DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America celebrating its recent triumph over Nazism and ever-curious about the new age of color television, rocket ships, and technology. Tony Castro shows DiMag and Mick as fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and reveals the rite of passage of two men who would go down in baseball immortality – DiMaggio as he reluctantly prepares to leave the spotlight of adoration and hero-worship for glitzy world of Marilyn’s exploding Hollywood celebrity, and Mantle in his awkward attempt to leave his country roots of Dust Bowl Oklahoma for the big city exposure and expectations of greatness being placed on him. Yankee legend and glory holds a special magic all its own, and Castro examines the heart and soul of that mystique, especially the bond of the players themselves and how that came to breed and spread the perception that there was any animosity between DiMaggio and Mantle – two polarizing personalities who drove many teammates away from one and galvanized their friendship with the other.
Written for early elementary ages, Slick Mick helps kids think about what it means to be cool while humorously looking at different behaviors that are "cool" and "uncool." The back matter contains pages for kids to ponder and write about their own behaviors, both cool and uncool, and set goals to help them be more like Slick Mick. The black and white illustrations can be used as coloring pages, further enhancing a child's engagement with the story and it's lessons.
In five sizzling hot stories, Eleanor seeks refuge in a small town on the Oregon Coast and befriends her younger neighbor. He captures first her heart and then her submission, taking her on a journey of sexual exploration and insight."Salt for His Wounds" -- When Eleanor's ex-husband shows up begging for a second chance, she asks her young, gorgeous next door neighbor for a favor and Mick takes advantage of the opportunity."The Mercantile" -- Eleanor attributes Mick's detachment to the difference in their ages, but Mick confesses a need for kink. Afraid of losing him, Eleanor reluctantly consents to bondage and pain."The Things We Do for Love" -- When her gorgeous girlfriend visits Eleanor on the coast, Mick's obvious attraction troubles her. But, Liz only has eyes for Eleanor."Paid in Full" -- Mick's army buddy finds Eleanor hot and makes a deal with Mick. But, if Mick really loved Eleanor would he let another man have sex with her?"Renovations" -- After Mick spends a month renovating their garage, Eleanor discovers he built in a few surprises.
In five sizzling hot stories, Eleanor seeks refuge in a small town on the Oregon Coast and befriends her younger neighbor. He captures first her heart and then her submission, taking her on a journey of sexual exploration and insight."Salt for His Wounds" -- When Eleanor's ex-husband shows up begging for a second chance, she asks her young, gorgeous next door neighbor for a favor and Mick takes advantage of the opportunity."The Mercantile" -- Eleanor attributes Mick's detachment to the difference in their ages, but Mick confesses a need for kink. Afraid of losing him, Eleanor reluctantly consents to bondage and pain."The Things We Do for Love" -- When her gorgeous girlfriend visits Eleanor on the coast, Mick's obvious attraction troubles her. But, Liz only has eyes for Eleanor."Paid in Full" -- Mick's army buddy finds Eleanor hot and makes a deal with Mick. But, if Mick really loved Eleanor would he let another man have sex with her?"Renovations" -- After Mick spends a month renovating their garage, Eleanor discovers he built in a few surprises. Includes color covers for individual stories.
Da Mick tells the story of a firefighter who blames God for his wife's tragic death and embarks on a self-destructive spiral of alcohol, drugs and women. Morally rudderless, Mick Mullan flirts with salvation when a beautiful Irish-Catholic fiddler starts tending bar in his nightclub. Erin Callahan is everything he's not, religious, anchored and ethical. Despite her love for Mick, she can't reconcile with his hedonistic lifestyle and ends up in the arms of Mick's best friend, Jamie. The tension builds with a subplot finding Mick torn between the virtuous Erin and the girl of his salacious dreams, an Australian prostitute named Grace. While fighting fires in a busy Bronx station stocked with screwballs, Mick battles both atheism and alcoholism. This witty love story turns deadly serious when Erin and Mick reach an impasse that can only be broken by such a cataclysmic force as 9/11. This dramatic and prodigally generous tale tackles Mullan's inner moral battles while introducing readers to a host of gallant but flawed firefighters who risk their lives laboring in one of New York's wackiest firehouses. The entire story takes place in the year leading up to its fiery, poignant and powerful conclusion at 9/11.
