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Tommy Townsend, a young author and English instructor from the University of Washington has come to the panhandle of Oklahoma to interview his aging grandfather for his next book. The long-promised interview is to discover the secret surrounding a mining accident in 1968 which buried alive Tom Howard, his "Papa Tom." Our hero becomes exposed to more than just secrets - a woman with secrets of her own, a dangerous criminal on the run, and truths that will both inspire and break your heart are revealed in this suspenseful romance. Secrets is the anticipated...

Baseball history is brimming with the weird, the bizarre, and the hard to believe. "Baseball's Most Wanted" chronicles 700 of the most outlandish players, managers, and owners throughout baseball history. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail baseball's top-ten inept players, strange plays, bad practical jokes, bizarre nicknames, murderers, politicians, Don Juans, unusual contracts, notable nicknames, curses, worst trades, freak injuries, unsolved mysteries, least-known records, and more. Many of these anecdotes have been published here for the first time.

Baseball has so many...

Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal reflections, this collection of twenty-four conversations with Robert Penn Warren provides an illuminating glimpse of the man and his thoughts on life and literature. Warren's wide interests--history, politics, technological change, teaching, race relations--span a period of more than three decades.

"Perhaps in no literary genre is an author more completely and accurately himself than in an interview," the editors note. "Every attribute of Robert Penn Warren--his folksiness, his wit, his honesty and openness--or, in short, the full...

Interpreting EKGs is potentially serious business. It takes time and energy to become a proficient EKG reader. In Bonehead Electrocardiography, Dr. John R. Hicks and Dr. Floyd W. Burke offer a commonsense approach to learning how to read and interpret EKGs easily and intelligently.

In this manual, arising from many years of teaching medical students, Hicks and Burke, both practicing adult cardiologists, delve into the how and why of the EKG. They discuss the core ideas and principles--the purpose of the EKG and how it is designed to accomplish its job. Beginning with a basic...