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| A weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City: What's on your wish list? |
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These two books--one young adult and one biography--are next up on my wish list:
Vintage: A Ghost Story
by Steve Berman
Genre: Ghost Story; LGBT; Paranormal; Young Adult;
Goodreads Blurb: In a small New Jersey town, a lonely teen walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face youthful dreams and childish fears. With a cast of offbeat friends, antiques, and Ouija boards, Vintage offers readers a memorable blend of dark humor, chills and love.
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
by Jane Leavy
Genre: Baseball; Biography; Non-fiction
Goodreads Blurb: Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) was a baseball legend determined to remain a legend. He wrote or pretended to write six baseball autobiographies, each of which presented a stylized portrait of the switch-hitting Yankee center fielder. What remained obscured behind the imposing statistics and the diamond myth was the real Mantle himself. That absence was filled partially by a family confessional . . . but in many ways, the mist still remained. Finally, after decades, Washington Post sportswriter and author Jane Leavy has given us a vibrant biography of the man behind the pinstripes.
