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  Cries of the Savanna - An...

  Sue Tidwell

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  Her first night in a Tanzanian tent began with a prowling lion’s roar. Will the savage terrors open her eyes to an unseen world? 
  Sue Tidwell lived in awe of Africa’s extraordinary wildlife. After years spent appreciating the animals in her imagination, the tenderhearted American hated the idea of joining her husband on a big game hunt. And getting attacked by blood-sucking tsetse flies the moment she stepped off the plane gave no hint of the mind-blowing change of perspective in her future…  
  With her initial animosity turning into curiosity as they breathlessly tracked dangerous beasts, Sue formed a surprising bond with their young, female, government-assigned game scout. And as she became entranced by the tales and wisdom from the Masimba Camp crew, she was humbled by the mystery of the vilified safari and the people who relied on it for survival.  
  Supplementing her own experiences on the elephant-rutted roads with local insights and scientific research into conservation efforts, Tidwell explores how her preconceived beliefs sluiced away under the deluge of reality. And with an evocative narrative peppered with self-deprecating humor, vivid imagery, and over ninety photos and illustrations, you’ll emerge forever changed by the truths this greenhorn found buried in a rugged and romantic landscape. 
  Cries of the Savanna is an unflinching and passionate memoir. If you like awe-inspiring adventures, truth revealed through laughter, and life being stranger than fiction, then you'll adore Sue Tidwell's brush with the wild.  
  Buy Cries of the Savanna to put boots on the ground today! 
  NOTE: The audible version of Cries of the Savanna includes guest narration by Lilian Mremi, the Tanzanian Game Scout featured in the book, as well as the LITERAL cries of the savanna -- lions, hyenas, hippos, elephants, leopards, baboons and more. 

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  The Real Madrid Handbook - A...

  Rab MacWilliam

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  The ultimate guide to Real Madrid.  The Real Madrid Handbook is an entertaining compendium of fascinating facts, match coverage, stories, personalities and trivia from the biggest club team on the planet.  Rab MacWilliam traces the history of Real Madrid from the early 20th century, examining its progress in the domestic cup and league, and analyses the impact that the Republic, the Spanish Civil War and the repressive authoritarian aftermath had on the club. He relates how the stunning success in European football in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s was one of the factors that helped to ease Spain’s integration into Europe and explores the club’s rise to become one of the most skilful and dominant teams in the global game over the last thirty years.  Fascinating, informative, irreverent and insightful, The Real Madrid Handbook is the perfect guide to the history of this extraordinary club.

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  Rivers Always Reach the Sea -...

  Monte Burke, David DiBenedetto

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of Saban and Lords of the Fly comes an exquisite collection of angling stories that span the twenty-first century.The thirty-one pieces in Rivers Always Reach the Sea—essays, as well as profiles of some of the biggest names in angling, including Lefty Kreh and Andy Mill—take the listener from the rainforests of Chile to the windswept tundra of Russia, from the remote mangrove-choked basins of Florida's Everglades to the congested littoral zone of New York City, and to many places in between.The quarry includes trout, Atlantic salmon, tarpon, bonefish, and striped bass, but the real quest is for something else entirely. Told in a voice described by the novelist, Carl Hiaasen, as "funny, wistful, and wonderful," the stories in Rivers Always Reach the Sea keep the focus on the "why" of the sport of fly fishing, and not the "how."

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  The Gentle Cult - How Brazilian...

  Ronson Bronson

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  Nobody joins a cult. They just start training jiu-jitsu. 
  From a carnival tent in 1914 Brazil to the UFC octagon in 1993, The Gentle Cult traces how one family turned a Japanese martial art into a global belief system, complete with founding myths, dietary codes, loyalty oaths, lineage hierarchies, and a word for heretics: creontes. 
  This is the story of Mitsuyo Maeda, the wandering judoka who fought for money across three continents before handing the art to a seventeen-year-old opportunist named Carlos Gracie. Of how Carlos built an empire from a thirty-square-meter storefront in Rio, using challenge matches, hand-written press releases, and a byzantine dietary code to control everything from what his students ate to who they were allowed to fight. Of how his youngest brother Hélio, too frail to train but too stubborn to stop, reverse-engineered the entire art and got turned into a saint. 
  It is the story of Rorion Gracie, who packed two gis into a duffel bag, set up shop in a Torrance garage, and changed combat sports forever with one night of pay-per-view television in 1993. Of the Machado brothers, cousins who absorbed everything the Gracie system built and quietly walked away to build something better in Hollywood and Texas. Of Rickson Gracie, the ghost in the machine, the name that stops conversations, the ascended master that no institution can contain or franchise. 
  And it is about what the art became: a belt economy, a franchise empire, a wellness industry, a podcast religion. About the influencers who inherited the Gracie promotional genius and scaled it across platforms Carlos Gracie Senior could never have imagined. 
  Sharp, satirical, and written with genuine affection for the mat, The Gentle Cult is the book the jiu-jitsu world did not know it needed. 
  Tap early. Tap often. And don't take yourself too seriously.

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  Nothing Ruins Youth Sports Like...

  John Anthony

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  "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Thomas Sowell. This is a must-read, cautionary tale for any parents with kids in youth sports or any adult considering coaching children. We have a coaching crisis in this country. Because of the parents with unrealistic assessments of how much more important their kids are to their teams or just how good (or not) their children are, coaches are putting their personal and professional reputations on the line when they coach a team for these parents: And the risks are starting to outweigh the rewards. Nothing ruins youth sports like adults is the unfortunately very true and accurate story of Coach Carlos, a once-in-a-lifetime, well-loved, and wildly successful high school girl's basketball coach in the Pacific Northwest who's reputation was unfairly destroyed by an obsessed parent who couldn't stand the rules being applied to his daughter and an inept school district who didn't have the backbone to make him stop. Written by a parent who documented everything over the three years Carlos coached the high school team, this book captures every available detail of all the lies and misinformation used by one parent as he ensnared another parent and used six sophomore girls to ultimately achieve his goal of getting rid of the coach who cut his daughter.

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  When It All Goes To Hell - Notes...

  Jeff Banman, Drew Williams

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  Former fireman, Airborne Ranger and CIA Counterterrorism Operator, Jeff Banman’s new book, When It All Goes To Hell: Notes on Crisis and Chaos is more than just a checklist, its a journey into the underbelly of human behavior in high-stress and high-stakes situations. With his background in human performance and human behavior, Jeff takes us on a journey to explain the unexplainable. 
  Offering a depth of wisdom from how to develop and enhance your “C3,” meaning your Comfort, Confidence and Creativity to unlocking your Intuitive Guidance System, Jeff walks us through step by step how to anchor ourselves in both truth and safe. 
  In times of crisis and chaos, you don’t want to be an untethered soul, you want to be anchored so that you become the source of certainty and stability for yourself and those around you. Learn the same tools and techniques Jeff has used to train US Navy SEALs, Counterterrorism Operators, Firefighters, Law Enforcement personnel, Professional Athletes, CEO’s and more. 
  When facing uncertainty brought about by a rapid shit in the intensity, diversity and complexity of any given moment, you’ll need your wits about you. This book delivers the ability to do just that. Backed up with important questions and answers from both Jeff and Drew Williams, a former SWAT Commander, this book is like having them in your pocket when you need them most. 
  In the second half of the book Jeff & Drew answer questions like…What if I feel extremely unsafe in a given moment?How do I avoid putting us in more danger?Will my home be safe if I leave?What are the types of risks I need to consider?How should I assess risks to myself and my family?How do I know if I’m ready to protect my family and business? 
  This is a must have and a must read.

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