The Juju Rules: Or, How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch: A Memoir of a Fan Obsessed

From an award-winning humorist, a touching memoir and manifesto that reveals the deep secrets of fan jinxes, hexes, and charms
Did you know there is a secret to winning ballgames? It's not the players, managers, money, or luck. It's juju, and no one knows it better than Hart Seely. Seely has spent a lifetime practicing the art of juju from his living room. "And winning ballgames for the New York Yankees." He paces floors. He yells at defenseless TVs. He rallies the team like Churchill addressing the collective British soul. But what he is really doing is harnessing juju energy to influence the outcome of games. "And it works."
In this uproarious, unforgettable fan confessional, Seely shares the basics of juju for the beginner--"Setting the Table," asking for a called strike instead of a walk-off homer--to advanced juju--"Bringing the Neg," predicting bad events to keep them from actually happening--to the deepest, darkest formulas of this age-old art. Along the way readers come to know Hart and his hilarious band of fellow juju practitioners, a secret club of friends whose fandom bonds them across decades, not to mention won/loss columns.
Nostalgic, heartwarming, and laugh-out-loud funny, "The Juju Rules" is a memoir of a life well-lived in service to one's team that shows how love can be a powerful passion in the best way.

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Traditional Archery (Revised, Updated) (2ND ed.)

Now in full color, updated and revised throughout

Information on choosing a bow, setting up the bow and arrows, selecting tackle, and ordering a custom bow

Practical advice on storing and transporting bows and gear safely

The history of the bow and arrow and stories of the fathers of traditional archery

Includes a glossary of archery terms and advice for teaching beginning bowshooters

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Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - And Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity

Since the publication of their first book, "Run Like a Mother," the authors have built up an engaged, vibrant tribe of women runners--more than 10,000 fans on Facebook and an average of 2,500 daily visitors to anothermotherrunner.com--who are clamoring for another book. At its core, "Train Like a Mother" will comprehensively cover how to train for a race, including training plans for four race distances (5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon) for both beginner and more experienced runners; the importance of recovery; pre- and post-race nutrition; strength training; injury prevention (and rehab); and everything busy women need to know to add racing to their multitasking schedules. It is all presented with the same wit, empathy, and tone the avid fans connect and identify with.The book is divided into 13.1 chapters--the distance of a half-marathon, the sweet spot for many mother runners--narrated by both Sarah and Dimity. Like the first book, "Train Like a Mother" chapters have plenty of sidebars, including Practical Motherly Advice (helpful information about training- and race-related advice), Take It from a Mother (advice and answers from the growing tribe of running moms), and Racy Talk (entertaining, race-related stories from the authors and other moms). The .1 sections are entertaining "commercial breaks" celebrating the sport of running and the added thrill of racing.

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Adirondack Peak Experiences: Mountaineering Adventures, Misadventures, and the Pursuit of "The 46"

"A wonderfully written and compiled anthology of hiking and mountaineering adventures in the Adirondacks. This book is an invitation, as the pages fly by; you cannot escape the growing desire to get out there, to be part of it. To appreciate nature, especially the mountains, you must embrace them. You must experience them in all of their glory, their dangers and moods. This then is a book about men and women who venture out in all seasons and in all weathers to explore the mountains. This is a book of true accounts, of real adventures and yes, some misadventures. All the accounts are instructive." Neil F. Woodworth, Executive Director and Counsel, Adirondack Mountain Club
"In this extensive collection of writings about Adirondack adventures past and present, ranging from tales of disaster avoided (or not) to meditations on why we are attracted to wilderness, Carol White has presented us with a veritable kaleidoscope of impressions that one would never be able to experience on one's own." Tony Goodwin, editor of Adirondack Trails: High Peaks Region and author of Ski and Snowshoe Trails in the Adirondacks
"Ordinary people face extraordinary challenges in this incredible collection of true tales of trials, tribulations, tumbles, and triumphs. There's a wealth of experience contained in this book, much of it learned the hard way. Truly, some of the hikers are lucky to have made it out of the woods. If this book doesn't get your heart pounding, then you need to check your pulse for signs of life." Russell Dunn, author of Adirondack Waterfall Guide and coauthor of Adirondack Trails with Tales
Includes photos and map, foreword by Neil Woodworth, background on the geology, forest ecology, and climate of the Adirondacks, and the histories and programs of the Adirondack Mountain Club and the Adirondack 46ers.

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