Sam is a small, thin boy who gets bullied at school. He's mad about football but no-one wants him on their team. He collects football stickers and can't believe his luck when he manages to get one of his hero, Mika Tailer - the best goalie in the world.Then Sam discovers that his sticker is magic. Suddenly, he can play brilliant football and is picked for the school team. But in his excitement, Sam handles the ball amd his team loses. Sam has one last chance to play - in goal. Disaster strikes when the bullies tear up his sticker. But Samfinds he's a natural goalie and becomes a hero when his team win the match.* JohnGoodwin has written numerous football books for children and his excellent knowledge of the game makes his descriptions of matches highly believable and exciting.* Immediate and pacy story about football, featuring a likeable and sympathetic hero, with a spinkling of magic!* Sensitive storyline about bullying and how the young hero fights back through his own growing self-confidence.

The beloved humorist and author Sam Levenson finds that some of his old worldviews don’t fit the new one he now sees. Levenson’s grew up the youngest of eight children in a large Jewish immigrant family in New York. He evolved from a Spanish teacher in Brooklyn to working the Catskills circuit as a comedian. By the 1950s, Levenson was a fixture in American homes as television personality, appearing and guest hosting numerous times on classic shows like This Is Show Business, Two For The Money, and The Ed Sullivan Show. For several years, he hosted his own variety show on CBS called The Sam Levenson Show, where the set doubled as a school classroom and where guests often evoked Levenson’s love of learning, teaching and family. Through his lens, looking back on his life, we see how the world has transformed. His wit and humor make for timeless observations on money, technology, and life, that endeared Levenson to millions of Americans over the last 50 years.

"Any last words of wisdom?" I asked Sal. "Respect others," The mighty king salmon implored. "Do not deceive them. Deception is a sign of disrespect. Your word is your bond; once you lose that you lose your dignity. And always remember that the choices you make determine who you are, and when a choice involves your conscience, the choice is yours alone." Wow! He is one great salmon, I thought as I embraced his parting knowledge. Is my journey over? No . . . somehow, I knew . . . it had just begun. How does catching a world record 103-pound king salmon change the life of Deyoung Smolts, a young salesman in desperate need of help? To find out, immerse yourself in the amazing underwater world of Sal, king of the king salmon, and Master Cohosaki, a mystic blind salmon from the Far East. Learn more about sales, life, and yourself than most will learn in a lifetime as Sal and Master Cohosaki help Deyoung, a struggling young man, become a top producer and a better human being. How do they do it? Sit back, learn, and enjoy the journey. Magic and wisdom can be found at the water's edge.

–I want things to get better, not worse. –There's hundreds of thousands worse off than us. Ideals are worthless if you can't pay the bills. Anita and Sam live in East London. Burdened by debt and on the eve of giving birth to their second child, Anita begins to wonder whether it was a good idea for Sam to become a social worker. Can they survive in David Cameron's London on Sam's wage with two children? Anywhere else it would be fine, but where he's needed most, can Sam make ends meet? Will their marriage take the strain as the needs of family are pitted against the greater good? Bitingly funny, challenging, angry and deeply humane, My Girl 2 is Barrie Keeffe's reworking of his iconic 1989 play. This edition published to coincide with the premiere of the updated version at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in 2014.

A teen sex story without the teens or the gratuitous pool scene. A coming of age story now worrying about the expiration date more than the legal age. A once in a lifetime chance to make a second impression on your first loves. A Professor at a community college, a failed writer, a love refugee, 53 year old Dr. Tom Dawson gets a second chance at the dream. Would it even matter? This time even the cops would be called. Things and people change. It could be a sex comedy with a few shades of gray. It could just be a wild interlude preceding a boring retirement.

Mark Baxter, the main character, an exNavy Seal, DEA operative, retired, yet still young in his forties. His current status explained in the story. Mark, living at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, an avid hiker and outdoorsman with no job is on one of his mountain hikes/climbs in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when he witnesses the crash of an aircraft in his vicinity. He hurries to the site to discover the contents of the aircraft. The contents are three deceased individuals and a cache of cocaine and lots of cash. Mark weighs morality versus desire/need of what is before him. Desire and need wins out. From this point on, the story develops with several other characters. Lots of adventure, suspense, romance with his lover. Story takes place in Lake Tahoe, Latin America and the Orient. All of the places Mark in his career with the DEA and the Navy Seals is familiar. The FBI, the DEA, and of course, the local authorities get involved, especially a detective out of Lake Tahoe who becomes an important character and integral part of the story. It is a story of chase and escape. Colorful descriptions of places and situations with a surprise ending. The narrative is purely fictional. The characters wholly fictional. Any similarity to real and/or living persons is purely coincidental. I wrote this story over a period of several years. Write then put aside. Then get inspired and write. Repeated this scenario over and over. Then edited and put away in a desk drawer for many years. Met a very beautiful lady on one of my hikes who, after reading the story, persuaded me to publish the MS. Actually about ten other people have read the story, all of whom encouraged me to do something with the MS, but I just shined it on.