Neville (Jock) McLuskey This Is Your Life
ISBN: 9781511683821 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a lad Jock and his mate Mike dreamed about racing at either the Mille Miglia or Le Mans. Jock started racing his motor bikes round the Isle of Man when he was seventeen. In 1968 they built a car and tried to race at Le Mans but couldn't compete. In 2004 their dreams finally came true
As a lad Jock and his mate Mike dreamed about racing at either the Mille Miglia or Le Mans. Jock started racing his motor bikes round the Isle of Man ...
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53,80 zł |
Poor Kid, Wealthy Kid II
ISBN: 9781608625901 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spiral back to 1980 when kids were talking to each other instead of texting. In this Gervais High School story it's senior year. Carlos has several life-changing decisions to make. The Edmonton Eskimos, from the Canadian Football League, offer him a great deal. Liz doesn't agree with him going pro right out of high school. She feels a college education is more important. Harv feels differently. Dirk has graduated and continues to be the antagonist - a prejudiced bully that lingers around. This realism-fiction novel is about two high school sweethearts growing up and diving into the challenges...
Spiral back to 1980 when kids were talking to each other instead of texting. In this Gervais High School story it's senior year. Carlos has several li...
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71,80 zł |
Going The Distance
ISBN: 9781680581362 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boxing saved Gabriel's life... From surviving a hellish childhood, to reuniting with his lost brother, only to struggle with helping him battle his drug addiction-a whirlpool of addiction that threatens to drag his brother under. Life's been a roller coaster for Gabriel 'The Saint' Vega... Just when his career hits the fast track, he finally finds love with Salem, at least for a short time. But social differences, obligations, and misguided good intentions tore Gabriel and Salem apart before they could ever really get started. Is Salem capable of breaking away from the ropes that bind her... Boxing saved Gabriel's life... From surviving a hellish childhood, to reuniting with his lost brother, only to struggle with helping him battle his... |
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76,88 zł |
Curveballs & Changeups: Bleeding Blue and Seeing Red
ISBN: 9781491760932 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build a baseball field. Hulbert claims that baseball in America will be a grand new pastime and a grand new business opportunity. In 2006, Scott Banks is a devoted Cubs fan even though he's moved to St. Louis and is married to his well-meaning, Cardinal-loving wife. Life for Banks is on cruise control until he gets the chance to fulfill a dream of a lifetime-but it comes with a curveball. Suddenly, he's forced to face the gut-wrenching realities... Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build... |
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80,99 zł |
Curveballs & Changeups: Bleeding Blue and Seeing Red
ISBN: 9781491760956 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build a baseball field. Hulbert claims that baseball in America will be a grand new pastime and a grand new business opportunity. In 2006, Scott Banks is a devoted Cubs fan even though he's moved to St. Louis and is married to his well-meaning, Cardinal-loving wife. Life for Banks is on cruise control until he gets the chance to fulfill a dream of a lifetime-but it comes with a curveball. Suddenly, he's forced to face the gut-wrenching realities... Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build... |
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123,72 zł |
Life, Love, and Baseball
ISBN: 9780692471814 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeremy Chase could never decide on what he wanted to do with his life. He never stuck out from the shadows of his older siblings and the large student body of his university. He had only a few aspects that were unique. He was ambidextrous and loved baseball. After years of never playing baseball for an organized league, Jeremy decides to use his ambidextrous talent to become the first switch pitcher. Jeremy quickly learns the hardships of chasing a dream. His journey has the potential of creating the man he should be if he can remain focused on his dream. Jeremy Chase could never decide on what he wanted to do with his life. He never stuck out from the shadows of his older siblings and the large stud... |
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53,79 zł |
The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories
ISBN: 9781514265765 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There was Delaney's red-haired trio--Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his trouble. Red Gilbat was nutty--and his batting average was .371. Any student of baseball could weigh these two facts against each other and understand something of Delaney's trouble. It was not possible to camp on Red Gilbat's trail. The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long- legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom....
There was Delaney's red-haired trio--Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remark...
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43,75 zł |
Taking Chances
ISBN: 9781631357411 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Starkis, an equestrian rider, is badly injured in a car crash, needing twelve months off work and riding. His horse, Biscuit, was being looked after by a young woman, Penny Chance, who persuades him to return to riding despite his handicap of one leg being shorter when it was reset. They train together and form a relationship of love, but she is forced to leave to help on her family farm in Wales. He returns to work as an agricultural agent, still aiming to be on the Equestrian Olympic team.
Eight years later, his aim fails as his new horse falls and has to be put down. That same... Michael Starkis, an equestrian rider, is badly injured in a car crash, needing twelve months off work and riding. His horse, Biscuit, was being looked...
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64,06 zł |
Dash
ISBN: 9781514664223 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I've never been one to follow the rules...or the law, for that matter. But when you find yourself behind bars and being offered the opportunity of a lifetime, you take it. I agreed to race motorcycles for Johnny Knight. A very powerful man who wanted me on his team, even knowing I was a liability. But will he still feel that way once he finds out that I had a one-night stand with his daughter? I didn't mean for it to happen. I didn't even know who she was until she walked into his office wearing my shirt from the night before. Too bad that was all she wanted-one night. It really didn't matter...
