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Lizzie Ware's life revolves around family, Jesus, and Baseball. But when you're a small-town Oklahoma preacher's daughter in a pre-Title IX world, following your true calling isn't going to be easy. By drawing on inspiration from the Gospels of Walt Whitman, Bill Evans, and Mickey Mantle, however, Lizzie will find…

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This gracefully written novel evoking Willa Cather's writing is a loving tale of baseball, the power of education, and agrarian life in Oklahoma.

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The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

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The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

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