Download or read book Cracked Bat written by Janiece Hopper and published by Ten Pentacles. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linnea Perrault is a successful newspaperwoman and a happily-married young mother. When her wealthy father returns to Spinning Wheel Bay to make amends for abandoning her to a cruel stepfather twenty-eight years earlier, she painfully resurrects his old place in her heart. He buys the local baseball team. A garden dwarf, fairy tales, Islamic mystics, and a host of cross-cultural avatars come into play as the team is propelled to the top of the league. After a foul pass and an untimely accident at the stadium, the men she loves pressure Linnea to publish a horrifying lie in her paper. She finds herself locked in the stone tower of her own psyche as she realizes how much the man she married is like the father she never knew. Doctors can't diagnose her debilitating condition properly, but kind, magikal strangers give Linnea three days to spin straw into gold in an effort to save her soul.Cracked Bat will appeal to Cultural Creatives, interested in alternative healing, spirituality, and social responsibility. It is dedicated to the millions of people who have experienced the mystifying and frustrating ailments of myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue.