Tom: 6300 books
Ty and The Babe
Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Early in the twentieth century, fate thrust a young Babe Ruth into the gleaming orbit of Ty Cobb. The resulting collision produced a dazzling explosion and a struggle of mythic magnitude. At stake was not just baseball dominance, but eternal glory and the very soul of a sport. For much of fourteen...
A Course Called Ireland
A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
An epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world?s greatest round of golf
In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was well familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf trip to end all...
The Final Season
Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just played catch with you in the yard. Chances...
by Tom Piazza
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which...
Trading with the Enemy
A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Havana knew me by my shoes,” begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the...
Chasing the Sea
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet...
Apostle
Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**A profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles—a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in.
“Expertly researched and...
by Tom Longo
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
I met her online, and nothing about her seemed strange until she challenged me to a game of rock-paper-scissors. If I won, she said I could sleep with her, but if she won I had to do whatever she said.
She won.
"...put it in your mouth! Suck on it like candy!”
She was only five foot two, but she was the most dominant woman I ever met!
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
The second book in the thrilling series that began with The Philosopher’s Flight finds Robert Canderelli Weekes as a rookie Rescue and Evacuation flier on the front lines of World War I in France. He came to save lives, but has no idea how far he’ll have to go to win the war.
Thanks to...
by Tom DeLonge, AJ Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
For those who know… that something is going on… The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is...
by Aliette de Bodard, Yoon Ha Lee, Margaret Ronald
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Eighteen steampunk short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and five-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”Authors include Campbell Award finalist Aliette...
by Tom Laimer-Read
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Welcome to Odnnol, that roguish, rakish, rambunctious place. If you want the full, authentic Odnnol Experience, then look no further. What more splendid adventures could you expect than encountering one of the jovial locals who would happily fleece you of your wallet and all of your wares as soon...
Tintoretto
Tradition and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodox paintings are not readily classifiable, and although he was a Venetian by birth, his standing as a member of the Venetian school is constantly contested. But he was also a formidable maverick, abandoning...
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Zen and the Art of Staying Sane in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
For readers of John O’Hurley’s It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump and Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Daytime Emmy-winner Tom Bergeron—host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos—offers a series of humorous and inspirational...