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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything

Chapin, Sasha · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"A smart, funny, and slyly profound book about the dark ecstasies of obsessive love. Sasha Chapin is a gentlemanly Gonzo, a dirty Bond, and he writes like a dream."--Claudia Dey, author of HeartbreakerSasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert...
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Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics

Michael Gillard · Bloomsbury Reader
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A modern gangster cashes in on the London Olympics; business, politics and police corruption undermine the operation to stop him. When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war broke out between crime families for control of a now valuable...
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The Rough Guide to Panama

Rough Guides · Rough Guides
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

Written in Rough Guides' trademark opinionated style, this travel guide offers insightful, first-hand accounts of Panama's top sights and local secrets, from the Panama Canal's new multi-billion-dollar expansion to partying in the Azuero Peninsula. With full colour pictures...
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Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race

Askwith, Richard · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The courageous and heartbreaking story of a Czech countess who defied the Nazis in a legendary horse race.Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomáš Masaryk. Across...
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What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics

Denhollander, Rachael · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Recipient of Sports Illustrated's Inspiration of the Year Award and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People (2018) "Who is going to tell these little girls that what was done to them matters? That they are seen and valued, that they are not alone and they...
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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, untold...
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