listeners will be captivated by the personalities of the main characters, a group of caterpillars who meet daily to contemplate enigmatic scrawls that are believed to contain a special wisdom about both this world and the world hereafter. The tale's hero, a lad named Casey, enters into this insect world, and encounters a long dead butterfly spirit.

An old woman gunned down in her home in Texas. A hunted man tired of running. A retiree out to right the wrongs of his past. An assassin with a kill list. An FBI agent done playing by the rules. And a young man whose simple life is about to be shattered. With the death of his mother just days prior, James Masterson is only scratching the surface when he discovers the assailant on his back porch is his brother... a twin brother he never knew he had.