Which book by Michael Lewis is Jeremy Van Brown  known for his place in
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Jeremy Brown Jeremy Van Brown (born October 25, 1979) is an American former professional baseball catcher with the Oakland Athletics. He is also known for his place in Michael Lewis' 2003 #1 bestseller "Moneyball".
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Moneyball Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation. A film based on the book starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill was released in 2011.
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The Good Thief (novel) The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti, is a debut novel published in 2008 by Dial Press. It is the story of Ren, an orphan adopted by a pair of gentleman rogues in early American New England and led willingly into a life of crime. Ren, who is missing his left hand, is taught to lie, steal and run confidence games by his new mentor, Benjamin Nab, and they travel to the city of North Umbridge, where a mousetrap factory owner reigns supreme using his army of hired thugs ("hat boys") and the unmarried, dowdy girls who work in the factory ("mousetrap girls").
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Knife of Dreams Knife of Dreams is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the eleventh book in his series "The Wheel of Time". It was published by Tor Books in the U.S. and Orbit in the UK and released on October 11, 2005. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the "New York Times" hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the fourth consecutive "Wheel of Time" book to reach the #1 position on that list. "Knife of Dreams" is 784 pages long, including a glossary. It has a prologue, 37 chapters, and an epilogue.
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Sergey Aleynikov Sergey Aleynikov is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer. Between 2009 and 2016, he was twice prosecuted for the same conduct of allegedly copying proprietary computer source code from his employer, Goldman Sachs, before joining a competing firm. His first prosecution in federal court in New York ultimately resulted in acquittal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The outcome of his second prosecution and trial in New York state court was a split verdict dismissed by court, which acquitted him on all counts. That order of dismissal was later overturned by New York intermediate appellate court. He is currently appealing that decision in New York Court of Appeals . His story inspired Michael Lewis's bestseller "Flash Boys".
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Black Spring Press Black Spring Press is an independent English publishing house founded in the early 1980s. The first Black Spring publication was a reprint of Anais Nin's "D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study", which on its first publication in 1932 had been only the second study of Lawrence's work to appear. This was followed by Patrick Kearney's "The Paris Olympia Press: An Annotated Bibliography", which carried a Foreword by Maurice Girodias. Later publications included translations of early Soviet short stories and an epistolary first novel from the French; Nick Cave's debut novel, "And the Ass Saw the Angel", which had been commissioned five years previously; reprints of Leonard Cohen's novels together with new editions of his titles "Book of Mercy" and "Death of a Lady's Man"; and the memoirs of Carolyn Cassady, "" In the early 1990s Black Spring revived the reputation of the black comedy thriller writer Kyril Bonfiglioli by gathering his three previously-published novels featuring art-dealer and bon viveur Charlie Mortdecai and issuing them as "The Mortdecai Trilogy"; this was followed by a reprint of Bonfiglioli's historical romp "All the Tea in China" and first publication of "The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery", left lacking its final chapter at the time of the author's death but now completed by Craig Brown. More recently the company has revived work by Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Baron and Julian Maclaren-Ross.
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Out of the Shadows (Alien) Alien: Out of the Shadows is a 2014 novel written by Tim Lebbon and published by Titan Books. Set between "Alien" and "Aliens", the book chronicles Ellen Ripley's involvement in a Xenomorph outbreak on the planet LV-178 and the mining vessel in orbit above it. The survivors' attempts to escape the creatures are further complicated by Ash, whose AI consciousness has survived inside "Narcissus", the shuttle that brought Ripley to them.
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Lewis Gordon Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born 1962) is an American philosopher who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on race and racism, postcolonial phenomenology, Africana and black existentialism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: "What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought."
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The Green Collar Economy The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems is a 2008 book by Van Jones. It outlines a plan for simultaneously solving socioeconomic inequality and environmental problems. The book has received favorable reviews from Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Paul Hawken, Winona LaDuke and Ben Jealous. "The Green Collar Economy" is the first environmental book written by an African-American to make the "New York Times" bestseller list.
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Lewis Warsh Lewis Warsh (born in 1944 in the Bronx, New York), is co-founder, with Anne Waldman, of "Angel Hair" Magazine and Books, and co-editor, with Bernadette Mayer, of "United Artists" Magazine and Books. He is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, most recently "Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005" (Granary Books), "A Place in the Sun" (Spuyten Duyvil), and "Alien Abduction" (Ugly Duckling Presse). He is director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
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Professor Weston Professor Weston (full name Edward Rolles Weston) is arguably one of C. S. Lewis's greatest satanic characters. An eminent physicist on earth, he first appears in Lewis’s "Out of the Silent Planet", which is the first in Lewis’s Space Trilogy. He is defeated by the novel's protagonist Elwin Ransom and the Oyarsa, the ruling angel or eldil of Mars (known to its inhabitants as "Malacandra"), but he returns in the second book of the trilogy in an attempt to wreak havoc on Perelandra (Venus), the "new Eden."
