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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

Powell, Michael · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated...
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Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle

Kent Alexander · Abrams Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A contributing source for the Warner Bros.' film Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser! "Meticulously reported, bracingly written, full of memorable and bizarre characters, the book casts a wary eye on the worlds of law enforcement...
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The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors

Isserman, Maurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory.At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry divisions - and no mountain...
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy

Phil Keith · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting." - Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book ReviewThe incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French...
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Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero

Christopher McDougall · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst DogFrom the best-selling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming...
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Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir

Adam Rippon · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Former Olympic figure skater and self-professed America's Sweetheart Adam Rippon shares his underdog journey from beautiful mess to outrageous success in this hilarious, big-hearted memoir.Your mom probably told you it's what on the inside that counts. Well, then she was never a competitive...
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The Knee Injury Bible: Everything You Need to Know about Knee Injuries, How to Treat Them, and How They Affect Your Life

Robert F. LaPrade · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

From prominent experts in orthopedics and sports medicine, a comprehensive guide for anyone with knee injury or chronic knee pain: how injuries occur, how to treat problems, and how to return to the life and sports you love Knee pain and knee injury happen to people at any age and across...
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