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![]() ![]() The best cue ball position? This page delves into such questions.ĭid you know that a British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, helped invent theĪlbert "Peter Pan" Frey was the first American pool shark? Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a pool enthusiast who was shot by another pool shark, John Wilkes Booth? Or that Mark Twain ![]() The highest straight pool run? Who played the best defense: the best "safeties"? Who played Was the best shotmaker, the best bank artist, the best bar table player, the best run-out king? Who had the best nine-ball break, Who were the greatest pool sharks of all time? Which players won the most tournaments? Who was the best hustler in the clutch―playing for cash―with his own money on the line? Who ![]() Famous Pool Sharks (and some SEXY ones too!)įamous Pool Hustlers and their Fabulous Nicknames! ![]() ![]() The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history spiking tourism to Paris and Rome a growing membership in secret societies the ire of Cardinals in Rome eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it a flood of historical thrillers and a major motion picture franchise.” Brown’s novels are published in 52 languages around the world with 200 million copies in print. ![]() ![]() Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008), is a contemporary tale about coming home to Templeton, a stand-in for Cooperstown, New York. She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MFA in fiction. Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer, who was as born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. Currently-lives in Gainesville, Florida.Education-B.A., Amherst College M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison. ![]() Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. ![]() A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.Īt the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.Īt age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. It is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.Įvery story has two sides. ![]() A literary masterpiece that defies expectation and a dazzling examination of a marriage. ![]() ![]() "The American West Center has been my intellectual home and integral to my career He began by editing and recording oral histories and doing contract researchĪnd reports for American Indian tribes and later became a co-PI on a project for Shoshone Project, Native Places Atlas, restores Indigenous place names to the features of UtahĪlthough he’s been the director since 2012, he has been involved with the center sinceġ988. Support for tribes, documenting oral histories, creating archives and more. “Through the center, he hasĬreated and worked on projects for the National Park Service and the United Statesįorest Service, as well as numerous projects for Native peoples creating curricular Said Hollis Robbins, dean of the College of Humanities. “Under Smoak’s leadership, the American West Center has continued to thrive and grow,” The college is forever gratefulįor Smoak’s many years of leadership and service and is looking forward to a new chapter Of history, concludes his 11-year tenure as director. Rekdal will begin her appointment on July 1, 2023, when Gregory Smoak, associate professor The College of Humanities at the University of Utah has named Paisley Rekdal, Distinguished Professor of English, as the next director of the American West Center.
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Sally’s latest book, Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace, offers practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. She is also ranked number 3 among the world’s thought leaders by Global Gurus. She has been inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose ideas have shaped the field of leadership worldwide. Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. ![]() ![]() Agent: Julia Crisp, Julia Crisp Literary. ![]() It’s an exciting outing that nicely sets up the trilogy’s finale. He also plays fair by giving his characters challenges that sometimes do defeat them, even as they hold the reins on revivified gods. Set in a Norse-inspired world and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this second book in John Gwynnes Bloodsworn trilogy is the next chapter an.Gwynne keeps mainly to the Norse elements that make his prose ring with verisimilitude, but he expands his world with a visit to the mighty southern empire of Iskidan that gives the book a bit of a Byzantine feel. While reborn gods take to the skies to fight for dominion, mortals plot, scheme, and betray down below, all in the name of power. But Orka and Uspa have war bands of their own, along with monsters called vaesen and spell books written by the gods that can resurrect and enthrall even long-deceased deities. ![]() As Orka Skullsplitter and Uspa, the Seidr-witch, both search for their stolen children, their quests lead them into the path of the Lik-Rifa’s fierce war band. ![]() Lik-Rifa, the dragon god, is free from her prison and marches with her dragon-born Tainted followers to conquer the divided realms of Vigrid in Gwynne’s furious, battle-filled follow-up to The Shadow of the Gods. ![]() ![]() Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” ( The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series.Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel (13) (Harry Hole Series #13) (Hardcover): Knife: A Harry Hole Novel (12) (Harry Hole Series #12) (Paperback): ![]() The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel (11) (Harry Hole Series #11) (Paperback): Police: A Harry Hole Novel (10) (Harry Hole Series #10) (Paperback): Phantom: A Harry Hole Novel (9) (Harry Hole Series #9) (Paperback): The Leopard: A Harry Hole Novel (8) (Harry Hole Series #8) (Paperback): The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Novel (6) (Harry Hole Series #6) (Paperback): The Devil's Star: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series #5) (Paperback): ![]() Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series #4) (Paperback): The Redbreast: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series #3) (Paperback): The Bat: A Harry Hole Novel (1) (Harry Hole Series #1) (Paperback):Ĭockroaches: A Harry Hole Novel (2) (Harry Hole Series #2) (Paperback): ![]() This is book number 7 in the Harry Hole Series series. ![]() ![]() ![]() This isn’t a review of the movie, it’s a review of how Hollywood sometimes contributes to the divisiveness within the country. Faltering education.Īnd, worst of all, the movie Horton Hears a Who. Kennedy, Obama will inspire a younger generation and invigorate the older generation to take greater part in their government, society, and community.īut there are many obstacles this New Era will have to face. ![]() If Obama is elected, I believe that through his leadership skills and intelligence he will usher in a dynamic new era of government by inclusion rather than secrecy. ![]() And for the most part, Obama has garnered more popular support among white voters than any other candidate. Republicans aren’t going to vote for him, not because he’s black, but because, even worse, he’s a Democrat. But if Obama isn’t elected, it would be hard to blame racism. I’ve already explained why in previous blogs. Opens IMAGE file (Michelle and Barack with daughters Malia and Sasha)īarack Obama is my choice for president. ![]() |