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 ...

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 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...

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-...

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...

The archaeological discovery of a lifetime…but her sworn enemy is digging it.When Laurel Fletcher’s meticulously ordered world is upended by the discovery of a possible Anglo-Saxon burial site on her beloved family farm, the last person she expects to see is Dr. Nate Daley—the man she hoped never to encounter again.As old university resentments resurface, Nate is baffled by Laurel’s hostility and strives to build a friendship with her. As they reconnect, Laurel and Nate rea...

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 ...

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.'

A book within a book Son & Daughter of O/V purports to be an analysis of, and a page by page description of a fictional graphic novel, child of time. Soon after its first publication child of time got condemned by a quasi religious group and copies publicly burnt. Defenders of free speech came to the book's defence. In the ensuing brouhaha the child of time's author, having published the novel privately under a nom de plume, had his real...

Meet Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones -- just regular best friends, enjoying a totally normal blizzard of large purple globs of goop . . . Wait, what?! Strap yourselves in, kids, this is one ooey-gooey adventure!Nature has a dark (purple) side and Amelia Miles, Shackleton Jones, and their parents are stuck in the middle of it! Well, sort of. Is it technically "nature" if the icky-sticky tornado was created by the ultra-villain, Glam-Evil?In any case, the s...

Balant is the first of the 5 book series 'Towards the unMaking of Heaven'. Dag Olvess, Malamud Bey and Pi Pandy find themselves marooned on the very edge of the known universe. Narrator is Pi Pandy. En route from his mother's substation to university in another galaxy, the ship he was travelling upon encounters a storm of cosmic proportions. The ship about to implode, he escapes in the ship's shuttle with two other young men, Malamud Bey and Dag Olvess. They end up on the planet, Balant, w...