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Chris Simpson tells the story of growing up in a gritty industrial upstate New York town in the 1960s, hanging out with a bunch of friends whose favorite pastimes are playing high school football, chasing girls, dreaming up nicknames, inventing imaginary organizations, and trying to get served in bars.Their football team, the Ganaway Rivermen, has historically won more than its fair share of games against archrival Bell Island. The Bell Island - Ganaway game, the BI-G game, is famous throughout the region. But that winning streak has come to an end....Frank Helwig is the team's legendary coach. He's won more games than any coach in the league, maybe in the state. For all those years, Helwig has relied on the single wing offense, which by the '60s has been abandoned by all but a few schools. Is it time for a change? The team's losing streak against Bell Island has the town talking. People are saying that Helwig needs to modernize the Ganaway game, but that talk seems to be falling on deaf ears.Chris and his teammates come up through the ranks: freshman ball, then the JV team, and finally varsity. Over those years, their families confront a series of issues: alcoholism, gambling, loan sharking, mob connections, a nasty injury at a chemical plant, and the possible loss of a family business. But always, football and friendship form the glue that holds the boys together. And in their senior year, it's up to them to save the reputation of the Ganaway Rivermen and their own sense of pride.

It takes perseverance, passion, and the support of many to create a life-changing mentoring program that matches successful, seasoned entrepreneurs with eager-but-green business owners willing to share what keeps them up at night. But that's exactly what Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr., did a quarter century ago after selling his business to Warren Buffett. He launched, and then led, the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP) in Kansas City. Today, hundreds of Kansas City businesses have benefited from his wisdom and HEMP's overall mission of fostering bold, spirited entrepreneurism. Not surprisingly, HEMP has also emerged as a national model for business mentoring. In Put Your Worst Foot Forward, Helzberg openly shares the challenges, successes, and failures that accompanied HEMP's growth. It's a dramatic story of ups and downs. It also provides lessons to other business communities in how they, too, can foster the magic of mentoring in their cities and towns.

Daring to Dance Again: Pearls of Wisdom for a Soul-Filled Life is a compilation of personal stories - sad and joyful, painful and funny. They are also universal stories that speak to our common humanity. The stories embrace our fallibilities and our weaknesses. They show us at our lowest moments. They also shine a light, showing the way. The author hopes these stories, in some small way, will help others embrace God and His heavenly and earth angels who are there to lift us up.Life is full of journeys that we did not choose to make. Some journeys - divorce, cancer, death - choose us. They test our faith. Yet it is faith, along with the love of others that save us.Each chapter of Daring to Dance Again will elicit different emotions, and each chapter concludes with "A Pearl of Wisdom," a bit of inspiration the author has gleaned from her life. Together these stories will resonate with readers who have dealt with divorce, grief, and loss, a serious illness, or any other challenge in life. And it will leave them with a renewed faith in God and a sense of hope.

Explore the back roads and hidden vistas of South Dakota's national and state parks. For many, South Dakota means the location of Mount Rushmore, and not much else. Photographer Deeda Cordin's Spellbound in South Dakota spectacularly demonstrates the extensive beauty the state offers to nature and wildlife lovers, hikers, cyclists. From Badlands National Park to Wind Cave National Park, Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary to Custer State Park, Deeda Cordin's photos provide endless possibilities for visual storytellers.Deeda Cardin grew up on Deep Creek Ranch, a working cattle ranch near Glenwood, New Mexico. Following years of exhibiting and selling her paintings and photographs in fine art venues, Deeda opened Deep Creek Art in 1995 in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale. In 2019 Deeda and her husband moved to Custer, South Dakota, where Deep Creek Art reopened at 26 South 6th Street. Custer, home to Custer State Park and close by Wind Cave National Park, is the ideal location for Deeda to pursue her love of painting and photography. During the past thirty years, Deeda's photographs and paintings have been awarded recognition to include: Princeton Fine Art Faire, Hinsdale Fine Art Faire, Graue Mill and Museum Photography Exhibition, Dixon Fine Art Exhibition and the Dahl Mountain Photo Exhibition.

¡La persistencia da frutos!Cohete, el springer spaniel inglés, trabaja en su "lista de deberes" diariamente. Por sus cualidades heredadas, él es rápido, fuerte y bravo, y tiene la actitud de "nunca rendirse". Cohete cree en sí mismo y tiene una confianza extrema en sus habilidades.Pero hay una tarea que verdaderamente le encanta, la cual no puede hacer a la perfección. Él siempre intenta llegar a dominarla sin éxito.¡Parece que Cohete tan solo no puede atrapar una ardilla!Puedes lograrlo, Cohete está narrado desde la perspectiva del perro y sirve como catalizador para un razonamiento profundo y un debate sobre la perseverancia, el fijarse metas, la ética de trabajo y el acoso escolar.

Sharon Emery struggled with the losses and limits she faced but couldn't change - no matter how hard she tried. And she did try. First with her incurable severe stutter, then with the death of her daughter, Jessica, and the too-early deaths of her own younger siblings. Meanwhile, her "broken" voice meant her long career in communications was regularly a battle.Emery wrote this memoir to help guide her children on their own life journeys, stressing the amazing resilience of humans beings. Exhibit A: herself.In the foreword, Steve Gleason - former NFL player with the New Orleans Saints, now living with ALS, and a friend of Emery's son, Ben Schneider, front man for the band Lord Huron - provides a compelling introduction to what we can gain from what we lose.Emery was a daughter, sister and mother - and lost all those roles. She was a journalist, public relations consultant, and teacher - and never able to speak fluently. Her memoir recounts Emery's challenges and achievements, tracing her efforts to give them meaning and find where they fit in her life. It's a process she considers vital to surviving what happens to you - telling the story. This is a reaffirming example of how it can be done.

Surviving your life - making your way through the good and bad - nudges you to make a record of it, to leave signposts for those who come after, especially your children. That was Sharon Emery''s plan in writing It''s Hard Being You, A Primer on Being Happy Anyway.She had survived perhaps the most heartrending loss of all, the death of a child. But she also faced the less wrenching challenge of having a disability that was incurable, though not deadly (stuttering). Life is hard, but, so what?This memoir became Emery''s so what. She has recounted her challenges and achievements and given them meaning, and found where they fit in her life. It''s a process she considers vital to surviving what happens to you - telling the story.As the title suggests, Emery writes with both hard-eyed realism and compassionate humor. Readers can listen in on what Emery wants her children to know about the losses and the limits that keep happening despite our desperate attempts to avoid them.Her memoir resides in the everyday struggle to live as best we can, providing insights on how all who struggle - which is to say all of us - can survive well.