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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.

Defense Attorney Sophie Giraudo is about to open a new legal practice in her hometown when the beloved governer is shot and seriously wounded. The only thing more shocking than the crime itself is the identity of the would-be assassin: a seemingly gentle teenager named Donny. Sophie reluctantly agrees to take him on as a client, but as she digs deeper into Donny's past, Sophie begins to suspect that he might not be the cold-blooded killer everyone thinks he is.

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.