The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game—a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar.In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the co...

Ready or NotA Mixtape Series Novel by Bryant LeeA soulful, contemporary Black romance about healing, friendship, and choosing love-set between Brooklyn and Harlem.Allie Herrera has her life exactly how she wants it-creative, intentional, and drama-free. With her art, her close-knit circle of friends, and a carefully curated peace, she's not looking for anything to disrupt her rhythm.Then Hunter Lyons walks in... and...

Life can change in a moment—especially when your child's future becomes uncertain.Never the Plan is a deeply honest and thought-provoking memoir about what happens when life takes you somewhere you never expected to go.For much of her life, Fleur Bryant believed strength meant pushing harder. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a child, she learnt early how to hide her struggles, constantly striving to prove herself through achievement, independence, ...

Nicola Bryant reads this novelisation of a 'lost' TV story featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri.With the TARDIS working perfectly for a change, the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end.A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution.Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer, the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...

"A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us" by the bestselling author of Magic Season ( The Washington Post).Indie Next List "Great Read" SelectionAmerican Library Association's Inaugural "Rainbow List" SelectionIn this memoir, writer and journalist Wade Rouse delivers a humorous and heartwarming account of his Midwestern childhood...

Zane's teleporting skills are diminishing, but he must make the journey to Balacira. After a long and exhausting journey, Zane is reunited with Finola and Nick. Nick engineers a meeting with Dad in a remote part of the grounds of the hotel, but unbeknown to the family, a worker from the hotel is watching the encounter from a little distance and reports the family to the authorities.

With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure―this architecture―is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of Amer...

A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West.Edwin F. Bryant...

Count down to Christmas with twelve sealed holiday love stories by beloved romance authors.The Twelve Loves of Christmas is a swoon-worthy short story collection about finding love during the most magical time of the year. Including a playful forced proximity romance featuring a woman and her older brother’s grinchy (yet unexpectedly endearing) best friend, a tender love story of two neighbors who decide to skip Christmas together, a second-chance spark re...

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Port Merryn, Cornwall 1795. William Landers is the youngest son of wealthy boatyard owner Abraham Landers. A kind and fair man, Will is ashamed of the behaviour of his father and older brother, and prefers the company of the local people. Engaged to Eliza, one of his oldest friends, Will feels increasingly trapped, afraid that an unfulfilled life will lead him to become bitter and cruel like his father.Into the village comes pirate Captain Ethan O'Rourke, after his ship is damaged ...

From bestselling YA authors comes thirteen dazzling contemporary romances inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift!If you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day, which would you pick? In this shimmering anthology, thirteen best-selling and acclaimed authors do just that, reimagining some of Taylor’s most iconic songs as love stories.Whether you’re in an era of fairy lights and folktales or diss tracks and dance floors, here’s a playlist that feature...