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The 1984 Tigers were one the greatest teams in baseball history. After jumping off to a record 35-5 start, they shook off a determined Toronto team to win the division title, swept Kansas City for the American League Championship, and handily defeated San Diego in a five-game World Series.

In doing so, they became just the third team in major league history to lead wire to wire and win the World Series-joining the elite of the elite: the '27 Yankees of Babe Ruth and the '55 Dodgers.

And now veteran sportscaster Eli Zaret recreates this extraordinary season in exhilarating detail-from incredible start, through midseason doubts, and on to a dominant postseason finish. Best of all, Zaret provides, for the first time, insights into the season from the key players themselves. The real behind-the-scenes story.

We hear from Kirk Gibson, whose home run blast against Goose Gossage clinched the final game of the World Series, about how he pulled himself out of the worst year of his life to play such a key role in the '84 season. And from Jack Morris, the moody leader of the Tigers' pitching corps, who jumped off to an amazing start, fell into an inexplicable personal and professional slump, and then rose to the occasion to help Detroit put the series away.

We share the season's intimate details and previously untold moments with Alan Trammell, Willie Hernandez, Chet Lemon, and many more key players. And we get the inside scoop from the maestro himself, Sparky Anderson, who melded a disparate collection of personalities and styles into a unified team, and a winning machine.

Zaret shows how General Manager Bill Lajoie completed a brilliant 10-year construction project in assembling the right talent. How critical the performance of the bit players and the role players was in the Tigers' championship season. And how players suddenly cast into the spotlight performed like they never had before and never would again. Zaret also lets us listen in on the negotiations between players and their penny-pinching, old-school CEO Jim Campbell.

Fans of any sport will love Zaret's book because it reveals the strategies and inner workings of how a championship is won. Baseball fans will savor this insightful look at a team that has become an icon of the sport. And Tigers fans, who have had to endure much since '84, will be ecstatic in reliving that championship feeling.

The great American wildlife artist John James Audubon created images of North American birds that have seldom been surpassed in beauty and aesthetic quality. Here are twelve of these superb illustrations-Carolina wren, mangrove cuckoo, northern oriole, brown creeper, 8 more-each printed in full color on one side of a sturdy bookmark. Identifications. 12 bookmarks in full color on six plates.

One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop.

Story of a heroic, saintly, mystic soul, (1904-1955). aSuffered the Passion of Christ on Fridays in expiation for sins. Crippled in a jump from a window to escape a rapist, she spent 31 years as an invalid. Her visions, sufferings, and revelations.

For more than a century, the wonderful land of Oz has captivated the imaginations of children and adults alike. These charming note cards capture the magic and myth of your favorite characters, making correspondence as much fun as planning a mad tea party.

16 cards, 4 of each 4 designs, with 17 envelopes, 3 1/2 x 5 inches

A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true.

Paperback, Grupo Editorial Tomo

Perfect for children ready to move beyond musi to recordings of the spoken word. Features delightful tellings of Aesop's Fables, plus lively tales from Grimm, Chaucer, and others.

A Chinese-American teenager struggles to reconcile her traditional bringing and her American desire for self-fulfillment. April Chen is happily planning to go away to college, and she has a great new boyfriend, Steve. But April, the only girl in the family, must take care of Grandma, and Grandma--the Dragon Lady--hates Steve and has other plans for April.

A tribute to the natural world in its every form, featuring flora and fauna, spectacular landscapes, and intimate portraits. See photographs of a dense curtain of Spanish moss hanging from a stand of flowering dogwood trees, a fragile and brilliantly colored mushroom poking through the forest floor, a colony of penguins frolicking at the edge of an ice floe, a company of saguaro cacti trooping up a rocky hillside, a gliding albatross's enormous wingspan. Stunning photographs, informative captions, and spacious weekly grids combine to make this the staple of the Audubon calendars.