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For his entire childhood, Jesse Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Now, he has a life in baseball that only he could have imagined: he met the love of his life in the industry; they shaped Savannah, Georgia’s professional team into the league champion Savannah Bananas; and now the Bananas have restyled baseball itself into something all their own: Banana Ball.

Long Distance Love is ideal for anyone thinking of starting a long-distance relationship or currently in one, but things are shaky, and you need help to ensure you both stay together. I also address the taboo topic of sex because other audiobooks won't touch on this topic. This is how your relationship will transform after listening to this audiobook: an action plan to keep love moving in the ideal direction; how to navigate arguments back to calm waters; the proper way to use sex to keep things fun; and more.

In January of 1989, Cameron Stauth became a fly on the office wall of Pistons General Manager Jack McCloskey. He watched day by day, crisis by crisis, as McCloskey, Coach Chuck Daly, and a handful of immensely talented and ambitious basketball players—the Bad Boys of Detroit—won the NBA championship. 

The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders, even good against evil. In North Carolina, where both schools reside, it is a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals—of choosing teams in life—a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessities of hatred.

How does an undrafted free agent and two-sport college walk-on end up in a Chicago White Sox uniform? With a college football career derailed by mononucleosis and a college baseball career shattered by rotator cuff surgery, Brian Kent's narrative will motivate any athlete. Follow the journey from high school to college(s); from the dojo to the independent leagues; and from personal training to a White Sox contract.

Larry Miller is the tough-as-nails, fun-loving, working-class bad boy who in the 1960s saved young North Carolina coach Dean Smith's job by winning his first two ACC titles and a trip to the National Championship game. A two-time All American, Miller is still the only Tar Heel ever named ACC Player of the Year twice. He was also the first heartthrob of the modern ACC before moving on to become "the Joe Namath of the ABA", setting the pro league's all-time single-game scoring record. And then he simply disappeared.

Leaving love to fate is what most people do, and they never find love. They spend the last years of their lives alone and loveless. If you spend money on books that preach that you can manifest love by merely "thinking" better thoughts, according to eHarmony, you have a one in 562 chance of finding love. In Finding Your Soulmate, I give you the blueprint to find your soulmate.

I haven’t seen Finley Lawson in five years. The day I walked away from him - or ran, rather - was the hardest day of my life. My only regret is losing touch with him. I loved him and he loved me. And then I threw it all away. I thought the past was in the past until I walked into a bar in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve and smack-dab into the boy I used to love, who is now a man. Like, a really hot man. And I realize, every feeling I ever felt for him is still alive and well.

I never planned on getting married. After my dad deserted my family the day before my 10th birthday and I watched my mother fall to pieces over him, I decided it wasn’t worth the heartache. Then Shepard Rhys-Jones, who ghosted me two years ago, declares he needs to marry someone to claim his inheritance, and I drunkenly offer myself up as his wife.