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Lower Body Training: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Size, Strength, and Athletic Performance

Jason Brown - ‎Human Kinetics; First edition
Format: Paperback

Get the help you need to achieve a stronger lower body. Lower Body Training is a comprehensive guide containing the most up-to-date, scientifically proven strategies for increasing lower body size, strength, and power. Jason Brown, a program design expert who has worked with CrossFit affiliates...
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Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works

Mike Florio - ‎PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover‏


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Game: An Autobiography

Grant Hill - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey - to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace - made possible above all by a family's loveGrant Hill always had game....
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Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling's Original Sheik

Brian R. Solomon - ‎ECW Press
Format: Paperback

The captivating story of how The Sheik captured the imagination of a generation, conquered the wrestling business, and lost it all in a blaze of flame and gloryHe was the most vicious, bloodthirsty, reviled villain in the history of the ring. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he drew...
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The High Sierra: A Love Story

Kim Stanley Robinson - ‎Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson ( - Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder) . Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra...
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Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire

Robert Elias - ‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society - and in turn helped change America.Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan...
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Aquanaut: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Rick Stanton - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover‏

The enthralling inside story of the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand - told by the leader of the daring underwater rescue mission.In July 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach disappeared into the Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. Trapped miles beneath the surface, not even the Thai...
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So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game

Rick Reilly - ‎Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in a treasure trove of original pieces about what the game has meant to him and to others.This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing...
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The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold

Michael Loynd - ‎Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games - for fans of The Boys in the Boat and SeabiscuitIn the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost...
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Move More At Your Desk: Reduce back pain and increase your energy at work

Kerrie-Anne Bradley - ‎Watkins Publishing
Format: Paperback

A practical guide to show you small, simple, varied and doable ways to move more so that your body is less stiff, stronger, more energized and feels good. It focuses on movements you can easily do throughout the day - whether in the office or at home. Most of us sit still for the majority of...
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