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When sports journalist Denison Brown visits a hypnotherapist to help him quit smoking, he has no idea of the journey...

Maya Méndez, who has lived with her family in Alabama for fifteen years as an illegal immigrant, suddenly faces an...

Winner of The Paris Review/Terry Southern Prize for Humor. "Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need...

A unique work in which Herbert has dwelled on different sporting events. He takes us from one great event to...

Two swimmers, close friends and archrivals, chase after the same Olympic gold medal. Archie Hayes is the best swimmer in...

“There’s a warmth and geniality in the prose that’s quite effective in Working the Glass: A Novel. Andrew is telling...

It’s the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Robert Cherney, a 30-year-old aspiring writer, has...

The year is 2043. God and Satan are dining at a cute little Italian trattoria in Purgatory, when Satan challenges...

It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single...

Sport lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. Our Sporting Life will examine what this really...

Longlisted for the ReLit Award Best Fiction 2006, Ottawa Xpress Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit is a singularly Canadian...

<p>Ray Kinsella is sitting quietly on the back porch of his Iowa farm one evening when he hears the ghostly...

"There’s a line that runs alongside our ordinary lives, just beyond the grind of things. Jason Beem’s novel Southbound derails...

This antiquarian volume contains an interesting, general discussion about fishing and the many novelties, delights, and vicissitudes that accompany this...

On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of...

First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John...

Narrator of Favorite Sons Hutch Van Buren is fifteen years old, playing sports and searching for arrowheads in a small...

The annual Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award features a distinguished original work of short fiction or nonfiction that embodies an implicit...

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1922 and we are now republishing it with a brand...

Even in the minor leagues, baseball is a cutthroat business. There are only so many places on team rosters for...