Author | : Francisco Jiménez |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | : 1999-10-25 |
ISBN 10 | : 0547377207 |
Pages | : 128 pages |
"'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds.
Author | : Rowan Ricardo Phillips |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Release Date | : 2018-11-20 |
ISBN 10 | : 0374718679 |
Pages | : 256 pages |
Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing “The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.” —Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters “As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis.” —John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet—and Paris Review sports columnist—Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it’s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from winter’s Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall’s U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life. The Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis—you bring it with you.
Author | : United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit),Benjamin Robbins Curtis |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1857 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : Ohio. Circuit Courts |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1900 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1847 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1883 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit),John William Wallace |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1849 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit),William Wetmore Story |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1842 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : Michigan. Supreme Court |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1839 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 20 pages |
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1908 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1897 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : Georgina Bloomberg,Catherine Hapka |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Release Date | : 2011-05-24 |
ISBN 10 | : 1599906880 |
Pages | : 288 pages |
The A Circuit is the top of the top when it comes to horse showing. It's a world with its own rules and super-privileged lifestyles. Teens employ private tutors so they can travel the circuit all year showing horses that cost as much as some people's homes. Tommi, Kate, and Zara are all elite competitors on the circuit, but they come from totally different backgrounds. Tommi is a billionaire heiress trying to prove she has real talent (not just deep bank accounts). Kate puts the working in working student-every win has been paid for with hours of cleaning stalls. She's used to the grueling schedule, but Fitz, the barn's resident hot guy, is about to become a major distraction. And then there's Zara. She's the wild child of a famous rockstar, but she's ready to take riding seriously. Can a party girl really change her ways? Readers who enjoy peeking into the elite world of series of Gossip Girl or The A-List will feel right at home in this new series with its friendships, drama, and privilege set against a backdrop of competitive horseback riding.