From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully.Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true...

In the tradition of Dave Barry, an irreverent look at fatherhood from a dad who truly loves his kids—even when they’re driving him nuts.“Robert Wilder’s hilarious and boldly candid essays about the realities of parenting go down like gin and tonic on a hot summer afternoon.”—PeopleA Santa Fe dad shares heartwarming, comic, often ludicrous tales of raising a family in this laugh-out-loud book perfect for anyone who enjoys the edgy h...

July's issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine is dedicated to the Runner and guest edited by Dr. Robert Wilder, Associate Professor of PM&R and Medical Director of the Runner's Clinic at the University of Virginia. Dr. Wilder and a team of expert contributors discuss all aspects of running, including biomechanics and kinematics, flexibility, exertional compartment syndrome, patellofemoral pain syndrome, stress fractures, exercise-associated collapse, and more. Several chapters focus on specia...

"Wonderful"--The New York Times. "Provocative, opinionated, and never dull"--Down Beat. "A singular book."--Studs Terkel. When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading for countless musicians, lovers of American Song, and fans of Alec Wilder. Now, in a 50th anniversary edition, popular music scholar Robert Rawlins brings the book fully up-to-date for the 21st century. Whereas previ...

ACSM’s Sports Medicine: A Comprehensive Review, 2nd Edition, spans the full spectrum of sports medicine, from medical to skeletal conditions related to the athlete. Using an easy-to-follow, bulleted approach, it approaches the content with two guiding objectives 1) to serve a premier educational primer for the clinician embarking on a career in sports medicine, and 2) to provide the foremost resource to assist clinicians preparing for their subspecialty sports medicine certification examin...

It started with a window that was jammed shut. Pretty simple, right? All I wanted was to open the windows while I tidied the house. I'd been after my no-good husband to do it for months, but he never did. And then he shacked up with his secretary, leaving me with a pile of bills, husband-free for the first time in ten years, and with a house that was falling apart.The ad popped up on the side of my social media feed—a local contracting agency willing to do pretty much anything. Sin...

"He has to be ready for it, Jess," I say, my voice low and quiet.Jesse nods. "I know. It's just that I'm a fixer, and his broken-ass heart is the one thing I can't fix.""No one can," I say. "I can't fix his broken heart. He has to be willing to be with me with a whole heart. There'd be pieces missing, and seams and cracks, but offered as a whole. I'm worth more than just taking the screwed up mess of him, just to have part. I want more than that—I deserve more. If he can ge...

RYDER: You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, Laurel. And if that's all of you I ever get to see, I'll be the luckiest man in the world for having seen it.I swallow hard. He wasn't supposed to make it sweet. He was supposed to leave it dirty and inappropriate, so I could tell myself all he wanted was sex. That all he cared about was getting me naked, or if not that, then at least seeing me naked.Instead, he turned it sweet. And I couldn't tell mys...

From New York Times bestselling author Jasinda Wilder comes a sexy, laugh out loud romantic comedy series that is the perfect escape. If you're a fan of Sex in the City and you binge watched Selling Sunset, you don't want to miss this.It was just supposed to be just a fortieth birthday prank for our boss after a wild night of girlfriends, laughter, and a LOT of margaritas.When we placed the ad in the newspaper, we never thought an...

IMOGEN: Jesse says you better know what you're doing with Franco.ME: Dude, I'm scared.IMOGEN: !! What? Tell me!ME: He makes me FEEL THINGS. It's icky and I don't like it.IMOGEN: You've known him what, a few hours?ME: I'm telling you, he scares the sh*t out of me. But he's so good I can't stop myself.IMOGEN: Audra, seriously. Chill. It's been a couple hours. It's just insta-lust.ME: Uh-oh. He's waking up. Time for round . . . 3? 4? I'v...

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a sixpence for her shoe.A woman realizes she was meant to decline a wedding invitation, but only after she's arrived. Can she borrow some of a stranger's charm to make it through an awkward night?A power outage during a rehearsal dinner. A vanishing bride. A distraught groom. How's an innkeeper to keep up? Especially when the bride reappears with a strange request: help her escape her own...

Autumn Scott is the second woman at Six Chicks Real Estate to fall victim to The Ad: "Beautiful, successful single woman in search of a wealthy, handsome man to help her get pregnant the old-fashioned way. Financial validation a must. Serious inquiries only. DM for more info."Problem number one? It works, a little too well, one could argue.Problem number two? Autumn has a dark, tragic past keeping her from trusting men at all, let alone wanting a baby with one.Probl...