Van Allen Plexico and John Ringer, hosts of the AU Wishbone Podcast and authors of WE BELIEVED: A LIFETIME OF AUBURN FOOTBALL and SEASON OF OUR DREAMS, bring you the story of Auburn Basketball over the past five decades, beginning with the arrivals of Sonny Smith and Charles Barkley, and through Bruce Pearl's revival of the program, the Final Four season of 2019 and the powerhouse team of 2022. The book includes:

- The hiring of Sonny Smith, along with a bunch of his great stories and hilarious one-liners. AND a new interview conducted with him in 2022, offering his thoughts on his time as coach, his favorite players, his work as color analyst for AU today, and his thoughts on Bruce Pearl and the current Auburn Basketball program.

- Charles Barkley: Every story we could find. His three seasons on the team; his experiences with Bobby Knight at the 1984 Olympic trials (and reactions of other players there!); his glory years in the NBA, and beyond. (Not to mention the time he tried to gain a hundred pounds in one day, to avoid being drafted by one particular team!)

- Cliff Ellis: His best teams and players, and what he really thought about his dismissal in 2004.

- The tragedy of Tommy Joe Eagles, and the disaster of the Lebo/Barbee years. (From how the new Arena was designed and why, to what Barbee felt was the most important thing when he took over the job--!)

- Bruce Pearl: How Jay Jacobs managed the hire. The controversies. The revival of the program. The glorious 2019 run. The great players. The exhilaration of the 2022 team and everything around it. All of that and more.

- The greatest players of the last five decades, and the best games, tournament runs, and more.

- In-depth discussion and analysis of every Auburn Basketball season since 1978 (some of them game-by-game, a few of them play-by-play... and some much more than others, obviously!)

- And, along the way, you get Van and John's patented mixture of commentary, humor, memories, and analysis.

It's 300 pages of Auburn Basketball glory, as only the AU Wishbone duo can tell it!

Some said it would never happen. On December 2, 1989, it DID happen.

Undefeated and second-ranked Alabama did something they'd sworn they would never, ever do: They came to Auburn to play the Iron Bowl.

How it happened, after years of threats and lawsuits and refusals to even discuss the possibility, is a story as riveting as the game that unfolded on the field that Saturday afternoon.

Van Allen Plexico and John Ringer, co-hosts of the AU Wishbone Podcast, trace the greatest rivalry in football from its dawning in Birmingham to the epic showdown on the Plains.

Along the way, they expose the roots of the animosity between the two universities, the numerous ways Alabama has tried to get its way in every dispute with Auburn--and the consequences when it didn't.

Then they break down the game itself--what happened, play-by-play, how and why--from Tiger Walk to Toomer's Corner, and beyond.

Some said it would never happen. On December 2, 1989, it DID happen. This is the story of that day--possibly the greatest day in Auburn football history--as only the AU Wishbone can tell it.

On December 2, 1989, the undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide did something they'd sworn they'd never do: They came to Auburn to play the Iron Bowl.

How it happened, after years of threats and lawsuits and refusals to even discuss the possibility, is a story as riveting as the game that unfolded on the field that Saturday afternoon.

Van Allen Plexico and John Ringer, co-hosts of the AU Wishbone Podcast, trace the greatest rivalry in football from its dawning in Birmingham to the epic showdown on the Plains. Along the way they expose the roots of the animosity between the two universities, the numerous ways Alabama has tried to get its way in every dispute with Auburn--and the consequences when they don't.

Then they break down the game itself--what happened, play-by-play, how and why--from Tiger Walk to Toomer's Corner, and beyond.

Some said it would never happen. On December 2, 1989, it did happen.

This is the complete story of that day--possibly the greatest day in Auburn football history--as only the AU Wishbone can tell it.

