Adult

Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were entirely different: Larry, the child of middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. The two shared a special bond --- until Larry took a girl on a date, and she was never seen again. Now, over 20 years later, Silas has returned to his hometown as a constable. And when another girl disappears, the two men who once called each other friend must face the past they've buried for decades.

In search of bigger challenges, documentary filmmaker Dara Barr arrives in Djibouti with her right-hand man, six-foot-six, 72-year-old African American seafarer Xavier LeBo, to film modern-day pirates hijacking merchant ships. But almost no one here is who he claims to be.

In 1779, as the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South, a British force sails to the New England coast. A mortifying defeat leads to stunning repercussions for a young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore and a Boston patriot named Paul Revere. 

Meticulously reported and elegantly written, THE LAST BOY is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from Jane Leavy’s weekend with The Mick after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences about the boy from Commerce, Oklahoma.