Curveballs

Curveballs
Author: Emma Markezic
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1460709608

Because sometimes, life is going to suck, and you’re going to have to know how to handle it… What happens when you step on one of the great Lego pieces of life? When you get blind-sided? Thrown a curveball? When you get divorced? Or someone dies? You're going to need something more than the diarrhoea-like progression of motivational quotes we get fed on Instagram - you're going to need real-world ways to deal with a big, fat let-down. Because one will come for you, eventually. And when one came for comedian and journalist Emma Markezic in the form of a nasty cancer, despite the fact she found herself bald, broke and living alone, she felt more alive than ever. So she wanted to know why... Why does trauma affect us in such different ways? Why are some people more resilient than others? Why was she handling cancer better than other people handle a paper cut and, more importantly, was it a skill she could teach? When she wrote an article about how learning she might die made her the happiest she'd ever been, it became a media sensation and she knew she was onto something. With dozens of expert brain morsels and more than a little humour, Curveballs is a memoir-meets-self-help manual for how to keep it together when life tries to tear you a new one. Because you'll want to be more resilient than a tardigrade in outer space when it does*. *Microscopic eight-legged animals that can withstand 1000 times more radiation than humans, live for 100 years without water and literally just hang out in space like freeloaders at a Vegas buffet. See... you learned something already!

Hitting the Curveballs

Hitting the Curveballs
Author: Jay Myers
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1614487162

In Hitting the Curveballs, small business owner Jay Myers coaches entrepreneurs to use crises to grow their business by inspiring them to embrace new strategies, including creative employee recruiting methods, niche marketing, using your book as a hook, and much more. Myers tells the story of how he led his own company to more than double its sales to $25 million from 2007 to 2011, when they lost 80% of their sales team and faced the worst economy in living memory. Buy this book if you want the encouraging voice of an experienced hitter behind you next time you step up to the plate.

Curveballs

Curveballs
Author: Catherine A. Mardon
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1897472102

When a young idealistic Catholic attorney decides to take on the leader of a white supremacist training camp, she has no idea how far she will have to go, and how much it will eventually cost her. A true story of faith in the face of adversity.

Hitting Life's Curveballs

Hitting Life's Curveballs
Author: Bob Rogers
Publisher: Books by Bob Rogers, Inc.
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991296109

In his native Lenoir, North Carolina, Will Wallace, Jr. is a 1943 baseball star. It is said that his skills surpassed his father’s legendary baseball feats. The mother of his high school sweetheart, Dena, disapproves of their romance and declares Will, a mere baseball player and lumberjack, to be beneath their social status. Soon, Will joined the fight against America’s apartheid in baseball. Soon, the Ku Klux Klan teaches Will a lesson in the status. Will’s father’s friend, a former Atlanta Crackers baseball player, devises for Will a clever escape from Klan pursuit and hides him in the U.S. Army. Will’s 366th Infantry Regiment’s first mission in Italy is keeping the pilots and planes of the 99th Fighter Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) safe from enemy saboteurs while on the ground between aerial sorties. When Will fulfills his wish to fight against the Germans, he finds himself in intense combat that leaves him with flagging hope he will live to see Dena again.

Overcoming the Curveballs of Life

Overcoming the Curveballs of Life
Author: Michelle Petersen
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982205539

Michelle Petersen has been a mother-baby nurse for forty-plus years. At the age of fifteen, she had a visionary, out-of-body near-death experience that led her to the skirts of the heavenly realm then back again. Transformed by what she experienced and what she was told, she now shares with the world the valuable lessons that were revealed to her at a very young age and throughout the course of her life.

Curveballs

Curveballs
Author: John Rolfe
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1990
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780316754521

An illustrated compilation of unusual facts about various sports.

Curveballs & Changeups

Curveballs & Changeups
Author: K.P. Kmitta
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149176094X

Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build a baseball field. Hulbert claims that baseball in America will be a grand new pastime and a grand new business opportunity. In 2006, Scott Banks is a devoted Cubs fan even though hes moved to St. Louis and is married to his well-meaning, Cardinal-loving wife. Life for Banks is on cruise control until he gets the chance to fulfill a dream of a lifetimebut it comes with a curveball. Suddenly, hes forced to face the gut-wrenching realities that have him swinging and missing lifes off-speed pitches. Modern time is intertwined with a nineteenth-century depiction of the birth of a storied rivalry in Curveballs and Changeups.

Clean Your Cleats

Clean Your Cleats
Author: Dan Blewett
Publisher: Dan Blewett
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

What Does it Take to Have a Great Baseball Career? You daydream about one day seeing your face on a baseball card. You live for pressure and the green grass beneath your cleats. But as your career progresses, the game gets harder. You slump and struggle. You get injured and overlooked. Your confidence plummets. Can you keep improving? Are your big dreams still within reach? A Handbook for the Dedicated Player Clean Your Cleats is filled with stories and advice learned the hard way, over a long career on the diamond. Develop better routines and improve your consistency. Handle the ups and downs with confidence and resolve. Strengthen relationships with teammates, parents and coaches. Learn mindset strategies to become the best version of you. Dan Blewett, in this practical guide, helps players understand all the little things in baseball that make a huge difference over a long career. Why clean your cleats? Because every detail matters.