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41) Resisting roots
Author
Series
Lotus House volume 1
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Yoga instructor Genevieve Harper is raising her two siblings in the wake of their parents' tragic accident, and she doesn't have time to devote to a man. Trent Fox is a "player" on and off the baseball field-- but a torn hamstring brings him to the Lotus House Yoga Center for recuperation. There he meets the curvy, petite blonde with soulful black eyes and candy-coated glossy lips he'd like to do more to than kiss. He secures the flexible hottie for...
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
♭2016.
Language
English
Description
"Professional baseball player Halo Todd doesn't like failure, but he can never turn down a challenge. Especially when there's a pretty woman involved. How else would he end up dressed as a rooster, helping a complete stranger compete on a wacky game show? Even when they're eliminated after the first round, Halo isn't about to lose the girl"--
43) Forever
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A two-in-one volume including "Rules of the Game," in which a man endeavors to overcome a woman's rule about mixing business with pleasure; and "The Heart's Victory," in which a woman confronts unacknowledged feelings for a race car driver from her past.
44) Hothead: a novel
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Connor Sullivan, All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper and problems at home, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrums, Connor must make a change.
45) An echo of death
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, go on the run when they find an ex-teammate and friend of Scott's murdered in their apartment. With the killers now on their trail, with the death of Scott's friend still a mystery, and with the discovery that they are on the police department's list of murder suspects, Tom and Scott are forced into a dangerous game of hide-and-seek to solve the murder and to ensure their own...
Author
Series
Tom and Scott mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The Principal Cause of Death is the next entry in Mark Richard Zubro's Tom and Scott series. When gay high School teacher Tom Mason is accused of murdering the school principal, Tom and his partner, Scott Carpenter, need to catch the real murderer and clear Tom's name.
Kirkus Reviews raves, "The school politics are dead-on" in this fourth installment in Zubro's Lamda Literary Award-winning series.
Author
Series
Tom and Scott mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Father Sebastian, the only good priest everybody knows, is dead. Pastor of a parish outside Chicago, Father Sebastian was also involved in the gay community through his work with Faith, the gay Catholic organization the diocese is trying to drive out of the church.
High school teacher Tom mason, who has gained some local notoriety from his involvement in a couple of murder cases, is asked by friends to look into the priest's death; was it murder?...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
"Paul Rudd plays Berg with the droll, boyish charm he's brought to dozens of other roles, but he adds a protective coating."--New York Times
"...a decorous, dutiful dogtrot that tells Berg's story with excellent production values..."--Boston Globe
"Shot in burnished...
49) The All-American
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is accused of...
Author
Series
The Mickey Tussler volume 3
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1950 and Mickey Tussler-the now-famous pitching prodigy with autism and a golden arm-is back for another baseball season in this third installment of Frank Nappi's critically acclaimed Legend of Mickey Tussler series. Talk of Mickey's legendary exploits on the field has grown since his improbable debut two years prior, as have the fortunes of Murph and the rest of the lovable ragtag Brew Crew. Now Mickey, Murph, and Lester find themselves heading...
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
cp2008
Language
English
Description
Johnny Appleseed is the man who sprinkled apple seeds, planted trees and told stories to children across the Midwest.
In Martin's big words, using his quotes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to life in the biography about beliefs and dreams and following one's heart.
In Players in pigtails, a brave girl's love of baseball is celebrated as she works to become a player in the first All American girls professional baseball league.
This land is your...
Author
Series
Bromance book club volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When his wife asks for a divorce, Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife....
53) Roadrunner
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A retired major-league baseball player slips into prescription drug abuse and violence in Roadrunner, an engaging second novel by Trisha R. Thomas (Nappily Ever After). When Dell "Roadrunner" Fletcher attacks his scriptwriter wife, Leah, Officer Angel Lopez answers her call for help. Angel falls for the lovely Leah, but he is also an old Roadrunner fan. Then Dell disappears, and Angel inserts himself into the lives of Leah and her young son with suspicious...
Author
Series
Play by play novels volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
For Alicia Riley, her job as a sports therapist for the St. Louis Rivers baseball team is a home run--until she becomes the primary therapist for star pitcher, Garrett Scott. Out of the lineup with an injury, he's short-tempered, and hard to handle. He feels the hot sparks between them, and what better therapy is there than sex?
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tragedy hit the Allenhouse family on a hot summer night in Ohio when a mother of four vanished. Eight-year-old Vada grew up overnight and raised her three younger sisters while her father lost himself in his medical practice in the basement of their home.
56) The rookie
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A Texas coach makes a bet with his losing team to help inspire them to win. The bet: if they win, he will try out for the major leagues. They win, so he has to live up to his end of the bargain.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Miriam Woodell leaves her rural Mississippi town in order to save herself and her son, Elgin, from the dangerous darkness that has consumed her hometown-hero husband; they move to Chicago where Elgin develops his tremendous baseball talent.
Author
Series
A perfect game novel volume 3
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It's one hell of a sledgehammer to the chest when your baseball career comes to an end. It's like you finally realize that baseball never loved you back. All the sleepless nights, the hours spent at the gym trying to stay fit, the conditioning, the training, the mental preparation, the holidays missed, the birthdays passed, the memories you didn't get to make with your family ... all for what? It's not like baseball lost any sleep over you. She didn't...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy's father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she's never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad's and she'd never measure up. And his pitching may mean big things for his career and their family, but it's also what keeps him away from home so much of the year. Sometimes, Lucy isn't sure what would be worse:...
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"No one expects a curveball. For Rylan Cates, the gloriously sunny beachside town of Barefoot William may be home, but the pro baseball player needs to focus on spring training. Hiring a personal assistant to keep him and his four dogs organized for the next eight weeks is the first step--and Beth Avery is the perfect pinch hitter. Beth is still looking for her place in the world, and a couple months caring for Rylan's two dachshunds, his golden retriever,...