If you haven't heard of the Oola phenomenon yet, it's time to catch up. First, though, you need to understand what it is: Oola is that state of awesomeness you experience when your life is balanced and growing in all the key areas of health and well-...

Oola for Women

Born with autism, both Temple Grandin and Sean Barron now live famously successful social lives. However, their paths were quite different. Temple's logical mind controlled her social behavior. She interacted with many adults and other children, expe...

Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships

For decades, hidden from the public eye, William Morris agents made the deals that determined the fate of stars, studios, and networks alike. Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Danny Thomas, Steve McQueen--the Morris Agency sold talent to anyon...

The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business

A thinking student is an engaged student Teachers often find it difficult to implement lessons that help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations. In fact, institutional norms and habits that permeate all classrooms can actual...

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12

In his striking debut collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt shows why he is a powerful new voice in horror and literary weird fiction.  From the round-robin, found-footage nightmare of "October Film Haunt: Under the House," (selected for the y...

Greener Pastures

This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the listener an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau show...

NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime

Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the...

Madam Millie

This book has 41 different chapters on California's gold rush and development history. Learn about the Lost Spanish Galleon, Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine, Joaquin Murrieta, and railroad titans. 

Little Known Tales in California History

"Those bodies – the Roswell bodies – they weren't aliens."  "One survived the crash."  "A very highly classified experiment of the Army or Navy."  "The planned use of propaganda."  In early July 1947, something crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico....

The Roswell UFO Conspiracy

For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They aren't on any f...

Gumshoe

Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, includes little guidance on the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of becoming a healer. Written for ...

On Becoming a Healer

To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition. He then fills it in with a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes t...

The Painted Word

TeacherLaughs is filled with hilarious and witty anecdotes about teaching and learning from the preschool classroom to the college lecture hall. These selections from comedians and notable personalities including Milton Berle, Ellen Degeneres, and Ro...

TeacherLaughs: A Jollytologist Book: Quips, Quotes, and Anecdotes about the Classroom

On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Centr...

In the Heat of the Summer

One terrible night Detective Sergeant Marcus Lear exchanged gunshots with a 16-year-old burglary suspect. The boy was left a paraplegic. Marcus suffered PTSD and could no longer bring himself to carry a gun. Forced to resign the job he loved, Marcus ...

Murder on Perrys Island

Allen Klein, master of the right quote at the right moment, has gathered his favorite, most inspiring words of wisdom into this treasury of moving and meaningful sayings from around the world that will inspire listeners to live life to the fullest. L...

Change Your Life!

Holistic Health Psychology Made Simple explains that the body does not control the mind. It can only affirm what the mind commands of it. Humans don't follow bad diets. The mind follows certain patterns, hence leaving the human body as nothing more t...

Holistic Health Psychology Made Simple

Alaezdar thought he had found a perfect home in a small farming community of Valewood. Here, he hoped he could bury his past and hide from his mercenary guild that has a death price on his head. His hopes are shattered when an evil sorceress, a wizar...

The Warrior's Bane

Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized - or at least radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented argument...

In Defense of Public Lands: The Case Against Privatization and Transfer

** Now a major motion picture ** What would you do if you got a second chance? When Scott Murphy scored the winning touchdown in the 1991 state championship game, it should have launched a golden future-the full scholarship to Ohio State, the million...

Touchback

A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea....  October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight, many wer...

And the Wind Blew Cold

The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Standing in Their ...

Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution

Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in your possession?  Do you want to live a life free of restrictions?  Perhaps you want to embrace minimalist living, but are unsure of how to start that new lifestyle. You can turn your en...

Minimalist Living

Sometimes evil looks like a fuzzy teddy bear.... Still grieving the untimely death of his dad, 10-year-old Josh Leary is reluctant to accept a well-worn stuffed teddy bear from his new stepfather. He soon learns he was right to be wary. Edgar is no o...

The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave

Courtney Morgan is a female knuckleball pitcher trying to break into professional baseball. Parker Westfall is an aging slugger with one last chance at the ultimate carrot - a spot on a major-league roster. She’s gorgeous, and he’s having the season ...

The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song

The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than 30 years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of...

Writing Blue Highways

What if you discovered the key to success wasn’t as difficult to obtain as you’d thought? What if it was within you all along? Much as we are unable to see gravity - though we feel its dynamic pull every day - so too is this force present in our ever...

Create Your Life By Force

The Earth is icing over and no one knows how to shut the Shade off. Every attempt in the last 30 years has failed and humanity is nearly out of options if they want to regain a world that isn't covered in snow and ice. Gabe Alfil may be the only pers...

Freeze/Thaw

At Death’s Door: End of Life Stories from the Bedside tells the powerful story of Sebastian Sepulveda’s experiences in working with patients at the end of their lives. In some cases, death came quickly, after the patient was first diagnosed with a te...

At Death's Door: End of Life Stories from the Bedside

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. The home of such a man existed 100 years ago. A rich, egotistical, megalomaniac built it and used it for science as well as pleasure. Now his great-grandson has returned to re-establish the family's tr...

Castle Grey

Once again, FBI agent Katherine Katt and Detective Mickey (Mouse) James are thrown together in a battle of wits and wills as a city's lawmakers are being murdered one at a time. As a matter of duty, Katt is called in to figure out who could do such a...

