Best Selling Books by Jay Williams

New York Times Bestseller This big-hearted memoir by the most promising professional basketball player of his generation details his rise to NBA stardom, the terrible accident that ended his career and plunged him into a life-altering depression, and how he ultimately found his way out of the darkness. Ten years ago, Jay Williams was at the beginning of a brilliant professional basketball career. The Chicago Bulls’ top draft pick—and the second pick of the entire draft—he had the great Michael Jordan’s locker. Then he ran his high-performance motorcycle head-on into a light pole, severely damaging himself and ending his career. In this intense, hard-hitting, and deeply profound memoir, Williams talks about the accident that transformed him. Sometimes, the memories are so fresh, he feels like he’ll never escape the past. Most days, he finds a quiet peace as a commentator on ESPN and as an entrepreneur who can only look back in astonishment at his younger self—a kid who had it all, thought he was invincible, and lost everything . . . only to gain new wisdom. Williams also shares behind the scenes details of life as an All-American. He tells it straight about the scandalous recruiting process and his decision to return to Duke and Coach K—a man who taught him about accountability—to finish his education. He also speaks out about corruption—among coaches, administrators, players, and alumni—and about his time in the NBA, introducing us to a dark underworld culture in the pros: the gambling, drugs, and sex in every city, with players on every team.

Danny uses a computer that Professor Bulfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch''s warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone. With his friend Joe Pearson and his new neighbor, Irene Miller, Danny has some success with the machine before it is sabotaged. Can Danny figure out what is wrong with the computer and fix it? And will their teacher learn what''s really going on with homework?

Through a mishap in Professor Bulfinch''s laboratory, Danny accidentally creates an anti-gravity paint. The natural use, of course, is for a spaceship -- the paint can replace rockets to get the ship into space. Unfortunately, the spaceship is launched prematurely after Danny and Joe follow Professor Bulfinch and Dr. Grimes on a tour of the ship. A mechanical failure dooms the four to a one-way trip out of the Solar System -- unless they can repair the spaceship in time!

AIDS activists resort to terrorism in the action-packed mystery SOULS ON FIRE. In Austin, Texas, circa 1985, terrorists attack a bank and slaughter innocent civilians while stealing cash. Their motivation for this and later assaults is not devotion to a religion, not revenge for some event, nor out of greed. Their outrage stems from the police and society treating them as less than human. They have AIDS. They have decided to follow the Viking belief that it’s better to die in battle than helplessly in bed. The violence escalates and soon copycat attacks happen in other American cities. Will authorities capture or stop these terrorists before more attacks paralyze the city? Buy SOULS ON FIRE to enjoy a fast-paced thriller and discover the surprising conclusion.

Five-year-old Jenny loves apple pie almost as much as she loves her puppy, Sam. When Jenny celebrates her birthday, the special pie she makes for Sam surprises the whole party, including Jenny herself. This heartwarming tale of a girl and her dog will appeal to anyone who loves birthday parties, puppies, and pie—and that means everyone! Author Jay Williams, an award-winning novelist and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the creator of the Danny Dunn young adult adventures. His books for children have been praised by the Boys'' Club of America and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Puppy Pie is the first book by illustrator Wayne Blickenstaff, a prominent advertising artist. His daughter, wife, and family dog modeled for the charming, realistic illustrations that appear on every page. www.doverpublications.com

With a glut of health information assailing readers, there''s never been a better time to bring the best, most reliable facts together in one source. Jay Williams inspiring book offers a total life makeover, including all the latest information on: * exercise that changes your metabolism by combining cardio and weights for the most effective workout; * diet that interacts with exercise and hormones for maximum anti-aging effects; * motivation: a new technique that can be used for weight loss - and anything else in your life; * stress reduction: yoga, meditation, and other proven methods; * hydration: the little secret that gives major results; * hormones and how they affect weight loss, energy and aging; and * sleep and its profound effects on aging, weight loss, hormones and mood. Jay Williams provides a proven, quick ''jumpstart'' action that will give you results within 24 hours - and inspire to keep going with more valuable lifestyle changes.

