More than just wins and losses, sports build character and relationships, promote personal growth, and provide purpose. James Avery’s Coach to Coach brings a fresh and holistic approach to coaching the athletes at all levels of sport. Based on 25 years of personal experience, both successes and failures, this reflective and practical guide is written from the perspective of a longtime high school football coach and former player.With an engaging and faith-based take on coaching tha...

Harry Shearer’s fantasy about a World’s Fair held in Kansas City. Told in quick blackouts, it resembles a profane Simpsons episode.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, David Arnott, Lewis Arquette, James Avery, Hank Azaria, Dan Castellaneta, Timothy Fall, David L. Lander, Tom Leopold, Edie McClurg, Julie Payne, Mary Kay Place, John Randolph, Erika Schickel, Harry Shearer and Fred Willard.Directed by Harry Shearer. Recorded before a live audience...

Originally published in 1980, this book examines a range of Government attitudes to their workers arguing that these provide the touchstone for all civil justice. The book looks at the United Nations system of Human Rights protection and the procedures of the International Labour Office (ILO) in implementing the international conventions which protect workers’ rights. It also examines in detail the record of 9 countries where workers were seriously abused in the 1970s namely Chile, Czechos...

WaylonI’m a music manager. I’ve taken the smallest artists and made them soar into superstardom. I’m good at what I do, and I never fail.Except with him. I let him down, and that doesn’t sit right with me.No. I’ll track Justin St. James down and find a way to make him happy and settled.No matter what it takes.JustinI’m so tired of being Justin St. James. Of people invading my space and acting like they own me. Like I owe them for my fame....

Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:He has his own suitcase full of special things.He’...

Reassurance, inpiration, and guidance for adults in midlife and beyondWhat does it really mean to be a grown up in today’s world? We assume that once we get the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and it's rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the...

Tessa May Everett had grown up loving four things in life; bull riding, her father and her best frenemies, Branch and Beau.But in less than eight seconds, she’d lost all four things and the single most important person in her life.Four years later, Tessa May is back and ready to reclaim her dreams. She was going to be the first woman to compete on the professional bull riding circuit, and nothing was going to stop her. Not the Boys Club that already held her to a different ...

Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals—what more could you want from an audiobook?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel The Moon Maid; and cautionary and scary ta...

One building.Five apartments.Five friends.Here be monsters.Let the games begin.Join five authors as they take you through a very special and unique apartment building, where monsters dwell in the darkness, waiting and watching with insatiable hunger. These stories are for the adventurous, so tread with curiosity and caution.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Avery Tywella likes her life clean, controlled, and predictable—hunt the monster, pass judgment, move on. As a half-demon agent for the Human Rights Task Force, she exists to eliminate anything “Other” that threatens humans… no exceptions, no hesitation.Until one hunt goes sideways.Chasing a demon into the pulsing chaos of a nightclub called Halo should have been routine. Instead, it puts her on the radar of Jare...

**The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart“It’s Doty’s ability to describe his journey so lyrically, and then his willingness to share his methods, that make this book a gem.”—Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Cutting for Stone**Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed a...

The celebrated author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path.Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? To even begin to answer these questions, we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs. Presenting the unique perspective of respected analyst and author Jame...