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The Ghosts of Autumn: A Season of Hunting Stories

Joel Spring · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 186
Format: Print book

"This is my cathedral. These are my meditations. I was raised Methodist, but this is my religion.""The fields and woods and old orchards here are sacred ground. I feel the presence of my old friends. I am humbled in the face of the beauty of the place and experience the quiet...
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Swee'pea: The Story of Lloyd Daniels and Other Playground Basketball Legends

John Valenti · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"If you care about basketball or about people, you will care about this book" (John Feinstein, author of Season on the Brink) . In this updated edition of a lost classic of sports writing, authors John Valenti and Ron Naclerio chronicle the life of Lloyd Daniels, one of New York...
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Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Elusive Fish

Chris Dombrowski · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions - poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can't go, it's all paid for, just book a flight...
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1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever

Bill Madden · Da Capo Press
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year - the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools - Larry Doby's...
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Parcells: A Football Life

Nunyo Demasio · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated...
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Play Golf Better Faster: The Classic Guide to Optimizing Your Performance and Building Your Best Fast

Kalliope Barlis · Buidling Your Best, 2014.
Pages: 204
Format: Print book

PLAY GOLF BETTER FASTER ISN'T JUST ABOUT MECHANICS, IT'S ABOUT THE SECRETS OF GREAT GOLF. Play Golf Better Faster is a workbook that takes your golf game to the next level of mastery. It is full of practical steps to dramatically improve your game. If you've been overwhelmed by the mass...
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Valley Walls

Glen Denny
Format:  eBook : Document : English

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Dude Making a Difference: Bamboo Bikes, Dumpster Dives and Other Extreme Adventures Across America

Rob Greenfield · New Society Publishers, 2015.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

You want to do something for the planet, but what? Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic? How about ride forty-seven hundred miles across America on a bamboo bicycle, using only water from natural sources, avoiding fossil fuels almost completely, supplying your few electrical...
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The Road Headed West: A 6,000-Mile Cycling Odyssey through North America

Leon McCarron · Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime?Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense.Over five months...
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Wooden: A Coach's Life

Seth Davis · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 591
Format: Hardcover

A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writersNo college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped...
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