Professor Bullfinch and Doctor Grimes take Danny and his friends to the beginning of the Nile River in Africa to investigate local legends of a swamp monster. Despite unforeseen calamities, a new, rare species of electric catfish is discovered.

In his richly detailed, beautifully illustrated history of Shakespeare''s most popular play - the first comprehensive study of A Midsummer Night''s Dream in the theatre - Gary Jay Williams covers four hundred years of landmark productions in Europe, the United States, and Canada as well as important opera, dance, and film adaptations. Williams shows how the visual and musical vocabularies of production can be read as cultural texts and how these mediative texts determine this play''s available meanings from generation to generation. His account, then, is the story of our imaginative and astonishing uses of Shakespeare''s play. Williams offers detailed theatrical and cultural analyses of the productions of David Garrick, Ludwig Tieck, Elizabeth Vestris, Charles Kean, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Max Reinhardt, Peter Brook, Liviu Ciulei, and other artists. His engaging, intelligent study will be invaluable to scholars and teachers of Shakespeare and theatre history and to professional directors, designers, critics, and actors.

A mistake by Danny leads to one of the Professor'';s most startling inventions—ISIT, the Invisibility Simulator with Intromittent Transmission—a dragonfly-like probe which could be piloted with a telepresence helmet and gauntlet gloves. They all get to try it out. Irene uses it for bird watching. Joe investigates a bee hive. And Danny discovers a bully plans to cheat in a spelling bee. But none of them realizes the ISIT has military possibilities—until a general tries to sieze it!

Because of the road sweeper''s belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north.

In his youth, Leonardo da Vinci wrote confidently, “I wish to work miracles.” By the time of his death in 1519, when he was sixty-seven and famed throughout Europe, it seemed that he had accomplished wonders aplenty as an artist, engineer, inventor, and scientist. Here, from author Jay Williams, is the moving story of the man behind the Renaissance myth.

Danny, Irene, Joe, and Professor Bullfinch launch themselves on an amazing journey -- through time! They land in the year 1763 and one of the first people they meet is Benjamin Franklin. The Professor plans to return soon to the future, but when he throws the switch, the time machine won''t start. While he and Mr. Franklin try to repair it, Danny and his friends explore the colonial era -- and Joe is kidnapped by an angry innkeeper who mistakes them for a runaway. Can the Professor get them back to their own time before more disasters happen? Danny Dunn, Time Traveler is the eighth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

The exciting Hallowed Bloodline series is continued with M. Jay Williams'' second book, Conundrum. Twenty years have passed since the ending of Us vs. Them. Jared Mason is now an adult hell-bent on avenging his family¿even if it means changing the past. Jared travels back in time to prevent another witch from changing the course of history. His success depends on his being able to defend his family''s honor and save those most important to him. The only problem is that someone he cares deeply about might be wiped from existence if he is successful.

London''s first-hand engagement with the world--the process of becoming and maintaining himself as a citizen of the world--helps define the kind of writing he produced. It is insufficient now to call him a naturalist writer if his principal concern was to reflect and represent, not the usual fare of violence and natural forces that we as literary theorists have used to periodize London''s work, but rather something larger, more indeterminant, contemporary. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the sheer weight of the scholarship in this present volume that attests to this alternative designation gives it a thorough grounding that previous attempts lacked. London called his times the Machine Age, not just to underscore the rapidity of modern life and its new mechanization, but also to highlight the need for a new social and economic order. The purpose of this handbook is to honor him as a representative American writer of the age as he understood it.

