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Susan Petrone
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The Heebie-Jeebie Girl
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2020
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Throw Like a Woman
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2015
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The Super Ladies
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2018
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The SockKids Meet Lincoln
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2013
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A Body at Rest
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2009
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The Musical Mozinskis
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2024
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Glimmer Train Stories, #64
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The Sockkids Meet Lincoln
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The SOCKKIDS Go Dancing
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2014
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The SOCKKIDS Help Ben Franklin
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Life Imitating Art (and Vice Versa)
In Throw Like a Woman, which came out in 2015, the protagonist, Brenda, gets discovered as a pitcher when someone takes a video of her throwing smoke at a test-your-speed pitching game at a Cleveland Indians game. It seemed like a plausible if slightly improbably scenario. Lo and behind, I saw a list of the Best MLB Stories of 2019 and there was the story of a guy named Nathan Patterson, who threw
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“A border collie is a good thing to have if you don’t want to be the most neurotic being in the house.”
― The Super Ladies
― The Super Ladies
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