When Legends Run Free
WHEN LEGENDS RUN FREE features a team of high-achieving cross country runners who strive for success under the guidance of Coach John Mosley, whose fundamental idea is "Good is the greatest enemy of excellence." The squad includes a guy who loves to quote Shakespeare and a couple of dependable never-let-you-down types. There is an ROTC guy with a feisty gymnastics girlfriend and a teammate who doesn't use his real name. Things get serious when the school's administration moves from NCAA Division II to Division I. At this point, the story plays out against the backdrop of an administration that intends to drop the cross country and track as well as the women's gymnastics team in order to use the money for those programs to upgrade a mediocre football program. The book explores the lives of college athletes as they strive to excel and attempt to deal with the decisions made by the university's administration.
Heart Attack
John McCord's last chance to win a championship is fading away as his Rockets play sub 500 ball for the first two months of the baseball season. The team has a powerful lineup, yet they cannot win with any consistency due to their lack of pitching.John's grandson is saved in a near-miss car accident when a stranger risks his own life before disappearing from the scene. John searches and finally finds the stranger, Brian Shane. He offers to do anything to thank him for saving his grandson, but all of John's suggestions are rejected by Brian. Brian then states the one thing that he will accept, a chance to pitch for the Rockets.John realizes this middle-aged man with no baseball experience has no chance of helping his team win, but the thought of finally repaying him is overwhelming. He agrees on a one-dollar contract, where Brian pitches until he loses one game.Brian quickly gets a nick name, Heart Attack, because he constantly has the fans, his teammates, and their manager on the edge of their seats every time he takes the mound. Margaret, a sportswriter, becomes very fond of Brian and believes he is somehow angelic and threatens to expose him. Brian insists that it's not true and begs her to drop that thought.The question becomes, Is John repaying Brian, or is it Brian helping the McCords again? Has Brian been sent to save the season by an unknown force, or is luck the defining power, or perhaps something else? Either way, it is the best dollar ever spent.
Busted
A terrifying incident at a training camp forces John Kelly to flee Africa with teenage prot矇g矇 Micah Kipruyot in tow. The Kenyans want Micah back, threatening to harm Kelly's champion runner Gayle McKee at the World Athletics Championships in London if Kelly doesn't comply. Competition. Police. Injunctions. Car chases. Drugs. Journalists. Investigations. Shootings. All this while trying to win a sport which has never been so ambiguous or tough. Has Kelly taken on more than he can handle? By the author of the John Kelly novels NO WIND, CLIPPED HEELS, GO GAYLE GO and SPIKED.
Pro Baseball Comes to the Maine Coast
PRO BASEBALL COMES TO THE MAINE COAST is a fictional baseball story about a newly-formed low minor league baseball team that played in a beautiful region of Maine known as Penobscot Bay. The team joined a little-known league made up of independent professional teams that did not have an affiliation with a major league team. A local businessman and a successful small college baseball coach joined together to make something that seemed to be impossible become a reality. A team made up of undrafted small college players played their first season with determination. They were a bunch of team-oriented overachievers. This "feel good" story of the first season is an example of how a sports team can be the bond that can bring an area of small towns together.
Jarrod Black Guilty Party
In the latest instalment of the Jarrod Black series of 'unashamed football novels', the Australian journeyman footballer, Jarrod Black, finds himself on national team duty, running out on to his field of dreams, and caught up in a situation not of his making. It's another enjoyable read from Anglo-Australian author, Texi Smith, as he shapes a tale that is both realistic and fun - showing that fiction sometimes really isn't too far removed from fact. Jarrod Black Guilty Party is the third in the series of Jarrod Black novels. The first two, Introducing Jarrod Black and Jarrod Black Hospital Pass, were published in 2019 and are available from Fair Play Publishing.
