John Coyne
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Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of '46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons and daughters of members he once knew the dramatic match between the mysterious and charismatic Hogan and the young club pro he idealized.
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan is filled with dazzling descriptions...
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Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativity. And, the greatest hickory player of all time was Walter Hagen, until the day he met a teenage caddie at a country club outside Chicago.
America's first touring golf professional, Hagen made (and...
3) Hobgoblin
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Ancient magic meets contemporary horror in this thrilling tale of a young man's obsession. Scott Gardiner is already shattered by the demise of his character in a sword-and-sorcery fantasy. When his father dies at almost exactly the same moment, the line between nightmare and reality begins to erode. Scott and his mom attempt to start over by moving to Ballycastle, a medieval Irish manor house rebuilt on the banks of the Hudson. A new role-playing...
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Narrated by Annette Benning, A Towering Task tells the remarkable story of the Peace Corps and takes viewers on a journey of what it means to be a global citizen.
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. Since then, more than 200,000 of them have traveled to more than 140 countries to carry out the organization's mission of international cooperation. Nearly
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Utilizando un enfoque audaz y dirigido por gráficos, The Ecology Book explora y explica más de 85 ideas, movimientos y actos clave que han definido la ecología y el pensamiento ecológico.
Using a bold, graphics-driven approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains more than 85 key ideas, movements and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thinking.