For the first decade of the 21st century, the Baltimore Orioles were perpetual cellar dwellers, with losing seasons from 19982011fourteen straight years. They were the worst team in baseball when two-
How does a new mom face the wonder and the wear that a baby brings? What happens to the woman she was? Is it normal to laugh and cry simultaneously?Sandra Drescher-Lehman, in her disarmingly forthrigh
What does it mean to be a performing arts leader? Leadership in the Performing Arts addresses and analyzes this question by presenting the wisdom and expertise of eleven men and women with experience
The newest addition to the Tales from the Team series, Tales from the Atlanta Braves Dugout includes stories on the greatest players and coaches to don the Braves uniform. Author Cory McCartney includ
In the late 1960s the New York Rangers transformed from NHL also-rans to Stanley Cup contenders. Gilles Villemure was part of that transformation. The little goaltender had a long wait to make it to t
Here are the best-loved slow cooker recipes all in one place. These are the champs. These are the ones that surprise youbecause you didn’t realize you were cooking when you made them. Because everyone
By now we all know that the paleo diet yields amazing results for weight loss and overall well-being. But even the most health-conscious among us want to treat ourselves once in a while to something s
Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah’s Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a si
Simon, Michael, and Lily are playing a multi-player server when a strange lightning storm hits their town. In the middle of an intense game, a bolt of lightning strikes near the house, sucking the thr
Are we as humans valuable, or are we simply a cosmic accident with no real meaning or purpose? Since the Enlightenment this debate has raged in Western culture, as many secular philosophies have emerg
In this thought-provoking, wide-ranging and often inspiring book, the authors examine how chess style and abilities vary with age. The conventional wisdom is that greater experience should compensate
What is the real-world history and science of human cloning, and how closely does Orphan Black nail it?Can you own” a personeven a cloned one?How can Sarah Manning be straight, Cosima gay, and Tony tr
Sleek and curvy describe how Nellie Rafferty likes her cars and her women. A member of the Carparazzi, Nellie spends her days photographing the newest automobiles, spying on the manufacturers for vari
Five years into tennis retirement, Jodi Richards needs to make a comeback. Her heart is broken but her mind is clear: tennis is her only true love. Hoping to earn the wild card entry for the US Open,
Lauren thinks she has a pretty good lifeso why does she feel crazy most of the time? She figures it’s nothing she can’t fix by getting her first girlfriend and doing better at school. But where’s she
On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had
A multi-faceted look at the story of the city that fought Troy, featuring pristine, pre-tourist photographs of the site, an original one-act play by dramatist John Guare, and essays on the historical
The definitive book of Currier & Ives prints, now available in a new format and price point!In the 1800s, long before the days of photojournalism and television, colorful up-to-date pictures o
Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racismthe denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race
New York Times bestsellerDo you know what your retirement account will be worth on the day you plan to tap into it? Do you know what the tax rates will be for the rest of your life? Do you know how lo
When Ash Wells and Nat Braithwaite are thrown together after seventeen years apart, old resentments and passions are rekindled. The days of their heady teenage relationship are long goneor are they? A
Dana Norland tracks down two vicious men in Harlem and shoots them without remorse. Fate grants her a strange encounter that allows her to escape to Rwanda on the pretense of wanting to save gorillas.
A First Responders NovelGillian Martin is the lead biologist on the Wildlife Emergency Response Team called in to head off a catastrophe as an oil spill heads right for a wild life sanctuary on the No
Paramedic Connor Haus is good at two thingssaving lives on the streets of Boston and holding her past against every firefighter she meets. The tragic loss of her partner, Kam, has left her bitter and
When Toya meets Folami and joins the activist collective RiseUP!, she thinks she’s found her life’s purpose. Folami’s sensuality and her passion for social justice leave Toya feeling that, at last, sh
With every commitment comes sacrifice College junior Jill Babineux knows where her priorities lie. Between a full course load, her blood pledge to feed a certain vampire, and all the community service
Finn Chamberlain is a travel writer with more passport stamps than friends. Her career keeps her constantly on the go, leaving her precious little time for relationships. And that’s just the way she l
Catherine Carter earned her spot as one of New York’s top financial advisors by following the rules and reaching her every goal. The same applies to Catherine’s personal life. Her next self-imposed de
Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or
The book is written from a perspective of someone who after having lived for many years under communism and then for more than two decades under a liberal democracy has discovered that those two polit
Hall of Fame-honored manager Bobby Cox led the Atlanta Braves to fourteen consecutive division titles in 1991. Handed multiple new players every year, Cox had teams that won with pitching, others that
Four teams, 175 games, 3,738,546 fansone stadium. If 1975 wasn’t the most successful year in New York sportsand it wasn’tthen it was certainly one of the oddest. For that one crazy season, all four Ne
Caring for a baby or small child with food sensitivities is never funespecially if you have no idea what the culprit is. Meet Jennifer and Tanya: two modern mamas with a combined seven children and tw
Bizarre earthquakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. Howev
A troubled occultist-sorcerer confronts a gritty Seattle underbelly in this dark and unique urban fantasy.Markham has returned to Seattle searching for Katarina, the girl who, a decade ago, quite lite
They were coming off a seemingly endless string of losing records. They were considered years away from legitimate contention. They were derided and disregarded as a matter of course. But in 2015 the
As one of the NHL’s original six teams, the Chicago Blackhawks have given their fans millions of heart-stopping memories, thousands of unforgettable stories, and now six Stanley Cup Championships with
In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what
Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to theChicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the J
