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Cash, who has spent much of the last year on a national book tour promoting A Land More Kind than Home, recently wrapped work on the manuscript for his second novel. No publication date has been set, but the author says it小蝌蚪APP檚 about a washed up minor league baseball player who kidnaps his daughters from a foster home.