Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic

10 best books like Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic (Alyssa Milano): Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman, This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life, Bang Ditto, Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story, Jenny Holzer, On Subbing: The First Four Years, Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit, A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika, Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within, A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

AuthorBrad Ricca
ISBN0312643802
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay


Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches...
AuthorGavin MacLeod
ISBN0849965284
The remarkable life, career, and faith journey of the star of The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

For 16 years, millions of Americans welcomed Gavin MacLeod into their living rooms every Saturday night. This veteran of stage and screen transformed himself from a seasoned character...
AuthorAmber Tamblyn
ISBN1933149345
We'd all love to stop eating
the poisonous parts of our wildness.

Ever wondered what it's like to be a celebrated Hollywood actor from the age of eleven? With insightful, no BS, cards-on-the-table poetry that is quite serious yet has fun with metaphor, imagery, and language itself, author...
AuthorPaul Whitelaw
ISBN0312341377
In the eight years since their first release, Belle and Sebastian have grown from a secretive cult concern into one of the most beloved and revered pop’n’roll bands in the world. Intelligent and sensitive, witty and original, beautiful and bold, their music inspires the kind of devotion not seen...
AuthorJenny Holzer
ISBN0714837547
This revised and greatly expanded edition of the book originally published on the occasion of Holzer's celebrated exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1989 is a comprehensive document of the artist's career. A complete collection of the artist's writings, up to and including her 1996...
AuthorDave Roche
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating, tales of woe from working as a substitute teaching assistant in Portland's elementary schools in the early 2000s. He writes about the good days and the terrible ones, helping kids who can't...
AuthorMatt McCarthy
ISBN0670020702
A Season on the Mound with Minor League Baseball's Most Unlikely Pitcher
Matt McCarthy never expected to get drafted by a Major League Baseball team. A molecular biophysics major at Yale, he was a decent left-handed starter for a dismal college team. But good southpaws are hard to find, and when...
A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika
AuthorAlfons Heck
ISBN0939650444
A non-fictional 'coming-of-age' story that puts Holden Caufield's self-absorbed whiney ass to shame. At age 17, Heck became commander of 6000 of the Third Reich's last defenders, many of them just boys of 13 and 14, of the Westwall along the Rhine. Heck provides insight into the importance of the Hitler...
Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within
AuthorMike Lowell
ISBN0451225554
An inspiring memoir from a Red Sox hero and MVP of the 2007 World Series.

In 2007, Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell triumphed over a lifetime of adversity when he led the world’s most zealously followed baseball team to the promised land, with their second World Series title in four years....
AuthorA. Bartlett Giamatti
ISBN1565121929
With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball's Renaissance man and its commissioner. In A GREAT AND GLORIOUS GAME, a collection of spirited, incisive...
AuthorHans Scholl
ISBN0060157054
Hans and Sophie Scholl were the most prominent members of the White Rose Nazi resistance group, made up largely of Munich university students and professors who wrote and secretly distributed anti-Nazi flyers. They were exposed after Hans and Sophie were observed throwing flyers in the air in the...
Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits
AuthorDavid Ortiz
ISBN0312366337
Raised in the Dominican Republic, signed by the Seattle Mariners, and released by the Minnesota Twins, David Ortiz landed in baseball-crazy Boston, of all places. Generally regarded as an underachiever to that point in his career, Ortiz blossomed into one of the most feared and adored sluggers in...
AuthorShannen Doherty
ISBN0307591522
For fans of Shannen Doherty, best known for her roles as Jenny Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210, and Prue Halliwell in Charmed,  and for women who are fed up with coming in second and being treated like a doormat, or who just want more out of life.

There's...
AuthorDaniel Rodriguez
ISBN0544365607
The unforgettable story of a young soldier who survived one of the bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and lived to pursue his dream of playing Division I college football

At 5-foot-8, 175 pounds, Daniel Rodriguez was an unlikely recruit for the gridiron. But on the battlefield, under the daily...
AuthorMike Greenberg
ISBN1400064384
Meet Mike Greenberg, the popular host of ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, the highest-rated drive-time sports talk show on the dial. To his three-million-plus listeners, Greeny is the guy who’s equally as comfortable dissecting zone defenses as he is discussing cashmere sweaters....
Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights
AuthorBurt Ward
ISBN0964704803
This book read exactly as you would expect it to. Camp and full of innuendo. It really lives up to Batman legend. No matter what I read I still love Burt Ward (And Robin). I still enjoy the TV show today (which probably says alot about my sense of humour. This book was trashy, gossipy and self-aggrandizing...But...
AuthorBill Moushey
ISBN0062201131
The shocking details chronicling how a beloved coach and esteemed university became enmeshed in one of the worst scandals in U.S. sports history

It's a scandal that began in a place called Happy Valley. But it's not as happy as it once was, as the child-sex-abuse charges against a longtime coach...
Homesick: A Memoir
AuthorSela Ward
ISBN0060989076
This is a story about home . . .

At a time when much of America is yearning to recapture the spirit and feelings of a more innocent era, comes this exceptional new book from one of our most beloved actresses: a story of one woman's journey to reconnect with the landscape of her childhood.

Though...
AuthorTodd Bridges
ISBN1439148988
The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity.

For Todd Bridges early stardom...
AuthorEnsley F. Guffey
ISBN1770411178
“I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger.”

With those words, Breaking Bad’s Walter White solidified himself as TV’s greatest antihero and captured the attention of fans everywhere. Wanna Cook? takes an extensive look at the most critically lauded series on television with analyses...
Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs
AuthorDirk Hayhurst
ISBN0806534850
I commented on The Bullpen Gospels that what was missing from the story was Dirk Hayhurst meeting his wife, as that seemed like an important part of the narrative that was missing. Turns out that he was just saving all the material from the Bonnie situation (which does not resemble Pulp Fiction in any way;...
America the Edible: A Hungry History, From Sea to Dining Sea
AuthorAdam Richman
ISBN1605293024
The host of Travel Channel's most popular show explains how iconic American foods have captured our culinary imaginations—you won't look at a bagel the same way again!

In America the Edible, Travel Channel host Adam Richman tackles the ins and outs of American cuisine, demonstrating his...
Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television
AuthorLynne Y. Edwards
Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim for its use of metaphor to explore the conflicts of growth, power, and transgression. Its groundbreaking stylistic and thematic devices, boldness and wit earned it an intensely devoted fan base-and as it approached its zenith, attention from media...
AuthorBruce Chadwick
ISBN0470185511
"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state."

—Publishers Weekly

George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home....
Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy
AuthorCandace Havens
ISBN1932100008
Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy is a biography of Joss Whedon, the wunderkind creator of television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly.

From Booklist: Writers, actors, and fans often call Joss Whedon a genius. It’s easy to see why. Whedon, who got his start writing for...
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