 | Stranded
Publication Date: April 14, 2009Rachel Michaels is at the top of her profession, but she's grown tired of trading barbs with her co-host/ex-husband on their popular morning radio talk show. Eager to stretch her wings, she takes a second job as the color commentator for Denver's new professional women's soccer team. Along with her new job comes an exciting assignment, travel to Venezuela to profile the team's sizzling star recruit, Miranda Gutierrez. But Rachel begins to long for a little of her old routine when her boss forces her to extend her stay to accompany team big-wig, Nora Butler, an...
 |  | 7,000 Clams: A Novel
Release Date: January 11, 2005Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing government thief, Frank hunts him down, roughs him up, and finds something that catches his eye. What at first appears to be a scrap of paper is actually a handwritten and unmistakably authentic IOU for $7,000, signed by Babe Ruth. Seven-thousand clams is a lot of money—and when Frank gets a tip that the Yankees are about to begin spring training in St. Petersburg, Flor...
|  | Once Upon a Fastball
Release Date: April 29, 2008Your legacy is in the Attic. The words leap from the cryptic poem left for Harvard professor Seth Stein by his Papa Sol, the doting grandfather who vanished without a trace four years earlier. It was Papa Sol who instilled an unquenchable passion for baseball in Seth's soul; it was Sol who also ignited Seth's obsession with history, spinning fabulous tales of times and people long gone. And when Papa Sol disappeared, it was Seth who stepped up to the plate, caring for Sol's bewildered wife as she clung to her cherished memories. Seth is still searching for answers...
|  | The Dick Francis Complete Treasury of Great Racing Stories
Publication Date: March 2004From his extensive experience as a Steeplechase rider, he and John Welcome—a fellow best-selling writer—have gathered 28 of the most classic horse racing stories around. The authors range from Arthur Conan Doyle and Beryl Markham to John Taintor Foote and Francis himself. Damon Runyon’s “Pick the Winner” introduces us to the unforgettable, ironically named Hot Horse Herbie and his ever-loving fiancée, Miss Cutie Singleton. In her “Pullinstown,” Molly Keane brilliantly evokes racing among the Anglo-Irish gentry....
|  | Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago
Publication Date: April 2001In the summer of 1919 three men (two white, one black) decide that the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the twentieth century to sign a black player to a major league contract... Set before the broad shoulders of Chicago, Shadow Ball tells the story of Rube Foster, African American owner of the Chicago-American Giants; Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox; and Sam Weiss, their silent go-between. Their plans are complicated by the eruption of the August 1919 race riot in Chicago, as seen and heard by Kid Douglas, a Mississippi blues ...
|  | The Back Nine
Release Date: March 27, 2007Golf: it’s that simple, and that bedeviling, and that’s what it comes down to when Charlie McLeod—having fled unspecified disaster back East—turns up at a golf club near San Francisco and is entranced again by a game that had defined him until, years ago, he had to give it up. Now he begins caddying, a job that respects every privacy and motivation, while wrestling with those things that had exiled him not only from the sport but from life itself.In the profane, reassuring yet competitive world of the caddy shack, lost souls jostle for posi...
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|  | Scooter
Release Date: August 23, 2005A powerfully moving new novel from Mick Foley, filled with the same heart and imagination that made Tietam Brown so distinctive (“It makes you laugh so hard sometimes it makes you cry” —Chicago Tribune).The time is 1969. Scooter Riley is a regular kid growing up in the Bronx, on Shakespeare Avenue, just north of Yankee Stadium.His father, Patrick Riley, is a New York City cop; his beat is Harlem, streets that are getting rougher by the day in the wake of the assassinations of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy.Riley’s Spartan code of ethics and un...
|  | The Hunt (Hunt Country Suspense)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Hunt Country Suspense The complex and romanticised lifestyle of elite fox hunters is revealed in this thrilling murder mystery. An attractive and wealthy lawyer and horseman, Doug Cummings personifies the old-money equine subculture of Middleburg, Virginia. Driven to succeed, Cummings's climb to the top is halted when he becomes the target of a twisted scheme to frame him for the murders of his former lover and horse groom. As Cummings attempts to find the true culprits, the conflicting forces of his community offer a revealing look at how vengeance, ...
