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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Fiction Anti-communist movements Fiction Baseball players Baseball players Fiction Baseball teams Fiction Families Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Small cities Michigan Fiction United States History 1945-1953 Fiction Women baseball players FictionParker, Robert B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARKing, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINKing, Kevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINBain, Donald
Summary: In this installment of the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher is visiting out-of-state friends when she finds out just how deadly the game of baseball can be. Visiting old friends Jack and Meg Duffy in Arizona, Jessica watches their foster son hit the winning run for the Mesa Rattlers in an AA league playoff game. She and the Duffys are thrilled at Ty Ramos' success, but team owner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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Mosher, Howard Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSFinkbeiner, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction FinkbeinerWechsler, 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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLKluger, Steve.
Summary: A boy describes growing up Jewish in a mainly Catholic neighborhood in 1930s Brooklyn. The story is told in letters to a celebrated baseball player with whom the boy has struck up a correspondence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLUFromm, Pete
Summary: Beautifully written and well thought out, Fromm's debut novel captures the true strength in the bond between a brother and sister. With subtle humor and complete honesty, he portrays the heartbreaking reality of a family dealing with manic depression and a young boy's struggle to come to terms with his hero's failings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FROBoggs, Johnny D.
Summary: What's a 16-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it's 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barn-storming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who'd look for a runaway boy disguised as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOGRoth, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: "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 baseballcareer. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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Summary: A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BaileyThayne, RaeAnne
Summary: "Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation. To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she's passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn't come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope's Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury-- and a damaging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THARosenfield, Kat
Summary: Copper Falls, Maine. The local junkyard is burning, and town pariah Lizzie Ouellette is dead-- with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead him to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzie's tiny lake house. As her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSZubro, Mark Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZUBLocke, Adriana
Summary: "Single mom Palmer Clark will not be sidelined by the new man in town. Sure, the honey-tongued baseball legend is gorgeous, loves puppies, and has charmed his way into the community's heart, but Palmer craves stability. Nothing about Cole says forever. So why is he so hard to resist? Cole is swinging through town to visit his parents when he meets the kind of down-to-earth distraction he's been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOCHarbach, Chad.
Summary: "At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended."--from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARKinsella, W. P.
Contents: The baseball wolf.--The fadeaway.--The darkness deep inside.--Eggs.--How Manny Embarquadero overcame and began his climb to the major leagues.--Searching for January.--Feet of clay.--Lumpy Drobot, designated hitter.--The Dixon Cornbelt League.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINLehrer, James.
Summary: A talented athelte, Johnny Wrigley firmly believes that someday he will play major league baseball. But on the way to his dreams, Johnny life takes a detour when as a newly minted marine, he finds love on a brief stop in Wichita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHHarbach, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011