Jumping Over the Moon
Did you ever set a goal so high that you needed to jump over the moon in order to reach it? That's the exciting theme of JUMPING OVER THE MOON. The novel is about life and love, and there also is some great baseball action with a team made up of Lakota Indians. The story's main character, Phineas, has a generous heart, but it's also a heart that's failing. Before he dies, he wants to spend more time with his wife, and he must prepare his nephew to run the family business. But his most unusual life goal relates to his ongoing rivalry: Phin wants one last victory over his longtime friend, Mort. Set in Southern California in the late 1920s, the strong economy of the Roaring Twenties helps Phin and Mort live out their sporting fantasies with a type of one-upmanship that far exceeds normal standards of friendly competition. After a lifetime of sporting duels, battling for the last coveted slot in the Los Angeles Winter Ball League becomes their final challenge
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Jumping Over the Moon
Did you ever set a goal so high that you needed to jump over the moon in order to reach it? That's the exciting theme of JUMPING OVER THE MOON. The novel is about life and love, and there also is some great baseball action with a team made up of Lakota Indians. The story's main character, Phineas, has a generous heart, but it's also a heart that's failing. Before he dies, he wants to spend more time with his wife, and he must prepare his nephew to run the family business. But his most unusual life goal relates to his ongoing rivalry: Phin wants one last victory over his longtime friend, Mort. Set in Southern California in the late 1920s, the strong economy of the Roaring Twenties helps Phin and Mort live out their sporting fantasies with a type of one-upmanship that far exceeds normal standards of friendly competition. After a lifetime of sporting duels, battling for the last coveted slot in the Los Angeles Winter Ball League becomes their final challenge
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Jumping Over the Moon

Jumping Over the Moon

by E Dee Monnen
Jumping Over the Moon

Jumping Over the Moon

by E Dee Monnen

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Did you ever set a goal so high that you needed to jump over the moon in order to reach it? That's the exciting theme of JUMPING OVER THE MOON. The novel is about life and love, and there also is some great baseball action with a team made up of Lakota Indians. The story's main character, Phineas, has a generous heart, but it's also a heart that's failing. Before he dies, he wants to spend more time with his wife, and he must prepare his nephew to run the family business. But his most unusual life goal relates to his ongoing rivalry: Phin wants one last victory over his longtime friend, Mort. Set in Southern California in the late 1920s, the strong economy of the Roaring Twenties helps Phin and Mort live out their sporting fantasies with a type of one-upmanship that far exceeds normal standards of friendly competition. After a lifetime of sporting duels, battling for the last coveted slot in the Los Angeles Winter Ball League becomes their final challenge

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781934759592
Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers
Publication date: 01/07/2012
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

E Dee Monnen loves collecting interesting bits of baseball history and sharing quirky baseball facts wherever she goes. She's been a guest on more than 200 radio programs and several television shows, including a national appearance on Fox & Friends. She has also been a guest speaker for symposiums, various book clubs, and corporations.
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