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1930 The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme


Free Download 1930: The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme by Lew Freedman
English | August 31, 2021 | ISBN: 1683584201 | 312 pages | EPUB | 1.15 Mb
The 1930 Major League baseball season was both marvelous and horrendous, great for hitters, embarrassing for pitchers. In totality it was just this side of insane as an outlier among all seasons.

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Tip of the Spear The Incredible Story of an Injured Green Beret’s Return to Battle [Audiobook]


Free Download Tip of the Spear: The Incredible Story of an Injured Green Beret’s Return to Battle (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B088J4BBJS | 2020 | 8 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Ryan Hendrickson
Narrator: Brock Vickers

The inspiring true story of a US Special Forces soldier who was medically retired after stepping on an IED, and his incredible return to active duty. Sergeant First Class (SFC) Ryan Hendrickson is a brave, determined, and courageous soldier – a Green Beret clearing the way for his 12-man team while conducting combat operations against the Taliban. As the "tip of the spear", his role is to ensure the route taken by US and Afghan troops are free of IEDs – improvised explosive devices. Many soldiers do not survive their last step; those who do often lose at least one limb. While rescuing an Afghan soldier outside a mud-hut compound in 2010 – knowing that he was in "uncleared" territory – Ryan stepped on an IED with his right foot. The device exploded, leaving his foot dangling at the end of his leg. American soldiers losing a limb is an all-too-common occurrence. But what makes Ryan’s story different is that after undergoing two dozen surgeries and a tortuous rehabilitation, he was medically retired but fought to return to active duty.

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Time for a Story Sharing Books with Babies and Toddlers


Free Download Time for a Story: Sharing Books with Babies and Toddlers by Amy Read, Saroj Ghoting
English | November 1, 2017 | ISBN: 087659657X | 160 pages | EPUB | 6.11 Mb
Winner of the 2016 Academic’s Choice Smart Book Award! Children’s books are tools that prepare young children for later reading success the way books are used with children makes a difference in their early literacy development. In Time for a Story, teachers and caregivers will explore fun and engaging ways to talk, sing, read, write, and play with young children throughout the day to help them begin developing important pre-literacy skills, including phonological awareness, print awareness, letter knowledge, and background knowledge. These practical techniques will help put children on the path to school readiness!

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Lost Decency The Untold Afghan Story


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English | ISBN: 0997887001 | 2016 | 298 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Many memoirs written by exiles represent the country’s more privileged classes, those with the money and means. In Lost Decency, Atta Arghandiwal

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Triumph Spitfire and GT6 The Complete Story (Crowood Autoclassics)


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English | August 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1847977030 | 176 pages | EPUB | 22 Mb
For a whole generation of car enthusiasts, Triumph was the manufacturer to turn to when buying a sports car. Whether it was a Spitfire or GT6 – or the more costly TR models – this Coventry manufacturer was the sports car king during the twentieth century. Now that these machines are fully fledged classics, nothing has changed. While the Spitfire has the MGB as a formidable adversary, the GT6 is still in a class of its own. Triumph Spitfire and GT6 details the history and development of these classic cars, with specification guides for each of the five Spitfire derivatives and three GT6 models. Topics covered include:Development and production of the five Spitfire derivatives from 1962 – 1980: the Spitfire 4, 4 Mk2, Mk3, MkIV and 1500.The GT6 models from 1966-1973: the Mk1, Mk2 and Mk3.Spitfire and GT6 in motorsport – 24 Hours in Le Mans, Alpine Rally and Tour de France, and racing in the US. Full buying guide and tips on modifying, with colour and trim options, and details of optional extras available for each model. An insight into what the press thought of each Spitfire and GT6 derivative, with pages also devoted to how the cars were marketed.

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Ryan Adams Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown


Free Download David Menconi, "Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown"
English | 2012 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 0292725841 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for many people it defined the era. Adams was an irrepressible character, one of the signature personalities of his generation, and as a singer-songwriter he blew people away with a mature talent that belied his youth. David Menconi witnessed most of Whiskeytown’s rocket ride to fame as the music critic for the Raleigh News & Observer, and in Ryan Adams, he tells the inside story of the singer’s remarkable rise from hardscrabble origins to success with Whiskeytown, as well as Adams’s post-Whiskeytown self-reinvention as a solo act.

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