From World Sports Headquarters in historic Bristol, Connecticut, comes the audiobook that's more colorful than Dennis Rodman's hair. For the first time, Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the tag-team partners of ESPN's award winning Sportscenter, bring what People magazine calls their "Letterman-like loopiness and Koppel-esque smarts" to listeners everywhere in THE BIG SHOW.Less expansive (and easier to ge) than a big leaguer's autograph, THE BIG SHOW give...

At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true.…It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, agains...

In this inspiring book, Buettner offers game-changing tools for setting up your life to be the happiest it can be. In these illuminating pages, you'll:●Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars—inspiring individuals whose ways of boosting well-being can influence your home and community as well.●Discover the three strands of happiness—pleasure, purpose, and pride—that weave together in different ways in the world's happiest places.●Use the Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpo...

**The definitive Barb Wire comics collection in one oversized compendium!Tough as nails and stubborn as a mule—badass bounty hunter Barb Wire puts the “drop dead” in drop dead gorgeous.**Steel Harbor is the American dream turned nightmare. This once great city was a monument to American industry and ingenuity, but now it’s a scrap heap of shuttered factories, decaying neighborhoods, and wasted potential being carved up and fought over by superpowered street gangs.

In this groundbreaking audiobook, business consultant Patrick Lencioni turns his sights on the most important organization in our lives–the family. Lencioni realized the discrepancy between the time and energy his clients put into running their organizations and the reactive way most people run their personal lives. Having experienced the stress of a frantic family firsthand, he and his wife began applying some of the tools he uses with Fortune 500 companies at home, and with surprising re...

“What you've got to understand is that men like him are the aristocracy in here. The armed robbers and contract killers. They're a breed apart.”Darren Sinfield, the most notorious inmate at Lower Marston maximum-security prison, has gone over the wall and is thought to be holed up in nearby Avonford, a decaying town with a squalid underbelly.The intelligence officer tasked with hunting him down, Declan Rennard, was an Avonford man himself back in t...

Minneapolis Star Tribune senior columnist Patrick Reusse is a legendary fixture in Minnesota sports. Like his late colleague Sid Hartman, he is known by his legion of fans (and those who find him curmudgeonly) by one name: Reusse!Starting as a sportswriter in 1965 and still going strong in 2021, Reusse has covered every major sporting event imaginable and met scores of unforgettable characters during his long career in newspapers, radio, and television. Reusse's unique writing styl...

The book will include separate chapters focused on CIO "case studies"-careful, detailed examinations of "All Star" IT leaders and their decision-making, with solid background on the business problem they were trying to solve and how they arrived at their decisions. The book will include candid personal reflections on those decision-making processes, and then provide analysis from a third party lens. It will be written in a narrative form to create a mystery-within-a-case-study feel and flo...

In the dying days of the American frontier, a young woman journeys into the unknown to claim a legacy she never asked for—and may not survive.June Buckley’s father was a monster in life. In death, he may be something worse. Summoned alongside a group of treacherous heirs, June is forced to traverse the same brutal path that built her father's empire.But the trail reveals more than hardship—it exposes the rot in every soul traveling beside her. And at the center of it all is...

Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of horror, showing how women have been essential in shaping the goals and methods of the genre. Aimed ...

The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015.With contributions from leading academics in the field this book critically examines the design, entitlement, delivery and impact of current welfare provision. The first half of the book...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...