Robby's parents don't mean to, but they continually compare Robby, who's a high soccer star, to his perfect brother, now playing football, far better than soccer, in college. Robby's best friend and co-captain of the soccer team, Jim has been grounded and suspended from the team for drinking, and his position as goalie has to be filled by freshmen whose playing is questionable. And Robby needs his team to go to the State championships to help him get a soccer scholarship to college. In addition, he has an eccentric, unpredictable girl friend whom the rest of his team dislikes, and a difficult, if not actually sadistic, coach. Robby finds some help with his problems from a sympathetic English teacher, but he needs to work extra hard to deal with the realistic trials of contemporary high school social and athletic life.

Last Chance for First

Hazuka, Tom

Children's Books

Brown Barn Books

The seventy-one flash essays collected here are hilarious proof that you don’t need more than 750 words to laugh out loud. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, these essays are no flashes in the pan—they demonstrate careful attention to craft and exploration: everything you want in a thoughtful essay, only shorter. This collection is perfect for students of writing and comedy—and for anybody who appreciates a good laugh!

Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Woodhall Press

Jimmy Dolan returns to his Connecticut hometown to seek the driver who killed his father in a hit-and run accident--and, as he confronts the secrets of his own past, he becomes entwined in a cat's cradle of guilt, betrayal and revenge.

The Road to the Island: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Bridgeworks

A 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer confronts love and conscience in revolutionary Chile.

In the City of the Disappeared: A Novel

Bridge Works

A young man returns to his Conntecticut hometown to seek his father's hit -run killer, and confronts the secrets of his own past.

As of the 2017-2018 academic year, more than 2,000 students have participated in the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University. Thousands more have been part of similar programs at other Connecticut colleges, including Southern and Eastern Connecticut State Universities, and Wesleyan University. This book is a celebration of all those students. Fifty years after the program was created at CCSU, the students who have passed through its auspices--largely first-generation college students from minority populations--are a testament to how far the program has come since its early days, when its mission was often called into question. The histories chronicled herein shed light on a program that has achieved a lasting, generational impact, and which, over the course of successive summers, has indeed changed thousands of lives.

A Summer That Can Change Your Life: A History of the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University

Education & Teaching

Jones, C J

Higher & Continuing Education

Fresh off the success of Flash Nonfiction Funny comes a piping-hot new take on the flash genre: Food. Working within a 750-word limit, each of these nonfiction pieces is driven by a hunger for something filling. Memories of an ill-fated birthday cake, contemplations on a family recipe, an embarrassing sauce spill on a first date -- all of it true, all of it tasty. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, this collection is perfect for students of writing and brevity -- and for anybody who appreciates good food!?Featuring essays by Dinty W. Moore, Kim Addonizio, Sarah Wesley Lemire, Stephen Goff, Mark Lewandowski, Alison Townsend, Jesse Waters, Elizabeth Danek, Jonathan Ammons, Leeanna Torres, Eric D. Lehman, Sari Fordham, Renee Cohen, Brian Phillip Whalen, Rebecca Beardsall, Pamela Felcher, Lisa Romeo, Amy Barnes, and many more!

Flash Nonfiction Food: 91 Very Delicious, Very True, Very Short Stories

Fitzpatrick, Kathryn

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

If You Turn to Look Back combines memoir with political, social, and economic investigations of what it means to be an American and a citizen of the world. American influence is ubiquitous in South America, and If You Turn to Look Back explores these relationships in a personal context. For Tom Hazuka was once part of that influence, from 1978-1980 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile, first in the capital of Santiago, then in the far northern city of Arica, near the Peruvian border. In a chain of events springing from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in 2003 Hazuka returned to Chile to examine changes in the country, the people and himself. He left Chile at twenty-four and returned at forty-seven. Every human knows what it's like to wonder where time goes, and to reflect on what has been gained and lost over the years. One variable that has not changed for Hazuka is that he is an American. In South America, like it or not he is a representative in developing nations of the richest and most powerful country on the planet. The intricacies of that relationship and the dynamics it creates are the focus of If You Turn to Look Back.

If You Turn to Look Back: A Memoir and Meditation

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Hazuka, Tom. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Hazuka, Tom

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Hazuka, Tom. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Last Chance for First

Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories

The Road to the Island: A Novel

In the City of the Disappeared: A Novel

The Road to the Island: A Novel

A Summer That Can Change Your Life: A History of the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University

Flash Nonfiction Food: 91 Very Delicious, Very True, Very Short Stories

If You Turn to Look Back: A Memoir and Meditation