Bud Forrester was as dead as a carp. Wait, let's not get ahead of ourselves...Prank-master Charlie Baker only meant to pull one harmless stunt; just a quick gag to settle an old score. But one practical joke later, he's tangled in a chain reaction that the city may never recover from.Suddenly, a life-sized stuffed gorilla has vanished, a priceless baseball has been stolen, a donut shop is serving up pastries named after strippers, and Cleveland's favorite T...

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Steve Case—the co-founder of AOL—presents “a compelling roadmap for the future…that can help us make sense of the technological changes reshaping our economy and the world. A fascinating read” (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of LeanIn.org).Steve Case—a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life—was on the leading edge of a revolution in 1985 when he co-founded AOL, t...

What happens when one harmless practical joke starts a war?Charlie Baker has a gift.Not for fame. Not for fortune. Not even for television, although he works behind the scenes at a struggling Cleveland TV station.Charlie's real talent is the perfect prank.His rules are simple: nobody gets hurt, always punch up, and never let the joke get out of hand.Unfortunately, his boss has other ideas.When a bitter executive recruits Char...

Steve Case, New York Times bestselling author of The Third Wave and cofounder of America Online shows how entrepreneurs across the country are building groundbreaking companies, renewing communities, and creating new jobs—reimagining the American landscape “and [giving] us hope for America’s future” (Ken Burns).In 2014, Steve Case launched Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, an initiative to accelerate the growth of tech startups across the country. Ri...

A straight-to-the-point, honest-as-hell grief recovery handbook, offering a refreshingly honest approach to healing, empowering you to navigate your journey without the fluff and generic advice.Embrace the concept of radical honesty with a raw and unfiltered perspective on the grieving process. From acknowledging the messy and complex nature of grief to exploring unconventional methods for healing, this book is your partner in reclaiming your emotional well-being a...

God is the author of joy. Read the opening words of either of the Genesis stories (wait there's more than one?) and you'll meet a being who creates everything with love and happiness. It's easy to imagine God dancing through creation flinging a paintbrush dipped in light. When did God become the judge? When did God become the angry, somber, pinch-faced deity looking down from on high with a bucket of lightning bolts at the ready? This book, like its predecessor, celebrates the God who laug...

Organ donation is the last gift given to you by the best friend you never met.How do we talk about the hard stuff with our kids? We don't get to avoid it. We don't pretend it's not happening and we can't pretend it's not affecting us. We shouldn't expect them to understand when we don't completely understand it ourselves. We're parents, we want to protect our children from anything that might hurt.And some things are going to hurt. So how do we talk about the hard stuff? We...

Let me tell you a story about a little girl who gets knocked down by an ugly gray troll who keeps showing up to ruin her day—a troll named...Diabetes.She doesn't stay down, though. No, she gets right back up and stares that troll down! This book is for kids who have more than a little experience with diabetes, or maybe someone they love has it. This book is for kids who know better than most people that there are days with diabetes filled with sunshine and rainbows when you are rea...

We forget the psalms are song lyrics, most written by a troubled warrior, insomniac, street-musician king. Steve Case envisions all of these Davids through imaginative prose and pictures reframing all 150 psalms. The book captures the anger, the joy, the pleading for forgiveness, and the utter astonishment of a king who stops and fully realizes precisely who God is.

Can a monster pray? The creature invented by Mary Shelley was not the shambling mumbling monster from the movies (apologies to Mr. Karloff). Shelley's creature learned to reason and speak with his ear to the cabin wall of a family who lived in the woods. He learned to read when he discovered a leather satchel full of books in that same forest. What if one of those books was a Bible?

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LAUGH. Too often our faith is like wearing a T-shirt that's two sizes too small. We keep trying to pull it and tug it and all the while it feels like we are slowly suffocating.YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LAUGH. The finger pointers and the self-appointed judges of what's appropriate and what isn't sit in the back row and scowl. They sing Joy to the World as if it were a funeral dirge. They say, "Stop that laughing. You are in CHURCH!"YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LAUGH. Jesus...

Ahhh the church fart...Perhaps one of the most highly regarded laughs in annals of humor (No, not anals, ANNALS). A singular source of humor since the dawn of time. One can imagine our cave-dwelling ancestors breaking each other up or even that the creator of the universe himself was known to express himself with a wet one now and then. Church farts are funny because...A: They are farts. Funny for all children and most grown men and grown men who act like children.B. T...