Bøger af Matt Stewart

Baseball is king in Kansas City. Our love for America's national pastime began in the 1880s, when professional baseball first came to town. Back then, the minor league Blues and Negro League Monarchs dominated. Fans packed the stands to watch them play. Then in 1955, major league baseball arrived in Kansas City. The Athletics, though, lost a lot of games and never had a winning record. When the A's moved to Oakland in 1967, many feared Kansas City would never get another team. But then Ewing Kauffman stepped up to the plate. He didn't know a lot about baseball, but he bought an MLB franchise knowing it would be good for the city. A competitive man by nature, Kauffman invested millions in the team. In the 1970s and '80s the Royals won a lot of games, including two American League pennants and a World Series. But then the losing began as the Royals failed to make the playoffs for 29 straight years. In 2014 and 2015, Kansas City finally turned it around. The Royals won two American League pennants and a World Series, bringing an entire city together. Today, as the Royals develop another batch of young, talented players to lead them back to the playoffs, fans hope they might soon witness another World Series win. While we wait, you can relive all the great moments of this proud franchise in The Kansas City Royals: An Illustrated Timeline. Learn more about the early days of the team, the games that defined them, and how star players like Amos Otis, George Brett, and Salvador Perez inspired the Royals to win. This is the most detailed, informative, and entertaining Royals book ever assembled, and it will inspire you to return to the ballpark so you can shout, "Let's Go Royals!"

In the near future, a mysterious portal appears in the lab of a world-renowned scientist. Through the wormhole, he sees his future self - near death and with a warning: build a time machine and fix the past before nuclear war consumes the world. Three years later, this scientist is ready to jump back in time. But when he opens the portal, he's not the only one who goes through. A killer with his own agenda also gets pulled into the past, as does the scientist's nephew and nephew's girlfriend. Together they must adapt to this new time in history and learn to get along - or risk causing an even worse fate for all of mankind. Pick up this exciting tale BookLife says is full of "surprising twists...makes for a riveting read."

When you think Kansas City, you think barbeque. And sure, we know how to smoke and sauce meat. But limiting our city to just one type of food is an injustice of epic proportions. Some of the best chefs in the world make Kansas City their home, and they've brought their award-winning recipes with them. Within the pages of Unique Eats and Eateries of Kansas City you'll not only learn why they decided to open their restaurants here but also the stories behind their food. Learn how a national magazine helped a legendary barbeque chef turn burnt ends from a free snack into a main course. Taste some of the most beautiful chocolates you'll ever see created by a burnt-out chef on one last try at success. Check out some of the best-tasting tacos at a Mexican grocery store, or discover how a restaurant with the best burgers in Kansas City became famous thanks to a serial killer. Every eatery offers a fascinating story behind the delicious food they serve, and this book is a guide to some of Kansas City's best. Fox 4 anchor and reporter Matt Stewart takes you on a culinary tour of Kansas City's most unique, unusual, and enjoyable food spots to help you pick and better appreciate your next dining experience.

Loosely structured on the greatest identity crisis ever, "The French Revolution" is the hilarious, tragic, and deeply imaginative story of a San Francisco family forging its place in history. Esmerelda Van Twinkle, a failed pastry chef turned outsized copy shop manager, stumbles into motherhood after a semi-intentional liaison with good-natured coupon distributor Jasper Winslow. Born on Bastille Day, their twin children Robespierre and Marat revolt against archaic rules imposed by their autocratic grandmother, surmount radically misguided parenting, navigate factional infighting, and combat wars in the Middle East to achieve great personal gain. But just as the family is on the cusp of achieving meteoric success in politics, business, music, and gastronomy, fissures from the past crack open spectacularly, derailing their bid for long-lived power while cementing a reputation for the ages. Matt Stewart blends vibrant prose, unforgettable characters, and a multi-layered plot based on the extremes of the historical French Revolution for a relentlessly entertaining debut novel. "Viva la revolution!"

This hilarious look inside a small town television news station puts the spotlight on truly shoddy journalism. Recent college graduate Tate Thompson has just been hired to run KNEW, the smallest TV station in America - located in Crepeville, Montana. Only the locals pronounce it "Crapville" and before long, Tate is drowning in a pile of it. Eccentric personalities dominate the KNEW newsroom: from the anchor who opines on every story to the bombshell who mispronounces every word; from the reporter who refuses to put on makeup to the producer who wants Tate's job. As Tate struggles to run this media circus, KNEW's general manager charged with murder. Believing it all to be a set-up, Tate relies on his skills learned in the classroom and his quirky co-workers to free their boss and bring the real killer to justice. Inspired by the author's real-life experiences as a television news reporter, this murder mystery focuses the lens on all the absurdity that happens behind-the-scenes at a small town news station.