In his new book, Still a Kid at Heart, written with longtime New York baseball writer Phil Pepe, Carter writes of his love for the game, the personalities on and off the field who have enriched his life, and the years since his retirement. His experiences serve as a primer for all professional athletes who face the dilemma of what to do after the cheering subsided. Readers gain incisive insights into the game from the unique perspective of a catcher in this revealing and intimate ...

In the near future, a young, married couple, Leandra and Crane Chandler, will lose their daughter, Marley, age 11, to an incurable form of cancer that is spreading around the world, killing hundreds every day. Her father, Walter McCormick, a Noble Prize-winning nuclear physicist, and his team of fellow scientists have recently constructed the world’s first time machine. They decide to send Leandra and Crane back in time to try and locate where the cancer first started and eradicate it befo...

A young, married couple with no skills and trouble making ends meet on overcrowded Earth takes up an offer to travel to Mars and work there, Luis Bellandia in the mines, and Jo Anne as a cleaning woman and kitchen helper. Two months out from Earth, on their six-month journey to the Red Planet, a meteorite shower shreds the space mirror that warms the north polar ice cap that supplies the mining colony with most of its water, now no longer possible. Arriving on Mars, Luis and Jo Anne find t...

After an all-out war in the Mideast renders that portion of the world uninhabitable and threatens to destroy the rest of Earth with its repercussions, three women are sent back in time to ancient Phoenicia and the Levant (circa 600 BC ) to collect seeds, plant cuttings, and seedlings from the now devastated area in an effort to bring them home and propagate them and restore the area before it is too late to salvage our planet.But the girls don't return as scheduled, prompting those...

THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GROWING HERBS AND THEIR CULINARY, MEDICINAL AND MYSTICAL PROPERTIES helps beginning and seasoned gardeners cultivate the most popular herbs on the market, and delivers must-have information on how to use them for myriad purposes. From classic herbs to traditional Native American plants, this condensed and easy-to-read guide gives detailed information on the culinary, medicinal, and mystical uses of each herb.Gardeners learn everything about each herb includi...

The title CHECKLIST COMPLETE derives from the Delta Air Lines practice of concluding each checklist with that phrase, stated aloud, signifying all steps on a checklist have been fulfilled.Former naval officer Captain Gary Carter (USN, Ret) began his over 40-year aviation journey by enlisting in the navy after high school, which lead to graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy. Following flight training and assignment to the navy’s S-3 Viking aircraft, his naval career gained momentum...

Stories about athletes and coaches usually focus on their championships or their scandals. All the Good in Sports features twenty contemporary sports personalities who go beyond the headlines to candidly share how their relationship with Christ has helped them cope with a variety of difficulties, both professional and personal, and how in Christ they found victory in their personal lives. Many professing Christians in the sports world have achieved wealth and notoriety, but life's...

Retired naval officer Frank Warren, now an airline pilot, is on the final day of a routine, four-day trip. On board is William "Will Call" Stimson, U.S. Navy (ret) who now works on Capitol Hill. Will Call and Warren, fellow commanding officers while on active duty developed a strong friendship during their command tours and remained close when each retired. Will Call Stimson knows of an opening in the secretary of defense organization and thinks he knows who the perfect candidate...

While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles Bronfmans thoughts on his own life, family, career and his significant accomplishments in sport and philanthropy.Distilled does just that, chronicling key events in the life of the heir to one of Canadas great fortunes. Born in 1931 to the fabulously wealthy Bronfmans, Charles grew up in a 20-room mansion with many staff. Via their control of the distilling giant ...

Reflecting on his accomplishments, his colleagues, and the future of baseball, Andre Dawson tells the story of his four-decade career as a player and executive in this intimate memoir. Seriously injured at a young age, Dawson struggled with chronic pain throughout his career and was only seriously scouted by the Montreal Expos during college. Overcoming these odds, he went on to be named the National League Rookie of the Year in 1977, earn eight All-Star appearances, seven Gold Gloves, and...

A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years—1977 and 1978—when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legendIn the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn’t won a World Series since 1962. But ...

A first-person account of the 1975 Major League Baseball season—the last year before free agency took over and changed the national pastime forever."One of the funniest baseball books I've ever read—who knew that a baseball beat writer could be so funny and clever!" —Bill Madden, New York Daily NewsIn The Last Real Season, Mike Shropshire captures the essence of a different time and place in baseball, whe...