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Anti-communist movements Fiction Baseball players Fiction Families Fiction FICTION / Christian / General FICTION / Christian / Historical FICTION / Small Town & Rural FICTION / Women Small cities Michigan Fiction United States History 1945-1953 Fiction Women baseball players FictionKing, Stephen
Summary: Retired third-base coach George 'Granny' Grantham chronicles the story of Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from Iowa to play for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957. A powerful hitter and passionate catcher, Blockade Billy becomes notorious for drawing blood out of runners who collide with him at home plate. However, Billy holds a sinister secret, one that causes baseball officials to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: It is 1952, and nearly all the girls Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys, she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINWechsler, Pamela
Summary: Chief of homicide district attorney Abby Endicott hasn't had the easiest adjustment to normal life. Her wealthy Boston family has cut her off because of her dangerous job, her new apartment with her musician boyfriend Ty is not up to her standards, and her impending position as godmother to her new niece or nephew is overwhelming. However, her personal life is about to be put on hold when the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WECFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: It is 1952, and nearly all the girls Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys, she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FINColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the murder of a young woman and the kidnapping of a young man from a wealthy family, only to find connections to his own troubled past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLHarbach, Chad.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HARGrisham, John.
Summary: The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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Summary: Two stories about finding love, and never letting go. In Rules of the Game, Brooke is dying to deflate professional baseball player Parks Jones' ego. In Second Nature, reporter Lee gets an interview with the reclusive horror writer Hunter Brown.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ROBConnelly, Michael
Summary: Baseball is the background for both stories. Two Bagger is the story of a parolee who feels he owes the gang for helping him when he was in jail, but he learns that they expect him to kill someone at Dodger Stadium. Chickasaw Charlie Hoke is a story of a former Major Leaguer who is trying to land a job as a celebrity host at a casino in Las Vegas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2007