An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the story of the 2010 season of the Clinton LumberKings. Along the Mississippi River, in a Depression-era stadium, young prospects from all over the world compete for a chance to mov...

Lucas Mann was only thirteen years old when his brother Josh—charismatic and ambitious, funny and sadistic, violent and vulnerable—died of a heroin overdose. Although his brief life is ultimately unknowable, Josh is both a presence and an absence in the author’s life that will not remain unclaimed. As Josh’s story is told in kaleidoscopic shards of memories assembled from interviews with his friends and family, as well as from the raw material of his journals, a revealing, startling portra...

An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of wa...

From the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes "a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement” (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person.In Lucas Mann's trademark vein—fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating—Captive Audience is...

Micky had been alone since her fiancé had taken his own life, just days before they were to be married. The note he’d left had put all the blame on her. It was in his handwriting, but she wasn’t so sure that it was a suicide. She had her suspicions that it was staged to look that way, but the police were in a hurry to close the case and that was the end of it. So, Micky had packed up and moved to a small town in Ohio, took employment as a cashier in a grocery store, and kept to herself. Sh...

Micky vive sola da quando Richard, il suo fidanzato, si è tolto la vita pochi giorni prima del loro matrimonio. Il biglietto che lui ha lasciato, scritto di suo pugno, la incolpa di tutto, ma Micky fin da subito non crede alla tesi del suicidio. Sospetta che sia tutta una messinscena, ma la polizia ha fretta di chiudere il caso. Non potendo fare altro, Micky fa le valigie e si trasferisce in una piccola città dell'Ohio, iniziando a lavorare come cassiera in un negozio di alimentari. Da all...

Outre-Atlantique, les dernières élections de mi-mandat ont marqué un échec de Trump, mais le trumpisme reste bien vivace. Il déterminera largement la posture du Parti républicain pour les prochaines présidentielles et il est part intégrante du débat de politique étrangère ouvert par la fin de l’unipolarité américaine. Les États-Unis doivent-ils imposer sans apprêt leur puissance ? Doivent-ils se voir comme leader mondial de l’ordre démocratique ? Ou ne s’occuper du monde que quand son déso...

9 Erfolgsgeschichten, 73 Standpunkte, 10 Key Learnings, 1 Mission: erfolgreich innovieren. Das Successbook wirft einen Blick in die Innovationsprozesse eines Schweizer Großunternehmens. Erfolgsfaktoren und Innovationsmythen werden zusammen mit Expert:innen beleuchtet.

The summer storm trapped Ricky at my father's house with me. We were alone, and I had just had my first taste of what it was like to service a man. I was instantly addicted to him, and I wanted more. As the thunder and rain raged on, Ricky and I began a game of sexual desire that was driving me insane.I wanted him to take me all the way; I was begging for it. But Ricky held back. He knew the longer we stayed on the edge, the more we teased ourselves, the greater the finish would be....

"Emancipation at 150: The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation" is a scholarly anthology on the Emancipation Proclamation with contributions from leading Lincoln historians and government officials. Topics covered in the anthology range from views of the Proclamation through the eyes of enslaved people to human trafficking and slavery in the United States today. This publication was produced by President Lincoln's Cottage, a Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in honor...

過酷な現場で破滅寸前まで追い込まれたルーカス －大傑作『帝国の逆襲』完成までの壮絶なドラマを描くフランス版コミック　待望の第2弾！シリーズ屈指の名作『スター・ウォーズ／帝国の逆襲』の制作の裏側と、映画監督ジョージ・ルーカスの知られざる苦闘を描く。世界中で記録的ヒットを記録した一方で、その制作の裏側では、ジョージ・ルーカスにとって過酷な試練の連続だった。膨大な資料を基に制作された本書は、これまで語られてきた『スター・ウォーズ』の伝説的エピソードを、ビジュアルとして体験できる注目の内容となっています。

74 Fails, 10 Key Learnings, 1 Mission: Fehlerkultur in den Unternehmen voranbringen. Was andere geheim halten, zeigt das Innovationsteam eines Schweizer Grossunternehmens mit Charme, Mut und Humor – und einer ironischen Bildstrecke aus dem Arbeitsalltag. Statt Fehlschläge schönzureden, wird demonstriert, wie sich aus gescheiterten Vorhaben wertvolle Erkenntnisse ziehen lassen, um im Innovationsumfeld weiterzukommen.