At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-dou...
In the new Play-By-Play novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Unexpected Rush, a football player with all the right moves on the field needs a better game plan for his love life. A defensive end for the San Francisco ...
For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrat...
Miracle at St. Andrews: A Novel (Trav...
James PattersonIn this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews—the birthplace of golf—on a search for greatness.If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrewswould be at the ...
The story of a golf professional trying to make it through life at a private club with 521 bosses, a Cougar nymphomaniac, one good member and a board president intent on his demise. This story follows the hilarious everyday life of a...
The Legend of Bagger Vance of Golf an...
Steven PressfieldIn the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete...
The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another bawdy, over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links – this time, the LPGA gets the treatmentJack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage...
THE RIDER is a complex meditation on the nature of extreme physical and mental exertion, wrapped in the guise of a simple account of one bicycle race. It will leave you wrung out, exhilarated, and relieved that you didn't break any bo...
Showtime' Charlie Stoddard blew out his phenomenal pitching arm- along with the rest of his life. Now, the only cheers he gets are from boozing and one-night stands-until a mysterious physical therapist hands him a second chance at th...
Genma, father of Ranma, learns that his ex-wife is coming to visit. He panics and tries to flee with Ranma, whose condition as half-boy/half-girl resulted from a martial arts accident. Why is Genma so terrified of his former wife? Per...
Kahari Brown, the ace wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders, finds his career in trouble after meeting Zoe Andrews, an ambitious broadcast journalist out to make her mark on the world of men's sports. By the author of Gimme an O! Orig...
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
Lisa GlattMoving back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, irreverent college instructor Rachel Spark struggles through a series of haphazard romances and broken resolutions before evaluating the impact of love and dea...
In 1967, in the small, wind-swept town of Penny out in West Texas, Bobby Hargrove's high school football career ended before it ever got off the ground. One year later, determined to try again, only one obstacle stands in his way-Head...
The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
James Carlos BlakeA tale inspired by the career of ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel traces the athlete's meteoric rise against a backdrop of the violence and tragedy that marked his short life. By the author of Handsome Harry. R...
Sportswriter Catharine Andrews knows what professional football is like in the near future, but as the season begins she finds herself digging into a mysterious, dominating player's past to uncover the secret of his greatness. This al...
Unfinished: Finding yourself among a ...
Brian BurkHe was a runner, an Olympic marathon hopeful. The world was an open door that he had to prove he had the talent, drive, and ability to run through. The rest of the field ran for a spot on the team, Kyle ran to prove his life held valu...
"The toe of his right boot was twisted into the black earth as he stared into the distance and had no thoughts about anything. Not the past, not the future, not the trouble behind him, not where he was at, and certainly not his n...
FORCED TURNOVERS: A NOVEL FOR RACIAL ...
Tony CeballosIn Georgia in 1968…•The bombing of an all-black school strikes fear but, miraculously, kills no one.•Under the direction of Washington, D.C., the FBI descends.•Those responsible burrow underground to plot again.•And a white ...
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD Friday Night Lights gone dark with Southern Gothic; Eli Cranor delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott. In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the hi...
Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the 'Ed Sullivan Show.' Everyone wants a piece of him or ...
&In men like Traveler and Alcazar we find the beating heart and struggling soul of baseball&&&-Jeff MacGregor, Sports Illustrated; author of Sunday Money&&Howie Traveler never made it as a player-his one major league hit and .091 batt...
Over the years, readers of Golf magazine have come to know and love Major General (Ret.) Sir Richard Gussett, the raucous imaginary uncle featured in David Feherty's column 'Sidespin.' In this first volume of his misadventures, Gusset...
Jockey Alan York kept his eyes locked on the horse ahead of him, hoping to gain on him in the final stretch. But when the horse's jockey, Bill Davidson, slumped over dead in his saddle, Alan knew foul play was the cause, but could onl...
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street...
"The memory of a strong woman is a sanctuary . . . ." And so begins our story. It's 1983. Teacher Bailey Crawford and a bunch of rag tag girls are about to make history as their school's first, and only, state champions. Bu...
Book Excerpt: ...ere mounted sculls and oars, footballs and baseballs. The long and proud record of the university was there to be read. All her famous athletes were pictured there, and every one who had fought for his college. Ke...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel. Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dreams—and even bigger challenges...
A Ticket for a Seamstitch (Bison Pape...
Mark HarrisThis is the third novel narrated by Henry Wiggen, a six-foot three-inch, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Henry, who began as a rookie in The Southpaw and developed into a pro in Bang the Drum Slowly, is a mat...
Bang the Drum Slowly (Second Edition)...
Mark HarrisHenry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family.&qu...
The Maltese Jordans: The Worldwide Hu...
Seth HarwoodA basketball legend. A mythical pair of sneakers. The worldwide search...What if Michael Jordan lost a golf bet so big it would get him banned from the NBA—just after his return from baseball? If offered a secret pickup game for the...