Paul Lonardo’s Strike IX highlights the final season of the Providence College baseball team. In this stimulating account of pride and passion, Lonardo brilliantly ties together the motivated young stars who put together a historic, memorable season....Strike IX gives you the rare chance to see the effects of Title IX, and the emotional, avid relationships between the players of a historic team.

—Jess K. Coleman, SEAMHEADS.COM

 
Upcoming Projects

Paul is working on new book project tentatively titled REACHING FOR THE SKY, The Lauren Terrazzano Story.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lauren Terrazzano spent her career reporting on community and societal issues for Newsday, writing about individuals and the families who were most affected.

In August, 2004, she was diagnosed with nonsmoking-related lung cancer at age 36. Lauren, who had always been a fighter for other people’s causes, suddenly found herself fighting for her life. She endured rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, as well as surgery to remove a lung. After a brief remission, the cancer returned and Lauren spent the last eight months of her life chronicling her personal battle with the disease in her weekly column, “Life, with Cancer,” which opened many eyes. Her honesty in the columns she wrote on this subject was what made her story so compelling as she revealed many substantive issues about lung cancer and its increasing incidence rate among women. While the rest of the world followed Lauren's medical progress in Newsday, her mother and father stood by their only child, hoping for a miracle.

Lauren succumbed to the disease on May 15, 2007, but she left behind a legacy, in her life and her writing, that lives on to enlighten and inspire.

Paul is also developing another true crime book project, working with RI Assistant Attorney General Bethany Macktaz on the topic of DA's who unexpectedly develop personal friendships with the victims of the criminals they prosecute.  This book will focus on two brave women who survived separate brutal sexual assaults.  Bethany successfully prosecuted the men who assaulted the women, putting both individuals behind bars for a long time.  During the course of the criminal trials, Bethany befriended both women, who could not have lived more disparate lives.  One, a drug-addicted prostitute, the other a beautiful optimistic college student.  Bethany’s ferocious courtroom presence contrasts sharply against her out-of-court compassion, as evidenced in the cases involving these two victimized women.

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