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  Sunday Morning Quarterback -...

  Vic Carucci, Phil Simms

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  An in-depth and surprising look at the game, Sunday Morning Quarterback will dramatically change the way you watch football.You've heard all the football clichés: "Their offense is too predictable," or "They've got to win the turnover battle," or "They didn't make any halftime adjustments." Perhaps you've heard them so often that you've come to see them as obvious truths. Phil Simms, after an illustrious career as a Super Bowl–winning quarterback and a broadcaster, is here to tell you that these -- and many other blanket statements taken as gospel -- are all myths, and whoever says them has no idea of what they're talking about.Drilling deep into the core of football, Simms also shows the hidden signs that players look for that can determine the outcome of a game. Whether it's discovering how a linebacker positions his feet before he blitzes or how to react if the safety is eight or nine yards from the line of scrimmage, knowing these "dirty little secrets" gives players and their coaches a tremendous advantage.In addition, Simms shares his insights into the enormous challenges coaches face in today's game, evaluating the top coaches and what makes them successful. He takes a look at some of the greatest players he's played with and against, and what he misses most about the game -- waking up Monday mornings feeling beat up and sore. He looks at the next generation of football players -- his son, Tampa Bay's Chris Simms, among them.Through it all, Simms shares stories from his playing days with Bill Parcells and the New York Giants, and the inside access he's had as an announcer for one of the top NFL broadcasting teams in football.Fun and lively, Sunday Morning Quarterback should be required reading for anyone who loves football.

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  Don't Go to Jail! - Saul...

  Saul Goodman, Steve Huff

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  Got the long arm of the law around your neck? Does Lady Justice have her eye on you? Were you set up at a lineup?Saul Goodman can help!There are some crazy laws out there. Did you know that in New Mexico, there's a law that says "idiots" can't vote? Or that Massachusetts still has a ban on Quakers and witches? Or that in Georgia, it's illegal to put a donkey in a bathtub?Even if you're not bathing a donkey (and hey, if you are, no judgment from me!), you could be breaking the law right now and not even know it. That's why you need Don't Go to Jail! You can carry the advice of a seasoned legal practitioner with you anywhere you go, helping you to stay out of the courts and in the good graces of the criminal justice system.Want to be your own attorney? Want to avoid getting hauled in on a warrant? Want to keep the cops from discovering the baggie of your "friend's" marijuana stashed under the passenger seat of your car? This is your chance to get those tips and many more savory bits of indispensable legal advice — all for much less than my usual hourly fee.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Divas

  Rebecca Chance

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  The Spoilt Daughter. The ice-queen wife. The ruthless mistress. Let battle commence…Stunning good looks and a bottomless trust fund, London's leading It Girl, Lola Fitzsimmons, leads a charmed life whose rich father funds her every whim. Evie on the other hand has had to work her own way up life's greasy pole - literally! But, having hooked an indulgent sugar daddy, Evie has been able to give up her pole-dancing career, abandoning New York's strip bars for a luxury Manhattan penthouse. Then overnight, Lola's credit cards are refused and Evie is abruptly thrown out onto the streets. One woman lies behind their misfortune. Lola's icy stepmother has seized control of the purse strings, the same stepmother who happens to be married to Evie's sugar daddy. Although the two girls loathe each other, Lola and Evie must team up if they are to defeat their common enemy.“'A classic tale of bitchy women fighting their way to the top” - DAILY MIRROR

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  The Man in the Wooden Hat

  Jane Gardam

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  Acclaimed as Jane Gardam’s masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir EdwardFeathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, acharacter as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth wasalready a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfectEnglish couple of the late 1940s.As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of tworemarkable people, this novel is a triumph. The Man in the Wooden Hat is fiction of a very high order from a greatnovelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power.

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  Moon over Manhattan

  Larry King, Thomas H. Cook

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  Successful TV political commentator Arthur Vandameer—             host of WNIN's Speaking Truth to Power—             is rich, famous...             and miserable. He has risen to the top of the city's glittering media heap only to find nothing. His teenage daughter—             privileged, glamorous Allison—             is blonde, beautiful, and wants nothing more than to go to film school. Her boyfriend, Joselito Diaz (aka Goonie), is special to her only because she knows her father cannot stand him. When the lovely Allison disappears, a madcap cast of characters gets into the act, stirring a citywide web of intrigue, insanity, political values and personal agendas. Their search takes them from The Plaza, to Queens, to Herald Square, to Tiffany'             s, a few bars, a few bedrooms, Bergdorf Goodman, and back—             culminating on live television in front of all of America.

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  Rates of Exchange - A Novel

  Malcolm Bradbury

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  Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: In this comedic novel, an English professor collides with disaster at the peak of the Cold War  Shortly after his plane first grazes the tarmac in the eastern European nation of Slaka, Dr. Angus Petworth is beset by a cavalcade of misadventures. A university lecturer and seasoned international traveler, Petworth is nevertheless unprepared for the oddities of culture and circumstance that await him on the other side of the iron curtain. In two eventful weeks, Petworth gives an incendiary interview, is seduced by a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a plot of international intrigue, all of which conspire to give the mild, unassuming professor way more than he bargained for.   Satirizing everything from critics and diplomats to Marxism and academia, Malcolm Bradbury’s Rates of Exchange is a witty and lighthearted novel of cultural interchange at the height of the Cold War.

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