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Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
ESPN's website, The Undefeated (now Andscape), publishes content that explores how race and identity impact American culture. This will be a collection of the best articles published on the site. Timely and relevant, BlackTold will cover current events such as the BLM movement, the Covid-19 pandemic, race and the NFL, and more.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This Library Edition of The short stories of Ernest Hemingway presents many of Hemingway's most famous classics alongside rare and previously unpublished material: Hemingway's early drafts and notes, his profound and clever essay on the art of the short story, and two marvelous examples of his earliest work."--flyleaf.
23) The highlander
Author
Series
Victorian rebels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They call him the Demon Highlander. The fearsome Lieutenant Colonel Liam MacKenzie is known for his superhuman strength, towering presence, and fiery passion in the heat of battle. As Laird to the MacKenzie clan, the undefeated Marquess has vanquished his foes with all rage and wrath of his barbaric Highland ancestors. But when an English governess arrives to care for his children, the master of war finds himself up against his greatest opponent in...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain. The author, a historian considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In February 1965, novelist and 'poet of the Black Freedom Struggle' James Baldwin and political commentator and father of the modern American conservative movement William F. Buckley met in Cambridge Union to face-off in a televised debate. The topic was 'The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.' Buccola uses this momentous encounter as a lens through which to deepen our understanding of two of the most important public intellectuals...
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Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sam is proud that his touchdown in the final play of a game left his football team undefeated, but when a videorecording of the game reveals that the touchdown was scored illegally, he and the other Cowboys must decide whether to reveal the truth. Includes facts about a similar situation faced by Cornell University's team after a game with Dartmouth in 1940.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having dropped a pass and made his football team miss having an undefeated season, thirteen-year-old Keith fears that he will continue to make bad mistakes and wonders if he should continue playing football.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tyler's hope that his soccer team will be undefeated is dashed when his friend Zack, the team's star midfielder, and two more of the Cougars' best players accept an offer to play for an elite travel team.
Author
Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date." -- Provided by publisher.
32) The wildest ride
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To save her family's ranch, Lillian Sorrow Island, determined to win the Closed Circuit rodeo tour with a million-dollar prize, goes up against an undefeated rodeo champion who is her biggest rival onscreen, but offscreen it is a whole different story.
Undefeated rodeo champion AJ Garza is supposed to be retiring, not chasing after an all-new closed-circuit rodeo tour with a million-dollar prize. But the Houston rodeo program that saved him as a...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Called "a master of the combat narrative" (The Dallas Morning News), author Bill Sloan captures the valor, fortitude, and suffering of the American defenders of the Philippines as no other author has. Abandoned by their government, the men and women of the American garrison struggled against impossible military odds, rampant disease, and slow starvation to delay inevitable surrender by the largest American military force ever. Rather than picturing...
Author
Series
The knights' tales volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of Sir Gawain, the only undefeated knight in King Arthur's court, who eventually learns the value of friendship, courtliness, and courtesy after a challenge from the Green Knight.
38) Undefeated
Author
Series
Blood bond saga volume 5
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Erin Hamilton follows Dante Gabriel back into hell--the underground compound where he was held for a decade--to confront the woman who held him captive" --
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Five Rings" was composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Thomas Cleary's translation is immediately accessible, with an introduction that presents the spiritual background of the warrior tradition. Along with Musashi's text, Cleary translates here another important Japanese classic on leadership and strategy, "The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War" by Yagyu Munenori, which highlights the...
Author
Series
Lerner Sports. All-access gymnastics volume 01
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From Simone Biles to Larisa Latynina, gymnasts have been among the greatest athletes in the world. Readers will discover which gymnasts were undefeated winners, past and present record holders, and what it takes to be a gymnastics superstar"--