Diversion Books: 923 books
by Herman Raucher
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
“Slick, smart, raunchy entertainment” from the international bestselling author of the classic Summer of ’42 (Kirkus Reviews).
Ben is the writer who can’t seem to make it; Ginnie is the dancer who can’t seem to miss. In 1951 they are two scared kids in love—determined to hold onto...
by Roger Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talk to some of its practitioners and veterans, and try to find out whether it still the same old magic. His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to...
Unfinished Business
On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jack McCallum (DREAM TEAM) gives an inside look at the legendary Boston Celtics during a season of change.“One of the five best NBA books ever written.”—Bill Simmons, ESPNIn the 1990-91 basketball season, the Boston Celtics were a team in transition, both on and...
The DuSable Panthers
The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Twelve years before Kentucky and Texas Christian. Seven years after Jackie Robinson’s first at-bat in the Majors. A color barrier in both sports and in America was shattered—by a team of teenage boys. The weight of a season and the weight of growing up are burdens enough. For a high school...
The Baby Bombers
The Inside Story of the Next Yankees Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Now updated to include the Yankees’ 100-win 2018 season! The meteoric rise of the new generation of superstar Yankees, including Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleyber Torres, and Luis Severino—from the “inside baseball” strategy in assembling the roster, their fascinating paths...
Memories of Summer
When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The legendary sportswriter’s memoir of Brooklyn, baseball, and a life in journalism: “Simply put, this is a marvelous book” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this book, the bestselling author of The Boys of Summer shares stories of his Depression-era Brooklyn childhood, his career during a golden...
Meat Market
Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
"One of the most insightful books ever written about college football." —The New York Times Now revised and updated by the author, MEAT MARKET proves that in college football, the game off the field is more brutal than the one on the field. In this shattering expose, Bruce Feldman goes into the war...
by Patricia C. Wrede
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The authoritative guide to the craft and business of writing.
Patricia C. Wrede has been a stalwart of the sci-fi/fantasy world for decades, publishing dozens of books across multiple series, storming bestseller lists and corralling accolades from critics and fans alike. Now, with brilliant...
The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
“Forget popular books like The Hunger Games and Twilight, M.G. Buehrlen’s debut novel is something that every young adult fan should read” (The Founding Fields).
For as long as she can remember, seventeen-year-old Alex Wayfare has had visions of the past that seem so real they leave her...
Scarlet Rain
The Escaped - Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The co-author of the New York Times bestselling House of Night series returns with the mesmerizing second book in The Escaped series. In Amber Smoke, Kristin Cast introduced her legions of readers to Alek and Eva. Alek, immortal son of the Furies, has been charged to save his home and recapture the...
by Ellen Gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
“A winning collection, filled with humor, love, and just enough human meanness to make things interesting. Gilchrist knows how to tell a story.” —Kirkus
An indomitable cast of characters comes alive in this collection of shorts and a novella from acclaimed author Ellen Gilchrist.
The...
by Andrew Neiderman
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
A near-future legal thriller from the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate, “an expert weaver of suspense” (Fresh Fiction).
In this dizzying novel of speculative fiction, the legal system is picked apart for all the fault lines upon which justice quakes. Imagine a system wherein a pool...
by Tamara Blake
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A young girl is drawn into a decadent and deadly paranormal world in a modern-day fairy tale steeped in danger and suspense.
When Ruby volunteers to take her mother’s housecleaning shift at the gothic Cottingley Heights mansion, she thinks it’s going to be business as usual. Clean out the...
So, You Want To Be a Ballet Dancer?
Making It In the Rough & Tumble World of Professional Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
“A revealing book about the grueling—and glamorous—world of ballet” (Daily News, New York).
Is everything really so beautiful at the ballet? For Miami City Ballet principal dancer Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg it is; but it wasn’t always so. Learn how she made it through all of her...