Boys with Tattoos
Danny Sheppard, a prodigious 22-year-old fighter, is on the cusp of becoming the youngest title-holder in UFC history. Having lost his twin brother three years prior in a car accident, Danny had become a shell of a man, knowing that a left when it should have been a right or a yes when it so easily could have been a no, would have changed everything. Since then life had become unrecognizable. Of course his brother's death had been the worst of it, but it was only the beginning. It was the spark that lit a fuse, propelling Danny down a new path with a brand new cast of characters: from NCAA wrestling champion to mixed martial arts phenomenon in no time at all. Danny "The Python" Sheppard had more than 5 million followers on Instagram and Twitter and 7 million fans on Facebook, but none of them knew of the path he had traveled or the resulting torment that still jerked him awake in the middle of the night. While he desperately hopes that winning the title will release him from his past, he realizes that it might not be the answer, and that his most difficult opponent might be himself.
The Final SeasonTheFinal SeasonState of Grace
This is it -senior season - one last shot to win state! And not even the specter of cancer's return can stop player dad Steve Pelham from a second of the excitement he's sure will be provided by the Sandy Pines Panthers. Senior season can only come once for his son Woody and the ten other high school seniors, and hopes are high for this, their final season. From the first pitch of the opening game until the last pitch of the season, even non-baseball fans will delight in this roller coaster ride of emotional wins and losses, pivotal personal choices, and trying tests of faith as the Panthers claw their way toward the state championship series.
Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Volume 2Volume 2
This three volumes series is fully revised, updated, and packed with more than 1,500 pictures! This masterclass work guides you step-by-step from essential Jiu Jitsu basics through the most advanced and sophisticated attacks, escapes, and defenses used by the top fighters in the UFC, ADCC and the BJJ World Championships. There never has been an instructional tool like the original series "Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu". Each technique deals with separate strategies and positions, but they all combine into an integrated tactical solution to ground mastery. From the first page to the last, you'll get a very understandable breakdown of how to systematically and technically improve your game. A classic book for all grapplers, MMA fighters and martial artist regardless of style. This three volumes series is fully revised, updated, and packed with more than 1,500 pictures!This masterclass work guides you step-by-step from essential Jiu Jitsu basics through the most advanced and sophisticated attacks, escapes, and defenses used by the top fighters in the UFC, ADCC and the BJJ World Championships. There never has been an instructional tool like the original series "Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu". Each technique deals with separate strategies and positions, but they all combine into an integrated tactical solution to ground mastery. From the first page to the last, you'll get a very understandable breakdown of how to systematically and technically improve your game. A classic book for all grapplers, MMA fighters and martial artist regardless of style
Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
This three volumes series is fully revised, updated, and packed with more than 1,500 pictures!. This masterclass work guides you step-by-step from essential Jiu Jitsu basics through the most advanced and sophisticated attacks, escapes, and defenses used by the top fighters in the UFC, ADCC and the BJJ World Championships. There never has been an instructional tool like the original series "Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu". Each technique deals with separate strategies and positions, but they all combine into an integrated tactical solution to ground mastery. From the first page to the last, you'll get a very understandable breakdown of how to systematically and technically improve your game. A classic book for all grapplers, MMA fighters and martial artist regardless of style.
The Learning Season - Comeback
John Douglas, a junior star athlete at Fort Sage High School, continues to be tortured by grief and the recurring nightmares about his father who is MIA - possibly KIA - in the Iraq theatre of operations. Events intertwine his life with a wheelchair bound paraplegic student who is new to the high school, and who questions his own purpose in continuing to live. What can each offer the other? During the winter basketball season can they help each other find peace?The must read sequel to The Learning Season.
