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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed by Thomas W. Gilbert, introduction by John Thorn
One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art edited by Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon, introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick “Valuable. . . . highlighting how good work stands the test of time.” — Kirkus Reviews A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and
Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs— ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives out- side of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War.
Russell Banks; filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Seán Hemingway, A. Scott Berg, and many others in this celebration and conversation between Hemingway and some of his most perceptive and interesting readers. “All you have to do is write one true sentence,” Hemingway wrote in his memoir, A Moveable Feast . “Write the truest sentence that you know.” If that is the secret to Hemingway’s endur- ing power, what sentences continue to live in readers’ minds? And why are they resonant? NEW · 200 PAGES · HARDCOVER · $26.95
Baseball was originally supposed to be played, not watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren’t invited to the party; we crashed it. Professionalism wasn’t part of the plan either, but when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally proved that people would pay to see a game, the writing was on the outfield wall. When the first professional league was formed in 1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with championships, media coverage, and famous stars. Thomas W. Gilbert’s history is for baseball fans and anyone fascinated
by history, American culture, and how great things began. 384 PAGES · SOFTCOVER · $18.95 · HARDCOVER · $28.95 In the Founders’ Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution preface by Nathaniel Philbrick “Beautifully alive.”— Wall Street Journal A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America’s founding. Obscure, well-known, off-the-beaten path, and on busy city streets, here are taverns, meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, and homes, which all combine to define our country—the places where daring people forged a revolution. There are thirty-seven landmarks included, with fifteen
Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World’s Most Famous Boy Detectives by Leslie McFarlane “An elegant book, full of charm and pathos and whimsy.”— Washington Post As millions devoured the early adventures of the Hardy Boys, little did readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series’ author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in a remote cabin without electricity or running water in northern Ontario. This, at last, is his story—as much fun as the stories he wrote: full-fledged classics filled with perilous scrapes, loyal chums, and breakneck races to solve the mystery.
additional locations noted in brief. From the Bunker Hill Monument in Massachusetts to the Camden Battlefield Site in South Carolina, this is a tour of an American cultural land- scape with a curious, perceptive, and insightful guide. For armchair travelers and anyone fascinated by Americana, Van Doren has created an unforgettable journey through history. We see the Founders—both their stunning achievements and chilling moral failures—where they lived, fought, and agreed on a common purpose to create a nation whose future—and legacy—is continually evolving. 256 PAGES · HARDCOVER · ILLUSTRATED · $38.00
Ghost of the Hardy Boys is a captivating, funny, and always charming look back at a vanished era of journalism, writing, and book publishing. It is for anyone who loves a great story and who’s curious about solving the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring children’s book series in history. 304 PAGES · HARDCOVER · $25.95
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