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Sweet magnolias series volume 1
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English
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Medfield Romance & Relationship Fiction for Adults - Contemporary Stories
Medfield Romance for Adults - Now a TV Show
Medfield Romance for Adults - Now a TV Show
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While dealing with a wealth of family issues, Serenity, South Carolina, resident Maddie Townsend, jobless and newly single, finds herself the talk of the town when her son's baseball coach declares his love.
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball -- especially the Asahi baseball team, the pride of the Japanese-Canadian community. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- and everything changes. The kids Sandy used to play with every day now call him names and chase him from the playground. He and his family are no longer...
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The last person she expected to fall for her just might be the one she's been looking for all along.
Bliss McMahon isn't looking for love. She's got a degree to complete and a life she wants to live. Besides, love isn't looking for her. The last and only time she'd tried dating, the whole situation had ended in disaster. Being twenty-one and never going beyond second base doesn't exactly endear her to the guys, but the one guy she never expected...
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Going home is rarely a good idea, until you discover what home really means.
After the disaster of Westland's steroid scandal, Chuck Mathis knows his baseball dreams are kaput; so he decides to focus on his other dream: psychology. He'll graduate from Westland University, then he'll leave Madison to earn his master's and PhD. Nothing is going to stand in his way. Not his overbearing father. Not even baseball.
Except maybe Sophie Tipton.
Chuck decides...
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Fourteen-year-old Cody Martin is up to bat, and the pitcher is none other than "Madman" Madison, master of the 70-mile-per-hour blazer. It's been a rough season with more losses than wins, and the game is a squeaker when Cody's win-crazy coach insists he "take one for the team." Cody's already gone the extra inning for his teammates, but what more will he be willing to sacrifice-especially considering what happened exactly one year ago? In the end...
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Ashley: I've given up. On my childish dreams. On getting out of this town. On love. On him.
On everything. I'm barely treading water.
Brayden: I'm the man with it all. The pinstriped jersey covering my back garners easy cash, flashy cars and fast women. My gilded name drapes over the city in neon. I have everything. Everything, except the thing I crave most. Ashley Foster.
They say you can never go home again. I'm out to prove them wrong. But what...
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I should be focusing on my game–not on falling for my gorgeous, grumpy roommate… especially since she's already left me once.
Sebastian
It's my final season to prove myself before the MLB Draft. The last thing I need is a distraction–and especially not one as tantalizing as Mia di Angelo.
She's the drop-dead gorgeous astrophysicist-in-training who ditched me the moment I wanted to take us from casual to committed. Yeah. Ouch. But when she needs...
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Heavenly Peace, My Ass is the first book in the long-awaited “Stealing Home” Series.
As with everything else he touches, Aric H. Morrison introduces this book to the world in a grand fashion.
And boy, does this one deliver on quality, creativity, theming, and storytelling.
This dynamic first book in the series cruises in around 250 pages; this story begins where it ends.
And then quickly captures the reader in a particular spell. There are...
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Miriam Spencer had left the "glamorous" New York fashion world to return to the small farming town where she was raised. Perhaps here, if only for a little while, she could find some of the meaning that was missing in her life. But coming home meant meeting Jake Steele, the man she'd never stopped loving. He was a widower now, with an adorable young daughter, and she longed to be part of both their lives. But what could she offer this man, whose roots...
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Love may be just a game, but the baseball players in Jennifer Seasons' sexy diamonds and dugouts series- they're playing for keeps!
Mark Cutter has it all: a lucrative baseball career, fast cars, and faster women-and all thanks to his priceless good luck charm. At least, that's what he thinks before Lorelei Littleton shows up. Next thing he knows, he's waking up alone, the sexy brunette has vanished, and his good luck charm is gone. More than a little...
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As young men on the cusp of life, Charlie Beresford and Kevin "KC" Conroy forged an unlikely friendship. Though the years have lead them down unexpected paths, the bonds of an enduring love will bring them back to where they have always belonged . . .In the summer before college, hauling furniture is the last thing Charlie Beresford wants do with his time. Then, Kevin Conroy-the Mighty KC-joins the moving crew. A star baseball player bound for the...
14) Stealing Home
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A gripping graphic novel that tells a boy's experience in a WWII Japanese internment camp, and the lessons that baseball teaches him.
Sandy Saito is a happy boy who's obsessed with baseball—especially the Asahi team, the pride of his community. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. Forced to move to a remote internment camp, he and his family cope as
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In 1933, the US government decided that Americans should pay no more than 20 percent of their income for housing. Today, though, almost half of renters pay more than 50 percent of their incomes toward housing, leaving them with precious little left to feed their children, pay for medical care, or cover emergencies. Far too many of these families end up on the street.
Congress has the power to intervene in the markets and protect American taxpayers....
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In an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight-ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood--and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes. The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other to accomplish nothing. In 150 years of baseball, there have only been 23. Perfect is nearly impossible. As a divorced dad, Ron was trying to...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Dodger Stadium is an American icon. The oldest ballpark west of the Mississippi -- and the third oldest overall -- it is a shrine to baseball and an essential feature of the Los Angeles cityscape. Yet the story of how it was built has a dark side. To clear space for the stadium, the city tore down low-income, Hispanic-friendly housing, resulting in a dramatic confrontation between the County Sheriff and the one family-the Arechigas- who refused to...
18) Stealing home
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An ex-ballplayer returns home, thinking of the past and of the person who made it special. A long-time friend and mentor draws the loose ends of his past and present lives together.
19) Stealing home
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Joey is sure he will not get along with the exchange student from Nicaragua who is staying with his family for a year, but they find common ground on the baseball field.
20) Stealing home
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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With her dreams of taking over her Texas family's minor league baseball franchise in jeopardy, seventeen-year-old Ryan Russell works with their newest player to save the team--even if it means breaking the rules.
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