Long Shot

John B. McLendon was the last living protégé of basketball’s inventor Dr. James Naismith and one of the “top ten basketball coaches of the century” in Billy Packer’s opinion. McLendon’s amazing records in college and pro basketball earned him a spot ...

Breaking Through

In 1945, some experts still considered the so-called sound barrier an impenetrable wall, while winged rocket planes remained largely relegated to science fiction. But soon a series of unique rocket-powered research aircraft and the dedicated individu...

Beyond Blue Skies

Through the Eyes of Death approaches the murder mystery genre from both the perspective of the protagonist and through the eyes and mind of a madman. The story is about people who believe that with enough money and a total lack of scruples, you can g...

Through the Eyes of Death

Have you discovered your happy space?  Maybe you need to declutter. And maybe this book can help get you there!  Minimalism is having a huge cultural moment, with more people than ever wanting to adopt a more streamlined, thoughtful lifestyle.  Unfor...

Minimalism

Western outlaws terrorized the country during the late 1800s and early 1900s, robbing stagecoaches, banks, trains, and merchants. While they were fearsome, some became folk heroes and legends.  The killer of Jesse James was vilified as a coward rathe...

Outlaws and Gunslingers

In the winter of 1692 something terrible and frightening began in Salem Village. It started with several villagers having strange fits, screaming, and unnaturally contorting themselves and ended with almost 200 people in jail and at least 25 dead. Wi...

A Salem Witch

Bike-riding in traffic and other enduring mysteries.... People yell, honk, throw things, even bark and howl at me, just because I ride a bike in traffic. I understand their frustration. I used to be one of those miserable car drivers, too, and there ...

Look Ma, Three Hands (and Four Years with No Car)

Young lawyer Holly Park is hired to defend teenager Naomi Linser - charged with murder in the stabbing death of the local councilman. The crime takes place in a gritty Koreatown "room salon" with Naomi holding the murder weapon. The case is tried in ...

K-Town Confidential

Happiness is around every corner, but every once in a while we need a map or pointers on how to find it. This book is just such a guide, with 26 chapters filled with ideas and inspiration. Joy unites all people, and words are often how we best expres...

Happiness A to Z

In June 1959, America's TV superhero took a bullet to the head in an apparent suicide. But was it? And is he really dead? Stan Wade, a Hollywood PI, sets out to uncover the secret and encounters a host of Mob and Soviet intrigue that threatens not only his life, but the future of the world. 

Superfall

Are the kids driving you crazy? Are you facing a challenge? Are money matters uppermost in your mind? Perhaps you're experiencing travel troubles, or technology is about to drive you over the edge. Just listen to this book to ease your stress of the ...

Inspiration for a Lifetime

Harness the power of social media to attract new customers and transform your business! More than three billion people are now on social media. If you're not in the social media marketing game, you're not in the game at all. From one of the world's l...

Likeable Social Media (Third Edition)

Dr. Mary Miller is a young psychiatrist suffering a crisis of vocation. Her friend Phil, a criminalist lawyer working in New York, invites her to visit him and consult on the case of a writer accused of a serious assault. His victim had been harassin...

Escaping Psychiatry. Beginnings

Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss accomplishes just that in an easy-to-digest, warm, and highly accessible format. Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one can greatly benefit from this book, which was i...

Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying

With age comes wisdom. We become wise enough to realize that we can't do some of the things we did so well when we were young. The beloved comedian George Burns said it quite eloquently, "I can do anything at 80 that I could do when I was 20. That gi...

New Tricks for Old Dogs

WorkLaughs is full of hilarious and witty anecdotes about making a living. These selections are from comedians and notable personalities including Milton Berle, Paula Poundstone, and Jerry Seinfeld. Also included are sections from lesser-known collea...

WorkLaughs

If you're an animal lover, you've no doubt been awed by tales of amazing feats performed by dogs and other animals throughout the years. Some of these tales are so epic that they barely seem real, yet we love them for the sense of wonder that they in...

The Legends

Ray did not expect his life to take the turns it did. He had always been a simple man who enjoyed modest pleasures and a few travel experiences. In fact, he thought he might have traveled more. But life just sort of happened, and he never got around ...

The Great Beyond

When Gerald Eskenazi started reporting, sports journalism had a different look than it does today. There was a camaraderie between the reporters and the players due in part to the reporters’ deference to these famous figures. Unlike today, journalist...

A Sportswriter's Life

Z.O.S. is a memoir about sex, blood, money, and the CIA in Southeast Asia. Kay Merkel Boruff tells the story from her perspective of wife and widow of an Air America pilot killed during covert operations in Laos. She takes the listener there as only ...

Z.O.S.: A Memoir

Peter Tesla, a prodigious young inventor, develops an electronic device to enhance the user's free will. A major application is drug detoxification. Peter's star client is the US president. Along the way, Peter is tried for the mysterious death of a girlfriend and struggles with the machinations of a secretive industrialist. 

Free Will Odyssey

Though it burst into public consciousness only with the 1999 World Cup, women’s soccer has been around almost as long as its male counterpart, flourishing in England during and after World War I. From the rise of women’s soccer following Title IX leg...

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