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Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual 4/E
Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual 4/E

Nigel Calder · International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 4 edition
Format: Hardcover

The maintenance bible for boatowners is fully updated and better than ever! If its on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, its covered in Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this indispensable resource aboard, you have at your fingertips...
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Four Boots-One Journey: A Story of Survival, Awareness & Rejuvenation on the John Muir Trail
Four Boots-One Journey: A Story of Survival, Awareness & Rejuvenation on the John Muir Trail

Jeff Alt · Beaufort Books
Format: Book

Originally published as an award-winning paperback:  A Hike for Mike. Jeff Alt takes you vicariously along the John Muir Trail, on an entertaining adventure, with his new wife, Beth. Jeff convinces Beth, a woman who prefers hotels, hot showers and warm beds to chuck her domesticated...
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Dust Bowl Girls: A Team's Quest for Basketball Glory
Dust Bowl Girls: A Team's Quest for Basketball Glory

Lydia Reeder · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance...
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Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection
Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection

George Karl · Harpercollins
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history - and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever - reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoirA man of deep...
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Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

Mark Schultz · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The riveting true story of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot...
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What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game
What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game

Mark Herzlich · NAL
Format: Hardcover

In 2011, he became starting linebacker for the New York Giants and triumphed in the Super Bowl—after being told his cancer diagnosis meant he would never play football again.... As a child, Herzlich found an inspiring and grounding force in football, eventually turning his passion into...
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Texas: A Year in the Life of Lone Star Football, from High School to College to the Cowboys
Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Texas: A Year in the Life of Lone Star Football, from High School to College to the Cowboys

Nicholas Eatman · Dey St.
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

A veteran Texas sports writer offers a lively, up-close look at football in Texas - the fullest portrait ever conceived - viewed through the interwoven stories of three teams, Plano Senior High School, Baylor University, and the Dallas Cowboys, during one season.In Texas, Friday, Saturday,...
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National Parks of America
National Parks of America

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pubns, 2016.
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

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Unsportsmanlike conduct : college football and the politics of rape
Unsportsmanlike conduct : college football and the politics of rape

Jessica Luther · Edge Of Sports
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

"Luther's research into rape on campuses is an important exposé demonstrating that the problem still lies within the male locker room...Highly relevant, hard-hitting, much-needed information that reveals the widespread existence of rape by sports players on college campuses."--Kirkus...
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Stand Tall: Fighting for My Life, Inside and Outside the Ring
Stand Tall: Fighting for My Life, Inside and Outside the Ring

Dewey Bozella · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit - a stirring tale of courage, strength, faith, and perseverance.In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella was wrongfully accused of murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old...
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Soccer-4th Edition: Steps to Success
Soccer-4th Edition: Steps to Success

Joe Luxbacher · Human Kinetics Publishers
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback

Master key techniques on the soccer field with Soccer: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide features step-by-step instruction on becoming skilled in individual techniques and team tactics. Improve your abilities in dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, defending, tackling, heading,...
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The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life
The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

Mike Matheny · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

"Nothing worth doing right is easy."-Mike Matheny Mike Matheny was just forty-one, without professional managerial experience and looking for a next step after a successful career as a Major League catcher, when he succeeded the legendary Tony La Russa as manager of the St. Louis...
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

Scott Ellsworth · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the games...
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The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream
The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream

Tom Clavin · Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In The DiMaggios acclaimed sportswriter Tom Clavin reveals the untold Great American Story of three brothers Joltin Joe Dom and Vince DiMaggio and the Great American Gamebaseballthat would consume their livesA vivid portrait of a family and the ways in which their shifting fortunes and status...
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Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line
Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line

William C Kashatus · University of Nebraska Press,
Pages: 234
Format: Print book

As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball's color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rivalry going...
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