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The Runner's World Vegetarian Cookbook: 150 Delicious and Nutritious Meatless Recipes to Fuel Your Every Step

HEATHER MAYER IRVINE · Rodale Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

150 delicious meatless recipes packed with performance-boosting nutrientsAs a runner, you know that your food is your fuel -- you have to eat well in order to perform well. But if you think it's impossible to be a high-performing athlete and ditch meat, think again. Legendary ultrarunner...
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Camp Sunset: A Modern Camper's Guide to the Great Outdoors

Editors of Sunset Magazine · Oxmoor House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Plan your next adventure with this complete guide to exploring nature, campfire cooking, and sleeping under the stars.The experts at Sunset draw on more than a century of outdoor experience to create a guide that leaves no stone unturned. Easy to navigate and chock full of clear how-to's,...
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On the Clock: The Story of the NFL Draft

Barry Wilner · Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Print book

The NFL draft features no action on the field. No passing, running, tackling, or kicking. Hey, there isn't even a field. Yet the draft has become more popular than many other sporting events, including the NBA and NHL playoff games, against which it goes head-to-head for viewers. In fact,...
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101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider

Jec Aristotle Ballou · Storey Publishing, LLC; Spi edition
Format: Print book

The exciting new discipline of Western Dressage lets riders of Western pleasure work or competitive horsesxAenjoy the benefits of traditional dressage while using Western tack and attire This book -- the very first on the topic -- offers fun and effective exercises that will improve every...
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Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams

Seth Davis · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In Search of Excellence for coaching, from the acclaimed CBS Sports commentator and author of the definitive biography of John Wooden What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent "us"? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports...
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Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's

Jason Turbow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

How the Oakland A's of the 1970s-a revolutionary band of brawling winners led by Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Sal Bando, and Rollie Fingers-won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern ageThe Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative...
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Baseball's Dynasties and the Men Who Built Them

Jonathan Weeks · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions, but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short...
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unPHILtered: The Way I See It

Phil Robertson · Howard Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The beloved patriarch of AEs Duck Dynasty series, Phil Robertson, shares his thoughtful—and opinionated—philosophy on life. In Phil Robertsons 1 New York Times bestseller, Happy, Happy, Happy, we learned about Phils colorful past and the wild road to becoming the beloved patriarch of AEs smash...
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My Cubs: A Love Story

Scott Simon · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured - and now triumphant - franchise.No metaphor is necessary;...
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99: Stories of the Game

Wayne Gretzky · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"The Great One" weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at the sport of professional hockey, and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming...
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Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game

Mark Edmundson · Penguin Press
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its menFootball teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic...
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Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before

Ken Ilgunas · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man's remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves - both physically...
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American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West

Richard A Serrano · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago...
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Play by Play: Calling The Wildest Games In Sports – From SEC Football to College Basketball, The Masters and More

VERNE LUNDQUIST · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

One of America's most beloved sportscasters turns the spotlight on his own life, chronicling his incredible life covering Southeastern Conference football and some of the most iconic moments in sports history over the last five decadesVerne Lundquist's remarkable broadcasting career has placed...
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When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

Harvey Frommer · Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL-NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers...
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