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Charles Leerhsen, an executive editor at Sports Illustrated, has written articles for SI, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Money, People, TV Guide and Seventeen. He was an editor at People and Us Weekly, and spent 11 years at Newsweek, where as a senior writer he covered sports (including several Olympic Games), entertainment, family stories and breaking news. He has also co-written three best-selling biographies: Trump: Surviving at the Top, with Donald Trump; Press On! Adventures in the Good Life, with pioneer aviator Chuck Yeager; and The Last Great Ride, with entertainment mogul Brandon Tartikoff.

In CRAZY GOOD, Charlie tells the story of Dan Patch, a harness horse at the turn of the 20th century who was the country’s first pop culture icon. Crowds exceeding 100,000 turned out to see him race against the clock, and he earned over $1 million a year when the highest-paid human athlete, the Detroit Tigers’ Ty Cobb, was making $12,000. Publishers Weekly has described Crazy Good as a “spirited narrative” and “a mesmerizing look into a strange corner of American sports and folk history.”

Sadia Shepard grew up in a joyful, chaotic home just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, a white Protestant from Colorado, and her mother, a Muslim from Pakistan, cherished the customs and religions of their disparate upbringings, and created a household full of stories and storytellers, where cultures intertwined. One day, when Sadia was thirteen years old, she learned that there was one story that she had never been told. THE GIRL FROM FOREIGN: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and Forgotten is Sadia Shepard’s poetic and affecting depiction of her attempt to come to terms with her family’s past and to begin to mold her own future. It is an unforgettable story of lost histories, shrouded identities, forbidden love, and above all, eye-opening self-discovery.

Scott Pomfret is a respected trial attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the successful author of explicit gay romance novels.  From same-sex marriage rallies to pedophile priest scandals, SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION maps with matchless humor the full spectrum of the gay Catholic experience—from one end of the rainbow to the other.

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