The First Fall Classic, The Red Sox, The Giants, the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos who Reinvented the World Series in 1912 by Mike Vaccaro; 290 pages; $26.95; 2009; Doubleday, New York, NY; 978-0-385-5624-1; Checked out from Multnomah County Library,Central; 7/22-7-27
…”any man who would choose a day’s work over a day of baseball is [...]

Finding Oz, How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story by Evan I. Schwartz; 2009; $28.00; 374 pages; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY; 978-0-547-05510-7; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 7/14-7/21
Part biography, part literary detective story this book purports to show where L. Frank Baum got his ideas for the Oz  series.  [...]

Angel Fire East, The Word and The Void by Terry Brooks
I have been reading Terry Brooks Shannara books since the 80’s and this is the final book in the prequel series.
“Monday, December 22″

Back to School For Grown-Ups, Everything You Should Have Learned in Class by Stephen Evans, M.A. and Ian Whitelaw; 2009; 256 pages; $18.99; Quid Publishing, Hove, England; 978-0-7641-6271-8; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Hollywood; 6/11-6/14
100 two pages lessons that cover everything from When was the earth formed? to When did the Cold War end? [...]

Troubled Water; Race, Mutiny and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk by Gregory A. Freeman; 2009; 246 pages; $27.00; Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY; 978-0-230-61361-4; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 6/8-6/11
On October 12 & 13, 1972 the USS Kitty Hawk was conducting flight operations off the coast of Vietnam.  At some point a [...]