Another accident in Professor Bulfinch''s laboratory, brought on by Danny, results in the creation of a transparent, resilient material. The material proves useful in creating a bathysphere, and Professor Bulfinch, along with his friend Dr. Grimes, Danny, Joe, and Irene, descends into the Pacific Ocean on an experimental voyage. Unfortunately, the bathysphere''s pilot is rendered unconscious, and the bathysphere becomes trapped in a cave... Can Danny and his friends escape? Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor is the fifth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

The Monstrous Discourse in the Donald Trump Campaign: Implications for National Discourse provides a lens through which to explore the implications of the monster metaphor as applied to Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Analyzing the overt and buried usages of the monster metaphor in the media’s and Trump’s discourse, as well as the structure of the monster narrative generally, offers connections between the metaphor and the actions incited by its narrative. This book explores the ways in which this language also serves as a metaphor to understand the ecology of Trump’s candidacy and the polarized responses drawn by his campaign, and considers its troubling implications for the future direction of national discourse.

Danny is soaring above Midston in a plane with his pilot friend when he catched sight of a man stranded in a field and helps rescue him. The man happens to be millionaire Gledway Pippit, who is interested in Professor Bullfinch''s new heat ray -- but Danny and the Professor must prove to him that the invention can be useful. One afternoon, Danny''s friend Irene is listening to her short-wave radio when she hears about a forest fire nearby. Danny realizes that the Professor and Mr. Pippit drove their cars in that direction. Soon the police spot the men -- but they are surrounded by fire! Danny things he knows how to rescue them and put the heat ray to practical use. But can he do it in time? Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray is the seventh novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

Danny and his friend Joe Pearson discover the entrance to a cave in the woods near their home. Professor Bulfinch has just invented a portable x-ray machine, and the Professor, along with his geologist friend Dr. Tresselt, sees an opportunity to use the device inside the cave. The two adults, along with Danny, Joe, and Irene, enter the cave on an expedition. They make an astonishing discovery, but they encounter a significant problem which prevents them from leaving the cave... Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave is the sixth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

"I challenge you to a duel of desert islands!" Dr. Grimes cries, when Professor Bulfinch accuses him of not being practical. Grimes plans to go ashore on an uninhabited desert island, and the Professor on another. After a month they will see who has survived the best! Danny and his best friend Joe soon get permission to join them, and the four take off in the scientists'' plane. But when they crash-land in the ocean and are really marooned on an island off the coast of Peru -- the four must survive and come up with a plan to be rescued, using only their scientific ingenuity!

An 11-year-old discovers that not only is his seemingly ne''er-do-well grandfather a bona fide sorcerer but he too may have an untapped talent for magic.

This book is a result of many of my thoughts on life and past experiences. Some of the poems really reflect my deepest emotions. Some were really just brought on by the many things, good and bad I see around me. Our thoughts are many a times influenced by the joys and happiness of people around us. Mostly our hearts go out to those in pain and distress, but is there something we can do ? Seeing so many hurt children on a daily basis is what a lot of my poems reflect. I do hope that you will enjoy these poems. A. J. Williams

In the summer of 1588, a great body of ships sailed from Spain on a Crusade: to restore England to Catholicism. The ensuing events brought a Spanish word, armada, into the English language and created a host of legends. Intrepid English sea dogs in tiny ships, it was said, had bravely faced down towering Spanish galleons. Finally, a storm sent by a vengeful God wrecked most of that proud fleet on its way home. Award-winning author Jay Williams sheds new light on the traditional picture. Although the English were superior sailors, the two fleets were evenly matched. Moreover, the battle emerges as the high point of a four-year cold war between England and Spain. Only when set in the context of a Europe bitterly divided between Catholics and Protestants can the contest be fully understood. The personalities of Queen Elizabeth I of England and King Philip II of Spain and their commanders - especially Francis Drake - are also key to this dramatic story.

When her mother dies, a very homely girl goes out to make her way in the world without a thought that her freckles and her mother''s silver whistle are her greatest assets.

