The Story of a Soul, better known to the English public as The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, was first published in 1899. Today it ranks amongst the greatest Christian spiritual classics and it has been translated into practically every well-known language. Almost every pope since its publication has proposed St. Thérèse s te...more

"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis h...more

In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will's eulogy for the late Curt Flood ("Dred Scott in Spikes"), Will on Ted Williams ("When Ted W...more

In Nine Innings, Daniel Okrent examines the Milwaukee Brewers' June 10, 1982, game with the Baltimore Orioles. Using this particular moment in baseball history, Okrent explores all the aspects of baseball that are crucial to its nature but invisible to the fans watching: the hidden language of catchers' signals, the physiology of pitching, the bala...more

No one gets inside sports like journalist and author John Feinstein. In THE MAJORS, he returns to his most popular subject - golf - and gets the story behind the story of the top athletes in the field. Following such key players as John Daly, Colin Montgomery, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, and Tom Lehman as they compete in the Masters, the U.S....more

Taking America back...one politician at a time TERM LIMITS In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach --...more