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...

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.'

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...

The best park ever has just been cursed by an evil ultravillain!It's up to best friends Shackleton and Amelia to save their favourite place, no matter what crazy curses turn up along the way.What do you get if you cross The Bad Guys with Indiana Jones? The first book in a brand-new graphic novel series by comedian Sam Smith (7 Days, Taskmaster NZ, The Traitors NZ) with illustrations by César Lador.

Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones are just regular best friends, spending a beautiful afternoon running for their lives to escape blood-thirsty cactuses . . . Wait, what?! Strap yourselves in, kids, this is one prickly adventure!Amelia Miles and Shackelton Jones are trying to save their local park from the ultravillain Glam-Evil. Now, she has trapped them (and their parents) in her vicious garden of meat-eating cactuses! How can Miles and Jones escape? With a boot-...

The Rampagers were active light years before in a corner of the galaxy, their rampaging brought to a temporary halt by a global intelligence. The students' task, their research, is to bring together a few partially recovered recordings, already decoded and translated. The greater part of material available to them however is the book-like testimony, We Us Our, the singular publication of that global intelligence.All the animals and humans are approximations.

This period piece has its beginnings in the early 1960s, opens with a description of the motorbike/coffee bar culture then prevalent. From those motorbike days in that nameless town in southern England our narrator, the Chicken Farmer to be, takes his group of friends on through the next twenty plus years.Giving instances from the ordinary lives happening around him the Chicken Farmer discourses on, not only Love and its many betrayals, but on most other aspects of life. Told from ...

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 strike along the way.A brilliant new graphic novel series by popular New Zealand comedian Sam Smith and artist César Lador, MILES AND JONES is like THE BAD GUYS crossed with Indiana Jones - pe...

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...

Meet Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones--just regular best friends on a totally normal day, visiting the park and battling giant anacondas. . . Wait, giant anacondas?! Strap yourselves in kids, this is one wild comic!AMELIA MILES, aka THE AMAZING AMELIA MILESBest Friend: Shackleton JonesKnown For: Her awesome movesNot-so-secret skill: She's ready for action at all times (and does NOT need to comb her hair, mom!)S...