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  Stumped - One Cricket Umpire Two...

  Richard Harrison

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  Sixteen Seasons in the Sun - Mostly 
  Who in their right mind would want to be a cricket umpire? 
  Meet Richard Harrison, a cricket-mad Australian who (while living in England) embarks on a career as an umpire and a subsequent journey of self-discovery.  
  For six years, he occupies the best seat in the house at some of the most beautiful cricket grounds in the world, umpiring matches throughout Kent and Sussex.  
  But when he returns to Australia, he is captivated by the skill and talent of some of the best female cricketers in the world.  
  Richard joins the Victorian Premier Cricket Umpires Panel and asks to umpire women's matches exclusively.  
  Will the authorities embrace the idea, or will his umpiring career reach an abrupt and untimely end? 
  Entertaining and funny throughout, Stumped presents a unique and amusing tribute to an ancient and fascinating pastime. 
  With every page, you will be drawn deeper into the world of cricket umpiring and the challenges that come with it.  
  If you are a cricket fan and have enjoyed the tremendous growth of the women's game in recent years - this inspiring memoir is a must-read. 
  Pick up your copy of Stumped now and get off the mark today.

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  Little Dorrit

  Charles Dickens

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  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

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  Senior Year - A Father A Son and...

  Dan Shaughnessy

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  In Senior Year, Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sports writing talents on his son Sam's senior year of high school, a turning point in any young life and certainly in the relationship between father and son. Using that experience, Shaughnessy circles back to his own boyhood and calls on the many sports greats he's known over the years -- Ted Williams, Roger Clemens, Larry Bird -- to capture that uniquely American rite of passage that is sports.Growing up, Dan Shaughnessy was so baseball-obsessed that he played games by himself and didn?ft even let himself win. His son, Sam Shaughnessy, came by his own love of sports naturally and was a natural hitter who quickly ascended the ranks of youth sports. Now nicknamed the 3-2 Kid for his astonishing ability to hover between success and failure in everything he does, Sam is finally a senior, and it's all on the line: what college to attend; how to keep his grades up and his head down until graduation; and whether his final high school baseball season, which features foul weather, a hitting slump, and a surprising clash with a longtime coach, will end in disappointment or triumph.All along the way, Dad is there, chronicling that universal experience of putting your child out on the field -- and in the world -- and hoping for the best. With gleaming insight, wicked humor, and, at times, the searching soul of an unsure father, Shaughnessy illuminates how sports connect generations and how they help us grow up -- and let go.

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  Cream - Deserted Cities of the...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Author Giuliano has had incredible personal contact with the members of Cream over the course of his work as a veteran journalist. He lived with Ginger Baker and wrote his biography, as well as interviewing both Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton on several occasions. In this one of a kind, exclusive biography of the band, Cream tell their own tale. A truly historic audio document.

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  Strange Piece of Paradise - A...

  Terri Jentz

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  In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack. Their friendship is shattered. 
  Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered, on the first of many visits she will make "to solve the crime that would solve me." And she makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her extensive interviews with the townspeople yield a terrifying revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth about the crime and its aftermath, and to come to terms with the wounds that broke her life into a before and an after. Ultimately she finds herself face-to-face with the alleged axman. 
  Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of Terri's investigation into the mystery of her near murder. A startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of a brave inner journey from violence to hope, this  is searing, unforgettable work sure to be talked about.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Peter the Great

  Jacob Abbott

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  There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a great measure to the circumstance of his having repaired personally to Holland, in the course of his efforts to introduce the industrial arts among his people, in order to study himself the art and mystery of shipbuilding, and of his having worked with his own hands in a ship-yard there. The little shop where Peter pursued these practical studies still stands in Saardam, a ship-building town not far from Amsterdam. The building is of wood, and is now much decayed; but, to preserve it from farther injury, it has been incased in a somewhat larger building of brick, and it is visited annually by great numbers of curious travelers.The whole history of Peter, as might be expected from the indications of character developed by this incident, forms a narrative that is full of interest and instruction for all.(from the Preface of Peter the Great)

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