Unhittable: How Technology, Mavericks, and Innovators Engineered Baseball's New Era of Pitching Dominance
By Rob Friedman
Harper; hardcover, 288 pages; $32.00
Rob Friedman is the creator of PitchingNinja, as he identifies himself on social media. He is a pitching analyst for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN College Baseball and Major League Baseball. He also has written for Fox Sports and given pregame analysis on Apple TV.
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| Yankee Stadium. Photo by Jason Schott. |
On Wednesday night, the Yankees were swept in the American League Division Series by the Tampa Bay Rays.
20 Over 60
Edited by Beth Weinhouse & David Galef
Regal House; paperback, 266 pages; $21.99; available today, Tuesday October 6th
Beth Weinhouse has been an editor at many mainstream magazines, including Reader's Digest, Self, and Parenting. She has written articles and book reviews for New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and Town & Country. Her first book was The Healthy Traveler, about maintaining health away from home. Weinstein then co-edited, with Leslie Laurence, Outrageous Practices, about how gender bias can affect women's health.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt
Ecco; hardcover, 384 pages; $35.00; available today, Tuesday, October 6th
Shelby Van Pelt was raised in the Pacific Northwest and she currently lives with her family in the Chicago suburbs.
Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power
By Adam Jentleson
W.W. Norton & Co.; hardcover, 288 pages; $31.99
Adam Jentleson is the Founder and President of the Searchlight Institute, who served as the Chief of Staff to Senator John Fetterman and Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Harry Reid. He is a strategist, author, and commentator with two decades of experience, and he is a frequent guest on television and podcasts. Jentleson is the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Politico, and GQ.
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Confronting America: What Has to Change
By Bill O'Reilly & Josh Hammer
St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 304 pages; $32.00
Iconic television news journalist and radio host Bill O'Reilly hosts "No Spin News," weeknights on The First TV, a new media network on many digital platforms, including Roku, Amazon Fire, and Apple TV. He also hosts "The O'Reilly Update" on the radio, and that can he heard on the Pandora app and over 300 stations across the country, including WABC here in New York. He has been a broadcaster for over 50 years, and he has won three Emmys and numerous other journalism accolades. Before his long tenure with Fox News when he anchored the top-ranked "The O'Reilly Factor," he was a national correspondent for CBS News and ABC News, as well as a reporter-anchor for WCBS-TV here in New York.
An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
By Keri Leigh Merritt; Foreword by Rev. Dr. William Barber II
St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 304 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, September 29th
Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D., is a historian and writer whose articles have appeared in outlets ranging from Smithsonian and Aeon to The Hill and CNN. Her first book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, won both the Bennett Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association, as well as the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association.
