Books with author C. Ballard

The Inspirational Story of a Coach, a Baseball Team, and the Season They'll Never ForgetIn 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinoisplaying with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hatsdefied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with nocoaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make thestate final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting longhair, and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar, the Ironmen would playa dramatic game against a Chicago powerhouse that would change theirlives forever.In a gripping, cinematic narrative, Sports Illustrated writer ChrisBallard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet, ahippie, dreamer and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966,bringing progressive ideas to a town stuck in the Eisenhower era.Beloved by students but not administration, Sweet reluctantly tookover a rag-tag team, intent on teaching the boys as much about life asbaseball. Inspired by Sweet's unconventional methods and led by fierystar Steve Shartzer and spindly curveball artist John Heneberry, theundersized, undermanned Macon Ironmen embarked on an improbablepostseason run that infuriated rival coaches and buoyed an entiretown.Beginning with Sweet's arrival, Ballard takes readers on a journeyback to the Ironmen's historic season and then on to the present day,returning to the 1971 Ironmen to explore the effect the game had ontheir lives' trajectories--and the men they've become because of it.Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the powerof high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, andit reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that among acoach, a team, and a town

Mixtures and Solutions shows you what mixtures and solutions are made from. You will learn about different types of mixtures, how solutions can be made, and how different solvents can be used. You will also learn about the different methods that can be used to separate mixtures and solutions. So, come on an exciting journey into the world of mixtures and solutions! Sci-Hi is an engaging, comprehensive, and visually stimulating series that takes learning science core curriculum to a whole new level.

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp.One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged.

Until a prince knows he is to be king the servant is his master.Sybernought is an orphaned 13-year-old cyberchild who just wants to fit in. But he doesn't know his digital conception, and messiah-like birth (including those vying over him behind the scenes) makes this impossible. And when it's revealed he's the Digital Messiah, the one fated to save humanity from an oncoming Cybergeddon, things get…complicated.Once Sybernought learns a perilous secret about the only home he's ever known, a corporate owned city-wide orphanage, he and his friends flee. But they know little about life on the outside...where vaccinations are needed to combat a digital pandemic, paranoia over technology has given way to persecutions...and an aging military man on a personal crusade to kill the boy. Meanwhile others choose sides in a cyber conflict which will affect the material, virtual, and digital realms. Sybernought will be pushed, by both allies and enemies, to discover more about his parents, his abilities, his destiny, and ultimately himself.