Five-year-old Tim Jacobson's life takes a sudden turn when he is separated from his infant sister and is taken to live with his aunt, uncle and two children. Deprived of love and comfort while growing up, the boy feels alienated, always the outsider. Blessed with athletic ability and nick-named the Omaha Kid, Tim turns to sports as his salvation. While professional baseball and later tennis become the backdrop of the story, like "Friday Night Lights," "The Tennis Partner" and "The Art of Fielding" complex characters and themes are found between the covers. The Adventures of the Omaha Kid's...

Hi guys Let me introduce myself. My name is Roger Raintree and I live in Middleton which is in the middle of America, in the middle of the suburbs just outside of St. Louis. My favorite things are baseball, good friends and now that I'm in the seventh grade--girls? The cover picture is one of my favorite places on earth, Busch Stadium, where the grass is almost always perfect and just the right shade of green. It's where my favorite team, the St. Louis Cardinals, play. I love baseball but don't get me wrong, I love other sports too. I don't want you to think that this book is all about...

Ivan Duncan was a Berkeley High School history and coach. While out dancing, he suffered a brain aneurysm. His best friend, Rich, was a software engineer who had been developing a computer chip to implant in the brain of Alzheimer's patients to restore their memory. The chip was not yet approved by the FDA. But to save his's friend's life, Rich and his business partner Merle, a brain surgeon, use a clandestine operation to implant the chip in their friend's brain. Premonitions find their way into Ivan's dreams, of murders that had not yet happened. Ivan decided to fight the evil he saw in the...