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OverDrive Audiobooks August 2017
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"Never make predictions, especially about the future." -- Casey Stengel
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Casey Stengel : Baseball's Greatest Character
by Marty Appel
A biography of the only baseball player in history to play for all the New York Teams describes how he went on to revolutionize the role of manager and won 10 pennants and seven World Series with the Yankees.
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The Kid : the Immortal LIfe of Ted Williams
by Ben Bradlee
This biography of the baseball legend describes how his 1941 .406 batting average hasn't been topped since and discusses how he served as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea and spent most of his life hiding his Mexican heritage.
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Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
Explains how Billie Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, put into play a new kind of thinking and ball playing--a compilation of statistics, locker room knowledge and players rethinking what they know about playing baseball--demonstrating how success can be obtained without spending enormous sums of money.
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The Last Boy : Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
by Jane Leavy
Drawing on more than five hundred interviews with loved ones and fellow baseball players, the author crafts a deeply personal biography of the Yankee great, weaving her own memories of the major league slugger with an authoritative account of his life onand off the field.
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Baseball : an Illustrated history
by Geoffrey C. Ward
Rereleased to coincide with the PBS broadcast of a new two-part Tenth Inning episode, an updated edition features a new chapter by historian Kevin Baker on such topics as the 1994 strike, the home-run race of 1998 and recent steroid controversies.
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Indian Independence Day : August 15th
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The Association of Small Bombs
by Karan Mahajan
After witnessing his two friends killed by a “small” bomb that detonates in the Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic, young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could've imagined.
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
by Arundhati Roy
A provocative love story by the award-winning author of The God of Small Things meanders through a spectrum of powerful emotions experienced by diverse protagonists, including a grieving father who writes a letter profiling the people who came to his 5-year-old daughter's funeral and two longtime friends at a guest house who sleep wrapped around each other like newlyweds.
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies.
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
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Six Suspects
by Vikas Swarup
When Vivek "Vicky" Rai, the son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is killed at a party celebrating his acquittal on a murder charge, the police investigate six suspects attending the party who had guns in their possession.
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