I've never been one to follow the rules...or the law, for that matter. But when you find yourself behind bars and being offered the opportunity of a l...
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50,39 zł |
Beautiful Country
ISBN: 9780062411914 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing's Junior National Tennis Team. Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the recent death of his older brother. He discovers a country in transition; a society in which the dual systems of Communist Era state control and an emerging entrepreneurial culture exist in paradox. A top ranked junior tennis player in the U.S., Chase joins the practices of the Beijing National Junior Tennis Team and is... A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijin... |
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68,33 zł |
The Pigskin Covenant
ISBN: 9781434901064 / Angielski / Miękka / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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162,39 zł |
Minor-League Buzz, Major-League Life
ISBN: 9781491770726 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buzz Meyers grew up in the 1960s, so it should be no surprise what he's all about: baseball, sex, rock 'n' roll-and baseball.
Toiling at different jobs, he can't help but think how wonderful it would be to work at a ballpark, and he gets his chance when he becomes the sales and concessions manager for the Hampton Roads Monitors, a minor-league team near Virginia Beach. He might not be a player, but this is the next best thing, and while he puts in long hours, he also gets the chance to party and meet baseball legends, upcoming stars, and a cast of unforgettable characters. The... Buzz Meyers grew up in the 1960s, so it should be no surprise what he's all about: baseball, sex, rock 'n' roll-and baseball.
Toiling at different... |
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119,45 zł |
Minor-League Buzz, Major-League Life
ISBN: 9781491770733 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buzz Meyers grew up in the 1960s, so it should be no surprise what he's all about: baseball, sex, rock 'n' roll-and baseball.
Toiling at different jobs, he can't help but think how wonderful it would be to work at a ballpark, and he gets his chance when he becomes the sales and concessions manager for the Hampton Roads Monitors, a minor-league team near Virginia Beach. He might not be a player, but this is the next best thing, and while he puts in long hours, he also gets the chance to party and meet baseball legends, upcoming stars, and a cast of unforgettable characters. The... Buzz Meyers grew up in the 1960s, so it should be no surprise what he's all about: baseball, sex, rock 'n' roll-and baseball.
Toiling at different... |
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76,71 zł |
The Abysmal Brute (annotated)
ISBN: 9781517749279 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Abysmal Brute is a sports fiction classic by Jack London that tells a breezy tale showing the crookedness of the methods of prize-ring managers specially in fleecing the prize-ring public in betting. The hero is a successful young giant who has been trained by his father in the mountains, and who thinks the game is played square until enlightened by a young woman reporter. Then follows a whirlwind wooing, exposing of the frauds and retirement.
The Abysmal Brute is a sports fiction classic by Jack London that tells a breezy tale showing the crookedness of the methods of prize-ring managers sp...
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26,25 zł |
Playing Days
ISBN: 9780062376633 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits's Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author's season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player's estranged wife that ushers him into adulthood. Growing up in Texas, Ben experienced basketball as a mostly solitary pursuit, one he gave up after riding the bench in high school. But as his college classmates prepare for the real world, Ben is seized by an idea. All he needs is a video camera, an empty court,... In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits's Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrat... |
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68,33 zł |
This Sporting Life
ISBN: 9781504015080 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize-winning author David Storey's seminal first novel
On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth. A teammate on the rugby pitch is too slow with a handoff, and instead of catching the ball, Art catches an opponent's foot right in the mouth. When he regains consciousness, the match is almost over, but he keeps playing regardless. Where else would he go? His entire life, Art has only cared about sports and nothing grabs his attention quite... A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize-winning author...
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81,15 zł |
Out of Ruins
ISBN: 9781500511272 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn't do." Surviving the storm was only the beginning for Jules. Surviving the guilt? That is something only love can help her overcome.
"Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thou...
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44,82 zł |
Racing the Rain
ISBN: 9781476769882 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--acclaimed by Runner's World as "the best novel ever written about running"--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and '60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy is the skinniest boy in school, and also one of the fastest. Cassidy spends his afternoons exploring his primal surroundings: the local river, the nearby ocean, the lakes, swamps, and forests that dominate the landscape of the Florida everglades. While adventuring, Cassidy befriends Trapper...
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--acclaimed by Runner's World as "the best novel ever written abou...
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76,92 zł |
Rookie Move
ISBN: 9780399583438 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first novel in a sexy new series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts--from the USA Today bestselling author of the Ivy Years series.
In high school they were the perfect couple--until the day Georgia left Leo in the cold... Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL. But on the first day he's called up to the newly franchised Brooklyn Bruisers, Leo gets checked on both sides,... The first novel in a sexy new series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts--from the USA Toda...
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34,15 zł |
The Hill Ranch Racers
ISBN: 9781478764151 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,70 zł |