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The Mudville Heritage: Baseball in Folklore and Fiction
Tristram Potter Coffin
Subject: Baseball
Date Published: Apr 02 2010
ISBN: 978-1935073-09-3
Originally published in 1971 as The Old Ball Game, The Mudville Heritage covers the lore and legend of baseball as no other book before or since. This new edition features a new Foreword by MLB pitcher Craig Breslow.
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Will War Ever End? A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century
Capt. Paul K. Chappell, foreword by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Subject: Peace
Date Published: Feb 11 2009
ISBN: 1935073028
"There is cause to hope, and believe, that there can be an end to war." --Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (ret.) Will War Ever End? is a book we felt must be published. Along with its accompanying website, we hope this book will contribute to meaningful change in the way people look at our world and how we live, not only with our fellow humans, but with our fellow beings of all kinds. Humans are violent not only to each other but to the natural world we inhabit. We have reached a point of no return in our relationships with each other and with our planet. Our commitment to helping make that change is the reason this book exists. Any profits that come to us from publishing this book will be dedicated to furthering its goals. When you buy a copy of Will War Ever End? you are making a contribution to help change the world.
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Vote! to Save the Planet
Jeff Schweitzer
Subject: Current Affairs/Politics
Date Published: Oct 01 2008
ISBN: 1935073001
VOTE FOR CHANGE
VOTE TO SAVE THE PLANET
VOTE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Use this book and its website www.votetosavetheplanet.com as a starting point to spread the word.
If you believe as we do, that the election results on November 4, 2008, will affect the future course
of our planet, read this book, share it with your friends. Make sure everyone you know is registered
to vote and exercises their rights to make democracy work for change. Elections matter. Now more than ever.
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In Time of Peace
Thomas Boyd
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Jun 27 2008
ISBN: 0980190940
Author Thomas Boyd is best known for the novel "Through the Wheat" that has long been considered the greatest American novel of World War I ever written. Boyd was a Marine in WWI, seeing a great deal of fighting action, and was deeply influenced by what he went through on the battlefield. Later, he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary page of the newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who put him in contact with his own famous editor, Maxwell Perkins. As a result, Boyd published several books with Scribners, all edited by Perkins. "In Time of Peace" was Boyd’s last published novel, originally published by Minton Balch Putnam in 1935. It is a powerful story of the upwardly mobile Roaring Twenties followed by the disaster of the Crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression. Boyd brilliantly captures the clash and contradictions of materialist life and higher human values. "In Time of Peace" will resonate strongly for many modern reader
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The Dark Cloud
Thomas Boyd
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Aug 20 2008
ISBN: 0980190983
Author Thomas Boyd is best known for the novel "Through the Wheat" that has long been considered the greatest American novel of World War I ever written. Boyd was a Marine in WWI, seeing a great deal of fighting action, and was deeply influenced by what he went through on the battlefield. Later, he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary section for the local newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who put him in contact with his own famous editor, Maxwell Perkins. As a result, Boyd published several books with Scribners, all edited by Perkins, including "The Dark Cloud," originally published in 1924. "The Dark Cloud" is the first of Boyd’s several historical novels; it tells the story of a British scout in Indian territory during the American Revolution. The "western" frontier of America of that time, which was Ohio, was the setting for many of Boyd’s works. He was fascinated by the moral issues facing everyday people in times of strife and disconnectedness, and without fanfare takes the reader directly into the daily lives of individuals trying to find their way through the storms of history. His strong feelings for the average person facing tremendous challenges gives strength to the story and the characters who live it.
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The Love Legend
Woodward Boyd
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Dec 04 2009
ISBN: 0980190932
Originally published in 1922 by Charles Scribner’s and edited by the well known editor, Maxwell Perkins, The Love Legend was well received as a first novel. Four sisters living in the Lakeshore section of Chicago in the 1920s must each come to terms with the love legend, imparted by their widowed mother over the years: That every girl who is good, sweet, and pure will be sought by a Prince Charming who will bring love and happiness forever after. For each sister the legend has a different meaning; and with each, as suitors come and sometimes go, fate plays a different game. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who knew the author reviewed the book favorably in the Saturday Review: "Easily the best picture of Chicago since "Sister Carrie...it is honest, well written...and thoroughly alive." The NY Times reviewed The Love Legend as well: "...a lively colorful tale....a considerable sense of humor....many sterling good qualities shown by this book." Woodward Boyd is a pseudonym for Margaret Woodward Smith Shane, at the time the book was published she was married to author Thomas Boyd, later she remarried another writer, Ted Shane. This book is not just a curiosity of the early modern 20th century, though it is clearly of its place and time. It’s well enough written to stand on its own, outside of the past, ready to be rediscovered by modern readers. Includes a wonderful introduction by the novelist Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble.
