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Since the dawn of the millennium, no football team has enjoyed greater success than the New England Patriots, with 12 straight winning seasons, 10 playoff appearances, 5 Super Bowl trips, and 3 championship titles. Under Coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady have been a dominant force on the gridiron, a veritable dynasty in an era of NFL parity. But the history of this team, beginning long before the arrival of Belichick and...
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Drive for Five presents the behind-the-scenes look at the legendary 2016 New England Patriots season from the rocky start to the Super Bowl finish by award-winning sportswriter Christopher Price.
Foreword by Patriots safety Devin McCourty
Afterword by Patriots wide receiver Matthew Slater
There are certain moments that simply transcend sports. They become larger than life and bigger than anyone ever thought possible, leaping off the field,...
3) The Blueprint: How the New England Patriots Beat the System to Create the Last Great NFL Superpower
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Moneyball for the New England Patiots, award-winning sportswriter Christopher Price goes into the inner workings of the legendary football franchise in The Blueprint
For years, the New England Patriots were a certifiable joke of a franchise. They were run on the cheap and were once the very example of how not to manage a team. They hired inept coaches, one of whom (Clive Rush) was nearly electrocuted when he grabbed a microphone at his introductory...
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The Hartford Whalers were a beloved hockey team since their founding in 1972 as the New England Whalers. Playing in the National Hockey League's smallest market and arena after the World Hockey Association merger in 1979, they struggled in a division that included both the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens-but their fans were among the NHL's most loyal. In 1995 new owners demanded a new arena and, when it fell through, moved the team to North Carolina,...
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With a single blow, Cete won both honor and exile from his last commander. Since then he has wandered, looking for a place to call home. The distant holdings of the Reach Antach offer shelter, but that promise has a price.
The Reach Antach is doomed.
Barbarians, traitors, and scheming investors conspire to destroy the burgeoning settlement. A wise man would move on, but Cete has found reason to stay. A blind weaver-woman and the beautiful sunset mantle...
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This book teaches, shares, and outlines how anyone can get into flipping and rehabbing residential real estate. Residential real estate is the most resilient sector of the real estate industry and the easiest sector for everyday people to enter in with no experience and no money and make the equivalent to their annual salary on one deal. The book offers tips on How to estimate repairs in 15 minutes or less How to use other peoples money to buy How...
7) Ghost
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David is a modest man who works in a bank, lives in a rooming house, enjoys books and quiet walks by the lake. Three months after unexpectedly being fired from his job, he takes a temporary position at a mortuary. And there, sitting alone in the "slumber room" one late afternoon, he sees something that he cannot comprehend, something that no science can explain, something that will force him to question everything he believes in, including himself....
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An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?
Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists have surged in the United States for the same simple reason: terrorism works. It's not caused by psychosis or irrationality, as the media often suggests. Instead,...
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As President and CEO at Scripps Health, one of Americas most prestigious health systems, Chris Van Gorder has presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position. While hospitals and health systems nationwide have laid people off or are closing their doors, Scripps is financially healthy, has added almost 5,000 employees, and has developed a reputation as a marquee employer, recognized...
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Change is a constant, and leaders must do more than keep up - they must innovate and accelerate to succeed. Yet people are often unnerved by change. As a leader during a time of transformation, you may stand up before teams that are indifferent, or even hostile, and need to convince them that change is necessary and urgent. More than money, time, or resources, the ability to lead these people determines your ultimate success or failure. What does...
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Startupland is the story of Zendesk, founded in the kitchen of a Copenhagen loft, and now a 500-person company with customers in 140 countries and one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley. Zendesk provides customer service software to major clients. Much like Zendesk’s mission itself to remove the friction, the barriers and the mystery in order to make software easier and more approachable this book removes some of the myths about startups...
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In todays tenuous business climate, employers and employees alike are glued to the ground, unsure of the path they should take or whether they have the freedom to move forward, in other words, they cant get clear, get free, or get going to achieve their goals. Master networker Joe Sweeney, whos delivered nearly 150 keynote talks to large corporations like General Electric, Wells Fargo, and Northwestern Mutual heard a consistent refrain from CEOs,...
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IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
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"A sinful act ruins the lives of three people, especially that of Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, who has conceived a child out of wedlock and receives a public punishment of having to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing. Despite Hester's attempts through the years to distance herself from her past and repent for her sins, she continues to be rejected by society. A best-seller upon its publication in 1850, The Scarlet Letter's...
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The first season of the Tor.com Collection includes the following Tor.com audiobooks originally published separately in the Fall of 2015:
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
• Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (2016 Hugo award winner for Best Novella)
• The Last Witness by K.J. Parker
• Of Sorrow & Such by Angela Slatter
• Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
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