Examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, How Baseball Explains America is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through America's pastime. Longtime USA TODAY baseball editor and columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. He takes readers into the Oval Office with George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as the former presidents share their thoughts on the game, he looks at the changes that America's Greatest G...

**Now with bonus material on the Chicago Cubs' World Series win, the New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs’ century-long search for World Series gloryIn A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, Wrigley Field, as it enters its second century. Baseball, Wi...

In his provocative and compelling new book, America’s most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events–often unheralded–that make the American drama so endlessly entertaining and instructive.With Will’s signature erudition and wry wit always on display, One Man’s America chronicles a spectacular, eclect...

**The New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs’ century-long search for World Series gloryIn A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, Wrigley Field, as it enters its second century. Baseball, Will argues, is full of metaphors for life, religion, and happine...

Seven FiresIan Stewart believed that his academic days were long behind him. It had been many years since he had thought about graduate school back in Manitoba or the Anthropology research that he had done there. For decades he had lived in North Vancouver in British Columbia and his life consisted of running a fishing tackle store and getting in as many days fishing as he could. Then the phone rang and a voice from the past brought back some memories of an incident he had long for...

Clarissa Tyler came from a good home with loving parents and a wide circle of friends. She, and her fiancé Nick, both prepared for college graduation and dreamed of a successful life together.Until the accident happened. Until Nick died and that sheltered world collapsed.She wakes in a remote and unfamiliar hospital after two months in a physician-induced fugue state. She is surrounded by an eccentric staff that won't provide any details about the accident. She is given a g...

An enchanting and gripping adventure with characters you'll never forget. Jenny Swift, a young teenager, is taken against her will to become the apprentice of a famous alchemist. What awaits her is a strange world of plotting, murder, robbery,and betrayal. But she also finds friendship, courage and abilities within her she never dreamed she possessed.Jenny's mother was a healer from the East who has taught her well and from whom she inherits her exotic looks. But this difference me...

Skye Geocaris is a young woman at the wrong place at the wrong time, abducted by the Glowing Ones after their first attacks on Earth. Can she escape? Or will her courage help achieve something else no one could have imagined? Hu Jin watches the destruction of China under the aliens' assault. Can the disillusioned Chinese leader devise a plan to liberate his country and perhaps the world? Two groups in a worldwide conflict struggle for salvation. But both the human resistance on the ground ...

Owen Foster is with the Special Air Service. He’s been missing for about five weeks and Mariyah Khoudry is trying to find out what happened to him. They’re legally married and she might be pregnant. Sergeant Major Bullen, stuck with the duty, will do his best to locate the lad, whether dead or alive. A short story of romance and adventure.

The Skin of the Gods From the "2 Promises" series, book 2 of 2. The oldest of Gods, evil spirits from the underworld, deceit, mystery and intrigue, blended with dangerously rich businessmen plotting to rule the world. Beth Martindale is drawn into a sinister plot to secure powerful ancient artifacts. This gripping story moves through ancient Egypt, medieval England, and modern times effortlessly. Beth must stop this evil plot by challenging a secret society that has existed for thousands o...

Upon returning from Afghanistan, journalist John Webster discovers a gang war in his backyard. Now he must find a way to survive in this Canadian warzoneor die in the crossfire.John Webster has seen the terrible things human beings can do. Hes an experienced investigative journalist, recently returned from the war in Afghanistan. John saw hell over there; he looked death straight in the face. He is glad to be back to the normalcy of his Canadian homethat is, until ...

Return to Hougoumont is a graphic account of a defining moment in the Battle of Waterloo. Early on in this momentous battle French troops drove contingents of the Coldstream Guards from a pine wood and into the adjacent Hougoumont Farm where the main Guards contingent was dug in within the walls. For a brief moment there was a chance for the French to breach the North Gate, it was bloody and glorious. Death was indescriminate in this struggle and heroes decided the fate of many.Had...