In the heart of the Swiss Alps stand the three majestic peaks of the Bernese Oberland, Europe's most famous mountain range. The highest, at 13,638 feet, is the Jungfrau. Next is the Mönch at 13,465 feet. But it is the smallest, the Eiger, rising 13,0...

The Climb Up to Hell

Learn the incredible story of basketball superstar Stephen Curry!  In Stephen Curry: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Sharpest Shooters, you'll hear about the inspirational story of one of basketball's premier point guards, Stephen Curry. C...

Stephen Curry

The runner's high: It is not a myth, it is not illegal, but it may be addictive.  Chasing the Dragon: Running to Get High is a collection of diatribes, training tips, and off-color wisdom, all processing the running life and how to get the biggest (l...

Chasing the Dragon

Learn the incredible story of Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan.  In Michael Jordan: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Players, you'll hear the inspirational story of basketball's superstar, Michael Jordan. This short unauthori...

Michael Jordan: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Players

Learn the incredible story of basketball superstar Allen Iverson!  In Allen Iverson: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Shooting Guards, you'll read about the inspirational story of basketball's premier shooting guard, Allen Iverson....

Allen Iverson: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Shooting Guards

Learn the incredible story of the Cleveland Cavaliers' superstar LeBron James!  In LeBron James: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Players, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball's superstar, LeBron James.  This sho...

LeBron James: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Players

Learn the Incredible Story of Basketball Superstar James Harden! In James Harden: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Premier Shooting Guards, you'll read about the inspirational story of one of basketball's premier shooting guards James Harde...

James Harden

Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling's greatest riders. Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years tells the story of that journey he took in the early 1990s and the time ...

Cycling Heroes

Learn the incredible story of Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant!  In Kevin Durant: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Small Forwards, you'll read about the inspirational story of basketball star Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant ...

Kevin Durant

Learn the incredible story of basketball superstar Steve Nash! In Steve Nash: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Point Guards, you'll hear about the inspirational story of one of basketball's premier point guards, Steve Nash. Steve N...

Steve Nash

When more than 100 men or women go racing down a road, inches away from each other, in all weather, over all kinds of roads, the opportunity for a brilliant win or a terrible accident is always there.  For more than a century, bicycle racers have sou...

Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies

With Melanoma: It Started with a Freckle, David L. Stanley invites you to join him on an inside tour of his cancer. You'll travel with Stanley from the dimly lit and elegantly decorated office of the dermatologist to the fluorescent glare of the oper...

Melanoma

Learn the incredible story of basketball superstar Vince Carter!  In Vince Carter: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Dynamic Shooting Guards, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball's premier shooting guard, Vince Carter...

Vince Carter

Twelve-year-old Johnny "No Good" Emmerstaff is an only child in a semi-rural section of Sanford, Florida in the late 1940s - until town snitch Tommy J drops in with the news that Johnny is getting a brother, an orphan named Josh. At first, Johnny doe...

No Good

Learn the Incredible Story of 90s Basketball Superstar Patrick Ewing!  In Patrick Ewing: The Remarkable Story of One of 90s Basketball's Greatest Centers, you'll listen about the inspirational story of basketball's premier center, Patrick Ewing. Patr...

Patrick Ewing

Learn the incredible story of basketball superstar Tracy McGrady!  In Tracy McGrady: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Shooting Guards, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball's superstar shooting guard, Tracy McGrad...

Tracy McGrady

Every family has a secret. But what if that secret makes you question your own place in the family? Mixing equal parts memoir, detective story, and popular-science narrative, this is the emotionally charged account of one man's quest to find out the ...

Go Ask Your Father

Champion of the world! For a year the World Cycling Champion gets to wear a special white jersey with rainbow stripes. And then, for the rest of his career, he can wear a jersey with rainbow cuffs and collar. Unlike the Tour de France's Yellow Jersey...

Cycling's World Championships

In Chris Paul: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Point Guards, you'll read about the inspirational story of basketball's premier point guard, Chris Paul. Chris Paul has emerged as a top five point guard in the NBA amongst the likes ...

Chris Paul

Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After listening to Les Woodland's The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories the listener might wonder if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier.  T...

The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories

This telling of the 2019 Tour de France is a supplement to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Volume one told the story of the Tour's origins and each edition of ...

The Story of the Tour de France. 2019: A Year of New Faces

Out of the Woods: A Bird Watcher's Year is a journey through the seasons and a joyous celebration of growing old. In 59 essays and poems, Ora E. Anderson, birder, bird carver, naturalist, and nature writer, reveals the insights and recollections of a...

Out of the Woods

Learn the incredible story of Cleveland Cavalier Kevin Love!   Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet, or Kindle device!  In Kevin Love: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Dominant Power Forwards, you'll read about the inspirational story o...

Kevin Love

Volume one of The Story of the Tour de France concluded with Bernard Thévenet’s dramatic victory over Eddy Merckx in the 1975 Tour. Volume two opens with super-climber Lucien van Impe’s taking advantage of a course made for the riders with wings. His...

The Story of the Tour de France: Volume 2 - 1976-2018

With its shimmering peaks, dramatic vertical rock faces, lively resort towns, Alpine hamlets, and world-class ski resorts, the Dolomite Mountains are a retreat for climbers, skiers, mountaineers, and all manner of outdoor enthusiasts. In the southern...

Italy's Dolomites - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno, Asiago & Beyond

Learn the Incredible Story of '90s Basketball Superstar Reggie Miller!  In Reggie Miller: The Remarkable Story of One of '90s Basketball's Sharpest Shooters, you'll read about the inspirational story of basketball's premier shooting guard, Reggie Mil...

Reggie Miller

Learn the Incredible Story of Chicago Bulls Star Center Joakim Noah Joakim Noah: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Defensive Centers is a short, unauthorized biography of Joakim Noah highlighting his rise to stardom since an early a...

Joakim Noah

Learn the incredible story of basketball’s seasoned veteran Grant Hill!  In Grant Hill: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Resilient Forwards, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball's star, Grant Hill. Grant Hill was onc...

Grant Hill

What’s the big idea? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius believed that in a palace or a soldiers’ camp, one can live a life free of envy and desire, neither pursuing pleasure nor fearing pain as one performs the duties life has assigned.  The Meditations a...

What's the Big Idea?

At the dawn of the 20th century, French newspapers used bicycle races as promotions to build readership. Until 1903 these were one-day events. Looking to deliver a coup de grâce in a vicious circulation war, Henri Desgrange - editor of the Parisian s...

The Story of the Tour de France - Volume 1: 1903-1975

Dirty Feet is a fresh look at the now more than 100-year-old Tour de France. Les Woodland goes back to the blue-collar origins of the race when the father of the Tour, Henri Desgrange, was so bothered by the hygiene of his tough, beloved racers that ...

Dirty Feet

This telling of the 2021 Tour de France is an addition to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World, and two supplements, 2019: A Year of New Faces and 2020: The Tour Dur...

The Story of the Tour de France, 2021

This telling of the 2020 Tour de France is a supplement to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World, and the first supplement, 2019: A Year of New Faces. Volume one told...

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