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The definitive biography of a legendary athlete. The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they have their own names. When most people think of him, they think of his beautiful shots with the game on the line, his...

A deep and compelling exploration of overlooked, untaught, or misunderstood moments in American history — stories that shaped the nation but didn’t make the textbooks. From obscure rebellions and political schemes to cultural flashpoints and unsung heroes.

Take a trip to the Silver State! Learn about Nevada's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 36th state.

Multiple perspectives can be true, it depends on your point of view! The Perspective View Podcast is a show dedicated to discussing equity, diversity, culture, and context beyond the boardroom. DEI today is more than a buzzword on a billboard. It is about creating safe spaces for varying perspectives, ideas, and experiences without fear of being canceled because you don’t conform. Let’s tear down the walls together and build a new foundation with an open mind and understanding that the world revolves around the context of perspective. Watch the visual podcast via (youtube.com) and check ...

From broken to breakthrough—we’ve got a message for you. The Confidence Restored Podcast with host Tomeria Jordan is your go-to space for rebuilding confidence, restoring faith, and getting mentally F.I.T.—through Faith, Inspiration, and Transformation. Whether you’re navigating life’s trials or rising after a fall, this show delivers real stories, encouragement, and practical tools to help you overcome setbacks and walk boldly into your calling. Each episode CC’s you in on lessons learned—so you can live restored, not restricted. Let’s get F.I.T. together.

Honest, raw, unfiltered conversation unpacking the issues that have currently plague our society, culture, and faith. An in depth look at how the view of worship for many manages to produce two completely different schools of thought. Leaving many to ask how we got here, how to navigate through, and if we can ever find true resolve.Welcome to a conversation space designed to figure all out, (do our best to) dismiss bias, call out the culprits, dispel all misinformation, and restore faith in…faith. A space designed to ensure truth continues to reclaim the fringes; figuring out how we ever ...

The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions.

Sometimes the man of your dreams . . . Shop girl Poppy Fairchurch knows it’s pointless fantasizing about the Duke of Autenberry. Still, dreams can’t hurt anyone . . . unlike the carriage Poppy spies bearing down upon the unsuspecting duke. After she pulls him to safety, the duke lapses into...

In a lifetime shaped by politics, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved himself a master manipulator of Congress, the press, and the public. But when war in Europe and Asia threatened America's shores, FDR found himself in a world turned upside down, where his friends became his foes, his enemies his allies. To help wage democracy's first "total war", he turned to one of history's most remarkable triumvirates.

Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton, and General Omar N. Bradley engineered the Allied conquest that shattered Hitler’s hold over Europe. But they also shared an intricate web of relationships going back decades. In the cauldron of World War II, they found their prewar friendships complicated by shifting allegiances, jealousy, insecurity, patriotism, and ambition.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan continues her bestselling Rogue Files series with this captivating romance that will thrill her many fans. She doesn’t care about love… Despite being surrounded by her happily wed sisters, Nora Langley prefers botany to ballrooms...

From USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan comes a scandalously sensual romance in her beloved Rogue Files series. “Deliciously sexy!”—Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author An urgent dilemma… To save her impoverished family, Marian Langley will become a mistress. But she...

In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas, was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class.

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative.

For over two centuries, it’s been what Walt Whitman called “our game”. It’s America’s favorite pastime, our national preoccupation. It’s more than a game, more than a sport. It’s who we are as a people, as a culture. But where did baseball come from?

In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest by a deranged woman at a Harlem book signing. His recovery and three-hour conversation with the Black mystic Howard Thurman changed the course of Civil Rights history. This audiobook explores this conversation and the decades of revolution, community building, and lived experiences that preceded it.

Chronicling the lives and times of a cast of characters both courageous and cold-blooded, American Mobsters takes the listener on an evocative journey through the lawless days of Prohibition, providing an earful of Tommy guns and terror; speakeasies and St. Valentine’s Day.