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Legendary football coach and Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos, Wade Phillips, recalls his life in football and memories of his father, NFL head coach Bum Phillips, in a book perfect for a Father's Day gift.
In his memoir Son of Bum, decorated NFL coach Wade Phillips shows that the roots of his knowledge come from his father, Bum Phillips. A beloved character in NFL history, Bum taught Wade from the beginning that "coaching isn't bitching,"...
210782) HMS Victory: First-Rate 1765
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HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. A symbol of the Royal Navy’s achievements during the great age of sail, she is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of visitors each year.
As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising shortage of informative and well-illustrated guides, for reference during a visit or for research by enthusiasts-ship modelers, naval buffs, historians or students....
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From Strawberry to Dragon, Harvest to Storm, the full moon is known by many names around the world and across the seasons, and each name has a story behind it. This beautiful photographic celebration of our closest celestial neighbor captures the visual wonder and the connection we feel to the moon. Including three dozen folk names and short evocative explanations drawn from Native American, Inuit, Celtic, medieval English, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese,...
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REWRITE THE BARD'S WORDS FOR IRREVERENT FUN AND LITERARY LAUGHS
Do you want to have some fun with Shakespeare?
Rip the quill from the Bard's immortal hands and pen hilarious versions of the most-beloved scenes from:
Hamlet
To STRIP, or not to STRIP, that is the question.
Romeo and Juliet
What FART through yonder window breaks?
Macbeth
Is this a JOINT which I see before me?
Much Ado About Nothing
If thou dost BOFF, my VIBRATOR shall incite thee
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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS ; 34
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As Soulburner wrestles with his past, Varis wrestles control of their duel!
210788) The Brick Foxhole
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This "shocking" murder mystery addresses homophobia in the military during World War II (Richard Wright, author of Native Son). The men in the barracks, wrenched from the normal pursuits of life, are being molded into warriors in a battle against the "others." Isolated and fearful, they sometimes relieve their frustrations on the most disenfranchised civilians, namely homosexuals. But one weekend, one of them loses control and commits murder. This...
210789) Select Poems
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An essential collection of classic poems by the father of modernist poetry. In the masterly cadence of T. S. Eliot's verse, the twentieth century found its definitive poetic voice, an incredible "image of its accelerated grimace," in the words of Eliot's friend and mentor Ezra Pound. This twenty-four-poem volume is a rich collection of Eliot's greatest works-including the classic "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"-all of which unveil the desires,...
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Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most of the postwar era? Does it herald a new wave of authoritarianism? Is liberal democracy itself in crisis?
In this...
210793) Building Value to Last
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Discover the inspiring story of how Crystal Maggelet unexpectedly ended up as CEO of her father's company, guiding Flying J back from bankruptcy and on to great success-all during the throes of the Great Recession of the late 2000s. Through it all, Crystal succeeded by maintaining the core philosophy handed down through generations of the Call family-the importance of building value that will last.
Cowritten by Crystal herself, Building Value to Last...
210794) Mon nom est Malice
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Milène Goldman, également connue sous le nom de Malice, participe à sa toute première mission. Elle pénètre avec succès dans un bâtiment en ruine, accompagnée de soldats en tenue de combat, et élimine rapidement ses ennemis. Cette mission est le début d'une série d'aventures pour Malice, qui deviendra plus tard connue sous le surnom de « l'ange qui défie la mort ».
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Après des années de dévouement à la lecture...
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This is the complete wartime translation by the U.S. Navy of the 1943 edition of the official handbook given to all U-boat commanders. The original handbook was compiled from combat reports and was regularly updated throughout the war. The handbook was an invaluable reference for every operational U-boat commander. Simply written and highly accessible for a wider audience, the U-boat handbook attempted to anticipate every possible situation and to...
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The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front. A brand new series from the bestselling author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk Rose, Clover and Daisy are the pretty blond sisters of the Harrison family, living with their parents and two brothers, and working in East London and the outbreak of WWII. Rose the eldest is a nurse working in Homerton Hospital, she despairs of her younger siblings...
210799) As Far as You Can Go: A Novel
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In Lesley Glaister's spellbinding outback thriller, a young couple's flight from a cold and dreary English winter traps them in a sunbaked nightmare For Cassie, the ad in the newspaper is a dream come true. Spending a year managing a farm in western Australia away from everything and everyone she and her commitment-phobic boyfriend, Graham, know could be exactly what he needs to realize it's time to think about getting married and starting a family....
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