Adult

Do pinstripes get you peeved? Do you wish the "House That Ruth Built" would get condemned? Are you convinced that George Steinbrenner is in league with Lucifer? Then this is the book for you! Let's face it, Yankees-haters have two favorite teams: their team, and whatever team is playing against the Yankees that day. Now, the Bronx Bomber bashers have their own handbook that shows how anyone, anywhere, of any age, can hate the Yankees like a pro in no time! Full of fun facts and anecdotes from around the league-as well as helpful, easy-to-follow rituals, chants, and keys to helping every non-Yankee fan focus their rage, disappointment, and burning jealousy from opening day right up until the Yanks walk away with yet another completely undeserved World Series Championship!

GREATS OF THE GAME fondly contributes to the nostalgic appeal of the national pastime by celebrating the game's greatest players, teams, managers, games and colorful personalities.
 

As a young girl, Molly Anderson couldn't help crushing on Dylan Black, who only had eyes for her older sister. When things didn't work out between them, he said goodbye to Molly as well, promising that one day they would have an adventure of their own. When Molly walks back into his life, grown up and gorgeous, he decides to take her away for some no strings attached fun.

Ever wonder what it would be like to go back in time to have a conversation with a legend? IT'S ONLY ME: The Ted Williams We Hardly Knew allows readers to experience the baseball great’s views and personality through the immediacy of recorded conversations and personal stories. Author John Underwood has collected the most powerful and poignant moments from his previously unreleased archive of discussions with Williams to set the record straight on a misunderstood icon. This book and its audio CD companion paint a sensitive and nuanced portrait of an American icon, one that reveals a side of Williams’ character and personality never before glimpsed by the American public. It’s Ted Williams at his most unguarded.

It starts as an ordinary day in an ordinary town, at an ordinary air show. But when one of the planes crashes, killing and injuring dozens, a 13-year-old named Ava is discovered healing her best friend, Wash. Her secret gift is now known to the entire world, and Ava is thrust into the spotlight. But at what cost does this gift come, and how much will Ava have to sacrifice to save the one she loves most?

Emma Sharpe joins her grandfather Wendell Sharpe, a world-renowned art detective, in the search for a serial art thief who has eluded them for a decade. The first heist occurred in Ireland, where an ancient cross was stolen, and now the thief leaves a replica after each crime to remind them of their failure. But when the replica turns up on the body of a dead woman, Emma must now face questions about her relationship with her fiance, while tracking the most ruthless killer she has ever encountered.

When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be drawn into his web. But what starts as a torrid affair soon evolves into what will become the first great love of Picasso's life.

Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend --- the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated --- and, perhaps, even more heroic --- than anyone really knew. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig’s LUCKIEST MAN shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we’ve never seen him before.

Set in Poland during World War II, The WINTER GUEST follows 18-year-old twin sisters Helena and Ruth Nowak. The two are left to care for their younger siblings while avoiding detection from the Nazis. But when Helena discovers Sam Rosen, an Allied paratrooper and Jew, she risks her family's safety by hiding him. Will Ruth be okay with Helena's budding romance, or will her jealously endanger them all?

Why this team? Why these players? Why this year --- after an 86-year losing streak? In IDIOT-SYNCRACIES, popular Remy Report columnist A. Knoefel Longest presents the passion, peculiarities, and personalities that make this the most unlikely team in baseball history to win the World Series. Written in Longest's inimitable style, and with a foreword by former Red Sox player and now Red Sox sportscaster Jerry Remy, the book consists of two parts: The Lineup and The Staff. Peppered throughout the text will be sidebars and boxes that speak to the Red Sox past --- triumphs and disappointments, parallels and pitfalls, heroes and fools.