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You're Welcome, Cleveland: How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City
You're Welcome, Cleveland: How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City

Scott Raab · Harpercollins
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron follows the first two years of LeBron James's return to Cleveland, where everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness - especially when you fulfill your promise...
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I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me To America's #1 Daytime Drama
I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me To America's #1 Daytime Drama

Eric Braeden · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past...
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We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywoods Most Beloved Movie
We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywoods Most Beloved Movie

Noah Isenberg · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

For the 75th anniversary of its premiere -- the incredible story of how Casablanca was made and why it remains the most beloved of Hollywood films.Casablanca was first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton....
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No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

Erik Weihenmayer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

No Barriers is about my journey since coming down from Mt. Everest in 2001, and the path to where I am today. It is the story of my own life, the personal and professional struggles in the pursuit of growth, learning, and family, as well as a dream to kayak one of the world's great...
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Cesar Millan's Lessons From the Pack: Ten Inspiring Ways Dogs Enrich Our Lives
Cesar Millan's Lessons From the Pack: Ten Inspiring Ways Dogs Enrich Our Lives

Cesar Millan · National Geographic Society
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In this inspiring book, best-selling author and "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan uses decades of experience to reveal the many ways that dogs and people can enrich each other's lives, sharing eight essential life lessons imparted by a group of very special dogs he's trained over the years....
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Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching's Holy Grail
Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching's Holy Grail

Joe Cox · Lyons Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball's most hard-luck fraternity - the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect GamesFrom 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from...
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Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing
Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

Jerry Izenberg · W W Norton
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival...
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Rowing for My Life: Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey
Rowing for My Life: Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey

Kathleen Saville · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, one woman's transformational journey rowing across the savage sea - twice.Just out of college, newly wed, and set up with her husband Curt in a small town in New York, Kathleen Saville quickly realized that an ordinary life working for a better...
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Bad singer : the surprising science of tone deafness and how we hear music
Bad singer : the surprising science of tone deafness and how we hear music

Tim Falconer · House of Anansi Press
Format: Print book

"In the tradition of Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness--and along the way discovers what we're really hearing when we listen to music....
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