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Dream Team
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Written by Jack McCallum
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $17.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from... Read more >
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Written by Jack McCallum
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $17.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from... Read more >
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Chasing Perfect
The Will to Win in Basketball and Life
Written by Bob Hurley
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.
In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably, he has done this... Read more >
The Will to Win in Basketball and Life
Written by Bob Hurley
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.
In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably, he has done this... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Chasing Perfect
The Will to Win in Basketball and Life
Written by Bob Hurley
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.
In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably, he has done this... Read more >
The Will to Win in Basketball and Life
Written by Bob Hurley
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.
In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably, he has done this... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Don't Put Me In, Coach
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
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Sum It Up
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Read by Sally Jenkins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $45.00
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Read by Sally Jenkins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $45.00
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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Sum It Up
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $28.00
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $28.00
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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Sum It Up
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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Sum It Up
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Read by Sally Jenkins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $22.50
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Read by Sally Jenkins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $22.50
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
From the former New York Times Beijing bureau chief comes a closely observed story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to make the playoffs by copying the American stars of the NBA.
When the worst professional basketball team in China, the Shanxi Brave Dragons, hired former...
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Dream Team
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Written by Jack McCallum
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $28.00
They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers.
In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the... Read more >
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Written by Jack McCallum
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $28.00
They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers.
In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Dream Team
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Written by Jack McCallum
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from... Read more >
How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Written by Jack McCallum
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Black Planet
Facing Race During an NBA Season
Written by David Shields
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans--including especially himself--think about and talk... Read more >
Facing Race During an NBA Season
Written by David Shields
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans--including especially himself--think about and talk... Read more >
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Don't Put Me In, Coach
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Read by Tyler Seiple
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Read by Tyler Seiple
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
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Don't Put Me In, Coach
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
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Don't Put Me In, Coach
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
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Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $26.95
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $26.95
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Raise the Roof
Written by Pat Summitt
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $11.99
"It wasn't a team. It was a tent revival."
So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and... Read more >
Written by Pat Summitt
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $11.99
"It wasn't a team. It was a tent revival."
So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Hand-Me-Down Dream (Essay)
Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball
Written by George Dohrmann
Format: eBook, 36 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $0.99
In this eBook exclusive essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist George Dohrmann follows a father and son separated by prison bars—but bonded by their pursuit of basketball glory.
The dream of playing big-time basketball never came true for Bruce Nelson, so he passed it on to his son Roberto. His every... Read more >
Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball
Written by George Dohrmann
Format: eBook, 36 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $0.99
In this eBook exclusive essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist George Dohrmann follows a father and son separated by prison bars—but bonded by their pursuit of basketball glory.
The dream of playing big-time basketball never came true for Bruce Nelson, so he passed it on to his son Roberto. His every... Read more >
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Play Their Hearts Out
A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
Written by George Dohrmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $16.00
A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
Written by George Dohrmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $16.00
Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting
Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports
Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America’s basketball stars...
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A Season Inside
One Year in College Basketball
Written by John Feinstein
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $11.99
Feinstein takes readers inside the locker rooms, the grueling practices, the late-night strategy sessions. They get a close-up look at recruiting, referees, injuries, winning, losing, and the private lives of the game's biggest stars. Read more >
One Year in College Basketball
Written by John Feinstein
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $11.99
Feinstein takes readers inside the locker rooms, the grueling practices, the late-night strategy sessions. They get a close-up look at recruiting, referees, injuries, winning, losing, and the private lives of the game's biggest stars. Read more >
Forever's Team
Written by John Feinstein
Format: eBook, 375 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
The coaches and players of Duke University's 1977-78 team, who ended an otherwise successful season with their NCAA championship loss to Kentucky, are traced from their time on the squad to their present occupations.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by John Feinstein
Format: eBook, 375 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
The coaches and players of Duke University's 1977-78 team, who ended an otherwise successful season with their NCAA championship loss to Kentucky, are traced from their time on the squad to their present occupations.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Venus to the Hoop
A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball
Written by Sara Corbett
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
In the spring of 1995, twelve extraordinary basketball players were chosen to represent the United States in the year-long march to the 1996 Olympics. For Rebecca Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, and their teammates, winning the gold medal was only one of many goals. Around them swirled the dreams of the... Read more >
A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball
Written by Sara Corbett
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
In the spring of 1995, twelve extraordinary basketball players were chosen to represent the United States in the year-long march to the 1996 Olympics. For Rebecca Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, and their teammates, winning the gold medal was only one of many goals. Around them swirled the dreams of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Heart of the Team
Written by Bill Resler and Casey Mcnerthney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $23.95
In the acclaimed documentary The Heart of the Game, audiences first came to the attention of the Roosevelt Roughriders, a Seattle varsity girls basketball team, and their charming but unorthodox coach Bill Resler. The film portrayed vividly Resler’s unique coaching skills, which asks for "all-out aggression on every possession," while at... Read more >
Written by Bill Resler and Casey Mcnerthney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $23.95
In the acclaimed documentary The Heart of the Game, audiences first came to the attention of the Roosevelt Roughriders, a Seattle varsity girls basketball team, and their charming but unorthodox coach Bill Resler. The film portrayed vividly Resler’s unique coaching skills, which asks for "all-out aggression on every possession," while at... Read more >
More Than a Game
Written by Phil Jackson and Charley Rosen
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson's journey—from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year's L.A. Lakers world champion—and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen's journey as... Read more >
Written by Phil Jackson and Charley Rosen
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson's journey—from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year's L.A. Lakers world champion—and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen's journey as... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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