In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, its Mount Rushmore, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. The Galloping Ghost tells the remarkable untold story of this fleet-footed college football player who inspired poetry, dazzled fans as he felled opponents on the field, and, with the help of an unscrupulous and utterly brilliant manager (the first real-life Jerr...

Dr. Dresden leaves no stone unturned as he navigates through the exciting world of the development and practice of an obstetrician and gynecologist. From start to finish, his story is wrought with startling revelations and shocking exposes. His journey uncovers the needs, hopes, anticipations and expectations of men who choose to become physicians and, later on, obstetricians and gynecologists. He deals, without evasion, with the compromises that must be made in a physician's personal life...

Dr. Dresden leaves no stone unturned as he navigates through the exciting world of the development and practice of an obstetrician and gynecologist. From start to finish, his story is wrought with startling revelations and shocking exposes.His journey uncovers the needs, hopes, anticipations, and expectations of men who choose to become physicians and, later on, obstetricians and gynecologists. He deals, without evasion, with the compromises that must be made in a physician's perso...

"Cute as a button. A rotten, undead little button." - Christopher Moore, Author of The NY Times bestselling comic novels Bloodsucking Fiends, Bite Me, and You SuckSome zombies are big...Some zombies are small...But Daisy's the littlest zombie of all!Join this hilarious and heartfelt tale by award-winning author Austin Tichenor and renowned artist Gary Andrews as Daisy The Littlest Zombie struggles to find the true monster within her...

Gary Andrews is a retired editor and publisher after serving 35 years in the newspaper and magazine industry. During this time, he developed a passion for writing and publishing Christian devotionals, which he has done independently since his retirement in 2011. His devotionals are published in many newspapers in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and on his website: www.gadevotionals.blogspot.com. Being a sports enthusiast, Andrews played sports in high school at Corinth, MS, and played b...

Dr. Dresden leaves no stone unturned as he navigates through the exciting world of the development and practice of an obstetrician and gynecologist. From start to finish, his story is wrought with startling revelations and shocking exposes.His journey uncovers the needs, hopes, anticipations and expectations of men who choose to become physicians and, later on, obstetricians and gynecologists. He deals, without evasion, with the compromises that must be made in a physician's person...

Manny Pacquiao, 31, was recently named "Fighter of the Decade" by the Boxing Writers' Association and is the only fighter ever to capture seven championship belts in seven different weight classes. But few could have imagined that Pacquiao would have ever reached the pinnacle of his sport, considering his background. He ran away from home -- a cardboard shack in General Santos City in the Philippines -- at age fourteen. After making his way to Manila, and eventually the United States, Pacq...

Wooly and Curly go Walkabout is a heart warming tale of runaway sheep,two brothers who give farmer Copey and Sheebie the sheepdog the slip to go exploring into the great unknown, along the way they cause mischief in the local town, then hatch a plan to break Billy their black sheep of a Dad out of the Sheep Correction And Remand facility (S.C.A.R) this results in a big reward for their capture, plus a posse of bounty hunters hot on their trail but they have Scraggy the scarecrow, Clive the...

From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes “a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope” (Booklist, starred review).One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance,...

A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" ( Slate)Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a powerful collection of ten new works.Where her previous collection explores what it is to be a stru...

We’re all stronger than we think, and we often discover our inner strength and resilience when a problem arises. The 101 empowering stories in this collection will inspire and encourage you to overcome your own challenges.There’s nothing like real stories from real people to inspire you. These empowering and uplifting stories by people who have overcome challenges, solved problems, or changed their lives will help you find your own inner strength, resilience, and r...

A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century—from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate.The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America’s best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer ...