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Keith O’Brien’s CHARLIE HUSTLE is the definitive story of Pete Rose's rise and fall, built with the help of federal court documents never utilized before, interviews with three former associates who placed Pete's bets on baseball, 27 hours of interviews with Pete himself, and over 150 hours of interviews in all. It is the story unlike it's ever been told before at a time when Pete's greatest sin—gambling on sports—is now legal in most places and encouraged by baseball itself. This year, Americans are on pace to legally wager $130 billion on sports, a new record.

CHARLIE HUSTLE is also a snapshot of baseball and America during a time when everything changed. Between 1960 and 1989—Pete's career in baseball—the game transitioned from being an unpolished national pastime, rough around the edges and to a diverse, billion-dollar sport covered by 24-hour news networks. Pete's many misdeeds in the shadows would not be tolerated in this new world. And the book makes clear that Pete self-destructs off the field for the same reason why he ever succeeded on it. Put simply: He refused to lose. He refused to break. He refused to tell the truth about his addictions, until it was too late.



KEITH O’BRIEN is the New York Times bestselling author of Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, and Outside Shot, a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, and an award-winning journalist. O’Brien has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico, and his stories have also appeared on National Public Radio and This American Life. He lives in New Hampshire.

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Janelle Wolf longs to be the woman she once was, an adored wife, a loving mother, a career woman, a force in her community—before a mysterious car accident stole her memories, ruined her reputation, and upended her life.

These days, her troubled family needs that capable woman from the past, the one she calls “Janelle Before.” Enter Lana, an alluring and magnetic psychic healer who meets secretly with Janelle. Lana coaxes Janelle to remember the circumstances of her accident in order to recover Janelle’s “best self.” Instead, Janelle uncovers the ugly truth behind that night. The revelations unravel Janelle’s marriage, disrupt her family, and turn her small southern town upside down. Written with wry humor, this diabolically entertaining tale of deception, temptation, and love is filled with dark twists, exploring what happens when the transgressions of the past come back with a vengeance.

Mindy Friddle is author of the novel, Secret Keepers, (winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction). The Garden Angel, her first novel and SIBA bestseller, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship, and she has twice won the state’s Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and lives on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Portrait artist Elly Sorenson leaves her Washington, D.C., life for the Caribbean island of Bonaire, hoping to find refuge from personal tragedy and financial fallout. Instead,
she is confronted by old demons, including a gambling underworld that taps paranormal talents she would prefer to leave dormant. On the island she finds an unlikely kindred spirit in teenager Rosie Ryan, an Australian with a gambling father and artistic talents of her own—and a penchant for breaking and entering, particularly
into the rooms of other guests. Against a backdrop of a gathering storm, Rosie is blamed for a freak diving accident, and the stakes at the gambling table mount.
Nobody is safe, least of all Elly, whose whole life, it seems, hangs on one final game. Underestimated by the men around them, Rosie and Elly must conquer forces they
never imagined and fight for a future that promises real freedom.


Mary Carroll Moore is a bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books in 3 genres, including the PEN/Faulkner-and Lambda Literary Awards nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light, the prequel to the best seller, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has
taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards “Reader’s Choice” award. Before moving into fiction, she worked as a chef, a cooking-school owner, a cookbook author, and a syndicated
columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.

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From the acclaimed author of Marley and Finn, a novel both intimate and epic capturing Ulysses S. Grant during his final days as he reflects on his life and reckons with his complicated legacy.

About the Author:

Jon Clinch is the author of the acclaimed novels Finn,
Kings of the Earth, The Thief of Auschwitz, Belzoni Dreams of Egypt, and Marley. A native of upstate New York, he lives with his wife in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

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Behind the Hedgerows is a fictional drama about human nature and the conflicts that go with it.

It is 1987 in the Hamptons. Cocaine is the drug of choice, AIDS is rampant, and the Old Guard is trying to hang on as new money invades Long Island's East End. Hunter McPherson, East Hampton resident, entrepreneur, and fitness trainer to those of wealth, takes the reader "south of the highway" behind the manicured hedgerows for a firsthand look at the opulent and romanticized lives of the privileged few who live there.

Privy to the entitled and deceitful world of his clients, Hunter is faced with a growing cynicism as those with massive egos, limitless greed, and needs for hedonistic pleasure test his moral resolve at every turn. Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at creating his own wealth, Hunter cashes in on the dark secrets of his clients, using what he has learned to wield his own form of leverage, control, and power. In the process, lives are forever changed, including his own.


About the author

Behind the Hedgerows is Tim Smith's first novel. Having formerly lived in East Hampton, New York and Tamarindo, Costa Rica, he now resides fulltime in Sarasota, Florida were he works as a commercial actor. Learn more at timothykentsmith.net. And for more info on the book click HERE

This book is a visual journey taking the reader beyond their own mundane reality, leading them to a place of peace and calm within their mind.


Author Information Robin is a Canadian Born author/surrealism abstract artist with a multi-cultural heritage of UK: Central Southern England, Northwestern European (Walse, Scottish-having descended through the Baldwin Clan, which is connected to the Stuart Clan which was the Clan of Mary Stuart who was the Queen of (Scots) Scotland. Irish as well as Norwegian, Swedish, Cyprus. African: Nigerian, Benin & Togo, Cameroon, Congo & Wester Bantu, Mali, and Senegal as well as First Nations Indigenous: Blackfoot and Cherokee. Growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as an under-privileged child. Robin persevered through life’s many challenges earning 5 post graduate diplomas. Robin has always enjoyed letting her mind go free and drawing with no thought or expectation as to what it would be and being amazed upon its completion. Seeing what the result was. This allowed Robin to escape reality if only for a short time to create what the soul wanted or needed to bare. Journey Beyond with Robin Hosking is Robin’s fifth book. Her first four being books of poetry.Book InformationJourney Beyond with Robin Hosking is a visually inspired book that will help the reader to transcend to a place of peace and calm. Helping the reader look within themselves to find the beauty of things they normally would have overlooked. Journey Beyond with Robin Hosking will help one to experience an inner, spiritual, and imaginative journey connecting them with a deeper part of themselves that they have forgotten. Allowing them to realize the truth of themselves.



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