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Happy pub day to DEATH IN THE STRIKE ZONE by Thomas Gilbert, author of HOW BASEBALL HAPPENED! Now available from godine.com and your favorite bookstores!

He threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball’s first star—and its first tragedy.
In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented something utterly new in baseball – modern pitching.
Then, in one fateful game he collapsed—and four days later, he was dead at the age of twenty-one.
Death in the Strike Zone is a remarkable journey into the past that will keep you on the edge of your seat and profoundly change how you see the game of baseball.

Three new editions are available as part of Godine’s Verba Mundi series: THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH, THE PROSPECTOR, and A VOID.

Franz Werfel’s THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH is the heroic story of resistance during the Armenian genocide. When the Turkish government ordered the deportation of Armenians, several villages in the mountains chose not to obey. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while holding out hope that the warships of the Allies would save them.

From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, THE PROSPECTOR is the search for treasure in a childhood Eden. Rich with sensuality and haunting resonance, by turns harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, THE PROSPECTOR is “a parable of the human condition” (Le Monde) by one of the most significant literary figures in the world today.

Georges Perec’s A VOID is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of displays Georges Perec’s virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E.

“Argues that great literary works can guide us to appreciate virtue, honesty, and self-awareness in old age.....A guide to growing old with grace and wisdom.”—Kirkus

Change your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.
Time’s Bounty offers a view of age that differs greatly from our preconceptions—surprising, emancipating, sometimes even joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the generative discoveries that age occasions to the freedom that comes in life’s late chapters, when no company or institution or cause any longer owns us. At last, we are our own, in ways we could not imagine when younger.

TIME’S BOUNTY is available now from godine.com and your favorite bookstores!