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Bobby Jones always hoped that someday an amateur would win the Masters. In this novel, bestselling author John Coyne-The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan and The Caddie Who Played With Hickory-tells the story of Tim Alexander, an amateur from the public links courses in Southern Illinois, who qualifies for the Masters and has a chance to fulfill Jones' dream. In The Caddie Who Won The Masters, Coyne blends his skill at the supernatural (he's a bestselling author of novels of the occult) with his vast knowledge of golf and its history. The riveting result: a Field of Dreams-like tale that brings the greatest of golf's ghosts and legends back to Augusta for one more brilliant game. The novel opens, as all Masters stories must, at Amen Corner, that famed cluster of holes, when Tim Alexander meets one of Augusta's most famous members, a mysterious stranger who changes the rules of golf and reality-and offers to save Tim's wife if Tim will set him free by winning the tournament. This novel is a story of what happens when an amateur like Tim Alexander battles his own age, the history and slick greens of Augusta National, and the PGA's best players, from Tiger Woods to the young guns, in a tournament where winning means more than a green jacket to Tim-it means saving the life of his wife. Any golfer who has had Augusta fantasies will be fascinated to spend a week in Georgia, immersed in the traditions, and the suspense, of the Masters, as time is turned back and an amateur, summoning the ghosts of Augusta, plays the greatest tournament of his life.

"LIRIO DEL PERU es una intensa novela de amor y suspenso al estilo de las novelas A Farewell to Arms de Ernest Hemingway y Lie Down with Lions de Ken Follett." Diane Capri, escritora reconocida como una de las mejores por el New York Times por sus novelas de gran venta, The Hunt for Jack Reacher thrillers. Marcus va a Perú, un país desgarrado por la guerra, por una sola razón: regresar a su hogar con el amor de su vida, la mujer que ha amado desde los días de voluntario con el Cuerpo de Paz-Marisa, con su larga cabellera oscura y sus brillantes ojos azules. Pero cuando llega a Lima, él es confrontado por un general que se presenta con una orden de comparecencia, agentes con armas y el inicio de acusaciones en las que ella es la figura principal de uno de los más extraños movimientos terroristas del mundo. Ellos quieren su ayuda para traerla a la justicia. Marcus no puede creerlo. ¿Es ella la Marisa de sus sueños, o es la mujer terrorista que tira bombas, la que está en todos los carteles como la mujer más buscada en Perú? La verdad se encuentra en algún lugar y nada ni nadie le va a impedir a él averiguarla-ni los soldados que lo persiguen como perros a cada paso que da, ni los terroristas que piensan que está de su lado, ni los salvajes y hostiles nativos; ni siquiera las brujas que lo siguen en las selvas del oriente de Perú.

Shrouded in secrecy and once closed off from the outside world by the Soviet Union, most Americans know very little about Kazakhstan. A Five Finger Feast tells the story of this beautiful place, its vast lands, blue skies, cold winters and hospitable people. Journey with author Tim Suchsland to places less traveled, like the vanishing Aral Sea and the mountain paradise of the Altyn Arashan. Be a guest at a mad tea party, infused with vodka and the sheep-head delicacy called beshbarmak. From 2007 to 2009, Suchsland served in Kazakhstan in the US Peace Corps-an institution at the heart and soul of what it means to be American. Through his story, Suchsland details the adventure of living abroad as a young American with its ups and downs, excitement and thrill. In A Five Finger Feast, he tells the story about growing up in a place far away from home. Featured on "Travel with Rick Steves" (Episodes 764 and 771 - 2024) Winner of the Moritz Thomsen Award for Best Book about the Peace Corps Experience (2023)

"In this fast-paced, fact-packed memoir of The Sixties, a veteran social activist recalls the idealism of the Kennedy Brothers' push for peace and how it shaped him and others to become peacemakers. With eloquent words the brothers laid out their peace agenda - from JFK's Inaugural call in 1960 to join the New Frontier to RFK's "End the War" Presidential Campaign of 1968. June of 1963, JFK's "Strategy of Peace" speech given in response to the nuclear-war standoff with Russia motivated a recently graduated UCLA couple to join the Peace Corps, and were sent to Peru. This richly informed memoir documents how these two Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and others, made a difference in U.S. international relations in ways that money could never buy. The emotional heart of this book is the emergence of RFK. Following his 1964 election to the U.S. Senate, he visited Peru and met with PCVs serving in both urban and rural locations. We learn how that trip influenced RFK's views on aiding the impoverished, and who caused the demise of JFK's billion-dollar assistance program for Latin America - The Alliance for Progress. Following their Peace Corps service, the couple from UCLA returned to Los Angeles. Seven months later, on June 23, 1967, they participated in LA's first anti-war march. The peaceful protest ended in a vicious police riot against the protestors that radicalized them. Many coalesced around Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign for the Presidency, including our eyewitness activist, author Sweet William. We are introduced to the elements of social activism, and charismatic protest leaders. From this insightful history, we learn when Mexican Americans became Chicanos. We also learn that in Chimbote, Peru exactly what JFK had hoped Peace Corps Volunteers would accomplish happened - peasants were emboldened to become presidents. With eyewitness reports, excerpts of speeches, photos and more, JFK & RFK Made Me Do It: 1960 - 1968 has everything that is needed to become immersed in Sixties idealism. But alas, the Kennedy brothers' nighttime burials at Arlington Cemetery, the only veterans ever to be buried at night, put an end to their "strategy of peace.""--

When Jack Allison joined the Peace Corps in 1967, he never intended to write the number one hit song in Malawi or be described by Newsweek as more popular than Malawi''s own president. A poor Southern white boy with a deep love of music, Jack only wanted an answer to one burning question: Should he become a minister or a doctor?In the end, the answer Jack found was that he would choose medicine as a career. And, living in extreme circumstances in the world''s then-poorest country, he would find even more-that he had the inner resources that allowed him to not only thrive but give the best of what he had to those who needed it the most.