NBA High-Flyers (Bill Gutman)

NBA High-Flyers

Bill Gutman

Blurb: They're the high-flying, slam-dunking, in-your-face magicians, America's hottest court superstars, attracting record-breaking crowds to basketball. Check em out: Basketball's bad boy, Charles Barkley, the driving force behind the Phoenix Suns...Patrick Ewing, one of the league's best scorers and leader of the powerful New York Knicks...San Antonio Spurs' all-star centre, David Robinson...the incredible Shaquille O'Neal, who led the Orlando Magic to their first playoff ever...Hakeem Olajuwon, the Houston Rockets' great scorer, outstanding rebounder and shot blocker...Scottie Pippen, emerging from the shadow of his Chicago Bulls teammate Michael Jordan to showcase his own superstar talents... Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson of the Charlotte Hornets, considered the best of the young one-two superstar tandems in the NBA...and veteran leader of the Golden State Warriors, Chris Mullin.

They're all here, up-close and personal, in NBA High-Flyers.

ISBN: 0671887394 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Archway Paperback

Pages: 166 (Non-Fiction)

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The Return of the Worthy - Star Trek (Peter David, Bill Mumy, J. Michael Straczynski)

The Return of the Worthy - Star Trek

Peter David, Bill Mumy, J. Michael Straczynski

Blurb: These are the continuing comic adventures of Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, as the classic Star Trek team warp into thrilling new worlds!

When Captain Kirk and his crew accidentally discover a group of heroes thought long-dead, they must help them acclimatise to a galaxy they barely recognise. But when internal stresses threaten to tear the group apart, can Kirk help them become heroes again? Also in this collection: a very special tale of dying worlds and those who remember them, and a shocking team-up with...the Klingons?

Written by acclaimed Star Trek novelist and comics legend Peter David (The Incredible Hulk), Lost in Space star Bill Mumy, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and Star Trek author Howard Weinstein, with pencillers Gordon Purcell (New Teen Titans) and Ken Hooper (Aquaman), and featuring rare interviews with William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and George Takei (Mr Sulu), these never-before-collected tales will take you beyond the final frontier!

ISBN: 184576319X (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Titan Books

Pages: 160 (Fiction)

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Bill Clinton - Mastering The Presidency (Nigel Hamilton)

Bill Clinton - Mastering The Presidency

Nigel Hamilton

Blurb: Following on from the widely praised Bill Clinton: An American Journey, Nigel Hamilton takes us on another journey: charting the experience of the 42nd President as he took the presidential oath of office - and how he fared thereafter in the piranha pool of Washington D.C.

Hamilton charts what was possibly the greatest disaster and re-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton administration began ominously badly - kicking off with the worst transition in living memory. The presidency then deteriorated through a series of fiascos at every level. The story of how Bill Clinton faced up to his failures, and refashioned himself in the White House in thus an epic one. It is a story that climaxes with a thriving U.S. economy and hard-won wisdom in international affairs. Clinton would begin his second term as the undisputed, immensely popular leader of the Western world - aware, however, that terrors and treason within America loomed as large as dangers abroad.

Insightful, balanced, prodigiously researched and a joy to read, Bill Clinton: Mastering The Presidency sets the classic story of Clinton's extraordinary effort to be a modern president, in a modern world.

ISBN: 9780099461340 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Arrow Books

Pages: 766 (Non-Fiction)

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Notes from a Big Country (Bill Bryson)

Notes from a Big Country

Bill Bryson

Blurb: Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.

Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts; and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.'

Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slackening direness of American TV or the smug pleasure of being able to eat your beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

ISBN: 9780552997867 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Black Swan

Pages: 383 (Non-Fiction)

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