Following up on Professor Wood’s 2016 Beyond the Ballpark: The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends, which was listed in Sport’s Collector Digest’s top forty baseball books of 2016, he examines twenty-five additional legends. Included are such notables as the lovable Yogi Berra, Stan Musial, and Gil Hodges, the feisty Billy Martin, the complex Ted Williams, the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson, the delightful Pepper Martin, and the crook Hal Chase. Wood tracks down how these players acted away from the ballpark, and the circumstances surrounding their deaths. The author also includes his pictures of all the gravesites, except for two who were not interred. There is much funny and sad stuff here.

DIV"Unique . . . Original . . . I was fascinated." --Lois Duncan, author of Stranger with My Face The similarities between Jenna and Rita were uncanny. They looked and acted exactly alike. Each was experiencing the thrill of first love. Each was empowered with a gift of the supernatural. And each harbored dark secrets. Jenna and Rita could have been sisters. Except for one thing . . . Rita was murdered over a century ago./divDIV /divOut of the yellowed pages of her diary, Rita’s frightening legacy is reborn. But the more Jenna reads of Rita’s spellbinding past—of murder, deception, and sinister experiments—the more she fears her own future. Because Rita’s history is repeating itself, moment by horrifying moment. And Jenna has to live it.

*Warning*This story contains graphic materials, read at your own risk.This is a story that will make you question everything you have ever been taught. Keri was just a normal girl with normal problems until one night when she had a nightmare that never left. Will she be able to come back from the brink of madness before it destroys her?

Before he can bind his apprentice, Granuaile, to the earth and double the number of Druids in the world, Atticus O'Sullivan, along with his trusted Irish wolfhound and Granuaile, must travel to the base of Mount Olympus where the Roman god Bacchus is waiting to take his sworn revenge. Original.

After her son's murder, the fairies leader, Myrtle, casted a spell on the phoenix and dragon nations, causing a new beast to emerge. With the strength of a dragon and the swiftness of a phoenix, a hybrid called a Phigon arose. After the phoenix king Wetchador had twin Phigon boys of his own, he got a glimpse of how much of a threat they were. Knowing he wouldn't be able to control their power, he issued every single Phigon be killed, making a law and banning Phigons from being born. After a hundred years, his reign was over. The next Andromeda, the battle that will decide the next ruler, would be held. Restoring the world and the nations back to the way they were. But freedom caused four new Phigons to be bornSalomne, Grastem, Myosin, and Rozel. And when Rozel starts to have dreams of a mysterious man from the past, he sets out to find answers. But those answers come with a price, and his family will have to pay.

In order to be accepted by the ''in crowd'' at her new high school, Jamie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jamie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jamie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jamie quickly discovers that they aren't actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery. When one woman decides to adopt Jamie to replace her lost daughter, our heroine fears she may never escape the cemetery. Full of rich history and filled with a cast of ghostly characters, the third eerily descriptive novel from Joanne Dahme is just as creepy as her first novel Creepers.

Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly. When the discovery of silver at Tombstone first became known in mid-1880, there were about twenty-six saloons and breweries. By July of the following year, the number of saloons in Tombstone had doubled. The most popular saloon games of the time were faro, monte, and poker, with some offering keno, roulette, and twenty-one. Monahan shares true tales about Tombstone's mining and gambling history and describes a different time and locale where wealthy businesspeople and rugged miners rubbed elbows at the bar and gambled side by side. It is both shocking and enlightening to learn just how sophisticated Tombstone really was when the Earps, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly Bill strode the boardwalks. Tombstone actually had telephones, ice cream parlors, coffee shops, a bowling alley, and a swimming pool. Wow! It is so contrary to the Hollywood version of the town . . . but it's absolutely true."--from the Foreword by Bob Boze Bell Read Sherry Monahan's interview on AMC on the Wild West and the film Wild Bill