Breakaway transcends Americans passions for sports and casino gambling as it follows two professional hockey team owners who run the table from bankruptcy to a lucrative new arena and the most-storied trophy in all of sports.Already the Pittsburgh Penguins were unconventional. One former owner, a Hollywood producer, used the team as backdrop for a blockbuster movie with terrorists attacking during a championship game. Then after the Penguins won two real championships, its...

The City of McKeesport in southwestern Pennsylvania once had a population of more than fifty thousand people and a newspaper that dated back to the nineteenth century. Technology has caused massive disruption to American journalism, throwing thousands of reporters out of work, closing newsrooms, and leaving vast areas with few traditional news sources—including McKeesport. With the loss of their local paper in 2015, residents now struggle to make sense of what goes on in their community an...

Roberto Clemente became a baseball icon because of his talent and compassion, and how he overcame prejudices.He was drafted from Puerto Rico, where he spoke Spanish, when he was just eighteen. At first fans laughed at his Spanish accent and some even disliked him for the color of his skin.Roberto worked hard to learn English and improve his baseball skills. He became one of the game's greatest hitters while he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates.He was the first Latin...

Today the Pittsburgh Steelers are one of pro football’s most successful and prestigious franchises, but that wasn’t always the case.  As America was emerging from the turbulent decade of the 1960s the Steelers’ front office had their sites squarely focused on the future.Relive the on the field and back room moments that shaped Steelers’ history and led the Steel City to four Super Bowl victories.  The Color of Sundays tells the story of how Bill Nunn Jr., Art Rooney, and t...

Ces Contes populaires coréens présentent 36 histoires traditionnels bilingues, versions coréenne et française en vis-à-vis, avec des notes et des exercices détaillés pour progresser du niveau débutant au niveau intermédiaire. Des enregistrements gratuits en ligne de tous les contes sont disponibles pour aider les étudiants à améliorer leur prononciation et leur compréhension à l’oral. Conçu pour aider à élargir son vocabulaire et ses compétences grammaticales en coréen, la complex...

Maudit alors qu’il était enfant d’un manque de gravité physique et émotionnelle, Prince Efrosin ne peut pas garder ses pieds sur le sol ou sa tête hors des nuages. Traçant un chemin rieur à travers la vie, il n’a jamais été ancré par l’amour et la convoitise.Puis un jour fatidique, son lien fragile à la terre est coupé et il s’envole au gré du vent. Il est sauvé par Dmitri, un jeune et beau bûcheron qui souffre d’une malédiction mystérieuse, et les deux étrangers sont irrésistiblem...

Il n’y a pas de plus grands mystères dans le royaume que l’endroit où les sœurs du prince Mateo disparaissent chaque nuit. Le roi est déterminé à découvrir où elles vont et lance un défi à tous les nobles afin de l’aider à découvrir leur secret. Espérant les protéger, Mateo se cache alors sous un manteau magique et suit ses sœurs dans un monde enchanté de fées et de délices.Ópalo a attendu bien des années pour enfin rencontrer son amant humain. Les fées ont un destin tout tracé, et...

Looking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of seven charming cozy mysteries publishing in Spring/Summer 2026 for free and easy sampling.The twenty-seventh edition of Cozy Case Files features cozies from the following authors: Carolyn Haines, Elizabeth Penney, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Cate Conte, Donna Andrews, Jo Nichols, and Vivien Chien.Unravel a farmer's disappearance with the help of Mississ...

Looking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of six charming cozy mysteries publishing in Fall 2025 for free and easy sampling.The twenty-fifth edition of Cozy Case Files features cozies from the following authors: Ellie Alexander, Cate Conte, Mindy Quigly, Elizabeth Penney, Donna Andrews, and M.C. Beaton.Travel to Costa Rica and uncover a murder before it's too late in Laying Down the Latt...

A la fin du XIXe siècle, l’engouement pour les traditions populaires qui sont en train de disparaître rapidement est à son comble. L’ancien avocat américain, établi à Menton, collecte, auprès de divers informateurs de Menton, Roquebrune et Sospel, un trésor de contes traditionnels en dialecte provençal qu’il transcrit scrupuleusement : « Les contes suivants ont été recueillis de la bouche des gens du pays. J’ai pris toutes les précautions pour n’avoir que des récits traditionnels. J’aurai ...

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Once upon a time there lived in Japan a rat and his wife who came of an old and noble race, and had one daughter, the loveliest girl in all the rat world. Her parents were very proud of her, and spared no pains to teach her all she ought to know. There was not another young lady in the whole town who was as clever as she was in gnawing through the hardest wood, or who could drop from such a height on to a bed, or run away so fast if anyone was heard coming...