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...

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...

Oscar Robertson is known as one of the best players in NBA history, a triple-double machine who set the stage for the versatility of today's NBA superstars like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Draymond Green. But The Big O's larger legacy may lie in spearheading the fight for his fellow players' financial equity and free agency, joined by fellow stars John Havlicek, Bill Bradley, Wes Unseld, and more. In Hard Labor, Sam Smith, best-selling basketball scribe emeritus and autho...

This journey of discovery begins upon a circular city in space – serviced by on Earth a couple of Clark towers (a third failed) – and goes on to incorporate the Jerusalem disc, a sailship called The Scandalous Sandal, and a cold war bunker in what was Sweden.First however the focus is on the sexual longings of a lackadaisical City student focussed obsessively on promiscuous Alvina, who only occasionally entertains him. His primary desire thwarted he comforts himself with his tutor'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.'

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 otherin the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriterand Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls. Fortyyears later, the two remain close friends. In 2021, Smith helped theNBA arrive at ...

(Easy Piano Personality). A dozen hits arranged from easy piano from the budding career of Sam Smith. Includes: Dancing with a Stranger * Diamonds * How Do You Sleep? * I'm Not the Only One * Latch * Lay Me Down * Like I Can * My Oasis * Pray * Stay with Me * Too Good at Goodbyes * Writing's on the Wall.

Shackleton: WHOA WHOA WHOA. ANACONDA attack?! Don't worry, there aren't any giant, kid-eating snakes in this book. I'm just having my best friend Amelia for a sleepover. Right? ... RIGHT?!Say goodbye to the rickety bridge ... the perfect playground ... the skyscraper tree ... the BEST PARK EVER has just been cursed by an evil ultra-villain! It's up to best friends Amelia (Miles) and Shackleton (Jones) to save their favourite place, no matter what curious curses should stri...

Join Dr Charlie as he faces his biggest fear ... a child in his dental chair.Charlie hated children,their howls, their shouts, their screams.Their burps and farts and coughs and snotswould haunt him in his dreams.The sharpness of their gnasherswas enough to make you quit.Just get a finger near their teethand CHOMP! You would get bit!Will Dr Charlie get o...

Kenji, with the help of his grandfather's friend, decides to devote his life to secretly training in the ways of the ninja and get his revenge on those who killed his grandfather.

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 ...