The Veracruz Blues
By: Mark Winegardner
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Based on the actual events of 1946, a portrait of major league baseball is seen through the eyes of…
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1. Vinegar Girl
By: Anne Tyler
3.38
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible … read more
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2. The New Republic
By: Lionel Shriver
3.07
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corpora… read more
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"Couples stray,"-Lionel Shriver, The New Republic
"At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn't anticipated about the 'home office' was Snack Syndrome; lately his mental energies divided evenly …"-Lionel Shriver, The New Republic
"If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you could only obtain new information by admitting you didn’t know it already, …"-Lionel Shriver, The New Republic
3. The Green Mile
By: Stephen King
4.20
Format: 42 pages,
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers a… read more
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4. The Underground Railroad
By: Colson Whitehead
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especiall… read more
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5. The Last Kind Words Saloon
By: Larry McMurtry
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry… read more
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6. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
7. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
8. The Veracruz Blues
By: Mark Winegardner
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Based on the actual events of 1946, a portrait of major league baseball is seen through the eyes of… read more
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