Open Mick's Lyrica Bollard by Sean Byrne Sean Byrne's Open Mick's Lyrica Bollard is a lyrical love letter to the open mic stage-a place where vulnerability meets bravado, and poetry finds its pulse in the room. This collection hums with the energy of live performance, each poem a spotlight moment that invites us to lean in, laugh, ache, and applaud. Byrne's voice is raw, rhythmic, and refreshingly unpretentious. He captures the spirit of community and chaos that defines grassroots poetry nights, where bollards become metaphors and mics become lifelines. Whether he's riffing on urban grit or spinning tales of lyrical misfits, Byrne's work is both grounded and gloriously offbeat. This isn't just a book-it's a backstage pass to the soul of spoken word. If you've ever scribbled verses on a napkin or clapped for a stranger's truth, Open Mick's Lyrica Bollard
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Tick Tock and Mick are complete opposites, but can they find a way of living happily together? Pink B/Band 1B offers emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. The focus sounds in this book are: /o/ /c/ /k/ ck Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Tick Tock and Mick are complete opposites, but can they find a way of living happily together? Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
In the late eighteen haundreds, a German engineer went to China and built the first railways there from Shanghai towards the border of southern China and Vietnam. with money paid to himby the German colonial Organisations, he was again in their employand was sent to the then German colony of German south West Africa, now now as Namibia. His son was born in Africa and after thhe family lft for Germany, in due course he and his family settled in Australia. Things were difficult in thhe new country and some members of the family were subjected to uundersttandable rasim due to thhe fact that is was just aftter WW2 that the family arrived in Australia. The Grandson of the German engineer lied about his age in order to serve with thhe Australian army in the Vietnam War.Inn doing so, he altered the date shown on his Auustralian Naturalisation paper from 01/03/1947 to 01/03/1946 by using a black pento alter the seven in 1947 to a six. This resulted in him being put into the Australian army and sewrving in Vietnam with his unnit being the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). He met a buddhist monk while there, who spoke fluent Englishand who told him about his Grandffather. Mick then promised to return as a qualified engineer and help rebuild the country the he had helped too destroy during the Viietnam War. When he applied for an Australian passport, the Dept. of Immmigration and Citizenship (DIAC) not only refuused to giver him one, but also cancelled hhis Auustralian citizenship on the grounds that he had lied his age and altered an official document when he volunteered for service in thhe Vietnam War, 40 years prior to this. It hen took another three years of fighting the buearucrats before his Australian citizenship was restored.
Join Macey the cat and Mick the mouse on their heart warming journey of friendship without any boundaries. Through colourful illustrations and playful adventures, this illustrated book for children up to 3 years old teaches the valuable lessons of acceptance, kindness, and compassion. Watch as Macey and Mick overcome their differences and learn that true friendship knows no bounds. This charming tale is perfect for bedtime stories or playtime reading, capturing the hearts of both children and adults alike
"Chasin' the Wind" takes place in Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba. It is written in the first person view of journalist Liam Michael Murphy - his friends call him Mick - and he lives on his 40-foot sailboat, 'Fenian Bastard, ' in Key West. The book opens with Mick finding his friend Tom Hunter brutally beaten at the Key West Sail Club's clubhouse on the day Mick, Tom and Bob Lynds were meeting to organize the next Key West-to-Havana sailboat race. Days later Tom dies. The story involves the corruption of small town politics in the southernmost city of the United States - Key West. It revolves around a scheme to topple the communist government in Cuba, that could have international repercussions and unites Cuban exiles, Cuban military deserters, and neurotic federal agents against ordinary, but unique, local citizens. Hampered by the American federal agents at every attempt to avenge their friend's murder, Mick and his pals track the Cuban exiles' whereabouts. During the pursuit of justice, three young women are tortured; one is saved by Mick's shadowy friend Norm Burke and two of the girls are murdered on a boat the exiles believe belongs to Mick; a rainy night finds Mick and a Tita Toledo, his love interest, trying to escape armed exiles in the Key West Cemetery. When Mick and his pals are sure the Cubans will make another smuggling run to Havana, he uses his journalist's credentials and flies to Havana to see what is really going on.From early on, Mick is in a battle of conscience on his decision to seek justice at the cost of stopping a plan to topple the Cuban government. The federal government's version of the end justifies the means, virus Mick's belief that his end justifies the means, is part of the theme.In Havana Mick has to choose between justice and patriotism. If he wants justice for the murder of his friend, he has to turn the exiles over to the Cuban government, an action many would consider treason. Will his desire for justice actually impede the toppling of communist dictatorship? The question turns the situation into a moral battle between justice and corruption, for Mick.A cast of eccentric characters include a priest who sees and talks to angels; two federal agents who choose their nom-de-guerre from old TV shows; a retired federal agent, a friend of Mick's from their years in Central America and California; a female Korean-American bartender; a green-eyed female Puerto Rican attorney, and a collection of idiosyncratic characters that help make Key West the end of the road. Many of Key West's infamous and intriguing locals find their way into the story, as does some of the island's history and color, while Mick and his friend go about seeking justice for their murdered friend. In the background remains the lingering question of whether the murder of Mick's friend is really due to the Havana sailboat race or something from his past that has finally caught up with him. The book ends in Havana, where Cuban authorities apprehend the exiles, with Mick's assistance. Mick believes Tom's murder has been avenged and justice has finally been served with the help of the Cuban government. But, has he interfered with a plan to topple communism? Has he committed treason?
