GARY M. POMERANTZ

Their Life's Work, a narrative about the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers empire, follows this storied team across the decades and examines what the game of football gives to players, and takes from them.

The Devil's Tickets reveals a tension between husbands and wives that is eternal and that manifests itself at the bridge table – both then and now – in ways surprising and profound.

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as The Big Dipper, scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds is a heart-pounding, real-life drama about how ordinary people rise above their fears and muster extraordinary courage and strength in the face of danger.

The Intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn Avenue, the spiritual main street of Atlanta's community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in this Southern city. It is a representative story of the transformation of a city (and the) interesting lives paralleled the shifting relations between Atlanta's blacks and whites as the city grew to become the capital of the New South.