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Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre

Jeff Pearlman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

From a New York Times best-selling author, the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre

A towering figure on the field for two decades who breezed into the Hall of Fame, Brett Favre was one of the game's last cowboys, a fastball-throwing, tobacco-chewing gunslinger who refused...
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How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea

Jonathan Gornall · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Part ode to building something with one's hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure.

Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated...
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Yoga for the Inflexible Male: A How-To Guide

Yoga Matt · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

A yoga book for the chronically inflexible, with practical, down-to-earth advice for weekend warriors, aging athletes, and anyone else who could benefit from a bit more flexibility in their lives.The benefits of yoga--greater strength, flexibility, and presence of mind--are for anyone,...
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Skateboarding: The Ultimate Guide

Becky Beal · Greenwood
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover

In the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple, idyllic child's pastime that originated in southern California to becoming a worldwide youth culture phenomenon. This now-mainstream action sport has spawned a multi-billion-dollar commercial market for skateboarding...
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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
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Gunfighter in Gotham: Bat Masterson's New York City Years

Robert K. DeArment · University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years...
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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

SCOTT JUREK · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling new memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day run to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail.

Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Renowned...
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On the Trail: A History of American Hiking

Silas Chamberlin · Yale University Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth century urban walking clubs emerged in the United States. A little more than a century later, tens of millions of Americans were hiking on trails blazed...
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Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time

Ian O'Connor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach, Bill Belichick.

Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL - the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises...
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Runner's World Your Best Stride: How to Optimize Your Natural Running Form to Run Easier, Farther, and Faster--With Fewer Injuries

JONATHAN BEVERLY · Rodale Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

For runners, form is everything. It can make the difference between a smooth, light stride and painfully pounding the ground, a personal record and a disappointing result, or chronic injury and enduring health. When all else breaks down and a long-distance runner hits the dreaded wall,...
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Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn

Robert J Roman · University of Akron Press
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

THE Ohio State University." That's how Buckeyes in the NFL introduce themselves on nationally broadcast football games. And this incredible history of the team will only increase that pride in Buckeye football for players, coaches, students, alumni, and fans who love the team....
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Master of Thin Air: Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks

Andrew Lock · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the "Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer" by Backpacker MagazineFor readers of Into Thin Air, riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements.Master of Thin Air opens with a fall that the author...
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A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City

Jonathan Schuppe · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of Americas most dangerous citiesWhen Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newarks rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed,...
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Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man

Julie Des Jardins · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably...
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The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down

Abigail Pesta · Seal Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of how serial predator Larry Nassar got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades -- and how a team of brave women banded together to bring him down.

We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing,...
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