Resolution
Cass is determined to find the female who was there the night the gang murdered her brother. If the missing woman turns out to be the killer, then she has to pay. Walking the nightly tightrope at the bar where she's employed, staying out of the clutches of the she-devil boss who wants her, and dealing with the L.A. scumbag who's taken a dislike to her, the battles are constant. One thing she can't lose - the affections of the detective whose patience with her stubbornness is fragile. When he's taken hostage, life goes into an even deeper spiral of conflicts and tension.Detective Trace McGuire can't bear to watch the love of his life being sucked into the darkness and dysfunction of the Lipstick Club where she bartends. He wants her free of the nightmare and goes to great lengths to make it happen. But when they take him prisoner, how can he help her?How can he help himself?Book #1 - RetaliationCass won't rest until her brother's murderers are jailed or dead. She goes after them one at a time with no intention of stopping until she has her revenge. Detective McGuire takes a bullet for her. Now the annoying man believes she's his responsibility and wants to stop her, protect her... control her.Book #2 - JusticeWhen she continues to dig for information on who killed her brother, Cassi's life becomes fraught with danger. Between bartending in a sleazy joint, getting into fights with hookers and trying to scare off her stalker, she never seems to get any time to just be a girl in love.Book #3 - ResolutionSince her brother Raoul's murder at the hands of his own gang members, revenge has driven Cass to find answers. Money, hidden by Raoul, is funding her quest. And tenacity born of hate fuels the relentless need to make those killers pay.Book #4 - EndingsCassi's a fighter who won't stop until she gets justice for her murdered brother. Once she's faced with the ultimate cost, will she be able to see it through? And can she live with herself if she doesn't?Book #5 - FaithFaith's always tried to be a good person. From the beginning, everything was against her. A sick mother forced her into a world of drugs and sexual dysfunction that she couldn't overcome. Until she lost the man she loved and found a baby who filled her heart.Book #6 -LeniLeni believes her mother didn't come back for her because she'd died. Wrong! Blackmail finally forces the woman out of the shadows. On top of these stresses, Leni learns the name of her cousin's killer. Payback is her only option.
The Power Of Golf
Be transformed by the classic story of golfer, Billy Black. Follow Billy as he progresses from know-it-all junior golfer to open-minded learner. Billy learns the four fundamental cornerstones of golf (that will help all golfers, new & advanced) in a way that changes him. Plus, he is equally exposed to parallel cornerstones in life. Billy's journey takes many twists & turns as he learns about another personal limitation - his daily health habits. The Power Of Golf is defined by the sport's ability to transform it's participants into learners, seekers & wise travellers. Otherwise, it chews & spits them out with frustration & an underlying caring humour. Open up your mind & enjoy the game of golf for what it is... the ultimate sage and teacher. Dr. Zachary pulls each reader in to learning through suspicion, simplicity & innocence. Prepare to be changed and to love the game you already like & appreciate the life you may take for granted. The Power Of Golf is for every golfer, young or old, new or professional. The game is made transparent to all readers. The Power Of Golf is an easy, enjoyable & powerful read.
18
Craig Cantwell is well known as a journeyman millionaire and 'the best professional golfer who has not won a major.' His successful life as a tour pro is shattered when he is suspended from the PGA Tour. Without a place to compete and with a personal life tangled with drama, Craig has to find his way back to a life he knows. His fight is not with the scions of the tour, the public, or the scores of great golfers who would be his opponents. He has to prevail over the toughest of adversaries - himself. "18" beautifully tells the story of Cantwell and those in his life: Rachelle Keys, the mother of Craig's daughter and a heroic FBI Agent. Kelly Keys, the new 'IT' girl of golf. Thomas Kincaid, agent and lawyer to the rich and scandalous. And Seth Reede, the personal development guru with a past more shocking than any fallen hero. Far more involved than just a tale of athletic triumph, "18" is a story of forgiveness, truth, courage, and redemption.
Mia
As the beloved, hard-working general manager of a Major League Baseball team in California, "Baseball Wizard" Joe Ciotola has given his life to the sport but lost too much in the bargain. Single, childless, disillusioned about baseball, and swamped with regrets after missing the deaths of both of his parents, the 50-year-old Bronx native quits his job and goes looking for something -- anything -- more satisfying than a life spent juggling rosters, recruiting players, and balancing budgets. On his way to Anywhere, U.S.A., he stops in a strange place called Salvation, a forgotten desert town where time seems to stand still and where Old Testament values divide the locals between the Saved and the Damned. There, Joe meets Mia, a pitiful creature whose future has been written by the town's leaders, and who can't stay without making the ultimate sacrifice. The choices Joe and Mia make together, and the bonds they create with another woman who emerges from Joe's past, shape their lives forever, revealing the power of connections formed from the ashes of great loss. A baseball book wrapped in a domestic drama, Mia teaches us as much about love and family as it does about the imperfect history of America's beautiful game.
Cocky Player
Wie die meisten Kerle habe ich ein Beuteschema - und sie passt nicht hinein. ?berhaupt nicht! Die engelsgleiche Sch繹nheit auf der Tanzfl瓣che hat das Wort "Unschuld" auf der Stirn stehen. Trotzdem zieht sie mich magisch an. Obwohl sie vor mir fl羹chtet, kriege ich ihr Bild nicht aus dem Kopf. Wie sich herausstellt, ist es gar nicht so schwer, sie wiederzufinden, denn meine mysteri繹se Jungfrau ist die neue Marketingassistentin f羹r das Rough Riders Football-Team. Und die Tochter des Besitzers. Sie m繹chte ihre Jungfr瓣ulichkeit verlieren und ich bin ihr Auserw瓣hlter f羹r den Job. Nat羹rlich stehe ich ihr gerne zur Verf羹gung, denn man hilft schlie?lich, wo man kann. Doch wehe, der Boss findet heraus, dass ich seinem kleinen M瓣dchen ein paar schmutzige Spielchen beigebracht habe! Aber um Spieler des Jahres zu werden, habe ich mich schlie?lich auch nicht an die Spielregeln gehalten.
O’Malley
Crime, drama, and ice hockey action! One of Paul John Hausleben's most iconic characters from the Adventures of Harry and Paul jumps out of the pages of those books and stars in his own novel in this masterpiece of storytelling. In the high-octane world of professional ice hockey, where the roar of the crowd and the clash of bodies fill the arena, James T. O'Malley reigns as a hockey goon to be reckoned with. But what drives this infamous enforcer-beloved by fans yet feared by rivals? In his own thrilling tale, O'Malley steps off the bench and into the spotlight, revealing the tangled web of emotions and secrets that lie beneath his hardened exterior. Once sidelined by his vicious reputation and fierce rivalry with the noble goaltender Paul John Henson, O'Malley's life is a delicate balance of chaos and calm. On the ice, he's a whirlwind of power and fury; off the rink, he's a gentleman caught in the shadow of his own demons. As the stakes rise and old rivalries resurface, O'Malley must confront his past and the turbulent experiences that fuel his rage. Through grit, resilience, and heart-pounding action, Paul John Hausleben crafts a compelling narrative that delves into themes of identity, redemption, and the complexities of masculinity. Readers will be drawn into O'Malley's dual existence-an exploration of how one man's journey can lead to both turmoil and transformation amid the relentless pace of the game. Join O'Malley on an emotional rollercoaster as he battles not only rivals on the ice but the inner turmoil that threatens to consume him. This riveting saga will leave you breathless, cheering for a man who may just be more than the sum of his fierce reputation. Experience the heart of hockey as you've never seen it before-this is the story of O'Malley.
Meeliften
Na haar plotselinge gevecht wil de alleenstaande moeder Sandra Willems verder in MMA. Kan ze haar baan achter de kassa in de Turkse supermarkt opgeven en haar droom najagen? Ze heeft gelukkig een goed team, want haar maatje bij het boksen Wildcat Ashley Rons wil voor de MMA titel gaan. Dat zou haar moeten helpen aan een paar centjes, en misschien wat stabiliteit, ook voor haar kleine dochter, die ze ten koste van alles wil beschermen, zeker als ze met de harde realiteit en kinderontvoerig geconfronteerd word.
Slave To The Game
"YOU EITHER CHANGE THE GAME, OR BECOME A SLAVE TO IT." WE are all slaves to something - a job, a relationship, or in the case of Sir Walker, a sport. We live it, breathe it, embody it. Problem is, the work we put in most often exceeds the return value. WE can choose to our accept our current state, allow it get the best of us, and let it dictate who we are and how we operate. Or we can empower ourselves in knowing our worth and change the situation and its dominance over us. SIR WALKER, the nation's number one high school basketball recruit, does just that. After being told for so so long how high to jump, what shots to take, and which moves to make, he decides to do the unthinkable: Instead of committing to a NCAA power conference he chooses to play basketball at an HBCU.
The Ninth InningTheNinth InningA New Adult Sports Romance
New York Times Bestselling Author, J. Sterling is back with a fresh new baseball romance series you won't want to miss! No one writes baseball like Sterling, Cole Anders is in his last season at Fullton State. If he doesn't get drafted this year, he'll be forced to hang up his cleats for good. It's not something he's ready to do.To prove he's serious about his final season, he's given up girls. No more casual hookups, dates or one-night stands. But there's one girl who has always refused to give up on him. One girl who has been there since the start of Freshman year. One girl he stupidly assumed would always be waiting for him when he got off the field, no matter how long it took.Christina Traver's has had enough of Cole pushing her aside for baseball. She's grown tired of waiting for him to see what she's known since they were freshmen... that they belong together. She's finally moved on.Cole has other ideas, but she refuses to cave. It's not her problem if he wants her now. Too little too late.There comes a point in your life when you have to stop the incessant merry-go-round and just get off the ride, right? Try telling that to Cole
Anger Throws a Curveball
Brent, the coach's son, is his father's best player on the 12-year-old Little League baseball team. The team is playing for the State Championship. His team is ready. They expect to win. But outbursts of uncontrollable anger from players, their parents, coaches, and officials threaten Brent's enthusiasm and concentration for the big game. Game Day comes, and Brent's nerves and emotions are a wreck. Then some unexpected events during the Championship event--some humorous, some heart-warming-- open his eyes to a score that really counts. It is a close game between two rival teams, with plenty of action and a chance for the winning team to be on national television. At the end of the fiercely fought game, Brent is excited--but over an entirely different score.
Blau-wei?-tot
Bei seinem wichtigsten Eishockey-Spiel wird der Starspieler der Adler Mannheim vor den Augen des entsetzten Publikums erschossen. Die M繹rderin wird noch vor Ort verhaftet, doch sie kannte das Opfer nicht und schweigt beharrlich. Sonderermittlerin Chris Peters steht vor einem R瓣tsel und scheucht mit ihren Ermittlungen einen T瓣ter auf, der vor nichts zur羹ckschreckt.
Fighting Stance
Goran, the golden one, is a famous modern Tai Chi fighter, having earned the top spot for the forthcoming European championships. Adored by women, his love interests include the gender sweethearts Kathy and Susan. Goran owns together with his Dad the popular Martial Arts Club-MAC, which Goran's opponent, Caltis, schemes to acquire with a sinister plan. In an amateur car race for charity, Goran has an accident due to a steering malfunction. All points to Celtis, whose car wins with driver Elena, his former lover, as huge amounts of money had been placed at the betting offices on Elena to win. Caltis celebrates his win with Elena, who starts a new life with her friend Iannis. Caltis, indebted to Nasos, the loanshark, arranges for killing him, as he is about to disappear, holding his daughter and the daughter of his friend, Takis, hostage for a huge ransom. Gordon has been saved from a burning car and he is flown by helicopter to the nearest Burns-unit at J&S-Clinic, where Susan tends to his badly burned face. Elena is requested to donate her blood, matching Goran's. Caltis and his friend Takis attack Nasos' stronghold and catch the loanshark before leaving with his loot. Elena, Iannis, are exalted about their windfall from betting on Caltis' car; driven by Elena. Kathy, who was tipped off, had placed a huge bet on Elena to win. With the huge win, they intend to help Goran pay for his facial transplant. Caltis has qualified with dirty tricks for the finals of the European Tai Chi championships but fails to win. Goran heels fast after a successful facial transplant, cared fr by his two sweethearts. The underground searches for Nasos and huge amounts of misappropriated cash. At an assassination attempt on Susan, Kathy takes the bullets. Gordon visits with his Dad the Don, who promises help in destroying Caltis, who stole from Nasos Don's money. Susan is adducted by Caltis' gang and brought to their safe house. Goran and his security army attack Caltis' safe house to f
La Visite de la Russe
Seul un supporter de Gott矇ron peut vraiment comprendre ce que 癟a signifie de de-venir champion. Justement parce qu'on n'est jamais devenus champions, pensait parfois Fredi. Une Russe pleine aux as d矇nomm矇e Svetlana Zenova d矇barque ? Fribourg en vue d'acheter le club local de hockey sur glace de Fribourg-Gott矇ron. Elle rencontre Fredi et Big Bad Boy, qui se pr矇tendent dirigeants du club. Pendant que Big Bad Boy s'affaire en r礙vant d'encaisser un paquet de fric, Fredi se met en t礙te d'emp礙cher la transaction. Mais la Russe prend tout ce petit monde ? contre-pied. Traduit de l'allemand par Bernard Bovigny
Drop Pass
The last thing Elena Curtis expected to do while on assignment to cover the year's largest winter storm was to meet and crush on Nikolay Kozlov. He's stubborn, abrasive, and used to being in charge. His gruff personality should be enough to keep her away, but there's something about him that draws her to him like chaser to a category five hurricane.
Wave-Riding into Therapy
A group of surfers ride waves at their local beaches and find cosmological explanations in elements of their sport. Over about twenty years as the wave riding is cosmologically described, they show surfing instincts and practices. Doctor Charlton, is a member of their coterie, and he comments along the way. He and another doctor, Doctor Luther, who also rides waves, therapeutically treat members of the group of surfers. But it is mostly Stoney, who is the more serious case. Their wave riding continues. This book might be considered one of those one reads and puts on the shelf. Some parts are cosmological.
Hat Trick
Soren: You know what's not fun? Going on a Fiji vacation with four other couples. Especially when recently single.What's even worse is when a past hook-up arrives unannounced.Not only do we have a history, but he's ten years younger and a famous rock star. Most importantly, he's my friend's little brother.Being trapped on an island with Jet Jackson is going to be sweet torture because all I want is another chance.I just don't think he's going to give it to me.Jet: You know what's not fun? Escaping one guy who broke my heart only to run into another.Being on the road for three years has left me exhausted. The last thing I want is for Caleb 'Soren' Sorensen to try for round two.I can't fight my draw to him. I've never been able to.I'm suddenly back to being the na簿ve kid who stupidly lusted after a hockey player.All I can think is if I let Soren get close, I'll walk away from this vacation with a double broken heart.*Hat Trick is a full-length M/M romance with a guaranteed HEA. This is the final book in the Fake Boyfriend series and as such is not recommended to be read as a standalone. All main characters of the series feature heavily.*
Columbus Slaughters Braves
Mark Friedman's debut novel is an unflinchingly honest portrait of the relationship between siblings, the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. The narrator, Joe Columbus, tells the story of his brother CJ's remarkable success as a professional baseball player in an effort to explain not only CJ's apparently charmed life but also his own failures - his envy, his crumbling marriage, his missteps and cowardice. A richly imagined story that explores both the grand and enduring allure of our national pasttime and the complications of our lives - our longings, losses, and regrets - COLUMBUS SLAUGHTERS BRAVES is a dark and comic and ultimately redemptive novel. Like W. P. Kinsella's SHOELESS JOE Joe and Michael Shaara's FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, this is a poignant and compassionate work that introduces readers to a gifted and extraordinarily perceptive writer.
Big Man
In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport that once saved him. Gradually, however, Mack's real love for the game, combined with a series of unexpected pressures, goads him into an ironic comeback -- playing on an all-black team for a B'nai B'rith championship in a local Brooklyn synagogue with a cast of unlikely heroes and friends. A tight, jabbing novel that moves with the speed and hard grace of basketball itself, BIG MAN puts Jay Neugeboren among "the surprisingly tiny company of fiction writers who have captured the essence of the athlete as a human being" (Kansas City Star).
The Iron Man
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Iron Man' is one of Howard's short stories about the sport of boxing. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Blow the Chinks Down!
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1931 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Blow the Chinks Down!' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
General Ironfist
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1934 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'General Ironfist' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Bull Dog Breed
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Bull Dog Breed' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Pit of the Serpent
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Pit of the Serpent' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Dark Shanghai
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Dark Shanghai' is a story in the Sailor Steve Costigan series about a travelling boxer. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Racing Shadows
In May of 1984, the summer Olympic Games will return to America. Jeff Dillon prepares to run in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Buffalo, New York. He will face the deepest field ever assembled. It is the pinnacle of his professional running career. Unfortunately, the marathon goddess does not smile on Jeff as he crosses the finish line last, exhausted and depressed. His misery is interrupted by Bill Atlee, an Olympian who won the 1928 marathon trials. Bill offers to coach the struggling runner, an unexpected silver lining on the day.Jeff returns to graduate school to be coached by Bill and the prospect of a fall come-back race. Through the many miles of training, a secret is revealed and an agreement struck. Everything points to Jeff's next marathon. There are questions to be answered and redemption sought by both athlete and coach. The race will provide a second chance to compete, to strive for the podium, and face everything that lies beyond the finish.
Miracle at St. Andrews
In this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews--the birthplace of golf--on a search for greatness. If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top. Though nobody has ever identified a single secret--no universally accepted truth--to the sport, every real player searches for one. Travis McKinley is one such seeker. A former professional golfer who feels like he's an amateur at the rest of life, he makes a pilgrimage to the mythical greens at St. Andrews. On the course where golf was born, every link, hole, fairway--even the gorse--feels like sacred ground. Ground that can help an ordinary player, an ordinary man, achieve a higher plane.
Chasing the Big Leagues
Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's convinced that his baseball dreams are over. But after the 1994 Major League Baseball strike prematurely ends the season, the playoffs, and even the World Series, Jake is about to get his lucky break. Strike be damned, the owners will have a team for the '95 season, even if they have to open tryouts and spring training to anyone who can hit or throw the ball.After scoring contracts for the Toronto Blue Jays, Jake, his best friend Brian Sloan, and an unlikely cast of new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to play like never before, amid a slowly building crescendo of public curiosity, media scrutiny, and a labor dispute that could put them on the field come Opening Day--or dash their dreams at any minute. Based on the true stories of the 1994-95 replacement players, Chasing the Big Leagues is an exciting novel about shared dreams and competing interests, best friends and second chances, growing up and finding love.
Spiritual Drafting
Dan & Julia Pearson's oldest child, Jake, suddenly has a passion for racing at the age of seven, and it seems that he is a natural. As Dan starts taking Jake to the local racetracks, he soon discovers how good his late father, Joe Pearson, was at racing. Unfortunately, their relationship ended on the worst of terms. One year later, Jake has landed racing contract with Birel. On the way to one of his races, they discovered an abandoned racetrack that had been closed since 1996. Jake had a sudden urgency to get inside the track. Once inside, they find that Jake has the ability to change everything. A world will open up for them that will bring race fans and non-race fans alike to this magical place.
Al Trunk Mahoney, Defensive Line (Edizione Italiana)
Quando sua moglie lo lasci簷, i progetti di Al Trunk Mahoney sul formare con lei la famiglia che non aveva mai avuto andarono in fumo. Trunk era uno dei migliori difensori della NFL, ma il successo in campo non si estendeva anche al resto della sua vita. Avere avventure di una sola notte con varie donne era facile per il sensuale lineman, ma il suo segreto gli aveva sbarrato le porte del matrimonio. La felicit? che desiderava sarebbe sempre rimasta appena al di fuori della sua portata?La bellissima Carla Ricci, proprietaria di un bar e donna indipendente, poteva scegliere chiunque volesse. Era una donna che seduceva e abbandonava gli uomini, e aveva preso una decisione che scoraggiava il novantanove virgola nove percento di loro dallo sposarla, ma non le importava. Poi, arriv簷 Trunk Mahoney. Carla si convinse che sarebbe rimasta fedele a se stessa, ma la sua forza di volont? sarebbe stata in grado di rimanere salda per sempre, o alla fine si sarebbe accontentata di una breve storia che le avrebbe spezzato il cuore?
Pioneers II
Having been on a Nation Championship Gymnastics team, Joey Johnson finds himself without a gym, as his beloved Pioneers is closing, and he must move to Michigan to continue his career. But, Joey finds that his level of gymnastics is a threat to those who are trying to make the Dagar's Edge elite team. After being forced out, Joey finds himself the leader of a group of non-gymnasts, in his effort to get back at his former gym. Joey must not only up his own game, but push his new charges to meet the challenge.
Pennant Man
A mystery novel exploring the events around the breaking of the color line in major league baseball in the mid-forties...Professional baseball hasn't always been integrated. Up until the 1940s, there were white leagues and negro leagues. Regardless of talent, white team owners fought long and hard to keep blacks from entering their exclusive clubs. Then the Brooklyn Dodgers took the other owners on by scouting two black players of equal talent. The goal -- two players breaking the color line together...One was Jackie Robinson. The other had a past.
Pennant Man
Professional baseball hasn't always been integrated. Up until the 1940s, there were white leagues and negro leagues. Regardless of talent, white team owners fought long and hard to keep blacks from entering their exclusive clubs. Then the Brooklyn Dodgers took the other owners on by scouting two black players of equal talent. The goal -- two players breaking the color line together...One was Jackie Robinson. The other had a past.
Pennant Man
Professional baseball hasn't always been integrated. Up until the 1940s, there were white leagues and negro leagues. Regardless of talent, white team owners fought long and hard to keep blacks from entering their exclusive clubs. Then the Brooklyn Dodgers took the other owners on by scouting two black players of equal talent. The goal -- two players breaking the color line together...One was Jackie Robinson. The other had a past.
Am I a Hoosier
So what exactly does one have to do to be a Hoosier? Thats what a young child wants to know. Author Bill Murphys book Am I a Hoosier follows a childs journey to discover what it means to be a Hoosier. Is it as simple as living in Indiana? How about loving Indiana sports, especially basketball? If you enjoy making snowmen in cold Indiana winters, does that make you a Hoosier? Is it riding horses in the country and going on hayrides? Follow a childs exploration of how to become a Hoosier.
Am I a Hoosier
So what exactly does one have to do to be a Hoosier? Thats what a young child wants to know. Author Bill Murphys book Am I a Hoosier follows a childs journey to discover what it means to be a Hoosier. Is it as simple as living in Indiana? How about loving Indiana sports, especially basketball? If you enjoy making snowmen in cold Indiana winters, does that make you a Hoosier? Is it riding horses in the country and going on hayrides? Follow a childs exploration of how to become a Hoosier.