In the wake of the Worldmind/Stellarax Crisis, the Sentinels have scattered to the four winds. But there's little time to relax and recover, as the dangers facing Earth have never been greater. Esro and Mondrian cross the depths of space in a desperate attempt to stave off galactic civil war, while Pulsar and her sister work to assemble an entirely new team of heroes back on Earth. Now time is short, and the supply of heroes shorter, and enemies old and new lurk at every turn; foremost among them the deadly mechanoid from space--the being known only as METALGOD Presenting the first volume in the new SENTINELS story arc, The Earth - Kur-Bai War--where action and adventure await at every turn, and nothing is quite what it seems Interior illustrations by Chris Kohler; cover art by Chris Kohler and Sarah White. I've already bought the next Sentinels book Van's got me hooked --Percival Constantine, author of the Vanguard series

Coach Gene Lorendo: The Rough & Tough Right-Hand Man for Shug Jordan at Auburn for 25 Years. Presenting the first biography of this legend and giant of Auburn football, filled with stories of his amazing exploits: * How Gene Lorendo went from a no-star to a 5-star football player. * Led the SEC in pass receiving at Georgia in 1949. * Was a 3-sport athlete at Georgia, lettering in football, basketball and track. * Played in three bowl games: Sugar, Gator and Orange. * Was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. * Played professional basketball in the National Basketball League. * Played eight seasons of football at four different colleges. * Was an assistant coach at Auburn for 25 years under legendary Coach Shug Jordan. * Lorendo's son Mac was a captain and all-SEC offensive tackle on the 1972 Amazins/Punt Bama Punt team. *Served in the US Coast Guard in World War II with stops at Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the surrender of Japan. * Recruited and coached Pat Sullivan, All-American and Heisman Trophy winner. * Coached the receivers for Auburn during the 1957 national championship year. Introduction by former Auburn Athletics Director David Housel. With this book, based on dozens of interviews with those who knew him best and filled with rousing and fascinating tales of Lorendo's amazing exploits on and off the field of play, Kenneth Wayne Ringer has given us the definitive biography of one of the greatest Auburn men of all time.

VOLUME 8 IN THE GREATEST SUPERHERO NOVEL SERIES OF ALL

With 5 new full-page illustrations and cover art by series artist Chris Kohler

Masquerading as the heroic Law, the arch-villain known as the Black Terror has seized control of a vast starfleet and set out to conquer the mighty Kur-Bai Empire.
Trapped on opposite sides of a galactic civil war, Esro and Mondrian fight alongside the Elites, Shiva battles inner demons, and a weakened Vanadium finds himself held captive, while the Red Star pursues his own mysterious agenda.
Now, as war engulfs the galaxy, Pulsar and Wendy must decide on whose side they will fight. Will they join with Earth's alien foes, or will they trust their greatest enemy, even as he launches... THE DARK CRUSADE

Stellar characterization, larger-than-life stories, and, most-importantly, superheroes who aren't ashamed to act heroic... No one, either in comics or prose, is doing superheroes better than Van Allen Plexico. -Percival Constantine, author of the Vanguard series

Grandiose storytelling done with gusto and panache. --Ron Fortier, Pulp Fiction Reviews

Nobody--not even Abnett and Lanning-- is doing cosmic superheroes as well as Van Allen Plexico is doing them. Period. --Barry Reese, creator of the Rook

The Sentinels Superhero novel series:
1. When Strikes the Warlord
2. A Distant Star
3. Apocalypse Rising
4. The Shiva Advent
5. Worldmind
6. Stellarax
7. Metalgod
8. The Dark Crusade
9. Vendetta (coming in 2017)

The definitive, unauthorized guide to Marvel's AVENGERS, with opinions, analysis, features and more. Written by the Jarvis Heads of www.AvengersAssemble.net, the Web's first and longest-running Avengers site. Edited by Van Allen Plexico. All profits go to George Perez's chosen charity.

Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, Wayne Skiver, Ian Watson, Adrian Watts, and David Wright join Van Allen Plexico for a new anthology of SENTINELS adventures. Overflowing with illustrations and special features

The Worldmind has dispatched his top lieutenant, the murderous Vanguard, to Earth-- with orders to open the way for ultimate planetary annihilation. Standing in the way: Ultraa, Pulsar, and a motley collection of heroes-- and villains-- who must overcome their old rivalries and work together, if Earth is to have any chance at all. A fantastic writer... His projects make for fascinating reading. --Lyndon Perry, THE FIX

The planet-destroying Worldmind stands poised to annihilate the Earth, but our mightiest defenders are gone Ultraa confronts an alien tribunal on the far side of the galaxy. Vanadium faces charges of treason against his own kind. And so Pulsar and her remaining few teammates have no choice-- as zero hour approaches, they must launch a daring-- and terrifying-- raid into the very heart of the Worldmind. A fantastic writer. --Lyndon Perry, THE FIX

Some of the greatest voices in speculative fiction join forces in this one-of-a-kind anthology to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Join Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, Cory Doctorow, and others as a cop-for-hire solves a murder aboard a space station.a Chicano science fiction writer takes mind-blowing (literally ) ride through the Singularity.a third-rate superhero with useless powers finds a place to belong.an antique collector learns that one alien's junk is mankind's treasure.a geologist discovers that pretending to be a god isn't all it's cracked up to be.a journalist learns how to fend off zombies using Linux and a dead badger. All this and more await you in. Voices for the Cure: A Speculative Fiction Anthology to Benefit the American Diabetes Association. Edited by James Palmer. A White Rocket book.

Volume 1 of the critically-acclaimed The Above series, and the first book in the vast SHATTERING Saga!

The Power has returned. And now I, the exiled dark lord Lucian, race across the infinite planes of creation, a charge of mass murder upon my head, vicious foes dogging my every step. My goals are simple: Justice for myself, vengeance upon my enemies, and conquest of the universe if I get half a chance.

But events are conspiring to bring me together with some very unexpected allies, and to thrust me into the most unlikely role of all... Hero?!

After a failed coup attempt, the dark lord Lucian was exiled from the Golden City of the gods and has dwelt for centuries among the worlds of Man. During that time he carved out a star empire of his own. Now the Power has returned-the Power that fuels the immortality and astounding abilities of the gods-and Lucian has resolved to cast aside his ties to humanity, end his exile and make his way back to his beloved celestial city. But what he finds when he arrives there is not what he expected: Mysterious beings all in black roam the cosmic pathways, most of the gods have somehow vanished, and those who remain look upon him with unadulterated suspicion and hate. Now he must clear his own name and find the true culprit even as his brother and sister gods do everything in their power to capture and destroy him.

No one ever said it was easy to be the god of evil...

LUCIAN: DARK GOD'S HOMECOMING combines exciting SF/Fantasy adventure with a puzzling murder mystery whodunit in the grand tradition of Roger Zelazny's AMBER series and Jack Vance's DYING EARTH.

In the labor pits of Earth, Jack Gael is a slave to the alien conquerors known as the Union--until the day he discovers a lost weapon of incalculable power, and becomes the Gladiator.

Now Jack must forge his own Union and strike back against Earth's evil alien masters, if humanity is to be from alien domination.

But can Jack's oddball team of resistance fighters-- a renegade scientist, a time-lost Roman Centurion, and a mysterious time-traveler --long survive against the aliens and their enforcers: the diabolical, robotic Kratons?

And just who exactly is the strange man in blue who's pulling all their strings--the strange immortal known only as John Smith?

The latest pulp adventure novel from the author of VALIDUS-V and the SENTINELS series, UNION draws its inspiration from great Valiant comics like X-O, Magnus and Doctor Solar; particularly those written by Jim Shooter and Bob Layton and masterfully illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith, to whom the work is dedicated.

A truly fast paced, action-adventure SF tale that owes it roots to the comics of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties... Plexico (has) won lots of writing awards in the past. UNION may deliver him another.

--Ron Fortier, Pulp Fiction Reviews

Alexander Norton's life story serves as an excellent case study about how some blacks have and can overcome barriers in their pursuit of the American Dream. Norton, with just a fifth grade education, went from washing dishes to operating a million dollar construction business on Long Island, NY, and finding success in the stock market. During his lifetime, he boxed professionally, he even trained with Floyd Paterson. One of the best things that ever happed to Norton was his discharge from the armed forces and one of the worst things to ever happen to him was the sudden death of his beloved first wife. Making the System Work for You will motivate, encourage, and inspire readers while also informing them about historic and contemporary matters related to the racial wealth gap in America.

The situation is dire. Four vast and powerful cosmic entities stand poised to destroy the Earth, while the spaceborne nano-virus called the Blight turns everyone--human and alien--into mindless zombies. With the mighty Ultraa near death and powerful Vanadium a captive of the enemy, Lyn Li and Esro Brachis have no other choice. They must lead a ragtag group of heroes and villains on a desperate mission. If they're going out, they're going out with a bang. It's one last hurrah-- before the end of the world Filled with action and adventure, SENTINELS: STELLARAX sees our heroes through their greatest challenges ever--and no one is the same afterward. With five full-page illustrations by Chris Kohler. Nobody - not even Abnett and Lanning - is doing cosmic superheroes as well as Van Allen Plexico is doing them. Period. --Barry Reese, award-winning author and creator of The Rook