When John McDonnell began his coaching career at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville--choosing it over Norman, Oklahoma, because Fayetteville reminded him of his native Ireland--he could hardly have imagined that he would become the most successful coach in the history of American collegiate athletics. But, in thirty-six years at the university, he amassed a staggering resume of accomplishments, including forty national championships (eleven cross country, nineteen indoor track, and ten outdoor track), the most by any coach in any sport in NCAA history. His teams at Arkansas won the triple crown (a championship in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track in a single school year) a record five times. The Razorbacks also won eighty-three conference championships (thirty-eight in the Southwest Conference and forty-six in the Southeastern Conference), including thirty-four consecutive conference championships in cross country from 1974 to 2008. McDonnell coached 185 All-Americans, fifty-four individual national champions, and twenty-three Olympians. And from 1984 to 1995, his Razorback teams won twelve consecutive NCAA Indoor Track Championships, the longest streak of national titles by any school in any sport in NCAA history. This biography tells the story of the McDonnell's life and legacy, from his childhood growing up on a farm in 1940s County Mayo, Ireland, to his own running career, to the beginnings of his life as a coach, to all the great athletes he mentored along the way.

So you wanna be a wielder?

For a handful of special students, things are about to get dangerously weird.

Fourteen-year-old Frankie Delarosa and her older brother, Cruz, are already having enough trouble in their lives. But when a psychotic entity comprised entirely of energy begins hunting them down, it will take the combined efforts of an untested group of wisecracking, hardheaded teenagers from Sevenpointe Academy-a special school for wielders of the seven classical elements-to help them escape with their lives.

Fleeing a town full of mindless zombies, being attacked on all sides by primordial beings, and facing a deadly maze intended to keep them away from the one person who can help them, the Elementalists come to realize the most important truth of all: For better, for worse, for friends...

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Christian Maloney almost didn't make it into this world. Two miscarriages tried to send him into the Lord's arms without him ever seeing his parents. Andrew and Christy Maloney thought they were losing their baby. She would miscarry, and he would die. No That can't be right, that's not what God would want. He'd raise the child up, stop this bleeding, sew up her womb. They believed in that kind of God. But the baby wasn't making it. They couldn't accept that-not after feeling him kick in there, not after seeing his little face on the ultrasound, not after hearing his heartbeat. "He can't die," they said, "we won't let him "

That proclamation starts "Eight Weeks with No Water," an emotional, true tale of the Lord's sustaining grace working through faith to go against the odds and bring a remarkable little boy into the world for God's glory and honor. It is a testimony of fiery trials with compelling insight that proves the walk of faith is worth the reward of faith