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Kelly Thorndike has just moved back to his hometown of Baltimore when one day an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. Kelly is surprised to learn that this man is his friend Martin who went missing 20 years ago, and had been a white, skinny, Jewish boy. Martin tells Kelly of his racial reassignment surgery and asks Kelly for his help to spread the word. Kelly agrees, but things quickly sprial out of control.

Yankee Stadium has been the most famous and acclaimed sports venue in North America for over 80 years, and after the 2008 Major League Baseball season, it will be razed and replaced. THE YANKEE STADIUM SCRAPBOOK is a touching and unforgettable tribute to “the house that Ruth built.” This timeless classic scrapbook features photos and text celebrating all the great moments and memories throughout the years.

Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial killers, has just taken refuge in the secluded town of Cainsville when she finds a dead woman --- dressed to look like Olivia --- in her car. When the body vanishes, she convinces herself it’s just another omen. But then she learns a troubled young woman with connections to Cainsville went missing just days ago --- the same woman Olivia found dead in her car. With the help of her recent and unlikely ally, Gabriel Walsh, Olivia sets out to uncover the truth, but her efforts place her in the crosshairs of old and powerful forces.

In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that eventually will be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter and more vicious: the Soviet Union.

David Leveraux is a young chemist, developing new flavors and artificial sweetners.  When he comes across Sweetness #9, he notices the adverse affects it has on the lab rats, but does nothing to stop it's production.  When those around him start acting like the lab rats from years ago, is he to blame or is this all just a part of the human condition?

In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In THE RUSH, Edward Dolnick recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos.

THE CUBS chronicles the long, rich, counterintuitive history of this team in all its depth, nuance and colo.

Mr. Tall introduces us not only to ordinary people seeking to live extraordinary lives, but also to the skunk ape (a southern variant of Bigfoot), the ghost of Jesse James, and a bone-tired Jack the Giant Killer. Whether it's Appalachia, Nashville, the Carolina Coast, or a make-believe land of talking dogs, each world Earley creates is indelible.

Dr. Emory Charbonneau disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man with a violent past. As her husband's deception is revealed, and the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer from those who wish her dead --- and from heartbreak.

From extensive personal interviews with those who were there, along with newspaper, radio, and television accounts, Reisler reconstructs this fall classic pitch by pitch, from analysis of managerial tactics and the chatter of the players on the field to the lively atmosphere within the ballpark and throughout the country.