In the Heartland: Nonfiction Readings

S.L. Price’s Playing Through the Whistle explores the history of Aliquippa, PA, a former industrial steel mill boomtown that has fallen on hard times, but has subsequently produced a remarkable number of NFL stars through its high school sports teams. The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting is New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos’s researched account of one of the deadliest fires in American history, and of the elite firefighters who battled it.