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...

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...

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...

(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...

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.'

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.

Happiness is the name of a planet, whose moon one day disappears. At the same time that the moon disappears all radio (speed of light) communication to and from that planet is blocked. Within the same intergalactic empire as Balant only farmers and cranks live on planets. An unseen force destroys any craft that tries to leave the planet…. During the investigation into the missing moon, there are 2 love affairs and many considerations upon the nature of intelligence, government and society....

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 ...