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Since he burst onto the scene as George St. Pierre’s grappling coach in the late 2000’s, John Danaher has risen to be recognized as one of the foremost minds in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and competitive grappling. More than just a coach, Danaher has garnered a reputation as a philosopher of the art. His social media is read by hundreds of thousands, serving as daily inspiration for students around the world. Danaher is able to take the complex and often contradictory rules of jiu-jitsu and break them down into universal concepts.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND REACTOR "Anderson writes a curmudgeonly immortal protagonist and a (literally) haunting story full of heart; a delightful novel." —Library Journal starred review "This heartwarming, thrilling book cleverly uses horror tropes to achieve a...

Ready to return to the mats? New concepts, new stories, and more brilliance from the leading mind in Brazilian jiu-jitsu can be found in the follow-up to the surprise 2019 hit. This is the perfect companion for your BJJ journey. Short, thought-provoking entries can be listened to as you sit in the parking lot before the gym opens, or after class when you're reflecting on training. Be a fly on the wall in the famous blue basement as you study with the kingmaker to champions like Gordon Ryan, Garry Tonon, and Georges St-Pierre.

With the world or combat sports put on hold and hundreds of thousands of students training from home in 2020, the mental study of jiujitsu has become more important than ever. In the highly requested third volume of the Danaher Diaries, there are now over 100 musings from the mind of John Danaher from before and during the worldwide pandemic that drove the BJJ community out of gyms and onto various online training programs. Danaher's writings cover the timely to the timeless as he reflects on the current state of jiujitsu and it's unchanging constants.

In The Shaman’s Path to Freedom, Ruiz will teach you how to find and claim your own personal freedom, one based on unconditional love for yourself and others, and in doing so break your mind’s addiction to suffering. By walking this path, you can live a life of peace and harmony within yourself, which is the most important thing you can do to bring about the change that is needed in the world.

England 1881. Being gay is both a sin and a crime. Parents disowning their children is considered honourable. Consensual sex risks life in prison. Sodomy scandals ruin careers and reputations. Homosexuals have to choose between safety and happiness.After an unspeakable incident gets him exiled from his idyllic Irish hometown, twenty-four-year-old Jack Branson rebuilds his life in fog-and-mould London as a house call prostitute for closeted members of the British aristocracy.

Eighteen short horror stories, one terrifying collection. A set including all of the short stories from Embrace the Darkness, Tunnels, and The Artist in a single audiobook.

Roots & Branches is rooted in a story of love and longing based on a fatal accident in an upper Egyptian village over a century ago. In this rich and powerful story Meguid explores his remarkable early life based on a journal, letters, and photos. How does a four-year-old boy uprooted from a cozy Egyptian family endure abandonment in impoverished post-war Germany? In this vivid biography of his formative years Meguid traces his childhood - alone, forsaken, and often threatened with corporal punishment.

In BJJ and in life, a strategic mindset matters more than raw talent or skill. It is very difficult for new students and even some experienced fighters to develop aspects of their ‘inner game’ if they don’t have the concepts and methods to play with. In the Champions Mind, best-selling Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach, Oliver Staark, will teach you the routines and exercises that the greatest Jiu jitsu stars use to take their performance to the next level — whether the ‘next level’ for you means getting onto the mat in your first competition or striving for a win in a professional super fight.

Tim Shaw is about to find out. And nothing could have prepared him for where the truth leads, into a world where The Da Vinci Code meets Stranger Things, and the monsters are very, very real. When Tim is pulled 300 years into the past, he finds himself in the shadowy streets of Cambridge, drawn into a centuries-old mystery and hunted by the DECEIVERS, ancient creatures that hide behind human faces.

The knowledge of the ancients is burning. The Chosen are dying, and Jerome is the only one who can stop the destruction. He must harness a terrible new power and survive the wrath of the Keepers, who are murdering the people they have sworn to protect. Desperate to save his young family, Jerome races to recover the lost power. But when the power doesn't work the way he expects, he must decide whether to save his family or sacrifice himself to save the innocent victims from the Keepers' wrath.

A young Irish sailor cast adrift in the sea. A mermaid princess and Irish luck save him from drowning. This adventurous tale owes its inspiration to stories Mike Mirabella heard as a little boy. His sizeable Italian clan swapped such stories during family dinners at the kitchen table. "My...

An unlikely pair - an orphan and an outcast - discover a friendship against all odds. But when one is summoned on a perilous quest to transcribe a prophetic message, they both face an uncertain future. Should compassion or bloodlust prevail? Will destiny be fulfilled or fate defied?

A family secret, a powerful talisman, and an ancient prophesy: After the demise of Cleopatra, a young emperor came to rule the Nile. The ancient gods had a different plan. After the Roman Augustus wrested Egypt from Cleopatra in 31 BC, people up and down the Nile believed a savior possessing a magical device would return to Memphis to topple the "place being built" and rid Egypt of its brutal occupiers.

This gateway novel into the Intersection spy saga is a sensual psychological thriller of unconventional espionage clocking an inexplicable attraction between former intelligencers fanning a firestorm of conflicting interests that could ultimately burn more than just the two who ignited it.

Heroes All is the sequel to Jerome Ostrov’s WWII story, Someone Waiting for You, and the third story in his WWII trilogy, When Country Calls. Emphasizing the heroic roles they played in the tortuous journey leading to the creation of a Jewish homeland in Israel, the listener is introduced to a Jewish Canadian airman, a young Jewish California lawyer, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a soldier grievously injured, and a German engineer.

What if the gods themselves wanted you dead? A young boy lies on a beach on a warm summer's day. While trying to block the sun from his eyes Arpherius makes a shocking discovery; he has no shadow. Confused and bewildered he asks his uncle why he is shadowless. What he learns is a terrifying secret that will change his life forever. Set in the Northern Realms, Shadowless is a fantasy novel about individuals born without a shadow. Spawned by the malevolent deities of this world these children of the gods are persecuted at every turn.

Spanning 10 decades, A Surgeon's Tale is a historical biography that reaches beyond the mere personal to convey something of the cultures, people, politics, and places that touch the inscrutable heart of human nature. This multifaceted immigrant's story percolates with tales of childhood neglect, intrigue, medical training, medical discoveries, scientific dishonesty, illicit romance, unspeakable scoundrels and murder, all the while disclosing the rites, rituals, rules, and language of surgery.

Mastering the Knife, Volume II, of A Surgeon’s Tale, is the coming-of-age story of an Egyptian/German medical student in the hospitals of London in the 1960s. Hounded by failure, self-doubt, and cultural identity, he searches for his social and professional place in the world. The story masterfully goes beyond the biographical to encompass the people, language, and the rituals of surgical training. The author lifts the veil on the technical and moral concerns that contribute to the making of a successful surgeon.

Shortly before the global pandemic, the world found itself at the threshold of a cataclysm of a different kind - a besieged Israel prepared to use any means at its disposal to counter the increasingly bellicose actions of an Iran intent on relieving domestic pressure by attacking the Jewish state.