Sally Harrison-Pepper

The Art of Fielding: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs)
• By Chad Harbach
• Narrated By Holter Graham
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Smart Ball: Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Robert F. Lewis
• Narrated By Scotty Drake

Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status.

A Gate at the Stairs

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Lorrie Moore
• Narrated By Mia Barron

In her dazzling new novel--her first in more than a decade--Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.

Beautiful Ruins

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Jess Walter
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini
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The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.

A Fistful of Collars: A Chet and Bernie Mystery, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Spencer Quinn
• Narrated By Jim Frangione
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Hoping to bring some Tinseltown money to the Valley, the mayor lures a movie studio to town to shoot their next production, a big-budget Western in the classic tradition. The star is none other than ruggedly handsome—and notoriously badly behaved—Thad Perry. When the mayor decides that someone needs to keep an eye on Thad so that he doesn’t get into too much trouble, Bernie and Chet are handpicked for the job. The money is good but something smells fishy....

The Summer Game

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Roger Angell
• Narrated By William Lavelle

Roger Angell has witnessed many of the great and small events in the past 10 years of baseball. These writings, which first appeared in The New Yorker, provide a unique record of this turbulent decade, from the rise of California baseball and the comical and agonizing sufferings of the early Mets to the fall of the Yankee empire and the repeated triumphs of the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Orioles. In eloquent, concise language, Angell depicts the many faces of America's favorite pastime.

The Road

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Cormac McCarthy
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Kim Edwards
• Narrated By Ilyana Kadushin
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Kim Edwards' stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you?

In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever.