"My fight is what I call my need to be better all the time. Every day I wake up and want to be better at basketball. Then every day I go to the gym and work towards it. My fight is what keeps me alive." Steven Adams shares the unlikely story behind his indomitable sense of determination and his journey from Rotorua, New Zealand to stardom in the NBA. Adams overcame extreme odds to become a first-round prospect in the 2013 NBA draft. From there he signed a major contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder—making him New Zealand's highest-paid athlete ever—and went on to forge a reputation for his intense, physical style of basketball. Adams takes you inside the draft process from the fascinating whirlwind tour of pre-draft workouts with dozens of teams to the draft itself where dreams are made or dashed and the Gatorade bottles on every table are glued shut. He reveals what it's like to be a rookie in the league, getting pushed around and elbowed—or... Views: 5
"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." - Marlon JamesThe testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart—a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey—following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the... Views: 5
This is a bonus/prequel chapter to the novel The Last Good Day by Robert Kugler Views: 5
Taurus (The Zodiac Lovers Series) Views: 4
Landry Donovan's ordered world has been turned inside out. Her best friend and fellow Pulsus employee, Jacqulyn Delaney, has gone rogue back in 2035. She's intent on taking over Pulsus and changing the past to suit her future, and she's proven she'll even go through Landry to make it happen.Landry must go back to 2035 and finish their original mission to save the biophysicist, Muniz, from the vicious serial killer, Nelida Staton. She's also been tasked with the secondary mission to put a stop to Delaney's hostile takeover. Her help comes in the form of government agent, Brooke Jackson, who has an agenda of her own. Angry and betrayed, Landry still wonders if she can save Delaney, or if she'll have to pay the ultimate price. And then there's Jade, her beautiful, strong girlfriend. Can Landry really have it all, or is she putting Jade's heart, and life, at risk? When the inevitable battle with Delaney finally comes around, will Landry act with her heart or her head? Views: 4