|  | Sweet Turnaround J
Publication Date: June 8, 2009"It was going to be the best year of my life. This year we'd go to State and win it all. That's all I thought about. In March, I was going to be cutting down the net and holding a trophy in the air."Sixteen-year-old All-State, Janey Holmes is devastated, her dream shattered. Her old school suddenly closes over the summer and she finds herself at a new school, on a basketball team that hasn't won a game in over three years.As the Riverside Ravens climb from a hopeless start to challenge the best teams in the District, Janey learns what happens when her passion fo...
|  | The Draft
Release Date: October 31, 2006"Wil Mara goes inside the NFL draft like never before. He details the personalities and complications that go into every draft decision, making for good reading and good drama."---John Clayton, NFL analyst and ESPN senior writer It's draft time in the National Football League. For high-ranking team executives, this means long days and sleepless nights, endless negotiations, and determining which young men deserve to become millionaires and which do not. Careers will be made with the stroke of a pen, but mistakes are costly. Baltimore Ravens General Man...
|  | Causing Havoc (SBC Fighters, Book 1)
Publication Date: August 2007Orphaned and torn from his sisters as a boy, sexy extreme wrestler Dean "Havoc" Conor gets a letter revealing how much his siblings want him back in Harmony, Kentucky. To stop his sister from marrying a sleazeball, Dean finds himself teaming up with her pretty-but-smart-mouthed friend Eve-who's heard of Havoc's reputation and doesn't need some hunk trampling on her heart. Now all Dean has to do is protect his sisters, win Eve over, and expose a devious criminal. And he thought winning the heavyweight belt was hard. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback ...
|  | The Kid Who Batted 1.000
Release Date: April 30, 2002The Des Moines Majestyks are deep in the cellar...so deep that it seems nothing short of divine intervention could even get them up to the ground floor.They do have one star, Juan-Tanamera "Bueno" Aires, an ex-basketball phenom who performs miracles at the plate and magic in the field. Unfortunately, team owner Holden Canfield, who’s struck it rich with an Internet start-up, spent the entire team budget on acquiring "Bueno," leaving the rest of the roster painfully devoid of talent.Manager Zuke Johansen has just about given up hope when an unexpected thing ...
|  | Hounded to Death: A Novel
Release Date: September 30, 2008From New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown comes the latest novel in her enthralling series of foxhunting mysteries. Richly imagined and utterly engaging, Hounded to Death reveals the cutthroat world of competitive hound shows as both humans and animals alike try to solve a series of bizarre deaths. “Sister” Jane Arnold, esteemed master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, has traveled to Kentucky for one of the biggest events of the season: the Mid-South Hound Show, where foxhounds, bassets, and beagles gather to strut their champion bloodline s...
|  | Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology
Release Date: September 12, 2006From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man wh...
|  | The Greatest Course That Never Was: The Secret of Augusta National's Lost Course
Publication Date: May 1, 2001When a young lawyer comes across a half-baked caddie with an incredible story too good to pass up, hell soon find himself travelling across the country in hot pursuit of the truth. This story is bigger than Bobby Jones Impregnable Quadrilateral and Byron Nelsons consecutive victories. The question is, will his career as a lawyer be there for him when he comes back? ...
|  | A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories
Publication Date: January 1999There are 23 stories and three poems in this volume, all on the subject of football. Contributors include Irvine Welsh, Iain Sinclair, Glyn Maxwell, Geoff Nicholson, Kim Newman, Liz Jensen and John Hegley. ...
|  | Gimme an O
Release Date: January 30, 2007When L.A. sex therapist Dr. Lecia Calhoun writes a self-help book called "The Big O", there's no doubt what she's talking about! But even though she's now a nationally known sex expert, "Dr. Love" has to admit to herself that it's been a long time...Star quarterback Anthony "T" Beals clearly knows what O stands for! After all, he got caught with a working girl - on film! When he appears on a late-night talk show with Lecia, who tells him he's got issues and his wife should dump him, T really lets loose on the air - then comes up with a hare-brained plan to solve...
|  | All the Dead Heroes: A Tsw Sheridan Mystery
Publication Date: March 1992Assigned to investigate the career of one of the first black major league players, Frank Wooley, free-lance reporter T.S.W. Sheridan finds that the rumors of wife beating and gambling are hiding an even ghastlier secret. ...
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