1920-

Chronicles the life of baseball player Stan "The Man" Musial, focusing on his twenty-two-year career with the Cardinals and the many records he broke while playing for the team.

A memoir in which Elizabeth Cohen shares the story of her experiences as a suddenly single career mother who found herself in the position of caring for both her child, and her aging father.

A memoir of Ray Ellis, a former British artilleryman recounting his experiences in World War II as part of the Hussars, a unit characterized by rotten food, guns too old to function, chaos and disorganization, and squalid facilities amidst desert fighting in Egypt during a nine-month siege. Ellis was then captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war before he escaped to Italy.

The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an unconventional heiress who disliked publicizing herself. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the jockey's father, trusting the boy and the horse to handle a race course called "Suicide Lane.".

Traces the history and development of the laser and discusses why the laser's inventor was not able to file a patent for his invention for more than thirty years.