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A gripping detailed recap of the wildly insane, oft-overlooked, extra-innings classic that turned the 2004 ALCS into the most memorable playoff series in modern history.No team had ever come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a postseason series in baseball. In the history of MLB postseason play going into Game 5, there had been twenty-five series to start out 3-0. Of those, twenty ended in sweeps, two made it to a sixth game, and none had made it...

The long-awaited autobiography by one of heavy metal's most revered icons, treasured vocalists, and front man for three legendary bands-Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio.Prior to his tragic death in 2010, Ronnie James Dio had been writing his autobiography, looking back on the remarkable life that led him from his hometown in upstate New York to the biggest stages in the world, including the arena that represented the pinnacle of success to him-...

A classroom of skeptical students and their charismatic teacher make a foray into the nation's past. The characters are fictive, the history-most importantly, the vision of history, grounded in a dying but immortal dream-is real.History teacher Kevin Lee is retiring from Seneca Falls High School, where he has worked for the past forty years. He decides to use the freedom of his pending exit to toss the state curriculum and teach the U.S. surve...

James Lovell desperately wants to help the American cause, but alone in a cold, dark cell in the Boston Stone Jail, his dreams seem a faint illusion. In icy March winds, pounded by the Americans' cannon, General Howe evacuates British troops and Loyalists from Boston. James Lovell is forced into a ship bound for Halifax, while his father and family take passage for the British stronghold in the ship's upper berth. In jail in Halifax, James ca...

Follow along on the journey of Delaware's Revolutionary War hero, John Haslet, and the legendary regiment he commanded during the 1776 campaign of George Washington's army.This is the story of Colonel John Haslet, an Irish immigrant to the American colonies who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for his adopted country. During this pivotal moment in America's war for independence against Great Britain, a newborn nation struggled to sur...

Patrick Featherstone-hero of Sea of Fire-frantically tries to unravel a plot by North Korean terrorists to destroy the Tokyo Olympics. In Rings of Fire, former Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) sniper Patrick Featherstone has been hired as the Head Security Consultant for the Tokyo Olympics based on his success in thwarting a plot to foment a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. He joins up with his old friends from Sea of Fire: Tyler Ka...

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While the American Revolution seemed on the verge of defeat on December 25, 1776, George Washington had assessed the weaknesses and strengths of his situation, and while steadfastly focusing on ultimate victory, reacted to the complex situation and developments over the next ten days to turn the psychological-if not the strictly military-situation completely around.On December 25, 1776, the American Revolution seemed all but defeated just six ...

As SFPD Detective Jimmy Spracklin tracks a killer in Haight-Ashbury in 1968, his greatest worry is the fate of his runaway daughter Marie.The reality of what's happening in Haight-Ashbury in 1968 hits Spracklin as he tracks the killer of artist John Blakely. Heroin has become the dominant drug in the hippie enclave, and the carnival atmosphere of the Summer of Love has given way to a wave of violence. Most worrying to Spracklin is the knowledg...

As SFPD Detective Jimmy Spracklin hunts a serial killer at a 1968 music festival in Haight-Ashbury, he has to protect his daughter Marie from both the killer and the police.Spracklin is already being hounded by Internal Affairs officers when the headless body of a hippie heiress is found in Golden Gate Park. Now he must solve the high-profile murder while fighting off the IA probe, which is targeting not only Spracklin but also Marie. One miss...

Twin teenage boys go on an adventure when they have to operate the American Turtle submarines, a secret invention financed by General George Washington to give the Continentals an upper hand in the fight for liberty.To George Washington they are patriots. To loyalists they are traitors. To their older brother…they are his only hope. Fifteen-year-old twins, Ambrose and John Clark, once again find themselves in the thick of things in service of ...

Twin teenage boys go on an adventure when they discover their father has a secret message to get to General George Washington, but after being shot by two Redcoats he now has only one hope of getting that message delivered-his twin boys!The year-1777 The war-the American Revolution The secret weapon-twin boys When Revolutionary War Patriot Lamberton Clark is shot by British soldiers while on a mission for the Continental Army, he has only two ...

A lone wolf spy's frantic race to prevent a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while saving the love of his life from a North Korean prison.In Sea of Fire Patrick Featherstone, a former JSOC sniper is pressed back into service to find CIA agent Tyler Kang who has apparently defected to North Korea with sensitive missile technology. Patrick has been practicing Buddhism in Japan, but finally agrees to find, and if necessary, kill, Tyler Kang de...

From Chris Stevenson, author of The Drum of Destiny, comes Gabriel Cooper's next Revolutionary War adventure. Middle-grade historical fiction at its best, Gabriel Cooper is the Johnny Tremain for a new generation.As the Winter of 1775 approaches, the British have taken up residence in Boston. The fledgling Continental Army appears powerless to drive the redcoats back to England. Young Gabriel Cooper, a new aide-de-camp to General Washington, i...

A discarded drum and a dream, at the dawn of the American Revolution. Twelve-year-old orphan, Gabriel Cooper, dodges Tories, overcomes sickness and the perils of a patriot, as he journeys from New York to Boston along the Post Road, to join the fight for freedom. Accessible and exciting, The Drum of Destiny is Johnny Tremain meets Horatio Hornblower for a new generation.The year is 1775, and twelve-year-old Gabriel Cooper is an orphaned patrio...

The harvest moon rises and the harvest is blood.When the Blood Moon bleeds red in the night sky, a Beast descends upon the village of Kessler, hunting for human life. A remote frontier village has fallen under a curse. With the full moon comes a horror that walks like a man but kills like a beast. Abigail Thorne lives under the threat of the terror that stalks the woods, as well as a mystery in her own blood that may tie her to the killings in...

Mike Figliola's The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue is a street level gaze at Queens, New York in the offbeat tradition of Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. There is a raw honesty to this three-part novel which kept me spellbound. Figliola is an irrepressible writer with the heart of a poet and the eyes of a journalist. Highly recommended!!-Douglas Brinkley, Editor of Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac and Literary Executor of the ...

From bestselling writer Max Byrd comes an unforgettable evocation and portrait of Paris at the end of the second World War.The splendidly gifted (and faintly scandalous) writer Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's famously unhappy third wife, is the presiding spirit over a great romance. Two American soldiers, torn apart by the war, meet and fall in love with Martha's protégé-the irresistibly charming and vulnerable young reporter, Annie March. Their ...

Watch out, saints. The sinners have come home.Eve and Maggie Abbott are desperate. Out of money, and options, they are forced to move into one very old house. It happens to have belonged to their dead grandmother, but the rent is cheap, and the location is killer. That last sentence is a joke, unless you're into a "middle of nowhere" vibe-and cows. Welcome to Saintsville, population…too small to matter. Poor girls. Their parents died four year...

A funny, engaging legal mystery for all those who love and enjoy nature-and reading at the beach.First, an amphibian expert is found murdered in the fancy shoreline town of Mayfield, Connecticut. Then, a second, shocking murder of a well-respected community leader occurs. Why are there murders happening in a town as peaceful as Mayfield? Jenn isn't the perfect clever attorney. She doesn't love her job, has no innate ability to solve mysteries,...