Books with title Paul the Pitcher

What happens when a young baseball player, out of necessity, learns to pitch both right- and left-handed? This novelette explores his techniques and the challenges that erupt on and off the fieldwhen he becomes “ambi-disastrous” on the mound. Although written with a younger readership in mind, baseball fans of all ages find The Switch Pitcher thrilling, as they do with the five bonus short stories.Aldo Vidali, an 84-year-old collaborator of one of cinema's greatest directors: Federico Fellini, wrote a review of the first edition of The Switch Pitcher, and urged it be made into a motion picture. “Children, parents, and grandparents would flock to see such a movie,” he said.Among the bonus features is a short story about a sunflower living in a keyhole garden that literally “comes to life.”The second short story is a non-fiction account of an encounter with a UFO wherein the subject about thirty years later recounts details of the event while under hypnosis.In the feature entitled ROD & REEL SNAPSHOTS, the author recounts unique fishing expeditions.Another non-fiction entry is about growing up with a magical teddy bear named Fleddie Peddie.The fifth short story, entitled PERIPHERAL ACCELERATON, is about an elderly man who is a perfectionist. He shares his extreme attention to detail with a friend, proving, for instance, the idea that it is extremely intelligent people who become carsick. He also recounts what it is truly like to be a time traveler.

HAVE YOU SEEN NORA SANDOVAL? Twenty-year-old Nora Sandoval returns to Trinity, Washington, in search of a father never known and trespasses not forgotten. Eighteen years before, Nora and her mother fled Trinity in the aftermath of a tragic forest fire. In their wake, loved ones were abandoned to deal with the consequences of broken friendships and generational rifts. During a hiking trip, one misstep leads to Nora’s mysterious disappearance. Now, finding herself beyond help, she calls upon all her strength and ingenuity to stay alive. As authorities mount a search for the young woman, Nora becomes the catalyst in reuniting friends and family torn apart by past tragedies. Played against a background of lost sons and daughters, fallen heroes, and interrupted lives, Nora must follow a path dictated by extraordinary courage and the will to survive. And beneath it all—in a place and time unimagined—she alone will discover the answer to questions thought lost forever.

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Excerpt from The Water PitcherFashion of the last century. On Sundays his usual dress was a large, round, uno powdered wig, a neckcloth of the finest white linen, a frock of cinnamon brown, cut in the old fashion, with large buttons covered with gold lace. The same taste was visible in his house. The furniture of the chambers, the tapestry, the frames of the pictures and mirrors, tables, chairs and sideboard, were all of costly material, but entirely of the old fashion. The writing desk of walnut, with its old drawers, was the very one which had been used by his grandfather, and the cumbrous arm-chair still held the place it had held three gene rations before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Water PitcherFashion of the last century. On Sundays his usual dress was a large, round, uno powdered wig, a neckcloth of the finest white linen, a frock of cinnamon brown, cut in the old fashion, with large buttons covered with gold lace. The same taste was visible in his house. The furniture of the chambers, the tapestry, the frames of the pictures and mirrors, tables, chairs and sideboard, were all of costly material, but entirely of the old fashion. The writing desk of walnut, with its old drawers, was the very one which had been used by his grandfather, and the cumbrous arm-chair still held the place it had held three gene rations before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. In the tradition of The Natural and The Field of Dreams, this is a mythic story about how a man and a boy meet in the crossroads of their life and find a way to go on. You will laugh and you will cry as The Pitcher and Ricky prepare for the ultimate try out of life.

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