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Michael Coffey examines how the timing of baseball's perfect games have reflected American history and addresses how these rare incidents of ultimate performance exhibit how the game and the country have simultaneously evolved.

This upbeat, one-of-a-kind collection brings the Def poets -- as featured in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show and popular HBO television program -- to life on the page. Among them: Suheir Hammad, Beau Sia, Steve Colman, Stacyann Chin, Mayda del Valle, Georgia Me, Poetri, and other well-established and up-and-coming Slam artists who have forever changed the face of poetry and offer a fresh, exuberant, insightful, and comedic look at who we are as Americans today.

Anderson's delightfully titillating semi-autobiographical novel takes readerson a sizzling, rags-to-riches romp through Hollywood.

Fenway Park, Saturday, 8/30/03: Yankees versus Red Sox. Not just a special day in a historic rivalry but a unique one in the long tradition of baseball writing. For on this day award-winning sportswriter Steve Kettmann worked with a team of top reporters to chronicle everything that happened, from the point of view of everyone involved. With "One Day at Fenway," Kettmann goes beyond the ballpark to bring you interviews and anecdotes involving all the major players -- from Red Sox owner John Henry and CEO Larry Lucchino, privately second-guessing Grady Little's managing moves during the game; to Yankee skipper Joe Torre, worrying on the bench about Mariano Rivera, who can't find home plate; to Sox slugger Manny Ramirez, who missed the game with a throat infection. And there's more: the famous and infamous players in the field and in the boardrooms, rabid fans on both sides, the not-so-innocent bystanders -- all here in this brilliant re-creation of a day in the life of America's favorite pastime.

"Song for My Father" is a daughter's memoir of her father, Charles M. Stokes, a prominent African-American member of the National Republican Party. Known as "Stokey," he was born just forty years after the abolition of slavery. But by the time he became a pioneer in the fields of law, legislation, and politics -- during the turbulent and transformative 1960s and 70s -- contemporary associations of the GOP with the "party of Lincoln" had faded. Stokes's choice to remain a Republican against the tide of black Democratic political loyalty took courage. He would live to become Seattle's first black state legislator and serve as Washington State's first African-American district court judge. With "Song for My Father," Ms. Stokes pays tribute to a man whose love for his country, his family, and his people made a world of difference for generations to come. Stokes's life is a compelling example of what American Dreams are made of.

The romance and intrigue begun in "The Innocent" continues in the second volume of the Anne Trilogy, where readers find a more cosmopolitan Anne living in exile, raising her young son, and fiercely guarding the dangerous secret of his royal lineage.

It is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak, and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. Meanwhile, deep in the forest, a baby is born. A racy, pulse-quickening novel, this story is crammed with fascinating history, remarkable women, and passionate men--famous and infamous. "The Innocent" marks the debut of a sexy, striking trilogy.

The most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" virtually invented the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music and, during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, came to personify the decade's radical counterculture. In this groundbreaking biography of the band, veteran music writer and historian Jeff Tamarkin produces a portrait of the band like none that has come before it. Having worked closely with Jefferson Airplane for more than a decade, Tamarkin had unprecedented access to the band members, their families, friends, lovers, crew members, fellow musicians, cultural luminaries, even the highest-ranking politicians of the time. More than just a definitive history, Got a Revolution! is a rock legend unto itself.Jann Wenner, editor-in-chief and publisher of Rolling Stone, wrote, "The classic [Jefferson] Airplane lineup were both architects and messengers of a psychedelic age, a liberation of mind and body that profoundly changed American art, politics, and spirituality. It was a renaissance that could only have been born in San Francisco, and the Airplane, more than any other band in town, spread the good news nationwide."

Moreau pens the compelling inside story about how one group of Vietnam wives coped with losing husbands, raising families, surviving on their own, and the endless waiting for their lives to get back to normal.

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She was a Jewish girl growing up in World War I-torn Poland. At age seven, she and her family immigrated to America with dreams of a brighter future. But Frances Slanger could not lay her past to rest, and she vowed to help make the world a better place -- by joining the military and becoming a nurse.Frances, one of the 350,000 American women in uniform during World War II, was among the first nurses to arrive at Normandy beach in June 1944. She and the other nurses of the 45th Field Hospital would soon experience the hardships of combat from a storm-whipped tent amid the anguish of wounded men and the thud of artillery shells. Months later, a letter that Frances wrote to the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper won her heartfelt praise from war-weary GIs touched by her tribute to them. But she never got to read the scores of soldiers' letters that poured in. She was killed by German troops the very next day. "American Nightingale" is the unforgettable, first-ever full-length account of the woman whose brave life stands as a testament to the American spirit.

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory--a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. When intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton investigates, she uncovers the unthinkable.

"Shattered" is the inside account of one woman's torturous abduction and her subsequent struggle to survive the violence in her past.

The captivating new novel from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Gettin' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles 2" and "Addicted!" Zane returns to heat up the summer with a spellbinding story of a woman battling with a split personality--one side repressed, the other sexually voracious.

A brand new tale of passion, struggle, and love from a rising star in contemporary fiction whose previous novels were "Essence" and "Blackboard" bestsellers. With "Everything in Its Place, " Palfrey takes the story of a broken heart and gives it a twist all her own.