This book is in great demand by baseball enthusiasts. Having been connected with every department of the game from player to magnate, Mr. Spalding has contributed a very important work to the game's history. As the invincible pitcher of the Boston Club, previous to the formation of the National League, his book of so many pages is an interesting record of events dating from the beginning of the great American pastime. It is not exactly a history of the game, but deals largely with incidents during the author's career, who was a player in the late 1860s and early 1870s, and helped organize the National League in 1876. One chapter, devoted to sundry topics, gives an account of the sale of the immortal "King Kelly," the original "$10,000 beauty," by Chicago to the Boston Club in the late 1880s. Other Chapters are devoted to the literature of the game, quoting several instances of the baseball paragrapher's art and also specimens of the distinct poetry of the pastime, of which "Casey at the Bat" is probably the most widely known. The Cincinnati Red Stockings Mr. Spalding gives credit as being the pioneer professional organization. It was not, however, until 1871 that professional baseball playing, as recognized today, was instituted. Mr. Spalding shows how cricket could not do for Americans. He says it is suitable for the British temperament, but not for the Yankee hustling spirit. He also tells how he worked into the game through a one-handed catch when a small boy. To lovers of baseball, whose name is legion, and whose number increases yearly, this book comprises in itself a whole library of useful information.

'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.

In 1925, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy.

The Partial View is actually two books under one heading. The Summing Up has the late middle-aged Maugham sitting back in his armchair and ruminating on his life. Do not expect an autobiography, too much could not be revealed about his private life until after his death. A very well-read man, Maugham considers the theatre, other writers and their works, and engages in a philosophical discourse that is, as always with this writer, delivered in the manner of an old-fashioned schoolmaster not quite patronising his brighter students. The Writer's Notebook, a collection of jottings and early formulations,is probably one of the best examples of how a writer gains from experience and turns it into fiction. Whatever he wrote about, except for his literary and philosophical summaries, was invariably turned into a short fiction or novel. He could not resist the tendency to embroider in the cause of making up a good story. Orwell, who is so often quoted as having said Maugham was the writer he most learned from, knew just as well how to take a political issue and make it readable. That was his talent. Maugham's is to be introspective and passive towards what he hears and sees. The Notebook is well worth reading; The Summing Up reads as rather dull today.