Hop Fight by S. Pluck, P. MacCruiskeen, and F. T. Marquardt is an outlandish, absurdist fiction guide masquerading as an official sports rulebook. The authors detail a high-contact, equipment-free sport in which opponents must stand on a single chosen foot and use brute force to...

In Tatsuro Tanigami’s Digital Golf Club, Japan’s late-1980s golf boom creates Hozan Country Club on a mountain once considered sacred. After a fatal accident involving a lost ball, the course is linked to a problem that follows golfers for decades. Years later, Tetsuo Kurihara, manager...

Tales from the Diving Board by Linda G. Eldredge, EdD, is a story of a young girl who dreamed of swimming like a mermaid but found herself freezing after watching kids leap off the diving board at her local pool. When she befriends Delia, a...

In Andra Douglas's Changing Cadence, Christine Davis built the New York Sharks women’s football team after discovering that few opportunities existed for women who wanted to play tackle football at a serious level. Nearly twenty years later, she prepares for the final season under her...

The Whooping Falls Warriors, a bush league team, had had a terrible season yet again and were glad it was over. Chad Smith, a pitcher for the Warriors who was designated the losing pitcher in the last game, is not happy about being cut from...

In Is That DiMaggio? by Nick Brigeman, New York middle school student Dave spends his afternoons collecting baseball memorabilia at Triple Crown Trinkets, a neighborhood shop run by former Montreal Expos player Lenny Johnson. After purchasing a rare 1941 Joe DiMaggio baseball card, Dave becomes...

Curve Balls and Second Chances by Susan Boles is book one in the Pickwick Pirate Queens Softball Romance series. Readers are introduced to Rose McAllister, who is living in Pickwick Bend. She owns a coffee shop and coaches the Pickwick Pirate Queens softball team. When...

In The Kennedy Rule: On Thin Ice (Book 1) by K.C. Carmichael, Connor Kennedy is one of hockey’s brightest stars and a talented center for the Chicago Broad Wings. He is also pressured to live up to his father’s legacy as a former player and...

Carve My Heart by Mara J. Ova is book one in The Carve Series. It is Olympic season, and PR Manager Katharina is managing the Austrian Men’s Ski Team. She accepts this role in hopes of building her career. But it is also a deliberate...

Alive and Kicking by Kathryn R. Biel is book four in the Boston Buzzards series. Readers follow Rachel Cramer, who is grieving over her sister’s death, as her life takes on loss and obligations all at once. After her sister passes from glioblastoma, Rachel is...