Professor Bullfinch develops the "House of the Future" in which all controls are automatic, and plans to debut it at an upcoming Science Fair. This includes temperature controls and other standard functions, but also items such as washing machines, food preparation and normal housework. Danny, Irene and Joe, as well as Irene''s toddler cousin, go to explore the house and become trapped inside, as the locks were automated to have security settings to seal the house until the Professor''s introduction. Danny and his friends learn that in addition to the automated locks, everything is only a fake sample and the windows cannot be broken. They are trapped inside with no food or telephone, and the Fair does not open for three days!

Our 97th issue is brimming with interesting items. On the mystery front, Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken has discovered a brand-new story from Dave Zeltserman for us, while Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman brings us an intriguing S.J. Rozan tale. I’ve also been persuading fantasist Phyllis Ann Karr to let us reprint some of her early work—and this time, we have a mystery! Who knew that she launched her writing career with a string of top-notch mystery stories? I certainly didn’t. Also included is an Inspector French police procedural novel from classic British novelist Freeman Wills Crofts. And, of course, no issue is complete without a solve-it-yourself puzzler, once again delivered from the pens of Hal Charles. Switching to fantasy and science fiction, we kick things off with a poem by Harry Warner, Jr. An early SF enthusiast, Warner is primarily known for his non-fiction works on the history of the genre, particularly on fandom. His poem “If—1939” (originally published in the fanzine Le Zombie) perfectly encapsulates the fannish enthusiasm of that era. Also featured are fantasies from Adrian Cole and Joseph Payne Brennan, a Golden Age science fiction story by Jay Williams (best known as the co-creator of the kid scientist Danny Dunn), and an engaging SF novel from Frank Belknap Long. Here’s this issue’s complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Matzo Ball Killer,” by Dave Zeltserman [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “The Chocolate Cupcake Caper,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Going Home,” by S.J. Rozan [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “The Slantwise Scales of Justice,” by Phyllis Ann Karr [short story] The Starvel Hollow Tragedy, by Freeman Wills Crofts [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “If—1939,” by Harry Warner, Jr. [poem] “A Girl and Her Doll,” by Adrian Cole [short story] “The Horror at Chilton Castle,” by Joseph Payne Brennan [short story] “Beast of Prey,” by Jay Williams [short story] Woman from Another Planet, by Frank Belknap Long [novel]

Tells the history of left-wing theater in the United States between the World Wars.

The ideas that governed chivalry--honor, vassalage, brotherhood, piety and prowess--are the keys to understanding the problem presented in the Song of Roland. During a tournament in 1448, two young squires hear the story of Roland for the first time, and as each has his own abilities tested, he gains understanding of the Song, of the meaning of chivalry, and of his own character.

Professor Bullfinch has created a radio telescope ("dish") for the government which will try to determine if extraterrestrials are trying to contact Earth. When Danny sneaks into the observatory, he hears non-random sounds coming from space. He then must figure out how to translate the sounds. The observatory described in the book is similar to the real life SETI project!

Danny Dunn tries to track down the missing manager of the local department store with the aid of a bloodhound robot.

You can influence from anywhere in your salon. Influencing doesn''t require a title: It only requires certain thinking, behavior, and skills. Acquire them and you can lead an entire salon, an artistic vision, education, customer service-or just a better way to do your own consultations. Leave Your Mark is a book about influencing and leadership for salon owners, stylist and other salon professionals. It represents my lifetime of experience, study, leading, and professional speaking. My aim is to help you leave your mark in the world and with the people around you.The purpose of this book is to convince you that leaving your mark is the most important thing you will ever do. Each chapter is designed to help you achieve that by providing you with new thinking, behaviors, and people skills you''ll need."I am here to shift your thinking."Let the first shift be this: It''s not what you are born with that matters. It''s what you do with it. Together we can unleash the possibilities already inside you to surprise the world.

By accidentally short-circuiting Professor Bulfinch''s new crystalline material, Danny Dunn enables the professor to create a new machine that makes Danny invisible.