The Second World War causes turmois in baseball as its best players enlist. But in 1941, before the war began, baseball has a summer better than anyone could remember. Ted Williams and "Joltin' Joe" DiMaffio bat the lights out while the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years. But baseball's most poignant moment arrives when the Dodgers' Branch Rickey forces intergration by singing the immortal Jackie Robinson. With heroic dignity,...

Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.

From the debut of the "action-packed" "The Edge of Justice and straight through the acclaimed releases of "Point of Law and "Trial by Ice and Fire, Clinton McKinzie has continued to leave readers and critics breathless with his unique brand of suspense. For fans of his previous novels featuring Antonio Burns, and those who are just being introduced to this unforgettable hero, CROSSING THE LINE is sure to be an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride. Special...

Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.

Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.

Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.

Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.

Antonio Burns finds one crucial piece of evidence linked to a drowning incident and finds himself drawn to the case despite the costs to his career, his life, or the townspeople who consider him one of their own.

Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home.