Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America s pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it s always been in the Minor Leagues. And nowhere is this truer than in Kentucky, whose rich baseball history continues to play out in the four teams profiled in this book. Following these teams through the 2010 season the triumphs, struggles, and big league hopes and dreams the book tells the larger story of baseball in America s smaller venues, where the game in its purest form is still valued and warmly embraced.
The story begins before...
Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America s pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it s alwa...
The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative-one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.
The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their...
2019 Foreword Indies Award, Gold 2020 Independent Book Publishers Awards, Bronze Medal In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union left in its wake a number of independent countries, and Communist propaganda was being displaced by Western ideals of a free press. Young writers, journalists, and adventurers such as Katya Cengel flocked from the West eastward to cities like Prague and Budapest, seeking out terra nova. Despite the region’s appeal,...
2019 Foreword Indies Award, Gold 2020 Independent Book Publishers Awards, Bronze Medal In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twen...
Katya Cengel met San Tran Croucher when San was seventy-five years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer. San’s earliest memories are of fleeing ethnic attacks in her Vietnamese village, only to be later tortured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. But San’s family’s troubles didn’t end after their resettlement in California. As a teenager under the Khmer Rouge, San’s daughter Sithy had been the family’s savior, the strong one who learned how to steal food to keep them alive. In the...
Katya Cengel met San Tran Croucher when San was seventy-five years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide w...
