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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
SCOTT JUREK · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling new memoir about taking on -- and defeating -- the Appalachian Trail.Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Now, in NORTH, Jurek recounts his 2015 journey to discover something new about himself... |
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Rise: Surviving the Fight of My Life
Paige VanZant · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSPIRING MEMOIR FOR ANYONE WHO'S BEEN KNOCKED DOWN AND CAME UP SWINGINGPaige VanZant is a rising Mixed Martial Arts star in the UFC's women's strawweight division and holds a reputation for her ability to defeat obstacles and brutal fights in and out of the octagon. But long before... |
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The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius
Susan Sarah Cohen · Dutton Books
Pages: 384
Format: eBook
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Athletic genius explained. A groundbreking new perspective on the science of elite sporting performance. Why couldn't Michael Jordan, master athlete that he was, hit a baseball? Why can't modern robotics come close to replicating the dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do good quarterbacks... |
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Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story
Chris Nashawaty · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a tough, sharp history of comedy and competitiveness, of rising stars and brilliant upstarts. Of difficult egos, awful behavior, fragile friendships, bursts of inspiration, and blizzards of cocaine -- told by the survivors and shaped by Chris Nashawaty's welcome insight and perspective."... |
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Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
DEENA KASTOR · Crown Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potentialDeena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after... |
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
Todd S. Purdum · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American CenturyThey stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound... |
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Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe
Mary K. Jensen · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Most honeymoons, Mary knows, do not start this way. Lying outside on the sloping attic roof in Edinburgh, listening to the soft snores of her groom, she realizes that Rudy's number one rule, "adapt," once again reigns. Rudy's Rules for Travel takes you across the twentieth-century... |
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