02357cam a2200361 4500 609501508 TxAuBib 20221117120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781609388485 1609388488 B0BHHR59H8 Amazon f86e459a-3472-46ad-9116-54d1dc7b10e7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9327115 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bauer, Douglas. The Beckoning World [Libby] : A Novel. University of Iowa Press, 2022. Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig. baseball fiction. Spanish flu epidemic. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1274kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<i>The Beckoning World</i> is set in the first quarter of the twentieth century and follows Earl Dunham. His weeks are comprised of six days mining coal, followed by Sundays playing baseball. Then one day a major-league scout happens on a game, signs Earl, and he begins a life he had no idea he could even dream.<br /> <br /> But dreams sometimes suffer from a lovely abundance, and in Earl's case her name is Emily Marchand. They fall quickly and deeply in love, but with that love comes heartbreaking complications.<br /> <br /> <i>The Beckoning World</i> gathers a cast of characters that include Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig; a huge-hearted Pullman steward offering aphoristic wisdom; and countless others, not least of which is the 1918 Spanish flu taking vivid spectral form. At the center is a relentless love that Earl and Emily are defenseless against, allied as they are "in this business of their hearts.". Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-11-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f86e459a-3472-46ad-9116-54d1dc7b10e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f86e459a-3472-46ad-9116-54d1dc7b10e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f86e459a-3472-46ad-9116-54d1dc7b10e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)