Melissa Fay Greene
Sarah Crichton/Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 978-0374223069
354 pages
$26
Reviewed by Suki Casanave
One family. Nine children. Countless stories. Readers of Melissa Fay Greene's "No Biking in the House Without a Helmet" will find plenty of hilarity in this romping account of her boisterous brood. But this is not a reality-TV-style, mega-...
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Bill James
Scribner
ISBN 978-1416552734
48296 pages
$30
Reviewed by Jeff Leen
I am a big Bill James fan. In the 1970s and '80s, his Baseball Abstracts revolutionized how we thought about what we used to call our national pastime. Marrying peppy prose to deep statistical analysis, he exploded preconceived notions and helped usher in the Moneyball Era by ...
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