Adult

The most surprising World Series ever? Many baseball fans would agree that it was the epic 1966 clash between the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the perennial underdog Baltimore Orioles.
Experts were betting that Los Angeles would sweep it in four. What transpired instead astonished the nation, as the greatest pitching performance in World Series history capped a redemption beyond imagining.

Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history, it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. A GAME OF BRAWL re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters.

Nancy is a practicing ob-gyn, until a botched surgery leaves her patient in a life threatening coma. Now Nancy must face a board of doctors who will decide if she can continue to practice medicine. Throughout the novel, she fears for her patient's life and her job as she comes to terms with the life she has chosen.

At the end of the 2008 season, Yankee Stadium will be closing its doors, and in memory of this illustrious stadium, this tribute provide fans with hundreds of anecdotes about the iconic ballpark through the eyes of both those who performed there and the many others who were spectators. Stories shared by those who worked, played, rooted or cheered there, grace the pages of this memento.

The 1927 New York Yankees assembled perhaps the greatest collection of athletes in history. Harvey Frommer, who has made a cottage industry out of writing about New York baseball, reaffirms that claim with FIVE O'CLOCK LIGHTNING.

Benny Binion was an American cowboy, a casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the World Series of Poker. He had a crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas as we now know it. He ran a good business, killed his enemies and owned the cops. Through the use of once-secret government documents, Doug J. Swanson shows how Binion destroyed his rivals and outsmarted his adversaries, even J. Edgar Hoover.

Since the day Rhoda Mummau was baptized into the Old Order Mennonite Church and became the head midwife of HopenHaus, she’s been torn between the needs of the unwed mothers under her care and her desire to conceal the secrets of her past. When a young woman named Amelia arrives to the sweeping countryside bearing secrets of her own, Rhoda must face her past and those she thought she had left behind in order for the healing power of love and forgiveness to set them free.

Increasingly wary of her father’s genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany --- in the summer of 1939 --- will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything. Now hunted by the SS, Rachel turns to Jason Young --- a driven, disarming American journalist and unlikely ally --- who connects her to the resistance and challenges every ideal she once had. 

This striking volume takes readers deep into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as never before. Since opening its doors in 1939, the Museum has welcomed more than 14 million wide-eyed baseball fans through its hallowed halls to experience the rich history of America’s Pastime. Now, with more than 500 color and black-and-white original and archival photographs --- along with engaging and informative commentary by a celebrated sports raconteur --- BERT SUGAR'S BASEBALL HALL OF FAME: A Living History of America's Greatest Game offers a quintessential take-home of the timeless experience of baseball’s spiritual home

Ivy Darling can’t have children of her own, and her husband Nick’s resentment is forcing them apart. When the three children next door are abandoned by their mother, Ivy and Nick take them in, and suddenly Ivy and Nick find themselves foster parents to the only African-American kids in the town of Copper Cove, Maine. As Ivy grows more attached to the children, Nick will have to learn just how much she and his eclectic household mean to him.