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The Plated City
Bliss Perry
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Jan 06 2009
ISBN: 0980190967
Published in 1895, and long out of print, "The Plated City" has been identified as one of the earliest literary novels that treats baseball as an integrated part of the story, which it does. But it is also an incredibly modern story, including dramatic renderings of issues of race, gender and sex in Connecticut during the late Victorian period. "The Plated City" was reviewed favorably by the NY Times when it was published: "...The color line always is a distressing topic, never to be dismissed, always dramatic, often coarsened by overvehemence. Mr. Bliss Perry, in "The Plated City," has shown marked powers of discernment and has treated a difficult subject with uncommon skill.....Mr. Bliss Perry’s constructive powers are excellent."
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The Salt-Box House: Life in a New England Hill Town
Jane DeForest Shelton, Bill Hosley, Introduction, James Prosek, Foreword
Subject: American History
Date Published: Jun 19 2008
ISBN: 0980190959
Jane DeForest Shelton (1843-1914) was one of six children of Edward Nelson Shelton and Mary Jane DeForest; the town of Shelton, Connecticut is named for her father, an active industrialist and developer in the 19th century. She wrote articles for the "Magazine of American History" and "Harper’s Monthly," earning a solid reputation as a local and national historian. "The Salt-Box House" is her best known work, first published in 1900. The story of the book is an account of the Shelton family of Derby, Connecticut and neighboring towns from colonial times through the early 19th century. She based her work on family papers and stories passed down to her, to portray an historically accurate account of life in and beyond the colonial period of New England. Given her nearness to the time and spirit of that period, and her sympathy and love for the people she wrote about, reading this book today provides us with a rich and vivid sense of a long distant time in our history. This edition includes an introduction by Bill Hosley, Director of the New Haven Museum and Historical Society that helps place the book in a context meaningful for any contemporary reader interested in American history.
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The Sun Field
Heywood Campbell Broun, introduction by Darryl Brock
Subject: Fiction, Baseball
Date Published: May 15 2008
A wonderful novel about baseball, love and freedom, originally published in 1923 and out of print ever since, written by one of the members of the Algonquin Round Table, well known journalist and muckraker, Heywood Campbell Broun. Introduced to modern readers with an introduction by the bestselling novelist, Darryl Brock.
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Shadow of the Long Knives
Thomas Boyd
Subject: fiction
Date Published: Oct 20 2008
ISBN: 0980190975
Author Thomas Boyd is best known for the novel "Through the Wheat" that has long been considered the greatest American novel of World War I ever written. Boyd was a Marine in WWI, seeing a great deal of fighting action, and was deeply influenced by what he went through on the battlefield. Later, he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary page of the newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who put him in contact with his own famous editor, Maxwell Perkins. As a result, Boyd published several books with Scribners, all edited by Perkins, including "The Shadow of the Long Knives" in 1928. This well written historical novel is set in the Ohio frontier during the 25 year period before and during the American Revolution. As with many other Boyd novels, the main character struggles to cope with ethical and moral issues in the face of the sweep of history over which he has little or no control. The novel is singularly sympathetic to the situation of American Indians and is quite unusual, especially for its period, in portraying their cultural and human characteristics. This novel, out of print for more than 75 years, should appeal to any reader of historical fiction, as well as readers interested in colonial American history, who will find this story remarkably faithful to historical detail.
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Points of Honor
Thomas Boyd
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Sep 20 2008
ISBN: 0980190924
Author Thomas Boyd is best known for the novel "Through the Wheat" that has long been considered the greatest American novel of World War I ever written. Boyd was a Marine in WWI, seeing a great deal of fighting action, and was deeply influenced by what he went through on the battlefield. Later, he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary page of the newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who put him in contact with his own famous editor, Maxwell Perkins. As a result, Boyd published several books with Scribners, all edited by Perkins, including this short story collection, somewhat in place of writing a sequel to his first war novel, in 1925. As he does in other books, Boyd thoroughly rejects the romance of war, creating situations that are sometimes grotesque, sometimes absurd, always human at their core. This collection has been called "haunting" and like its better known predecessor, "Through the Wheat," should be included in the canon of American war stories.
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Simon Girty (The White Savage)
Thomas Boyd
Subject: Biography
Date Published: Oct 15 2008
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Lazy Laughter
Woodward Boyd
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Nov 01 2008
$18.95
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Greyhound Diaries: Eastbound Edition (Dogged Pony)
Doug Levitt
Subject: Personal Memoir
Date Published: Feb 05 2008
ISBN: 0980190908
Three years ago I set out across the country by Greyhound. A downwardly mobile singer-songwriter opposed to the war, I had tried to figure what, if anything, I could do that would have any impact. Unable to come up with anything, I wrote a modern protest song, got an Ameripass that allowed me to get on or off any Greyhound in America and with my just repaired Gibson J-100, I started singing in rallies and volunteer meetings, bus stations and college campuses. Along the way, I began writing songs and stories inspired by the people I came across, folks struggling to get by at this historically difficult time for the working poor in America. The project, Greyhound Diaries, became a kind of everyday American epicin story, song, and image. That six-week tour in 2004 was indeed my first; last, I’ve come to learn, has two meanings. Doug Levitt is an up and coming star in the new culture.
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Tangled Wives
Peggy Shane (Margaret Woodward Boyd)
Subject: Fiction
Date Published: Apr 01 2008
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