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Blue Lines: The Assassins Series by Toni Aleo

2013-09-23T00:30:00-05:00

Blue Lines: The Assassins Series A Loveswept Contemporary Romance
Written by Toni Aleo

eBook | Loveswept | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Sports | $2.99 | 978-0-345-54733-0 (0-345-54733-0)

Opposites do more than just attract in Toni Aleo’s latest Nashville Assassins novel about a very bad boy and the good girl he can’t resist.

The instant Piper Allen sees Erik Titov, she wants him—wants his rock-hard body, sure, but the strength and mystery that lie behind that superstar hockey jock demeanor, too. So when he sidles up to her at a bar and slinks his arm around her waist, she’s lost. What follows is the wildest night of her life . . . followed by inevitable heartbreak the next morning. And then, a few weeks later, a very big surprise: two blue lines on a pregnancy test.

Only a check to the head could make Erik fall for a nice girl like Piper. But since their crazy-sexy night together, he’s been trying to forget about her alluring body by falling into bed with every woman in Nashville, and it’s not working. So when Piper shows up at his house with a baby-bomb to drop, it doesn’t take much for Erik to suggest the nuclear option: marriage. While it’s supposed to be all for show, the second they say “I do,” the ice between them starts to melt into sizzling steam.

Praise for Toni Aleo’s Nashville Assassins romances

“Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series.”—Award-winning author Jami Davenport

“Taking Shots is really the whole package. You get romance, humor, steamy sex, drama, and then it all wraps up with a great conclusion. I am amazed that this is Toni’s first book. She has come out in a huge way. I can’t wait to read more from her. Don’t hesitate for a moment to grab this book.”—Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

“A little steamy, a little heartbreaking, and a whole lot of fanning yourself are in order this time around, readers. Are your cheeks feeling a little pink yet? Get used to the feeling.”—Dreaming in the Pages, on Trying to Score

“Empty Net is an honest, heartwarming, endearing story. . . . Toni Aleo doesn’t just write a story. She gives you the ability to experience the journey of her characters right along with them. Her stories are enveloped with passion, emotion, humor, love; and let me tell you, that girl knows how to write a sex scene that just makes you sweat!”—Guilty Pleasures Book Review

“Sexy and riveting . . . the perfect combination of love and lust.”—USA Today bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin, on Blue Lines

“Funny, charming, sweet, sexy . . . [Falling for the Backup] has everything you want in a story.”—Blushing Reader

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Taking Shots, Trying to Score, and Empty Net.

Falling for the Backup (Novella) by Toni Aleo

2013-06-24T00:30:00-05:00

Falling for the Backup (Novella) The Assassins Series
Written by Toni Aleo

eBook, 105 pages | Loveswept | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Sports | $0.99 | 978-0-345-54971-6 (0-345-54971-6)

Toni Aleo’s sexy new eBook original novella featuring the Nashville Assassins will have you believing in the power of love at first sight . . . and second sight . . . and third.

After serving as a dutiful bridesmaid in the wedding from hell, Aynslee Shaw just wants to slink home to Nashville and forget the whole trip. That is until the hottest guy she’s ever seen is seated next to her on the flight and charms her with his easy laugh and killer smile. But just when she thinks things are getting good, he vanishes, leaving Aynslee wondering, was that guy the one? And did she just let him slip through her fingers?

Former superstar goalie Jordan Ryan is back on the ice—finally. After a crippling knee injury that had him wondering if he’d ever play pro hockey again, he’s got his full attention on rebuilding his career. So a pretty—okay, beautiful—girl on a plane shouldn’t be a distraction. But Jordan is very, very distracted. And when Aynslee crosses his path again, he’s not sure any job in the world is worth missing his second chance with a woman like her.