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Michael Vey: Battle of the Ampere Michael Vey: Battle of the Ampere is the third book of the seven book Michael Vey series, written by Richard Paul Evans. It was published September 17, 2013 by Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink. The first book in the series, "", was #1 on the "New York Times" Best Seller list.
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Spellsinger (novel) Spellsinger (1983) is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the first in the Spellsinger series.
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Sam Stone Sam Stone is a British author of gothic, horror, fantasy, science fiction and more recently a playwright for film and stage. She is the commissioning editor of Telos Publishing imprint Telos Moonrise. Stone's debut novel "Gabriele Caccini" (authored as Paigan Stone) won the silver award for best horror novel 2007 with "ForeWord" in the USA. She was shortlisted for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards for her second novel, "Futile Flame". This book was also a finalist in "ForeWord"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Book of the Year Awards in 2009 and the third book in the series, "Demon Dance", was also a finalist for the 2010 Foreword magazine Awards and won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards 2011. This made her the first female writer to win the Award since Tanith Lee did so in 1980. However, after the awards were announced, there was controversy over the voting and so Stone publicly returned the Award, not wishing to be associated with something which might have been awarded erroneously. The BFS then declared that the voting was valid, but then in a later statement announced that the Best Novel would be declared a 'No Award' for that year. Stone was not consulted in this decision. She also won the Best Short Story Award in the British Fantasy Awards in the same year.
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Michael Bond Thomas Michael Bond {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (13 January 1926 – 27 June 2017), who wrote under the pen name Michael Bond, was a British author. He is best known for a series of fictional stories for children, featuring the character of Paddington Bear. More than 35 million Paddington books have been sold around the world, and the characters have also been featured in film and on television. His first book was published in 1958 and his last in 2017, a span of 59 years.
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Todd Hasak-Lowy Todd Hasak-Lowy is a writer and Professor of creative writing and literature at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida and has a PHD from Berkeley. His first book, "The Task of this Translator" (Harcourt Books), a short story collection, was published in 2005. His first novel, Captives, appeared in fall 2008. His latest work is a narrative memoir for readers aged 9–13, "Somewhere There is Still a Sun", co-written with Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum, and published in 2015. It tells the story of Michael’s life from 1939-1945 in Prague and, later, the Terezin Concentration Camp. "33 Minutes", his first middle-grade novel, was published in 2013, and "Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You", his first young adult novel was published in 2015.
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Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker" (1989), "The New New Thing" (2000), "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" (2003), "" (2006), "Panic" (2008), " Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" (2009), "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" (2010), "" (2011) and "Flash Boys" (2014). He has also been a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" since 2009. His most recent book is called "The Undoing Project".
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Jeremy Poolman Jeremy Poolman is a British novelist, biographer and artist. His first novel, "Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona", won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, UK.
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The Lost Symbol The Lost Symbol is a 2009 novel written by American writer Dan Brown. It is a thriller set in Washington, D.C., after the events of "The Da Vinci Code", and relies on Freemasonry for both its recurring theme and its major characters.
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Michael Zadoorian Michael Zadoorian (born February 26, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American novelist and short story writer. Zadoorian’s work explores themes of love, death, memory, things forgotten and found again, the eidetic power of photographic images, and Detroit. His most recent novel is The Leisure Seeker, published in 2009 by William Morrow and Company. In 2016, it was adapted for a motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, and directed by Italian film director, Paolo Virzi. The film is expected to release in 2017.
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Vampire War Vampire War (also called the Hunters trilogy) is the third trilogy in The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan. It contains the novels "Hunters of the Dusk", "Allies of the Night" and "Killers of the Dawn". This trilogy continues the war between vampires and vampaneze. Mr Tiny forms a group of three "hunters" - Darren Shan, Mr Crepsley and new character Vancha March, a Vampire Prince who lives in the wild and follows the old vampire traditions, and has unusually pink skin from staying out in the sun too long. Also, Lady Evanna, who may or may not be a witch, comes along with them. She tells Darren that either he or the Vampaneze Lord will be the Lord of Shadows. But instead of that being on his mind: he only will have four opportunities to kill the Vampaneze Lord, or else the vampires will be destroyed. But there is a gruesome twist involving the Vampaneze Lord and Darren's childhood friend, Steve "Leopard" Leonard, who is the dreaded Vampaneze Lord himself.
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Hunter Brown Hunter Brown is a series of Christian fantasy books. The troubled teen is a sixteen-year-old boy named Hunter Brown who joins a group called the Codebearers and fights an enemy called the Shadow. The first book was released in 2008, the second in the fall of 2009, and the third and final book was released in the winter of 2011. The books are written by two brothers, Christopher and Allan Miller.