New Releases by Bill Simmons

Thorn & Bloom Magazine is a quarterly publication exploring self-care as a pathway to personal and collective liberation. The magazine interrogates how societal norms and socialisation suppress individuality, autonomy, and self-worth, positioning self-care not as indulgence, but as an act of resistance and a tool for healing. Each issue invites contributions across genres, personal essays, poetry, fiction, memoir, and expert insights that navigate the balance between struggle and growth, mindfulness and authenticity. For our fifth issue, Rooted & Ruptured, we discuss how we are born of nature, yet socialised to see ourselves as separate from it. This severance mirrors how we are taught to distrust our instincts, silence our inner rhythms, and exile parts of ourselves deemed 'wild' or 'unproductive.' To heal this rupture is a radical act. This edition lives in the overlap between our inner landscapes and the outer wild. To defend the earth is to defend the self. The path to liberation is rooted in collective care.

En El libro del basket, una obra absolutamente única, el prolífico, ingenioso e hilarante Bill Simmons abre —y cierra, de una vez por todas— todos los debates sobre la NBA. Desde la eterna pregunta de quién ganó la histórica rivalidad entre Bill Russell y Wilt Chamberlain, hasta qué equipo merece realmente el título del mejor de todos los tiempos. Todo ello sin olvidar grandes "¿y si...?", como qué habría pasado si Portland hubiese seleccionado a Jordan en lugar de a Sam Bowie en el draft de 1984, o si Memphis, y no Cleveland, hubiera reclutado a LeBron en 2003. Pero Simmons no se detiene ahí: se atreve a reevaluar completamente no solo los criterios para elegir a los miembros del Salón de la Fama de la NBA, sino también a proponer una reconstrucción total de la institución. El resultado es "la pirámide", un santuario de cinco niveles que celebra a los 96 jugadores más grandes en la historia del baloncesto profesional. Finalmente, Simmons, creador de auténticas catedrales del periodismo deportivo como Grantland o The Ringer, nos guía al corazón del baloncesto para desvelarnos ese elemento tan codiciado y enigmático: el secreto del baloncesto.

In The Way of Interruption, international ministry CEO Bill Simmons reveals a transformative approach: embracing ancient spiritual practices specifically adapted for today's workplace. Pulling from his years of organizational leadership and spiritual formation, Simmons calls us to practices that include: A year-long corporate Psalter that brings Scripture naturally into team life Carefully crafted liturgies for organizational milestones and moments Simple yet profound meeting practices that reorient work toward God A guide for creating sacred space honoring denominational diversity of staff By incorporating these time-tested rhythms, organizations can cultivate spiritual health among staff and free leaders to lead well. Discover how letting go of control and embracing established practices can transform your organization's spiritual culture from an obligation into a life-giving journey that draws teams naturally toward God.

Książka o baskecie, jakiej jeszcze nie było! Kiedy szalenie uparty i niezwykle zabawny, uzależniony od koszykówki dziennikarz bierze się za opisanie historii NBA, można oczekiwać absolutnie fantastycznej lektury. Billa Simmonsa znają miliony fanów w USA. Jego książka stała się biblią dla każdego, kto kocha basket. Od odwiecznego pytania o to, kto był górą w rywalizacji Billa Russella i Wilta Chamberlaina, przez rozważania na temat najlepszego zespołu w historii, po ranking 96 największych graczy w dziejach NBA i odkrycie „sekretu koszykówki”. Simmons otwiera – a potem zamyka raz na zawsze – każdą koszykarską debatę. Jego opinie są autorytarne, bywają kontrowersyjne, ale jednocześnie sprawiają, że każda strona Wielkiej księgi koszykówki dostarcza znakomitej rozrywki. Zupełnie tak, jakby Michael Jordan wrócił na parkiet w najlepszej formie i zmierzył się z drużyną LeBrona Jamesa. To po prostu trzeba przeczytać!

In Short Stories & Tall Tales, author Bill Simmons weaves together stories of his own life to explore the complicated-and forever incomplete-map of human behavior and the peculiar ways people operate. These eighteen short stories (and one essay) cover a wide range of topics and subjects but always circle back to a fascination with life and the pursuit of purpose. In "But the Angel Never Came," a young widow cries out to God to heal her disabled son, and when things don't go as planned, she sees only one solution left for her. In "His Honor Is No Soothsayer," a judge watches in total dismay as extreme religious enthusiasm clashes with the harsh world of a town's development. Others explore the world of an overreaching villain ("Fishing Over Iced Tea"), the friendship of two golfers up the death of one of them ("The Eleventh Fairway"), and the author's physics school teacher with clay feet ("Remembering My Mr. Chips"). Full of the bizarre and the beautiful, the obvious and the unlikely, these stories navigate the various moments in life that most might consider unexceptional but could, in fact, be quite the opposite.

Five days ago a young man kisses his wife good-bye. He climbs aboard an old vintage plane with his buddies. He and they are catapulted back through time and lands right in the middle of a world at war. He watches his friends die. He is not a soldier but learns how to be one. He learns to fight. He Learns to survive. ........when their plane passed through that abnormality it passed through some sort of fold in time. A fold in time to our past of almost seventy years ago. ........those men jumped from that plane of today and landed in our past. ........they landed right smack in the middle of, The invasion of Normandy. I can only imagine the insanity that must have been going through their minds Perhaps it was those scientist in that long tunnel underground trying to split molecules with a beam of light. They have been to trying to find a way to send something back through time for years. Perhaps is something to do with the great earthquakes, the tsunamis causing the earth to be moved from its axis. We have the Bermuda Triangle and other places just like it where planes and ships for years have just come up missing. Perhaps one of those is not where it is supposed to be...

Robert Candell is devastated when his close friend and mentor, Jack Marsel, suddenly dies. Robert is soon hired by a mysterious organization known only as "the group" and learns that his friend Jack had secretly worked for this mysterious group. Robert and the group work to stop the corporate greed that is destroying our environment and hope to provide a better world for our future generations. When disaster strikes, due to corporate greed, Robert and the group must work to make those corporate executives who they hold responsible for the disaster pay for their actions and send a message to other corporate executives that the destruction of the planet and our ecosystems will no longer be tolerated. Twist and turns take the reader through secret groups, clandestine meetings, international intrigue and adventure, corporate greed, political corruption, earth changes, and global climate change. Who is this mysterious group that has the ablility and the determination to take on the government, corporations, and the global elite? What is the Fourth Star?

Bill Simmons takes you through his 12-step process to recovery from cocaine addiction as a Christian.

An opinionated tour of the past, present, and future of pro basketball, written by ESPN's "Sports Guy" columnist, shares insights on everything from major NBA events and underrated players to how Hall of Famers should be selected.

The New York Times bestseller Now I Can Die in Peace is now available in paperback with a new afterword (and more footnotes) by the author "The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant "No more 1918 chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life -- that's eighty years, followed by death -- without seeing the Red Sox win a Series." But once he was able -- finally -- to type those life-changing words, Bill Simmons decided to look back at his "Sports Guy" columns for the last five years to find out how the miracle came to pass. And that's where the trouble began. The result is Now I Can Die in Peace, a hilarious and fresh new look at some of the best sportswriting in America, with sharp, critical commentary (and fresh insights) from the guy who wrote it in the first place.

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