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1) Calico Joe
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher.
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2020.
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English
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"The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance technology, and oddly human -- even funny. The people: Divided. The angel-fair 'Netted' have jobs, and literally occupy the high ground. The 'Surplus' live on swampland if they're lucky, on water if they're not. The story: To a Surplus couple -- he once a professor, she still a lawyer -- is born...
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth 'Evvie' Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the 'yips': he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He's recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it's the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he's let his pride and fear get the better of him. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance...
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2017.
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English
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"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.
8) Fireside
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English
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Bo Crutcher, a professional baseball player, gets help from Kimberly van Dorn, a public relations expert, in dealing with both the media and his long-lost son, AJ. While spending the winter with Bo and AJ at Willow Lake, Kimberly begins to fall in love.
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Series
Jesse Stone volume 13
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when...
12) Double play
Author
Series
Burke volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball's colour barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of WWII, is hired by a Dodgers manager to guard Robinson. While he shadows the baseball hero he must also face some truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations...
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