Mike Lupica, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57566-112-4
Sports columnist Lupica's suspense novel concerns a top basketball player who is accused of rape. (Sept.)
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Mike Lupica. Putnam, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-53536-2
Edgar finalist Lupica (Dead Air) does justice to the work of MWA Grand Master Robert B. Parker in this splendid continuation of the late author’s Sunny Randall series. Sunny, a smart-aleck Boston PI, is wrestling with what role her ex-husband,...
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Mike Lupica. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0995-7
Lupica (Game Changers) launches the Home Team series with a novel that meshes themes of baseball, friendship, and facing one’s fears. Seventh-grader Jack Callahan is his team’s star pitcher and shortstop, so everyone is shocked when he quits...
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Mike Lupica. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-545-38182-6
In this series opener, Lupica offers another sports hero who must prove himself to coaches who can’t see beyond his short stature. Ben McBain’s father played college football with Doug Flutie, who at 5-ft.-9-in. was the smallest player ever to win...
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Mike Lupica. Philomel, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25001-9
Twelve-year-old football talent Will lives and breathes his sport. And he's not about to let the tough times suffered by his western Pennsylvania town—including a major factory closure—signal the end of the football program he loves. With a Hail...
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Mike Lupica, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-399-14221-5
Syndicated sports columnist Lupica (Shooting from the Lip, etc.) piles anecdote on top of anecdote to illustrate what he thinks has gone wrong with sports. He criticizes virtually every group associated with sports but plunges his sharpest barbs...
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Mike Lupica, Author Villard Books $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-40334-0
Resounding with the familiarity of recent sports-page headlines, Lupica's (Limited Partner) saga of a Michael Jordan-like basketball player accused of rape crackles with tension, excitement and hip authenticity right from the opening tipoff. Ellis ``
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Mike Lupica, Author Villard Books $18.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-394-57433-2
Sportswriter Lupica ( Dead Air ) again demonstrates his gifts for terse, hip dialogue and for name-dropping Manhattan's hot spots and trendy topics in Steve Finley's busy return. A journalist on cable TV, Finley is upset to hear that his fast-lane...
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Mike Lupica, Author Villard Books $15.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-394-55458-7
Peter Finley, cable-TV news reporter and gumshoe without portfolio, returns in New York Daily News sports columnist gLupica's second mystery. This time Finley is confounded by the garish suicide of Julie Samson, a coed at his alma mater, Washington...
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Mike Lupica, Author Villard Books $15.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-394-54276-8
New York Daily News sports columnist Lupica's first novel launches a mystery series. The star is Peter Finley, reporter for a cable TV channel and narrator of this funky tale. Coming to Finley's Manhattan office from a small Alabama town, Billy Lynn
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Mike Lupica, Author G. P. Putnam's Sons $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-399-14647-3
High-profile sportswriter Lupica goes for the gold with this quip-fueled romp through the private offices, secret clubs and luxury boxes of the NFL. Jack ""the Jammer"" Molloy's lifeDas a Las Vegas casino's ""go-to guy""Dis interrupted when his...
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Mike Lupica, Author G. P. Putnam's Sons $23.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-399-14514-8
After several years in the doldrums, baseball recaptured the imagination of fans across the country in 1998. Lupica, a nationally syndicated sports columnist for the New York Daily News, revisits the magic of that season in this feel-great book: ""I
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Mike Lupica, Author . Putnam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14789-0
Lupica comes up with another irreverent, behind-the-scenes peek into the world of sports in this wicked if predictable tale about the first woman to play in the NBA. Delilah "Dee" Gerard, a former star on European teams now quietly tending...
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Mike Lupica, Philomel, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-25283-9
Sportswriter and novelist Lupica (Million-Dollar Throw) offers a change of pace from his previous sports stories for younger readers, deftly reworking the traditional superhero origin story into a moving tale of adolescent growth. Shortly after his...
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Mike Lupica, Author . Philomel $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-24626-5
In 2005, an army veteran won $1 million by throwing a football through a target during a halftime show at a college football game. Lupica (The Big Field
) inserts a 13-year-old in the contestant role and moves the action to Massachusetts, where QB...
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Mike Lupica, Author . Philomel $17.99 (243p) ISBN 978-0-399-24625-8
Lupica's (Travel Team
) formula for success seems to be this: take a kid with big athletic talent and even bigger heart, mix in some conflict at home, add a lot of play-by-play action and end with a nail-biter game where the underdog prevails....
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Mike Lupica, Author . Philomel $9.99 (165p) ISBN 978-0-399-24714-9
Lupica (Miracle on 49th Street
) again relays fast-paced basketball action in this involving first volume of the Comeback Kids series. The narrative moves equally sure-footedly off-court to explore the dynamics of 10-year-old Billy's family....
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Mike Lupica, Author . Philomel $17.99 (246p) ISBN 978-0-399-24488-9
Lupica's latest follows his sports-themed bestsellers (Travel Team
; Heat
) with less sports and more theme. The crackerjack opening finds 12-year-old Molly Parker craftily stalking Boston Celtics superstar Josh Cameron by skipping out on a Kids
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Mike Lupica, Author . Philomel $16.99 (220p) ISBN 978-0-399-24301-1
Michael Arroyo's life is heating up in several ways—some of them unpleasant. The Cuban-born 12-year-old and his older brother, Carlos, have been living alone in their Bronx apartment since the death of their father several months earlier....
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Mike Lupica, Author . Philomel $16.99 (276p) ISBN 978-0-399-24150-5
Sports columnist Lupica (Red Zone
) clearly shoots from the heart in this appealing novel centering on a talented basketball player. Danny, after playing for two years for the Vikings, fails to make the seventh-grade travel team because he is "to
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Mike Lupica, Author . Putnam $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15210-8
Most of New York Daily News
columnist and ESPN commentator Lupica's work, fiction (Red Zone
, etc.) and nonfiction (Summer of '98
, etc.), is grounded in the world of sports. This thriller/mystery tells of a high school basketball team...
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Mike Lupica, Author . Putnam $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-399-15082-1
In his highly entertaining 15th book, Lupica, the syndicated New York Daily News
sports columnist and ESPN commentator, takes another turn as novelist, revisiting his hell-for-leather protagonist, Jack "The Jammer" Molloy, the wisecracking,
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Mike Lupica, Author . Putnam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-14927-6
This novel about baseball and all its trappings from Lupica, a nationally syndicated sports columnist as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction books (Bump and Run; Summer of '98), offers a hilarious account of the comeback of Showtime...
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Mike Lupica, read by Keith Nobbs. S&S Audio, unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-7641-0
Seventh grader Jack Callahan is his team's star pitcher and shortstop, so everyone is shocked when he quits baseball during the lead-up to the Little League World Series. "My heart's not in it," he tells his disappointed parents, before spilling the
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Mike Lupica, Author, Paolo Andino, Read by , read by Paolo Andino. Listening Library $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-28441-9
As readers go, Andino seems to have it all, as heard in his sharp performance of Lupica's (Traveling Team
) latest baseball tale. The story centers on two Cuban brothers living in New York and trying to avoid being sent to foster care, or even...
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James Patterson and Mike Lupica. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-40429-7
Bestseller Patterson and Lupica’s fast-paced if faltering sequel to 2022’s The Horsewoman centers on the Wolf family, whose dominance of San Francisco is imperiled after patriarch Joe falls off his boat in San Francisco Bay and apparently drowns....
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James Patterson and Mike Lupica. Little, Brown, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-40569-0
Lupica’s overstuffed third collaboration with Patterson (after 2023’s The House of Wolves) lays on the melodrama with a trowel. Jane Smith, a tough-as-nails defense lawyer who’s never lost a case, is diagnosed with terminal cancer just as she’s...
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Mike Lupica. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2155-4
Bestselling author Lupica has mastered the ingredients of a feel-good sports story: a likable athletic protagonist, play-by-play game scenes, and come-from-behind victories. And he sticks to that recipe in this leisurely story about small-for-his-age
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Mike Lupica. Putnam, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-53932-2
In Edgar–finalist Lupica’s strong sequel to 2018’s Blood Feud, Boston PI Sunny Randall—who is as wiseass, fearless, and dedicated to justice as Spenser, Robert B. Parker’s best-known series lead—faces challenges in both her personal and professional
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Mike Lupica. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2158-5
Lupica’s newest feel-good sports story features dutiful 12-year-old Lucas Winston who, having lost his father to cancer when he was an infant, looks to his grandfather for guidance, especially when it comes to basketball. Now, with Gramps returning...
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Mike Lupica. Putnam, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-54208-7
Edgar finalist Lupica captured the spirit and feel of the late Robert P. Parker’s Sunny Randall novels in Blood Feud and Grudge Match, but this novel featuring Parker’s Paradise, Mass., police chief Jesse Stone is strictly by-the-numbers. When a man
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Mike Lupica. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-08785-5
Set in a post-Covid near future, Edgar finalist Lupica’s twisty third entry in Parker’s Sunny Randall franchise (after 2020’s Grudge Match) faithfully captures the character of the Boston PI. Sunny’s best friend, Spike, has been cheated out of his...
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Mike Lupica. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-54211-7
A high-profile homicide case, the shooting murder of Mayor Neil O’Hara, preoccupies Paradise, Mass., police chief Jesse Stone in Lupica’s solid second franchise contribution (after 2020’s Fool’s Paradise). O’Hara’s successor, Gary Armistead, insists
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Mike Lupica. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-41976-2
In Edgar finalist Lupica’s fine fourth continuation of Parker’s Sunny Randall series (after 2021’s Payback), the PI is consulted by former client Melanie Hall, a mega-bestselling romance novelist. Years earlier, after Sunny freed Melanie from her...
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