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Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop 10 strokes from your golf score? What part of Tiger Woods’ game makes him a winner? Traditional golf stats can't answer these questions. Broadie, a professor at Columbia Business School, helped the PGA Tour develop its cutting-edge strokes gained putting stat. In this eye-opening new book, Broadie uses analytics from the financial world to uncover the secrets of the game of golf.

In a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories --- not just those featuring big winners and losers, but the ones that get at the very character of the game. Collected here, his pieces offer an intriguing portrait of golf over the past century. The legends are here in vivid profiles of such familiar figures as Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Mickey Wright and Tiger Woods. But so are lesser-known golfers like John Schlee, Billy Joe Patton and Bert Yancey, whose tales are no less compelling.

The back-and-forth battle among Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf at the 1975 Masters Tournament would dramatically culminate in one of the greatest finishes in Masters history. Gil Capps, a 20-year veteran of the golf industry and NBC Sports producer, recaptures hole-by-hole the thrilling drama of this singular event from golf’s golden era --- from the media-crazed build-up to the tournament's final dramatic putt that would change the game of golf forever.

Robert Trent Jones was the most prolific and influential golf course architect of the 20th century and became the archetypical modern golf course designer. Jones spread the gospel of golf by designing courses in 42 US states and 28 countries, and 20 U.S. Opens have been contested on Jones-designed courses. Biographer James R. Hansen recounts how an English immigrant boy arrived in upstate New York in 1912, just as golf was emerging as a popular pastime in America.

In ENON, Paul Harding follows a year in the life of Charlie Crosby as he tries to come to terms with a shattering personal tragedy. Grandson of George Crosby (the protagonist of TINKERS), Charlie inhabits the same dynamic landscape of New England, its seasons mirroring his turbulent emotional odyssey. Along the way, Charlie’s encounters are brought to life by his wit, his insights into history, and his yearning to understand the big questions.

Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but can't quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend's life. Then a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall further-and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, brave, fair Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is, and what that question means about them both.

The final novel from the Twenty-Year Death trilogy, this installment is set in 1951 in the style of classic crime writer Jim Thompson. A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail...

The second novel from the Twenty-Year Death trilogy, this installment is set in 1941 in the style of classic crime writer Raymond Chandler. When a hardboiled private eye is hired to keep a movie studio's leading lady happy, he uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.

The first novel from the Twenty-Year Death trilogy, this installment is set in 1931 in the style of classic crime writer, Georges Simenon. When a body is found in a gutter in France, it leads the police inspector to the dead man's beautiful daughter --- and to her hot-tempered husband.

The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news, asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight. A single mother, she manages her well-ordered career meticulously, always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state. To her audience, Blaise seems to have it all. But privately, and off the set, there is another untold story she has kept hidden for years.