A Quiet Adjustment - formato ePub

Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' PlayingDays finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional basketball....

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In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits’s Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author’s season playing minor league professional...

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As Claire Cooperson sits by the fire, wrapping presents and putting them beneath the Christmas tree, she hears what sounds like glass shattering. The unwelcome noise startles her, and she jumps up, tiptoeing...

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A couple have a new baby, but they quickly realize that he's not normal.

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Captain Tyrell Hanson, or "Tyrell" to his crew, is known as a loose canon, and a force of nature. Now it's up to him and a hand-picked but untested crew to save the last ship made at Luna Colony-- and...