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The books of May are here—fresh, fierce, and full of feels.

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Wedding season includes searching for a missing bride�and a killer . . .


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Sometimes the path forward begins with a step back.


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One island. Three generations. A summer that changes everything.


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A snapshot made them legends. What it didn�t show could tear them apart.


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This life coach will give you a lift!


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A twisty, "addictive," mystery about jealousy and bad intentions


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Trapped by magic, haunted by muses�she must master the cards before they�re lost to darkness.


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Masquerades, secrets, and a forbidden romance stitched into every seam.


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A vanished manuscript. A murdered expert. A castle full of secrets�and one sharp-witted sleuth.


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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The Batboy by Mike Lupica

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Also by Mike Lupica:

Robert B. Parker's Hot Property, December 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust, November 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust, December 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Fallout, September 2023
Mass Market Paperback
Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour, March 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Stone's Throw, September 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Robert B. Parker's Fallout, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Payback, April 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Horsewoman, January 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise, September 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Stone's Throw, September 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Payback, May 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise, December 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match, May 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud, December 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Fast Break, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Fantasy League, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Qb 1, January 2013
Hardcover
True Legend, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Game Changers, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Hero, November 2010
Hardcover
The Batboy, March 2010
Hardcover
The Million Dollar Throw, November 2009
Hardcover
Long Shot, October 2008
Hardcover
The Big Field, March 2008
Hardcover
Two-Minute Drill, September 2007
Hardcover
Hot Hand, September 2007
Hardcover
Summer Ball, May 2007
Hardcover
Miracle on 49th Street, November 2006
Hardcover
Heat, April 2006
Hardcover
Travel Team, August 2005
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The Batboy
Mike Lupica

Philomel
March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
247 pages
ISBN: 039925000X
EAN: 9780399250002
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Sports

t is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn’t leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.

There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop—once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father.

Mike Lupica, king of the sports novel, delivers his most powerful and kid-friendly to date.

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