Nancy Hahn Leonard

Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.

A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands.

A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.