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The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data To Build Better Players
This data-driven account is intended for hard-core baseball fans; anyone interested in player development will find this extremely captivating.
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Ball Lightning
Liu's wildly imaginative, skillful use of imagery, metaphor, and analogy will appeal to fans of sf and science-based mysteries, as well as YA readers, owing to its lack of sexually explicit content and minimal violence.
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Ball Lightning
Liu's wildly imaginative, skillful use of imagery, metaphor, and analogy will appeal to fans of sf and science-based mysteries, as well as YA readers, owing to its lack of sexually explicit content and minimal violence.
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The Robots of Gotham
As the violence and romance aren't explicit, this adventure is appropriate for ambitious adult and YA readers alike.
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Pandora's Boy
A treat for fans of historical fiction or detective mysteries, who will want to read all the titles published by Davis. [See Prepub Alert, 1/8/18.]
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Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
A number of facts and elements of the story are repeated more than necessary, so the flow of the narrative sometimes feels disorganized. Still, this remains an intriguing read for baseball history buffs. Babe Ruth's early career off-field debauchery is not described explicitly but may make this title inappropriate for adolescent readers.
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More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity
Appropriate for young adult readers and up, with minimal violence and sexual content. Sf aficionados will want to add this volume to their reading list as it features many recognizable authors and a slew of captivating stories.
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Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
Focusing on lesser-known players is one of the endearing qualities of this book; as a result, it may appeal more to die-hard fans than casual dabblers. Appropriate for both adult and young adult readers.
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The Massacre of Mankind
Already a best seller in the UK, Baxter's second take on Wells, after The Time Ships, his sequel to The Time Machine, is appropriate for young adult audiences, with violence that is both moderate and not too explicit. Sf aficionados and in particular Wells admirers will want to place this title on their "To-Read" shelves. [See Prepub Alert, 2/27/17.]
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