has anyone read the book ''slider'' by patrick robinson?
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Synopsis:\nHotshot young college pitcher Jack Faber returns after a stint in a summer baseball league to find a new baseball coach who resents his success, cockiness, and talent and who sets out to destroy Jack's confidence in himself and his pitching ability.\n\nSynopsis:\nJack Faber was the top pitching prospect in America at the college level. And after his first year in the fabled Cape Marlin Baseball Summer League, he was unanimously voted MVP. At the top of his game, he returns to school to find there's a new coach who resents young Faber's cockiness and success, and who is determined to bring him down. Through a series of humiliating circumstances, Faber finds his confidence shot and eventually cannot trust himself to even throw a ball, much less hold one.\nSurrendering to his lost talent, he quits baseball. But his Cape Marlin coaches want him back. Against the backdrop of the glorious baseball parks by the ocean, Faber's coaches refuse to accept his failure and vow to help him rediscover his talent, his heart, and his passion for the game.\n\n\n\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \nBest-selling author Patrick Robinson writes as Spike Bailey in this story of a young pitching talent who loses his ability to pitch and struggles to find it again, set against the backdrop of the glorious Cape Cod Baseball League. Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher from St. Charles College in Louisiana, and his first two years there were of such impact that he was scouted by no fewer than six coaches form America's leading College Baseball League, the famed summer league on Cape Marlin (a stand-in for Cape Cod) off the coast of New England. There the best young ballplayers in the United States have spent their summers for more than fifty years, and reputations are won and lost-for nine weeks in the high summer, it is besieged by Major League scouts. His first summer is a terrific one, with perhaps the best pitching performances anyone has ever seen both by his team, the Seapuit Seawolves and the league in general. He returns home a hero. But things begin to unravel when St. Charles's new coach will not brook any "prima donna" behaviour. He slowly suffocates Faber's desire and enthusiasm to a point that Faber cannot trust himself to throw a pitch. His junior year ends in shame and he decides to hang up his cleats. But the Seawolves want him back, and Jack returns to beautiful Cape Marlin-not only to find his pitching ability but himself. \n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \nEach summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives.\n\nJack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show. But a new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid's celebrity status and decides to knock him down a peg or two. And he stops at nothing to make it happen.\n\nHumiliated, Jack loses his lifelong art, and with it his passion for the game, as well as, mysteriously, his ability to throw. A devastated Jack Faber is released from the St. Charles College roster. But the Seawolves coaches won't give up on him. They bring Jack back to Cape Marlin, determined to help him rediscover his lost talent. He finds himself again under the summer sun, coaches and old friends standing by him. But in the end it will be up to Jack.\n\nBased on a true story, Slider celebrates the national pastime, a game that can break grown men's hearts -- as well as make them whole again.\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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I really liked it, there was some good humor.  It does help to have at least a small interest in ballroom dancing.\n\nif you see it and do like it, try strictly ballroom by Baz Luhrman. :)
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Its a Book by Dan Brown\n\nwww.danbrown.com
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I've got the book, and haven't got round to reading it yet. I know what its about roughly though, didn't know pedophilia was a large plot point, but i knew sex was there a lot.\n\nSame can be said for the Anne Rice (Anne Roquelare) books, some call them smut, some call them art.\n\nGonna go read it now :)
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i tink i have it if u want it message me ... its in acrobat ... Christopher Paolini - Eragon.pdf 2mb
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Do you mean "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe?\n\nSee links below
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Good but a bit outdated. \n\nWinning with People by J. Maxwell is good.  Making Rain by A. Sobel is good too.
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It's a great book.  Wonderful author.\nAccording to this article, the author doesn't plan any sequels.  I think it ends perfectly.\nBrave New World is another book about the concept of manufacturing and the controlling/ perfection of the human race.
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I haven't heard of this particular book, but this past summer I had the pleasure of reading "Twitch and Shout: A Touretter's Tale" by Lowell Handler.\n\nIt's Handler's memoir of a trip looking for people as unique as himself. It's not destined to be a classic, but it sounds like you might find it interesting.
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:}\nHaven’t read it but it sounded like agreat title\nI tried to find it on Google and then Amazon   No luck.   Who was the author?
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No I haven't. Sorry. Is it a good book?
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Yes, I have read it, in fact if you look at my bio you'll see it listed.  Reading "don't take things personally" made me cry.  To think I had lived so long and set myself up for so much pain, when I read these words, it had a PROFOUND change on my thinking.  \n\nGreat read, and I work hard to make the agreements a way of life.  \n\nPeace.
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YES i have read Gregor the overlander its the best book ever!! Im waiting for the forth book in the chronicles to come out in may. I don't think it would be a good movie because she describes everything so well that i think the movie would be a let down. Who is your favorite character? Mine is Boots, She is so funny! Oh and i also like Luxa. No i have never read hoot but after seeing the commercial for the movie i think i'll read the book then watch the movie!
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Oh! I love that story. We read it last semester. Have you read the story? It's really funny to read it and then think in the gutters. Our sub, Scott, taught us that. lol Anyway... okay... hm... thesis statement. \n\n"There are stories about fish and the like, but none quite like this. The boy in the story learns to grow after learning that his beloved Sheila is not what he thought she was. In the story the boy struggling with what he loves and what he thinks he is in love with. ([The story teaches about letting go, forgetting and growing up] <-- thesis)." \n\nOkay, to clarify the thesis:\n\nLetting go: Letting go of the fish and moving on.\nForgetting: He forgets that he can't very well catch a fish without her seeing, so he loses it. \nGrowing up: After he learns that Sheila Mant is not what he thought she but, but in fact a skany who9re (lol) he learns to move on and grow up. \n\nI hope this helped.
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What a great book!!  I just Yahoo!ed with Hinton, Outsiders, Teaching & Plan as search words and came up with a lot of good sites with online lesson plans relating to that book.  Have you tried?
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The book was published by Rodale.\nHere is their contact information:\n\nRodale Books\n800-848-4735\nreader_service@rodale.com
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I love that book.  Anyway, in the "Voyage to Lilliput" section, that nation is at war with Blefuscu over the proper manner to eat a hard boiled egg, obviously a trivial matter.  \n\nThere are many layers of satire in "Gulliver's Travels", and one of them here concerns the Catholic-Protestant problems which have often plagued Britain.  Swift was basically claiming that bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants over their theological differences made just as much sense as going to war over the correct way to eat eggs.\n\nI hope this helps.  "Gulliver's Travels" really is a great book, the later parts are, in my view, even better than the more famous voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag.