“I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes.I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction.Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still.I know he is the key to my freedom.”To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru — the country’s “greatest philosopher of spo...

Runners and readers whose connections to the sport date back to the 1970s surely remember Dr. George Sheehan, the New Jersey cardiologist and writer whose unique approach to the joy of exercise helped spark America's fitness boom. As a columnist for his local Red Bank Register and later as the medical editor of Runner's World and through eight bestselling books, Sheehan became, through the influence of his example and writing, the spokesperson for an entire generation of ...

16 stories. 16 Australian authors. One theme. Beginnings.Esmeralda is trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake and escape from the darkness.A simple bus trip turns into a fight for survival.Alone in a strange place with no memories of who she is or how she got there, Alora's world changes forever.These are just some of the stories that you will find in this thrilling collection of speculative tales.

15 Stories. 15 Australian authors. One theme: Journeys.What games do the dead play?Can the ambassador negotiate peace with a hostile alien race?Why is Rae so terrified of a letter from the 'Next Chapter' Department of Lebensqualitat?Read about living mannequins, prison ships, pandemics and more in the second anthology from Aussie Speculative Fiction.

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and reprinted essays from Boston-area writers past and present, all celebrating the city...

Rebels and Regimes presents a global view of the nature of violent resistance throughout the nineteenth century. The volume’s breadth and scope reveal commonalities and differences among regimes and insurgents in their different contexts, offering a view that the participants themselves never had. The collection is composed of ten essays, each focused on a specific conflict or period of colonial overreach: imperialist efforts against Caribbean maroons, the Peninsular War, the Seco...

One of the Best Humor Books of 2021! (Vulture)You are a HUMAN MAN navigating every day life, dating, bus etiquette, and other important human concerns. You are definitely NOT A WOLF.Life is good. You have a job, an apartment in a nice part of town, and an online dating profile that’s recently yielded as many as three matches. From the outside, it would appear you’re a human man that has all the pieces of a stable and functional lif...

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for an...

Who returns your calls faster than a speeding bullet? Who will leap to your side in a single bound? Your mother—your dog—your hairdresser? No! It's your girlfriend! Artist Monica Sheehan knows this and created Girlfriends: From Campfires to Crow's Feet as the perfect tribute to the women in every female's life. Through this collection of pithy anecdotes and too-funny illustrations, Sheehan reminds women young and old that: Girlfriends share their M and M's, magazines and Xanax. Gi...

One of the Best Humor Books of 2021! (Vulture)You are a HUMAN MAN navigating every day life, dating, bus etiquette, and other important human concerns. You are definitely NOT A WOLF.Life is good. You have a job, an apartment in a nice part of town, and an online dating profile that’s recently yielded as many as three matches. From the outside, it would appear you’re a human man that has all the pieces of a stable and functional lif...