Books with author Robert Slaughter

As the world crumbles...Lizzie had it worse than most. Will she give up?A bat virus brought the world to its knees. At 17, Lizzie barely remembers her father. She needs to forget her mother' s loser boyfriends. Surviving an apocalypse could push anyone to the unthinkable.Lizzie's shotgun is loaded.Then she meets Spike. A survivor with a dog collar. Uncommunicative. Hungry. She dropher food and runs. She sees him again and leaves food. She finds Zach, a friend from school.Zach leaves to get another friend. Then she nearly runs over an other old schoolmate who invites himeself over and drinks her crap beer.Things go to Hell. A man dies. Did she mean to pull the trigger? His brother shows up, finds the body and embeds a hunting knife in her door. Lizzie opens it, he shoves his way in. Spike saves her and a box of her father's stuff is crushed in the fight, but her father's name and a phone number peak out from the wrapping paper. Like a beacon.Could he still be alive?She has to find out.You'll love this coming-of-age, post-apocaloptimistic road-trip adventure, because when we need it most, a single piece of hope could be all it takes.Get it now.

Intriguing portraits of the greatest Jewish sports figures of the past two centuries. Among the outstanding Jewish athletes featured are Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz, Brooklyn Dodger ace Sandy Koufax, and football star quarterback Sid Luckman. Features special sections on the Maccabiah Games and Israeli sports figures plus a complete listing of the members of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Israel. With black-and-white photographs.

As the world crumbles...Lizzie had it worse than most.Will she give up?A bat virus brought the world to its knees. At 17, Lizzie barely remembers her father. Surviving an apocalypse could push anyone to the unthinkable.Her shotgun is loaded.She meets survivor, a hungry, silent man with a dog collar. She leaves food.Things go to hell. People die. Some by her hands.When Lizzie is attacked, her box of family keepsakes is smashed and her father's name and a phone number peak out from under the paper.Like a beacon.Could he still be alive?She has to find out.You'll love this coming-of-age, post-apocaloptimistic adventure. Because when you need it most, a single piece of hope can be all it takes.Get it now.

Replete with facts, figures, and statistics, Great Jews in Sports documents the contribution of Jewish athletes to the world of sports over the past two centuries. From home-run king Hank Greenberg, star of the 1930s and 1940s, to gymnast Kerri Strug, gold-medal winner at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, this new edition of a perennial favorite presents intriguing portraits of sports stars from around the globe. Bestselling author Robert Slater's more than 150 major profiles and thumbnail sketches include such a fascinating and diverse mix as Daniel Mendoza, the father of modern boxing; Esther Roth, the first Israeli to reach the Olympic finals; Sidney Franklin, the first Jewish bullfighter; Angela Buxton, the 1956 Wimbledon Doubles Champion; Sandy Koufax, the youngest player ever to be admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame; Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, who earned an impressive five gold medals in the 1930s and 1940s; and power swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg, who won two gold medals for the United States at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Australia. For those particularly interested in the Israeli sports scene, Slater devotes an entire section of biographies to outstanding Israeli sports figures, including basketball star Mickey Berkowitz, soccer goalie Ya'acov Chodorov, and track and field stars Zehava Shmueli and Uri Zohar. Also included are lists of the winners of the Maccabiah Games and of members of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, which was founded in 1979, in Netanya, Israel, to recognize Jewish athletes of distinction. First published in 1983, Robert Slater's new edition of the classic Great Jews in Sports will continue to delight seasoned sports lovers while introducing a whole new generation to some of the finest athletes of our time. Introduction by Red Auerbach. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs.