Explain away your bad casts or your tiny catch—and have your friends laugh at the same time!Fishing’s Best Excuses is a must have book for any angler that has spent a day on the water with little to show for their efforts. With dozens of witty excuses, as well as crazy fishing facts and hilarious cartoons, you’ll be able to laugh away your ineptitude.Whether it’s due to the poor weather, bad bait, unacceptable equipment, or simply because the fishi...

Bethany Fitzpatrick is a recent graduate of a renowned culinary school with ambitions of becoming a pastry chef in Manhattan. But when Bethany's mother dies in a tragic accident, Bethany foregoes a perfect job to care for her father, who is stricken with multiple sclerosis. She moves back home to the seafaring town of Northport, Long Island, where she eventually opens a bakery, but running her own business and acting as sole caretaker for a dying man is no easy feat. Despite her enormous l...

A single bad decision trapped me behind guarded gates until one day the FBI raids the cult's compound setting me free. I thought the worst was over, but little did I know the men who kidnapped me won't stop until I'm dragged back into their cruel world.Witness protection is my only option for a chance at freedom, a chance to start fresh.Then the man too attractive to be a US marshal walks into the courtroom, shattering my plans to leave this life behind.After everyt...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...

A single bad decision trapped me behind guarded gates until the FBI raids the cult's compound setting me free. I thought the worst was over, little did I know the men who kidnapped me won't stop until I'm dragged back into their cruel world.Witness protection is my only option for a chance at freedom, a chance to start fresh.Then the too attractive to be a US Marshal walks into the courtroom shattering my plans to leave this life behind.After everything I've been th...

Product management has become a critical connective role for modern organizations, from small technology startups to global corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product management is about building products that people love. The real-world practice of product management is often about difficult conversations, practical compromises, and hard-won incremental gains. In this book, author Matt LeMay focuses on the COR...

“The most trusted opinion in rock music” (Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins) Matt Pinfield offers the ultimate music fan’s memoir, an “entertaining and insightful” (Clive Davis) chronicle of the songs and artists that inspired his improbable career alongside some of the all-time greats, from The Beatles to KISS to U2 to The Killers.Matt Pinfield “makes rock ‘n’ roll fandom sound like a lifelong heroic quest—which it is” (Rob Sheffield). He’s the guy who knows eve...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Struggling to reconcile faith with science? Yearning for a Higher Power that makes sense in our complex world? "My Higher Power: How Science, History, and Recovery Led Me to a Faith That Makes Sense" by Matthew R Mitchell is your guide. This isn't a sermon; it's a raw, honest Spiritual Journey born from the author's own profound battle with Addiction Recovery and his Quest for M...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if the greatest obstacles to faith aren’t science, doubt, or even addiction—but the stories we’ve been told about God, the Bible, and ourselves? In this honest, searching memoir, the author traces a journey from the depths of addiction and skepticism to a hard-won, deeply personal faith. Along the way, he dismantles the false dichotomies between science and spirituality, exposes the historical roots of religious fundamentalism, and...

The call to follow Christ was never a call to passive belief.In Contend, Philip Anthony Mitchell, founder and lead pastor of 2819 Church in Atlanta, unpacks Jude's urgent letter—a warning written to a Church under siege from false teachers, compromise, and spiritual laziness—and proves it's still our reality today.Countless Believers are still sitting on the sidelines, assuming they'll have another day to get serious about the Faith.But the...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.How to Develop Confidence and Charisma While TalkingDo you ever feel invisible in conversations, even when you have something valuable to say? Are nerves, doubt, or lack of clarity holding your voice back? This book is your blueprint to unlock the speaking power that already lives within you.Whether you're walking into a job interview, speaking on stage, or having a one-on-one conversation, the way you present y...