BANG!!’… "What was that sound?!" asks an inquisitive 9-year-old Bean. "It was a balloon bursting" responds his seemingly sure-footed father Meabo. "Was there a bang inside the balloon?" responds the now even more confused child.As often with children, a simple question can easily lead a conversation down a rabbit hole of what, why, when and how. So begins a journey deeper (both physiologically and intellectually) than had Bean ev...

**Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George ClooneyThe #1 New York Times–bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany—from the author of Facing the Mountain.**For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects millions of people, and if you are one of them, you are familiar with the discomfort and difficulties this condition brings daily. Happily, there is a beginning to relief, and it starts with the food we eat. Adopting an IBS-friendly diet allows us to spot possible triggers and get rid of them while nourishing our bodies with meals that support gut health, lessen inflammation, and offer the best nutrition. This book seeks to give you access to a vast s...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eigh...

"Emotional Footprints: The thriller about new technology that captures and manipulates emotions, between business and legal intrigue"A groundbreaking technology can record your emotions. But who controls what you feel... and what you remember?Are you ready to discover how fragile your truth truly is?In the world of "Emotional Footprints," memories are no longer sacred. A revolutionary techno...

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city's most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the story he's come to tell is the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the gruesome 'walking ghost' some say slaughtered the nearby village of Segerston forty years earlier. But is this monster only a myth, born from the dim minds of toiling peasants? Or does the Wraith - and the murders - have roots in real events suffered by those fated to a...

A plague has devastated the land.Bloodthirsty creatures stalk the night.A loose band of survivors fight for their lives.Can they make it through?And what will become of them if they do?

A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world. James Brown' s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives – before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future, where the nights run late and down to the wire. The poems are ever-alert to the minutiae of power, the thrill of the unexpected, and the shiny potential of an ending. Al...

Without the cushion of a scholarship or family fortune, Jimmy's college journey is anything but typical. Unable to join a fraternity, he finds an unexpected brotherhood in the most surprising place—the Husker family. As he navigates the challenges of balancing work and studies, Jimmy's connections with athletes open doors to adventures that shape his college experience and beyond.This heartwarming story follows Jimmy as he:- Juggles odd jobs to keep his college dream alive

James Brown shakes out oblivion' s final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally expert with some of his very best freeform sprawls. Alternately poignant and indignant, weary and exuberant – but can the James Brown voice ever be truly described? In these poems God prefers drawn-out sports, and your mind has already set sail.

Life is most definitely what you make of it. Jimmy Brown didn't have a head start or any say on where his life began. He had only two and one-half years with a caring mother before she disappeared from his life due to her inheritance of chromosomes that slowly took over her nervous system—known today as Huntington's Chorea—before she died.Jimmy Brown's story tells how the residents of a small town in the Midwest embraced him in his growing-up years as an orphan. They showed compass...

Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking?In this revised and updated new edition of his classic text The Laboratory of the Mind, James Robert Brown conti...