Bøger af Amy Stilgenbauer

Gioia Rinaldi is the star pitcher of Tusky Valley's Girl's Softball Team, but she wants more. She wants to play professional baseball, but everyone around her says it's impossible for a girl. When her brother is recruited to the majors, she wonders why he can have her dream and she cannot. Audrey Dawson has been thrown for a loop as she learns that now her beloved father is sick with ALS. The only constant thing in her world is baseball. In order to keep sports in her life, she decides to become a journalist covering baseball for her college newspaper, but it's not as easy as she would like. Soon, the girls find themselves fighting for their dreams and a little help from old stadium ghosts certainly won't hurt matters any.

Abby Amaro wants to sing at La Scala Opera House, but she’s a good girl, and in 1957 good girls get married. Still, when she receives her first marriage proposal, she freezes, knowing the way her suitor makes her feel bodes trouble. When he won’t take no for an answer, she flees, joining up with a traveling carnival.Thanks to a burlesque trapeze artist and the world’s saddest clown, Abby bides her time and fits in until she can rejoin the world she knows. She doesn’t expect a sideshow strongwoman named Suprema, who captures her imagination. As the carnival makes its way across the Midwest, Abby learns much more than she had ever imagined—about herself, about her identity, and, most importantly, about love.