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  • STRESS IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS
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    STRESS IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS
    ROBERT E STEVENS / DAVID L LOUDON / DEBORAH A YOW / WILLIAM W BOWDEN / JAMES H HUMPHREY
    Stress in College Athletics: Causes, Consequences, Coping addresses the causes and consequences of stress in college sports and offers effective coping mechanisms that will help individuals understand and control stressors and emotions in their environment. Athletic administrators, coaches, student athletes, parents of athletes, educators, and social and behavioral science rese...

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  • NO RESTING PLACE
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    NO RESTING PLACE
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    A Scottish-Cherokee boy accompanies his grandparents on the Trail of Tears in this "superb" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ordways ( Time).   Twelve-year-old Amos Ferguson is a blond, blue-eyed boy of mixed Cherokee and Scottish heritage, the son of a physician and the grandson of a gentleman farmer. Despite wealth and education, however, the family has n...

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  • THE COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM HUMPHREY
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    THE COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    The essential anthology of early short fiction by an American master Set primarily in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, these extraordinary stories display the unique blend of irony, nostalgia, and sharp-edged lyricism that established William Humphrey as one of America's finest chroniclers of small-town life.   In "The Last Husband," a bright-eyed newlywed bears ...

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  • SEPTEMBER SONG
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    SEPTEMBER SONG
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    From one of America's most acclaimed authors comes a masterful collection of bittersweet tales about the autumn of life In the exquisite title story, seventy-six-year-old Virginia Tyler will finally marry the love of her life—as soon as she finds the courage to leave her husband of almost fifty years. In "The Apple of Discord," a Hudson Valley farmer, heartsick that none of his...

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  • MY MOBY DICK
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    MY MOBY DICK
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    From the acclaimed author of Home from the Hill and The Ordways comes a charming and erudite account of what happens when the fish hooks the fisherman In the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic, one-eyed brown trout lazing in the shallows of a roadside stream. Between three and four feet long and weighing more than thirty pou...

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  • THE SPAWNING RUN
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    THE SPAWNING RUN
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    William Humphrey's delightful chronicle of an angling holiday in Wales celebrates two equally astonishing creatures: the Atlantic salmon and the British fly fisherman  In order to mate in the same freshwater stream where it was spawned, the salmon swims one thousand miles or more and overcomes countless obstacles, from trawling nets to twelve-foot-high waterfalls. To catch the ...

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  • HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE
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    HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    A father bravely confronts an unthinkable tragedy in William Humphrey's most heart-wrenching novel. In the aftermath of his son's suicide, Ben Curtis returns to the upstate New York fishing lodge that holds some of his happiest memories. It has been two years since his last visit, and Ben—thirty pounds lighter, his dark hair turned white—is barely recognizable to people who hav...

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  • THE ORDWAYS
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    THE ORDWAYS
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    "Good writing is rare enough. Storytelling is an even rarer skill. A genuinely comic vision is beyond price. The Ordways has all three." — Time On the annual graveyard-working day in Clarksville, Texas, families come from all over East Texas to pay respects to their loved ones. The Ordways are one such clan, and in this eloquent and original novel, our narrator recounts the sto...

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  • FARTHER OFF FROM HEAVEN
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    FARTHER OFF FROM HEAVEN
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    William Humphrey's acclaimed memoir is a richly detailed portrait of small-town Texas and a poignant account of the tragedy that shaped the author's life  At three o'clock in the morning on July 5, 1937, William Humphrey awoke to his mother's urgent cry: "Get dressed as quick as you can! Your daddy has been hurt." Rushing to the doctor's office, mother and son arrived to find C...

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  • HOME FROM THE HILL
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    HOME FROM THE HILL
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride. Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.   Home from the Hill is the story of t...

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  • PROUD FLESH
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    PROUD FLESH
    WILLIAM HUMPHREY
    "A big, rich, satisfying, old-fashioned hunk of a book . . . part comedy, part tragedy, and thoroughly satisfying." — Chicago Tribune Book World A Texas family as big and brash as their home state, the Renshaws are united by their fierce loyalty to one another and their ruthlessness in destroying anyone who threatens their interests.   When the Renshaw matriarch, Edwina, takes ...

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