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Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh, and fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of The National Sports Daily, one of the most ambitious'and ill-fated'projects in the history of American print journalism.

In 2010, the New York Mets were in trouble. One of baseball's most valuable franchises, they had recently suffered an embarrassing September collapse and two bitter losing seasons. Their GM had made costly mistakes. And their principle owners were embroiled in the largest financial scam in American history. To whom did they turn' Sandy Alderson, a former marine who served in Vietnam and graduated from Harvard Law. In 1981, Alderson started in baseball with Oakland, where he led a revolution in the sport.

Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of 30 games in 30 stadiums in 30 days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City' Eric, of course. Will Eric regret it' You might ask, Are Dodger Dogs the same thing as Fenway Franks' As Ben and Eric can now attest, most definitely.

"A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel... and it's all true."-Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons-father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids.

A New York Times-bestselling author and renowned Los Angeles medical examiner challenges the verdicts in America's most controversial celebrity deaths. "Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi encountered the best and the worst of Los Angeles-movie stars and gangsters, politicians and millionaires... . But by the time 'the coroner to the stars' met them, they were on his autopsy table" (Los Angeles Times). In his New York Times-bestselling autobiography and its fascinating follow-up-now together in a single volume-Dr.

Hilarious true stories of raising twins from the author of the Ironic Mom blog: "Shirtliffe is awesome and so is this book."-Jenny Lawson When Leanne Shirtliffe and her husband, Chris, discovered she was pregnant with twins while they were living abroad in Bangkok, they cried laughing. Then they just cried. Then they got on with the incredible, hilarious adventure of raising two kids in Asia's city of sin.

A real-life ghost hunter shares true stories and up-close explorations of haunted sites. Muffled voices in an empty attic, heavy footsteps on a vacant stairwell, silent shadows across a darkened room ... The spirit world has intrigued Jeff Cole for decades, leading him from a career in archaeology to his passionate work as a paranormal researcher. Going beyond superstition and fantasy, Cole arms himself with cutting-edge technology, in a quest to discover actual scientific evidence of the realm where the souls of the departed continue to dwell-and make contact with the living.

He started out as a crook-and ended up busting them. A true "high-flying, adrenaline-filled story with the feel of the movie The Sting" (Booklist). Craig Glazer's unlikely story begins back when he was in college and tried to score some weed, only to get ripped off. But instead of walking away the wiser, Glazer-inspired by the gangster movies he always loved-got payback. Aided by his partner in crime, Donald Woodbeck, Glazer set up a fake police sting on the drug dealers and walked away with a lot of cash.

A lively, witty history of the iconic Italian drinking establishment, a meeting place for literary and artistic luminaries for nearly a century. On the short list of the world's most famous watering holes-Willi's Wine Bar in Paris, Jo's Bar in Prague, the Antico Caffe Greco in Rome-Harry's Bar in Venice stands virtually without peer. Just off the Palazzo San Marco, Harry's is known for its timeless decor and luxurious ambience, which have often been imitated but never duplicated.

From a revered writer of the Beat Generation, a "tour de force" that contemplates aging-and how to make the most of it (Booklist). In this energetic, optimistic memoir, Herb Gold looks back on his life not with regret or wistful recollections-but as a constant, ongoing journey. In a fascinating account of his life, he shares poignant and funny memories of the countless conversations, anecdotes, and atmospheres he has experienced and witnessed, all recollected in his vivid, striking prose.