Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team, Hardcover - Audrey Vernick

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The stranger-than-fiction case that has gripped Iceland for four decades.

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In the early 1970s, two young filmmaking brothers unloaded their camera and recording equipment on the collapsing front porch of a dilapidated mano...

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