In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world.After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as "Pooh" was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he became the youngest MVP in league history. He and the Bulls believed the city's first berth in the NBA Finals since ...

The New York Times bestseller about the legendary basketball star's impact on the sport during his team's championship seminal season. With a new introduction by Sam Smith, NBA Hall of Fame columnistA highly competitive force of nature, Michael Jordan's ambition and endurance drove him—and his Chicago Bulls teammates—to victory. After three years of consecutive losses to the "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons in the playoffs, the Bulls defeated them in the 1991 Eas...

Discover the untold story of the NBA's fight for financial freedom.Hard Labor unearths the incredible story of how Oscar Robertson and a team of NBA stars battled for player's rights, forever changing the league. Sam Smith, author of The Jordan Rules, dives into the fight for financial equity and free agency, examining the massive repercussions for the NBA and sports in the United States. Learn how "The 14" paved the way for today's record-setting...

Thirty years after Michael Jordan's first NBA game comes an oral history of his legendary career, told by the men who played with him and against him, coached him, and witnessed first-hand the iconic greatness of the most dominant athlete sports has ever seen.Featuring interviews with: Larry Bird • Magic Johnson • Phil Jackson • Reggie Miller • Isiah Thomas • Reggie Theus • Chris Mullin • Doug Collins • Dominique Wilkins • Steve Kerr • John Paxson • David Stern • Gregg Popovich • D...

Meet Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones--just regular best friends on a totally normal day, visiting the park and battling giant anacondas. . . Wait, giant anacondas?! Strap yourselves in kids, this is one wild comic!AMELIA MILES, aka THE AMAZING AMELIA MILESBest Friend: Shackleton JonesKnown For: Her awesome movesNot-so-secret skill: She's ready for action at all times (and does NOT need to comb her hair, mom!)S...

The legendary sportswriter and the Hall of Fame, eleven-time NBA champion coach separate the music from the noise in the stories of the greatest who ever played and their impact on the gameSam Smith and Phil Jackson grew to know and respect each other in the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriter and Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls. Forty years later, the two remain close friends. In 2021, Smith helped the NBA arrive...

Meet Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones -- just regular best friends, enjoying a totally normal blizzard of large purple globs of goop . . . Wait, what?! Strap yourselves in, kids, this is one ooey-gooey adventure!Nature has a dark (purple) side and Amelia Miles, Shackleton Jones, and their parents are stuck in the middle of it! Well, sort of. Is it technically "nature" if the icky-sticky tornado was created by the ultra-villain, Glam-Evil?In any case, the s...

This mix of poetry and prose tells of my upbringing in the village of Stoke Gabriel on the banks of the Dart estuary, of my early schooling at Hayes Road in Paignton and later in Totnes, also of my before-school work as a milk boy - there my real education - and jobs and so-called career after leaving school and Devon. Most telling poem here is probably 'Education of an Anti-Establishment Man.'

Balant is the first of the 5 book series 'Towards the unMaking of Heaven'. Dag Olvess, Malamud Bey and Pi Pandy find themselves marooned on the very edge of the known universe. Narrator is Pi Pandy. En route from his mother's substation to university in another galaxy, the ship he was travelling upon encounters a storm of cosmic proportions. The ship about to implode, he escapes in the ship's shuttle with two other young men, Malamud Bey and Dag Olvess. They end up on the planet, Balant, w...

The Wall comprises two narratives. Opens with a retired gangster writing letters to his deceased twin sister, wherein he attempts to explain his life, his present circumstances - a house and extensive grounds within an encircling high wall. The second narrative tells of the world outside the wall, where two teenage boys have disappeared. The gangster confides his worries about someone having climbed over the wall, possibly even having entered his house. The two fathers of the teenage boys ...

Told throughout in interview form, in 'As Recorded' the hero, Sniff - as he was known in 'Constant Change' and 'Undeclared War' - tells of the childhood of the trilogy's 5 main characters - Newt, Blue, Pancho, Mort and himself - from their starting school in Curledge Street to their all going on to Totnes Grammar; and of their first fights, first sex, and various escapades. And, of course, he tells of his later life too, as a boxer and a businessman, father and lothario.... And why he shou...

The Rampagers were active light years before in a corner of the galaxy, their rampaging brought to a temporary halt by a global intelligence. The students' task, their research, is to bring together a few partially recovered recordings, already decoded and translated. The greater part of material available to them however is the book-like testimony, We Us Our, the singular publication of that global intelligence.All the animals and humans are approximations.