Praise for Toni Aleo’s Nashville Assassins romances

“Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series.”—Award-winning author Jami Davenport

“Taking Shots is really the whole package. You get romance, humor, steamy sex, drama, and then it all wraps up with a great conclusion. I am amazed that this is Toni’s first book. She has come out in a huge way. I can’t wait to read more from her. Don’t hesitate for a moment to grab this book.”—Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

“A little steamy, a little heartbreaking, and a whole lot of fanning yourself are in order this time around, readers. Are your cheeks feeling a little pink yet? Get used to the feeling.”—Dreaming in the Pages, on Trying to Score

“Empty Net is an honest, heartwarming, endearing story. . . . Toni Aleo doesn’t just write a story. She gives you the ability to experience the journey of her characters right along with them. Her stories are enveloped with passion, emotion, humor, love; and let me tell you, that girl knows how to write a sex scene that just makes you sweat!”—Guilty Pleasures Book Review

“Sexy and riveting . . . the perfect combination of love and lust.”—USA Today bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin, on Blue Lines

“Funny, charming, sweet, sexy . . . [Falling for the Backup] has everything you want in a story.”—Blushing Reader

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from the Loveswept title Empty Net.

Fishing Stories by Henry Hughes

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Fishing Stories
Written by Henry Hughes

Hardcover, 384 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | $15.00 | 978-0-307-96188-4 (0-307-96188-5)

Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Rudyard Kipling’s “On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art” and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx’s “The Wer-Trout” to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It.”

Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassant’s “Two Friends,” Jimmy Carter’s “Fishing with My Daddy,” and an excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden. Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwee’s “The River God,” and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Grey’s “The First Thousand-Pounder” and Ron Rash’s “Their Ancient Glittering Eyes.” There are narratives that confront head-on the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas McGuane’s meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing in “The Longest Silence” to Raymond Carver’s story of a boy’s deflated triumph in the gut-wrenching masterpiece “Nobody Said Anything.” And alongside the works of literary giants are the memories of people both great and humble who have found meaning and fulfillment in fishing, from a former American president to a Scottish gamekeeper’s daughter.

Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, these stories cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life.

This beautiful hardcover edition features seven original woodcut illustrations by Paul Gentry, and includes a silk ribbon marker, European-style half-round spine, and full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping.

Calico Joe by John Grisham

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Family Saga | $14.00 | 978-0-345-53664-8 (0-345-53664-9)

“Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post

It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly becomes the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing New York Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faces Calico Joe, Paul is in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his dad. Then Warren throws a fastball that will change their lives forever.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“An enjoyable, heartwarming read that’s not just for baseball fans.”—USA Today

“Grisham has hit a home run. . . . Calico Joe is a great read, a lyrical ode to baseball, small-town America, youthful innocence and a young boy’s search for heroes.”—The Buffalo News

“[A] pleasure . . . Suffice to say [Grisham] knows his way around the ballpark as well as he does a courtroom.”—The Washington Times

Calico Joe by John Grisham

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Paperback, 272 pages | Dell | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Family Saga | $7.99 | 978-0-345-54133-8 (0-345-54133-2)

Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella

2013-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

Butterfly Winter A Novel
Written by W.P. Kinsella

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Steerforth | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports | $15.99 | 978-1-58642-205-9 (1-58642-205-7)

Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, a lush and enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question. The brothers are destined to play ball in America, and to shape the history of their baseball-crazed homeland. They mature quickly and by the age of ten they leave home for the Major Leagues. Julio is a winning pitcher who, much to the chagrin of any team that signs him, will only throw to his catcher brother, who is a very weak hitter. As they pursue their baseball dreams, events in their homeland, including political brutalities and the outlawing of baseball, continue to shape their lives. They are monitored by the Wizard, a mysterious figure who controls events behind the scenes. In his last years, the Wizard tells the story of the twins, their family and their lovers to a skeptical gringo journalist. Butterfly Winter is a magical literary romp that includes a diabolical chiropractor, a romance blessed by butterflies and a deep political undercurrent that unites the wealthy north with the baseball-loving, talent-laden but oppressed and deprived south.

Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella

2013-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

Butterfly Winter A Novel
Written by W.P. Kinsella

eBook, 304 pages | Steerforth | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports | $15.99 | 978-1-58642-206-6 (1-58642-206-5)

Empty Net: The Assassins Series by Toni Aleo

2012-09-02T00:30:00-05:00

Empty Net: The Assassins Series
Written by Toni Aleo

eBook, 400 pages | Loveswept | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Sports | $2.99 | 978-1-300-75920-1 (1-300-75920-8)

In Toni Aleo’s third novel in her hot Assassins series, the chiseled men of this Nashville hockey team can make anything happen when they go all out for the women they want—even turn a one-night stand into a happily ever after.

Audrey Parker is up against the boards. She’s stuck in a job she hates and pining for a total jerk. Meanwhile, her sister Fallon is moving out and getting married to hockey star Lucas Brooks. Where is Audrey’s Prince Charming? Nothing she does has ever seemed to be good enough for any of the men in her life. Audrey’s about to hit rock bottom . . . until she wakes up next to Tate Odder.

The thrill of moving up from the minors to the Nashville Assassins was a welcome distraction. But not even becoming the first rookie goalie to tally three shutouts in the Stanley Cup finals alleviates the pain. With the loss of his parents and sister weighing as heavily on his soul as ever, Tate Odder can’t keep pretending he’s okay. That’s when he meets smart, sexy Audrey. Her gentle warmth and quirky sense of humor make him feel whole for the first time in too long. But to stay that way forever, Tate must find a way to accept his past and learn to live for love.

Praise for Toni Aleo’s Nashville Assassins romances

“Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series.”—Award-winning author Jami Davenport

“Taking Shots is really the whole package. You get romance, humor, steamy sex, drama, and then it all wraps up with a great conclusion. I am amazed that this is Toni’s first book. She has come out in a huge way. I can’t wait to read more from her. Don’t hesitate for a moment to grab this book.”—Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

“A little steamy, a little heartbreaking, and a whole lot of fanning yourself are in order this time around, readers. Are your cheeks feeling a little pink yet? Get used to the feeling.”—Dreaming in the Pages, on Trying to Score

“Empty Net is an honest, heartwarming, endearing story. . . . Toni Aleo doesn’t just write a story. She gives you the ability to experience the journey of her characters right along with them. Her stories are enveloped with passion, emotion, humor, love; and let me tell you, that girl knows how to write a sex scene that just makes you sweat!”—Guilty Pleasures Book Review

“Sexy and riveting . . . the perfect combination of love and lust.”—USA Today bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin, on Blue Lines

“Funny, charming, sweet, sexy . . . [Falling for the Backup] has everything you want in a story.”—Blushing Reader

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Taking Shots and Trying to Score.

The House of Moses All-Stars by Charley Rosen

2012-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

The House of Moses All-Stars A Novel
Written by Charley Rosen

Trade Paperback, 496 pages | Seven Stories Press | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Jewish; Fiction - Humorous | $16.95 | 978-1-60980-371-1 (1-60980-371-X)

Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. Charley Rosen gives us basketball as a metaphor for life.

Aaron Steiner, the protagonist of The House of Moses All-Stars, is a man very close to the edge. The former college basketball star has watched his dreams of being a successful player fall apart, his marriage disintegrate, and his baby die. In desperation he accepts his friend’s offer to join a Jewish professional basketball team—The House of Moses All-Stars—which is traveling on a cross-country tour in a renovated hearse. Aaron’s teammates—a Communist, a Zionist, a former bank robber, and a red-headed Irishman who passes for a Jew—are, like Aaron, trying to escape their own troubled pasts. As the members of this motley crew travel west to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover a nation grappling with social and economic collapse and fear of foreigners, in conflict with its own democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, The House of Moses All-Stars looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.

Calico Joe by John Grisham

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham

Hardcover, 208 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $24.95 | 978-0-385-53607-3 (0-385-53607-0)

A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball…

Whatever happened to Calico Joe?

It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded third and headed for home. The next day, Jim Hickman, the first baseman for the Cubs, injured his back. The team suddenly needed someone to play first, so they reached down to their AA club in Midland, Texas, and called up a twenty-one-year-old named Joe Castle. He was the hottest player in AA and creating a buzz.

In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records.

Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his Dad. Then Warren threw a fastball that would change their lives forever…

In John Grisham’s new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it’s what happens off the field that makes CALICO JOE a classic.

Calico Joe by John Grisham

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe A Novel
Written by John Grisham

eBook | Dell | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $7.99 | 978-0-385-53608-0 (0-385-53608-9)

Calico Joe by John Grisham

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Random House Large Print | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $25.00 | 978-0-307-99074-7 (0-307-99074-5)

Calico Joe by Erik Singer

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham
Read by Erik Singer

Unabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $30.00 | 978-0-449-01100-3 (0-449-01100-3)

Calico Joe by Erik Singer

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham
Read by Erik Singer

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga; Fiction - Coming Of Age | $20.00 | 978-0-449-01101-0 (0-449-01101-1)

Trying to Score: The Assassins Series by Toni Aleo

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Trying to Score: The Assassins Series
Written by Toni Aleo

eBook, 576 pages | Loveswept | Fiction - Romance - Contemporary; Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Sports | $2.99 | 978-1-105-65941-6 (1-105-65941-0)

In a captivating novel of second chances and healing hearts, the newest member of the Nashville Assassins pulls a power play to make things right with the one that got away.

Fallon Parker’s dream has always been to turn her family’s wine company into a runaway success and eventually start a cellar of her own. Since graduating from college, she has worked relentlessly to make that dream a reality, especially after taking a chance on love—and losing. By the time Fallon becomes an official sponsor of the Nashville Assassins, she feels like all her hard work is finally paying off. And then the man who broke her heart skates back into her life.

On the ice, Lucas Brooks is the NHL’s leading scorer—at least when he’s not in the box. Off the ice, he’s a mess, with all his anger and misery bottled up inside. He threw away the most important person in his life and has regretted it ever since. But when Lucas returns to Nashville in a trade, he’s determined to convince Fallon that he’s a changed man. The attraction is still there. The tension is electrifying. But the odds are stacked against them—especially after Lucas finds out that Fallon has been keeping a devastating secret.

Praise for Toni Aleo’s Nashville Assassins romances

“Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series.”—Award-winning author Jami Davenport

“Taking Shots is really the whole package. You get romance, humor, steamy sex, drama, and then it all wraps up with a great conclusion. I am amazed that this is Toni’s first book. She has come out in a huge way. I can’t wait to read more from her. Don’t hesitate for a moment to grab this book.”—Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

“A little steamy, a little heartbreaking, and a whole lot of fanning yourself are in order this time around, readers. Are your cheeks feeling a little pink yet? Get used to the feeling.”—Dreaming in the Pages, on Trying to Score

“Empty Net is an honest, heartwarming, endearing story. . . . Toni Aleo doesn’t just write a story. She gives you the ability to experience the journey of her characters right along with them. Her stories are enveloped with passion, emotion, humor, love; and let me tell you, that girl knows how to write a sex scene that just makes you sweat!”—Guilty Pleasures Book Review

“Sexy and riveting . . . the perfect combination of love and lust.”—USA Today bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin, on Blue Lines

“Funny, charming, sweet, sexy . . . [Falling for the Backup] has everything you want in a story.”—Blushing Reader

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Taking Shots and Empty Net.

