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| Nolan McLean is pumped after striking out Mickey Moniak in the first inning. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Mets lost both ends of a doubleheader on Sunday at Citi Field against the Colorado Rockies, 3-1 in the opener and 3-0 in the nightcap.
Boom Town: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
By Joe Pappalardo
St. Martin's Press; 320 pages; plus one 8-page color insert; hardcover, $31.00; E-Book, $14.99; available today, Tuesday, April 21st
Joe Pappalardo is the author of the critically acclaimed books Four Against The West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation (our review from November 2024); Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Campaign in Aviation History, Sunflowers: The Secret History, Red Sky Morning, and Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight. He is a freelance journalist, a contributor to Texas Monthly, a writing contributor to National Geographic Magazine, a former senior editor and current contributor to Popular Mechanics, and a former associate editor of Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine.
How Soccer Explains The World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
By Franklin Foer
Harper Perennial; paperback, 288 pages; $18.99; available today, Tuesday, April 7th
Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a former editor of The New Republic. His most recent book is The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future.
New York City Football Club will Westchester SC in the Round of 32 of the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a competition across all leagues in the country.
We are finally at the time of year you can go outside and read a book, and in this review, we will look at three new novels that will transport you to another place and are perfect to spend an afternoon with: To Cage a Wild Bird, by Brooke Fast; You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom, by Vincent Tirado; and Like in Love with You, by Emma R. Alban.