More than 30 years after its cinematic debut, Slap Shot remains one of the most popular sports movies of all time, and this book is actor Dave Hanson's firsthand account of its making. Starring the legendary Paul Newman, the movie was based on the hilarious and outrageous antics of the fictitious Charlestown Chiefs, a tough-as-nails minor league hockey team in the early 1970s. In financial trouble and due to fold at the end of the season, they bring in the Hanson Brothers—three of...

Interstellar journeys. Epic battles. Articial Intelligence longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending...Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its first collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you to worlds unknown. They examine today's fears amid tomorrow's technologies. From the far corners of the galaxy to the inner reaches of the human heart, the exciting stories in At the Helm will thrill, in...

Who Am I? starts with Ned, a young man in the late 1800s, looking for adventure in the life of a cowboy. He works for Frank Jackson on his ranch. The narrative follows Ned and the ranch as it grows and goes through the generations to the modern-day, leading to Arran, a truck driver who longs for freedom as well. This book is dedicated to the American truck driver. Many come and go, but the dedicated few will live on forever in our hearts and souls.

Set in present-day Raleigh, North Carolina, Shrike is the story of one young woman's overcoming tremendous physical, emotional and logistical adversity to defeat evil incarnate. When Taryn Spire and her best friend learn that some banking executives plan a cybercrime to embezzle funds from the North Carolina State Fair, the adventure begins. A botched attempt by the perpetrators to silence them permanently leads to a dramatic transformation for Taryn - watching a television program featuri...

In The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Skylum's Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs.Skylum’s Luminar 4 is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustmen...

Several months ago, calico cat Jet Bird Brewbaker, the all-time repository of rotten, impressed her Bad Daddy Jeff Carlson into service to write three books about kitty life. Now, all three books are in one place! In The Jet Bird Collection, Book 1 instructs kitties on the ways of true rottenness. Book 2 shines the spotlight on the secret night life of kitties. Book 3 helps kitties deal with their bad daddies. A must-read for humans and the kitties that own them!

Skylum’s Luminar AI is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools and templates eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools giv...

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 Classroom in a Book contains 10 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and tec...

Master Adobe's friendliest tool for editing photos and making digital artwork, Photoshop Elements 2022, quickly and easily with step-by-step tutorials and full color images.Visual QuickStart Guides provide an easy, visual approach to learning, using tightly integrated video, images, and text. Purchase of the book includes access to the free Web Edition, which features more than three hours of video, enhancing and expanding the information in the text.Concis...

Adobe Lightroom: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to using Adobe Lightroom for importing, organizing, editing, and outputting your images. Whether you’re keywording your most recent shoot, organizing your photo library, or developing and printing your best five-star images, Lightroom is the tool for you—and this book will teach you what you need to know.First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons created by photograph...

In the distant past, the leader of a Neanderthal tribe confronts the end of his kind.Today, a computational biologist, a Navy pilot, and an autistic boy are drawn together by the ancient mystery that gave rise to Homo sapiens.Planes are falling from the sky. Global communications have ceased. America stands on the brink of war with China—but war is the least of humankind’s concerns. As solar storms destroy Earth’s electronics and plunge the world into another Ice A...

Interstellar journeys. Epic battles. Artificial Intelligence's longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending...Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its second collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you to worlds unknown. They examine today's fears amid tomorrow's technologies. From the far corners of the galaxy to the inner reaches of the human heart, the exciting stories in At the Helm will thril...