The Iowa Baseball Confederacy: A Novel Format:Trade Paperback drinking and poaching—a world most

drinking and poaching—a world most of us have never seen

delicate peace between humans and Valoffs

she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers—the Queen’s spies and assassins—and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets

a young woman named Audrey Marshall

with a stranger in tow

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy: A Novel Format:Trade Paperback drinking and poaching—a world mostBearing W. P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "sweet natured prose and a richly imagined world" (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more