Product Description: The definitive guide for anyone in or near The Steeler Nation.Few teams in professional football have the history and winning legacy of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and The Steelers Experience offers a thorough, in-depth look back at every single Steelers season since 1933, highlighting the biggest heroes and top moments that have fostered one of the most passionate fan bases in all sports...read more

Product Description: From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, and End of the Road, comes the startling, visionary The Oakland Quartet. Set in Oakland, a working-class American-Irish neighborhood of steel mills and saloons, the novel, set in 1958, chronicles four teenaged baseball players - Stash and Nig, Mongol and Whitey, the slickest-fielding infield the city had ever seen - who, on a hot, sulfurous night, commit an unspeakable crime - and must live with its consequences...read more

Product Description: Here is the thundering account of a team whose heritage is characterized by the same rugged confidence and gritty determination displayed by their many fans through the years. Combining more than 300 photographs with riveting text, the fourth edition takes the reader from the founding of the franchise as the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1933 through the AFC Championship game in 2011...read more

Product Description: From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, and Ghost Dancer, comes End of the Road, Americans fighting their fates, striving to succeed.In the multi-layered, multi-nuanced narratives that readers have come expect in the Mendelson landscape, San Francisco reporter Damian Vrabel goes off looking for America...read more

Product Description: From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys and Scotch and Oranges comes Ghost Dancer, 21 original stories that look at American life with a reporter's eye-and dissect it with a surgeon's scalpel. From a young man grappling with the Kennedy assassination to a battle-weary Vietnam flyer, a ship's officer off Tierra del Fuego to a homesick soldier in war-torn France, we meet recovering alcoholics, aspiring actors, pimps and pols and busted-up football players-people who try to rebuild shattered lives on a landscape scarred by war, littered with fatal fires and shuttered steel mills, populated by dying sweethearts and unfaithful brides...read more

Product Description: Reissued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Steelers' first trip to the Super Bowl and the 10th anniversary of their last in 1995, this book is the thundering account of a team whose heritage is characterized by the same rugged confidence and gritty determination displayed by their many fans through the years...read more

Product Description: Scotch and Oranges, is a contemporary novel about Ned Humber, a 25-year-old advertising executive who has affairs with seven women, from 19 to 53, including a teenage flirt, Eastern European refugee, African-American writer, actress/stripper, middle-aged burnout, 53-year-old virgin/Irish patriot, and a lesbian...read more

Product Description: Paradise Boys is narrated by JoJo Arnold, a violent, angry 16-year-old boy who is spending a summer in a minimum-security institution for emotionally disturbed adolescents. In a racially mixed dormitory wing, he lives with nine other troubled teens who have a variety of problems...read more

Product Description: Mendelson's stories show us the heart of Pittsburgh's neighborhoods-Its People. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. "A place in time" captures Pittsburgh as snapshots in time. Readers familiar with the city will find themselves making comparisons of how much--and in some cases, how little--things have changed over the years...read more