Oldest Rookie: Big League Dreams from a Small-Town Guy by Jim Morris

Did you see the Disney movie The Rookie with Dennis Quaid? Well this is the true story behind the movie. It takes a lot of guts to pursue a dream that you've given up, especially when the pieces of your life are finally starting to fit together. Jim had a family, a good job and an ideal coaching job, but he took a chance and followed his dream to play Major League Baseball and in the process became the oldest rookie ever to play in the majors. His major league career wasn't long, but he took that chance and followed his childhood dream.

Coal Tattoo by Silas House

A fantastic book by Silas House. It follows the lives of two sisters who had been orphaned at an early age and raised by their grandmothers. Their lives intertwine with each other and the Sixties and the coal-mining town that they live in. It focuses on how sisters are always sisters though the good times and the bad.