Sports can build character. But it doesn't happen automatically. And good intentions are not enough. PRIMED to Compete: Coaching for Character is the definitive book for coaches who want to optimize young peoples' experience of competition and promote their character, performance, and overall well-being.This engaging new book brings cutting-edge research and practical sport experience together in an easily accessible and digestible framework. PRIMED to Compete...

No Greater Love (John 15:13)Amanda’s life was planned. She knew her future, the future laid out for her because she was the heiress to Cragge Automotive. Until one night when she was left for dead.Ryker had walked away and out of Amanda’s life eight years ago. Now, he’s back and he’s a changed man.As the threats against Amanda continue, will she accept help from the only man she’s ever loved and who left Otter Bay without explanation? Is the wall sh...

This collection of prayers by noted Hebrew Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann can be used in both public worship and private devotion. These prayers run the gamut from particular days in the church year to special moments in the lives of worshiping communities to events playing out on the world stage. In all cases, the prayers show us how God accompanies us through all the moments and stages of our life, while simultaneously calling us to do the same for all those whom God has placed alongsi...

If one person told you the story about how they died, experienced the afterlife, and then came back to life, would you believe them? What if thousands of people had similar stories?Research over the past fifty years is finally settling centuries of debate. There's an increasingly credible case that death is a doorway—a case established by the thousands who walked through that door and returned to tell of it. In this captivating investigation, Professor Michael Zigarelli ta...

Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan's lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly...

From a beloved faith leader, a collection of powerful conversations on faith and meaning with twelve public figures who explore the impact of faith in their lives and their success.Through interviews with twelve remarkable and renowned people of various Christian faiths, author Russell J. Levenson, Jr., explores different ways people come to faith and sustain it in their daily lives. The result is a collection of fascinating, moving, and unique stories, rarely shar...

There are things we absolutely need to talk to our teens about, but what we say, how we say it, and when we say it make all the difference between them embracing truth and becoming the person God designed them to be—or driving them away. Will they listen? How will they take it? These are legitimate worries that can keep us from saying anything—or have us second-guessing everything we did say.What to Say and How to Say It to Your Teen is ...

It Takes Small Steps to Bank a Big IdeaInspiration comes from preparation: Matthew Mockridge, creator of one of the biggest electronic dance music touring giants in Europe, began as many young entrepreneurs do—in his dorm room. Everyone wants to find that million-dollar startup idea, and Mockridge reveals what he learned after years of research into creative processes.A holistic approach to entrepreneurship and relationships:

Visionary strategies from former NFL star to infuse your company's culture with purpose and directionIn The Champion's Creed, NFL star and chief culture officer Ben Utecht unveils the blueprint for forging unbeatable teams in any arena. Central to Utecht's methodology is the creation of a "Culture Creed"—a dynamic manifesto that transcends typical mission statements. This powerful tool becomes the compass guiding every decision, action, and interaction wit...

An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is the only top-tier Founder not to have served as president. Despite not becoming the Chief Executive, Franklin played an active role in American politics and served the asp...

In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC. Tidwell's story depicts the neighborhood's battle to save the trees and combat climate change: The midwife who builds a geothermal energy system, the Congressman who battles cancer and climate change, and the Chinese-American climate scientist who wants to bury billions of the world's dying trees to store...

This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a talented writer who deserved another chance at freedom. With letters of support from Mailer...