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In 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums, whose exploits inside -- and outside -- the white lines have intrigued generations of baseball fans.Based on scores of fresh and exuberant interviews, True Blue brings you into the dugout and the locker room, capturing the nearly half-century of clutch performances, World Series triumphs, blown pennant ...

In this book, homogeneous cosmological models whose Hamilton -- Jacobi equation is separable are deparametrized by turning their action functional into that of an ordinary gauge system. Canonical gauges imposed on the gauge system are used to define global phase time in terms of the canonical variables of the minisuperspace. The procedure clearly shows how the geometry of the constraint surface restricts the choice of time. The consequences th...

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Caterer, minister's wife, and mother of two, Faith Fairchild is a woman of many talents. Over the years her adventures into intrigue have taken her and her best friend Pix Miller to a variety of places. This time out, however, Pix finds herself on an unexpected journey to Norway to uncover the truth about the unexpected disappearance of an old family friend.

The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville -- the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Celebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Celebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises -- a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound.So why ...

Collection includes all seven of the novels in the series.

A mass-market paperback edition of The Magician's Nephew, book one in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new ...

Narnia ... where horses talk and hermits like company, where evil men turn into donkeys, where boys go into battle ... where the adventure begins. During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Calormene fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North -- to Narnia. When he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he really is and even finds his...

Not used to seeing Nordic gods in her small California town, statuesque Brittany Callaghan knows that when blond Viking Dalden turns up on her doorstep, her dream man is very real. But intelligent, independent Brittany isn't about to be subservient to any male. A barbarian warrior from a land where when women always obey, Dalden is accustomed to fighting for what he wants, and he sets out to make Brittany his conquest.

WhatEvery SouthernGal Knows ...When her two-timing husband leaves her with nothing but ownership of the local Pig Rib Palace, Rita Stark decides to get her life back into high gear and turn the rib joint into a cash cow. But her best girlfriends are sure the former Miss Dixie Belle Duchess needs help getting the eatery -- and her recently broken heart -- back into shape. So they've hired the sexiest man ever to hit Hellon, Tennessee, Will "Wil...

From the author of the critically acclaimed novels A Brother's Blood and The Blind Side of the Heart comes a brilliant tale of a decent man's struggle to choose between his past and his future, between the woman he once loved and the woman he now loves.

To end a long running feud, a proud Scottish lass convinced the clan's women to refuse their men everything.

Local benefactress and celebrated biographer Mary-Jo Stanton is a supplicant to death -- left lifeless on her knees in a patch of daffodils, a barbaric religious implement wrapped tightly around her neck. A clergyman has approached Peter McGarr, requesting that the Chief Superintendent quietly investigate this outrage that occurred at Barbastro, the slain grand lady's compoundlike Dublin estate. Murder is McGarr's business, but this one might ...

Recently recovered from pneumonia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Henrie O joins her grandchildren at an elegant oceanfront hotel for the wedding of her former son-in-law, Lloyd, to Connor Bailey, a beautiful widow with a dark past. Soon, Henrie is embroiled in a deadly puzzle that touches everyone connected with the impending union.

In celebration of Caedmon Audio's 50th anniversary, two of Miller's most influential plays are together in one CD box set. A 1965 recording of "Death of a Salesman" features Lee J. Cobb and Dustin Hoffman. Recorded in 1972, this performance of "The Crucible" features Jerome Dempsey and Alexandra Stoddart. 4 CDs.

Hot from her top-rated humor web site, Betty Bowers is America's most preening pundit, whose crusade to add glamour and a touch of tasteful greed to spirituality continues in a book that offers a sharp satirical look at politics and hellfire--and faultless fashion tips for the notoriously hard-to-shop-for afterlife. Illustrations.

The Mexicans is a multifaceted portrait of the complex, increasingly turbulent neighbor to our south. It is the story of a country in crisis -- poverty, class tensions, political corruption -- as told through stories of individuals. From AugustÍn, an honest cop, we learn that many in the Mexican police force use torture as their number-one-crime-solving technique, from Julio Scherer Garcia, a leading newspaper editor, we learn how kidnapping a...

As warm as the cherished quilts found across America, and sure to appeal to the country's 13 million quilters, Kathy Lamancusa's newest anthology celebrates these wonderful works of art and love. In this heartwarming book, she gathers stories that show why quilts touch lives in a special way.

Neal Pollack has published 50 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and Middle Eastern history. Pollack has fought in three wars and covered three others. "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature" is the crowning achievement of his glorious career, which is still ongoing. photo insert.

In more than 50 hilarious essays, one of America's brightest young humorists finds the fun in all aspects of the human condition, no matter how absurd. Join Mike Nelson on an angst-filled visit to a health spa, shopping sessions at Home Depot, a gut-busting discourse on the history of television, and much, much more.