"Everybody wrote us off at the start of the 2011 season. We have a new bullpen and different faces on the field, but we're still in the hunt heading into the final week of August. Though we're in third place, we're within striking distance of the Yankees and Red Sox. We're almost exactly where the Red Sox were a year ago, and once again the same three teams are duking it out for the division title and A.L. Wild Card. Maybe we're not just hunting the Beasts of the East anymore. Maybe we're one of them.” --James Shields, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher, from the Epilogue Little did Shields know when he and Bill Chastain penned these words in late August 2011 how prophetic they were. After trailing the Red Sox by nine games on September 2, the Rays overtook them on the last day of the regular season to complete the greatest comeback in major league history. It was an unbelievable sequel to the Tampa Bay Rays' storybook 2010 season, when they overtook the Yankees on the last day of the season to win the American League East Division. September Nights is the story of how the 2010 Tampa Bay Rays handled the heat during the most critical part of the season. Tampa Bay entered the last month of the season knowing they had to fight off the “Beasts of the East” – the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox—to win their second American League East title in three seasons. The tension mounts as the season reaches high gear. Not only is the team striving to win the pennant, they also know they are running out of time. Can this close-knit team accomplish all their goals in the little time they have remaining as teammates? Shields is not only a master on the mound, he is also a master storyteller with a smooth narrative style. Along the way, he offers insights into the Rays, opposing teams, the art of pitching, and what is going through his mind at key moments in the Rays’ stretch run.

SEPTEMBER NIGHTS: Hunting the Beasts of the American League East

Sports & Outdoors

Chastain, Bill

Shields, James

Baseball

Cadent Publishing

“LIVECELL is a roller-coaster ride. I could not put it down. The novel is also a meditation on the meaning of human connection, the consequences of our current technological revolution, and our relationship to the divine.” -- Kathrin Seitz, writer and producer When Jay Chevalier makes a startling discovery after eight years in a corporate laboratory, he disappears and drives cross-country with his invention hidden in a beer cooler. When Mary MacKensie watches a rough-looking stranger walk into the final meeting of her bankrupted company and sees what he places on the boardroom table, she senses her life will change. When Sammy Holmes serves Jay a sandwich in his poolroom and gets a LiveCell demonstration, he believes this lucky horse is about to pay a hundred to one. When Deirdre Holly, receptionist and surfer, is offered the job of running Jay’s high-tech factory, she barely holds back her tears. But when the world’s powerbrokers fully understand the ramifications of Jay’s invention and realize he won’t compromise his ideals, they conclude that he must be stopped. Nonstop action that takes you from the Maine wilderness to the boardrooms of San Francisco, a hero as compelling and mysterious as any in modern fiction, ill-destined love, and a tragically relevant plea for social change will propel you through this thriller at neural-network speed.

LiveCell

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Green, Eric

Thrillers & Suspense

He ran like a crazed jackrabbit, according to one awe-struck sportswriter. Clint Castleberry was already an Atlanta-area football sensation when he arrived at Georgia Tech in 1942, and in one meteoric college season he became a national sports hero as well. He was the first college freshman ever to be voted All-American. At least one Heisman Trophy was all but certain. Though weighing just 155 pounds, he seemed destined to become one of the greatest tailbacks in college football history. But then World War II intervened, and Castleberry became, instead, another young man whose destiny was cut short. His #19 is the only number ever retired in the illustrious history of Georgia Tech football. Bill Chastain weaves Clint Castleberry’s story around other legends of Georgia Tech football--including John Heisman, William Alexander, and Bobby Dodd—to create a glorious portrait of a proud football tradition and America’s Greatest Generation.

Jackrabbit: The Story of Clint Castleberry and the Improbable 1942 Georgia Tech Football Season

Biographies & Memoirs

How do the Rays do it? Throughout the history of America’s national pastime, major league teams have been measured by how they fared down the stretch, and no team has ever played better when the games mattered most than the Tampa Bay Rays of 2010 and 2011. Tampa Bay entered the last month of the 2010 season knowing they had to fight off the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to win their second American League East title in three seasons. And in 2011, hobbled by off-season defections, the Rays trailed the Red Sox in the race for a wildcard playoff berth by a seemingly insurmountable 9½ games on September 4. How did the Rays make the playoffs in both years? How does this small-market team keep coming up big against baseball’s Goliaths? James Shields is not only a master on the mound, he is also a master storyteller. In September Nights he offers insights on opposing hitters and teams, the art of pitching, and the essence of Rays magic. Getting to the major league playoffs is like catching lightning in a bottle, and no team catches lightning like the Rays.

September Nights: Hunting the Beasts of the American League East

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SEPTEMBER NIGHTS: Hunting the Beasts of the American League East

LiveCell

Jackrabbit: The Story of Clint Castleberry and the Improbable 1942 Georgia Tech Football Season

September Nights: Hunting the Beasts of the American League East