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  The Three Count - My Life in...

  Jimmy Korderas

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  Highlighting the triumphs and tragedies Jimmy Korderas experienced, this entertaining biography focuses on his20-year career as a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) referee. For the first time, Korderas talks about the harrowing experience of being in the ring during Owen HartÓ³ accident and about the horrific effects of the Chris Benoit tragedy - the most difficult moments of his life in wrestling. The book also includes untold stories from bothinside and outside the ring, highlighting the bonds Korderas formed with WWE superstars such as Eddie Guerrero, Edge, John Cena, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Christian, and Chris Jericho. A fun read from a man who, rather than having an ax to grind, wants to inspire wrestling fans and prove that dreams do come true.

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  When the Tuna Went Down to Texas...

  Mike Shropshire

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  Bill Parcells was living in self-imposed exile from the National Football League sidelines. The Tuna had earned living-legend status after coaching the Giants, Patriots, and Jets from the skid-row district of the NFL and transforming those teams into champions. The final weeks of the 2002 season found Parcells working as an analyst at the ESPN studios. His heart aching, Parcells was like a televangelist with no cripples to heal. The Tuna urgently yearned for another lost cause.In Dallas, Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones—described by author Mike Shropshire as "a man involved in a heroic struggle to overcome what had been diagnosed as a terminal face-lift"—was suffering through sleepless nights. Although his once-proud pro football powerhouse traveled beneath a banner that read "America's Team," it had suffered three straight 5-11 seasons. This team was so sick, it had bedsores.After a clandestine meeting aboard Jones's private jet, parked at a New Jersey airport, Parcells agreed to abandon his East Coast roots and travel south to restore life to the Cowboys. The Tuna and Jones needed each other in the worst kind of way, so a shotgun wedding was performed. The pundits of the national media joined hands and shouted, "Parcells and Jones can't stand each other! They're too set in their ways! It'll never work!"As usual, the pundits were wrong. With Parcells the ultimate motivator and so-called Jock Whisperer applying his craft, Dallas rolled to a 10-6 regular-season record and shocked the NFL by making the playoffs. When the Tuna Went Down to Texas details the saga of how this unlikely partnership of men "too brittle for tango lessons, but not yet blind enough for assisted living" amazed the sports world and serves as absolute proof that while the truth is not always stranger than fiction, it's usually a lot funnier.

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  Fifty Places to Camp Before You...

  Chris Santella

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  Explore the world’s top spots for sleeping under the stars—includes beautiful photos, travel tips, and more!   The book features the best destinations for exploring the great outdoors and enjoying the recreational activities that make camping such a time-honored tradition—whether your preference is roughing it in nature or enjoying a campground with all the amenities, a solo hike or a family gathering around the fire.   Featuring favorite US National Parks destinations—as well as more exotic locales in Italy, Chile, France, Botswana, Thailand, Germany, and more—Fifty Places to Camp Before You Die provides photographs, helpful if-you-go information, the history behind each site, and tips useful to novice and seasoned campers alike.   “Showcases some of the world’s most beautiful campsites.” —The New York Times

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  NPR Sound Treks: Birds -...

  NPR

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  Are birds monogamous? Why do kookaburras laugh? Is the ivory-billed woodpecker really extinct? These fascinating stories feature the delightful and exotic sounds of birds, plus astute and informative commentary from bird lovers, bird experts, and sometimes birds themselves.Learn how naturalist F. Schuyler Matthews translated bird song into musical notes. Discover how the city of Chicago has drawn purple martins back to Lake Michigan, their historic habitat. Find out everything you want to know about the lyrebird’s glorious tail. If you’re a bird lover, this is for you.The NPR Sound Treks series features outstanding audio documentaries, stories, and commentary from the NPR archives. Each volume features sounds from nature, insights from experts and others who love the outdoor experience (naturalists, zoologists, biologists, adventurers, even a cowgirl), and vivid storytelling that captures the excitement of the wilderness.Contents:IntroductionConnecting with WrensStorm Petrels Fill the AirThe Music of Wild BirdsNew York Birders Make Winter RoundsBird WatchingProud Lyrebird Steps Up to the MicrophoneSong of the Antbird Reveals Avian AdulteryThe Magic Hedge: Haven for a Lost Bird in ChicagoThe Laughing KookaburraColorful Hua Mei Birds Put Pigeons to ShameFiguring Out CuckoosA Bird with a Catlike Name – and SoundPurple Martins Make a Comeback in ChicagoHow Birds Can Capture a Kid’s ImaginationA Colony of Screechers and WailersThe Joy of Breeding PigeonsMy Hummingbird Summer

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  Final Wicket - Test and First...

  Nigel McCrery

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  While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.

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  War Room - The Legacy of Bill...

  Michael Holley

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  Bill Belichick is one of the titans of today’s game of football. Now, sports commentator and bestselling author Michael Holley follows three NFL teams—the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons—from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Belichick’s influence on the game. This one-of-a-kind exploration takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with unprecedented insider access to the head coaches, scouts, trainers, and players who make the game what it is—including new insights from Bill Parcells, Todd and Dick Haley, and Belichick himself. For true fans of the game, and for readers of Badasses, Patriot Reign, and Boys Will Be Boys, Holley’s War Room is not to be missed.

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