The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country.You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. T...

Absolute Tennis is thorough and comprehensive guide to improving your tennis. In this insightful and visually engaging book, Marty Smith, an NCAA Division I Southern Conference Champion and long-time Director of Tennis at the New York Athletic Club, shares his extensive knowledge of tennis technique, strategy, psychology and fitness in easy to understand language. His meticulous explanations of the strokes, coupled with narrated individual and sequenced photos of the world's best ...

From ESPN’s correspondent Marty Smith— a book of key leadership principles learned from championship coaches he’s interviewed over the past two decades.Sideline CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America’s most respected leaders—the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all.In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:

A Southern college town and its thriving live-music scene, where songs are neither "sacred" nor "profane" so long as they're good. A lost tape of a beloved local band's legendary performance. A record label, poised to break big, which certain people want to be involved in - by any means necessary. Two visitors - Chuck McDonough and Penny Froward - whose own music has been muted by regrets over long-ago bad decisions. A mysterious will by an unknown hand; and murder.

From ESPN’s correspondent Marty Smith— a book of key leadership principles learned from championship coaches he’s interviewed over the past two decades.Sideline CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America’s most respected leaders—the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all.In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:

Rick Kingsley's an everyday guy. True, his dad Linwood Kingsley Sr. is a rising Tea Partier in the North Carolina Senate. His mom's a passionate queer activist lawyer whose wife quit the Navy over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." His stepmom Eunice is a small-town Southern belle Fundamentalist, who hires black maids and Christian psychics. Teen half-brother Lin Junior is a dudebro / frat boy jerk-in-training. Younger half-brother Aidan's a train buff; emotional, sensitive and a bully magnet. But R...

The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country.You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. T...

You are a tiny spark - and you can light up the whole world! This book is a collection of gentle, playful affirmations designed to help little ones feel brave, kind, and full of joy. With simple words and magical illustrations, each page invites children to explore big feelings and celebrate their unique spark. Created to read together or alone, these affirmations will inspire smiles, giggles, and warm hugs - day after day. Shine bright. Be you. The world needs your spark!

In using this resourceful guide, therapists can develop a comprehensive understanding of how trauma impacts their young clients' brains and sensory systems. Filled with therapeutic strategies and activities tailored to specific regions of the brain, professionals will be able to optimise brain rehabilitation and improve sensory processing abilities.The book includes a wide range of low-cost, budgeted activities that can be applied in a variety of settings, including juvenile justic...

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "none" box. In the first sociological exploration of organized secularism in America, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith show how one segment of these "nones" have created a new, cohesive atheist identity through activism and the creation of communities. According to Cimino and Smith, the new upsurge of atheists is a reaction to the revival of religious f...

From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga—a blood-pounding tale of one man's sacred mission to bring justice to the American west, the only way he knows how...In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp. Less infamous but equally inhumane was a Yankee prison camp run by General Thomas Wainwright. In the war's aftermath, a survivor of Wainwright's cruelty summons ...

After many years of dismissing “coincidental” events, no longer could I ignore the presence of spiritual influences in life—particularly after a dear friend and gifted medium called me out. That took me down a path I hadn’t expected to travel and gave me a new look at that institution we call, “Spirituality.”This book takes a look at intuition and the spiritual promptings everyone experiences, and answers the question in the back of everyone’s mind: So, how do I know this is re...