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City of Champions: An American story of leather helmets, iron wills and the high school kids from Jersey who won it all

Gola, Hank · Tatra Press
Pages: 465
Format: Hardcover

It was 1939. The Depression loosened its grip on America, yet World War II loomed. Meanwhile, high school football was cresting as one of the country's most popular pastimes. In an era before big money and television engulfed sports, schoolboys shared newspaper headlines and glory...
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Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America

Albert Chen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The story of the rise of daily fantasy sports, and the brilliant entrepreneurs disrupting the way we consume sports.The inside story of the rise, fall, and rise of FanDuel and DraftKings - two companies that began as obscure start-ups and, seemingly overnight, became billion dollar companies,...
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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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