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In Grand Slams, Timothy Gager shares the touching stories of characters who so often set are aside as window dressing in other novels. Here, Gager gives them the full spotlight: waitress, line order cook, knock around guy, each patron comes alive as fully rounded, damaged, loving people. Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Gager's book offers us both myth and realism, hand in hand.

Amusing to parents and teachers, as well, this is a childrens book designed to spark the child's imagination. The book is about a meerkat (Polecat) in the form of short, interactive stories. Some stories prompt the child to finish a drawing. Others are the beginning of a story, where the child creates the end of the short story, when encouraged by the words: SO THEN. That is when a new element of fun begins, as well as opportunities for learning, as the child creates the ending of the short story.

Virginia Collins is not what she appears to be. By all outward appearances the successful uptown psychiatrist is just another beautiful dame who hires a private investigator to find her missing husband: a weird little man who makes fancy umbrella drinks and dresses like something out of an old gangster movie. Collins hides her real motives, along with her tragic past, in order to win the affections of Raffy Rheinhardt, a cynical PI with an equally tragic history; a long forgotten shared incident resulting in damaged psyches and dead bodies.