The Might Have Been by Joe Schuster

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

The Might Have Been A Novel
Written by Joe Schuster

Hardcover, 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga | $25.00 | 978-0-345-53026-4 (0-345-53026-8)

Joseph M. Schuster’s absorbing debut novel resonates with the pull of lifelong dreams, the sting of regret, and the ways we define ourselves against uncertain twists of fate—perfect for fans of Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

For Edward Everett Yates, split seconds matter: the precise timing of hitting a low outside pitch, of stealing a base, of running down a fly ball. After a decade playing in the minor leagues—years after most of his peers have given up—he’s still patiently waiting for his chance at the majors. Then one day he gets called up to the St. Louis Cardinals, and finally the future he wanted unfolds before him.

But one more split second changes everything: In what should have been the game of his life, he sustains a devastating knee injury, which destroys his professional career.

Thirty years later, after sacrificing so many opportunities—a lucrative job, relationships with women who loved him, even the chance for a family—Edward Everett is barely hanging on as the manager of a minor league baseball team, still grappling with regret over the choices he made and the life he almost had. Then he encounters two players—one brilliant but undisciplined, the other eager but unremarkable—who show him that his greatest contribution may come in the last place he ever expected.

Full of passion, ambition, and possibility, The Might Have Been maps the profound and unpredictable moments that change our lives forever, and the irresistible power of a second chance.

Praise for The Might Have Been

“The effort to sustain the tradition of the great American baseball novel receives an honorable boost with this meticulously peopled tale of opportunities lost.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Eventually, all of us have to grapple our might-have-beens. This is the moving story of a man whose chance for baseball stardom ended in a split-second accident, and it resonates far beyond the baseball field.”—Reader’s Digest

“A brilliant debut . . . a lovely, poignant, heartbreaker of a baseball novel, as good as last year’s hyped The Art of Fielding and more literary than Grisham’s Calico Joe.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A grand slam!”—San Antonio Express-News

“The Might Have Been is about the hold baseball can have on those who play it, but it’s also about acceptance, and patience, and the struggle to know when to fold ’em, and when to run.”—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

“A terrific story that goes beyond the sport and deals with promise and aspirations, dreams and disappointments . . . Never mind whether you are a baseball fan. This is a damn fine read.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The Might Have Been by Joe Schuster

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

The Might Have Been A Novel
Written by Joe Schuster

eBook, 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports; Fiction - Family Saga | $9.99 | 978-0-345-53246-6 (0-345-53246-5)

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

2012-01-31T00:30:00-05:00

Playing for Pizza A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Paperback, 320 pages | Dell | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports; Fiction | $9.99 | 978-0-345-53205-3 (0-345-53205-8)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Rick Dockery is the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually gets into the game. With a seventeen-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provides what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he becomes a national laughingstock—and is immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams.

But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds, Rick finally gets a job—as the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers . . . of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player—any former NFL player—at their helm. And now they’ve got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is) and doesn’t speak a word of Italian. To say that Italy—the land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and football americano—holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.

Bleachers by John Grisham

2011-12-27T00:30:00-05:00

Bleachers A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Paperback, 240 pages | Dell | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports; Fiction | $9.99 | 978-0-345-53203-9 (0-345-53203-1)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.

Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake—or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach—and himself—before he can get on with life, the stakes are especially high.

Chess Story by Joel Rotenberg

2011-12-07T00:30:00-05:00

Chess Story
Written by Stefan Zweig
Translated by Joel Rotenberg
Introduction by Peter Gay

eBook | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Sports | $12.95 | 978-1-59017-560-6 (1-59017-560-3)

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.
Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig’s story.

This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work’s unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.

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Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham

Calico Joe A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham
Read by Erik Singer

Calico Joe
Written by John Grisham
Read by Erik Singer

Trying to Score: The Assassins Series
Written by Toni Aleo

The Might Have Been A Novel
Written by Joe Schuster

The Might Have Been A Novel
Written by Joe Schuster

Playing for Pizza A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Bleachers A Novel
Written by John Grisham

Chess Story
Written by Stefan Zweig
Translated by Joel Rotenberg
Introduction by Peter Gay