Rude Behavior
 Amazon.com Review: From beginning to end, Rude Behavior is deliciously true to its title. Not for the easily offended or the purveyors of PC, it forms the third installment in Jenkins's continuing saga of Billy Clyde Puckett, first introduced in Semi- [... more]
$7.50
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Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and ...
Amazon.com Review: The answer to the attention-grabbing question posed by classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath in the title of this passionate defense of their field (which is also a damnation of their academic colleagues) is not a pretty one. & [... more]
$17.95
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Bunts: Curt Flood Camden Yards Pete Rose and Other ...
Amazon.com Review: "Bunts," explains peripatetic political commentator and baseball rhapsodist George Will, "are modest and often useful things." So is his latest, fittingly titled foray into the National Pastime. Unlike his splendid [... more]
$25.00
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The River Reader: A Nature Conservancy Book
Amazon.com Review: The selections in this inaugural volume of what promises to be a superb classic on contemporary nature writing are simply stunning. Spanning three continents and two centuries, River flows through banks lush with the words and [... more]
$17.95
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Last Days of Summer
Amazon.com Review: In and of itself, the epistolary novel is nothing new; indeed, Ring Lardner wrote You Know Me Al, his classic diamond saga, as a series of letters home from fictional White Sox hurler Jack Keefe more than 80 years ago. With Last Days [... more]
$21.00
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Castro's Curveball
Amazon.com Review: Everybody has a past; some are more intriguing than others. When retired schoolteacher Billy Bryan's daughter begins cleaning his house a few days after his wife's death, she finds in the forgotten pages of his dusty scrapbook part of [... more]
$19.95
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The Greatest Player Who Never Lived: A Golf Story
Amazon.com Review: With very few exceptions--think Dan Jenkins's Dead Solid Perfect and Steven Pressfield's The Legend of Bagger Vance--golf's most notable fictions are generally consigned to the imaginative mathematics that weekend duffers jot down on [... more]
$22.95
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Last Days of Summer
Amazon.com Review: In and of itself, the epistolary novel is nothing new; indeed, Ring Lardner wrote You Know Me Al, his classic diamond saga, as a series of letters home from fictional White Sox hurler Jack Keefe more than 80 years ago. With Last Days [... more]
$23.35
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This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to ...
Amazon.com Review: There's something about the mano-a-mano primacy of boxing, something about men fighting men, and the seediness and corruption that so much of the sport wallows in that forces chroniclers of the sweet science to adopt the film noir [... more]
$15.95
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Amazon.com Review: Sure, Harris's most acclaimed novel, the second of his Henry Wiggen books, centers around a pair of ballplayers for the fictionally fabled New York Mammoths--the novel's narrator, pitcher Wiggen, and Bruce Pearson, his tag-along [... more]
$5.99
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The Southpaw
Amazon.com Review: "First off I must tell you something about myself, Henry Wiggen, and where I was born and my folks." The opening sentence of the first installment of Harris's majestic quartet of baseball-centered novels may not be as [... more]
$5.99
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Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short ...
Amazon.com Review: Baseball's Best Short Stories is, quite simply, a hit machine, grinding out--one after the other, 28 selections in all--just what its title promises. Leading off with Ernest Thayer's classic poem, "Casey at the Bat," it [... more]
$16.95
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