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Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success

Shankar, Shalini · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for successAt first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers,...
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NFL 100: A Century of Pro Football

National Football League · Abrams
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An authorized visual history of America's most popular sport Timed to coincide with the National Football League's 100th anniversary, NFL 100 celebrates the history of America's most popular and highly watched sport. From its humble beginnings in Canton, Ohio, to its emergence...
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Great Hiking Trails of the World: 80 Trails, 75,000 Miles, 38 Countries, 6 Continents

Berger, Karen · Rizzoli
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

FOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards - 2017 GOLD Winner for NatureA hiker's dream bucket list is embodied in this lavishly illustrated celebration of more than eighty of the world's most iconic trails.Celebrating the most important, popular, and diverse hiking trails in the world,...
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Prior-Palmer, Lara · Catapult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One of Entertainment Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 "Lara's searingly honest account of her astonishing rise from hopeless underdog to Mongol Derby Champion leaves grit in your teeth and dust in your hair. I laughed, I cried and I felt every bruise. I was riveted...
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Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas

Hurd, Michael · University of Texas Press
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart...
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Racing to the Finish: My Story

Dale Earnhardt Jr. · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s only authorized book revealing the inside track on his final year of racing and retirement from the driver's seat."Time was running out on my charade ... My secrets were about to be exposed to the world."It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan...
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Women Who Tri: A Reluctant Athlete's Journey Into the Heart of America's Newest Obsession

Difabio, Alicia · VeloPress
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

What would you do if half your town caught triathlon mania?If you're like Alicia DiFabio -- a minivan-driving, harried mother of four small children whose daily look features stained yoga pants, a messy ponytail, and a big diaper bag -- you would shrug your shoulders and try to hold...
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