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Allegheny County Library Association
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The Great Defender: My Hockey Odyssey
Kevin Shea · FENN-M&S Format: Hardcover
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Legendary Canadien and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Larry Robinson takes readers rink-side in this highly anticipated and poignantly told memoir. Larry Robinson spent 20 seasons playing in the NHL -- seventeen with the Montreal Canadiens and retiring from the game... |
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Camping in the Old Style, new edition
David Wescott · Gibbs Smith; Revised edition Format: Hardcover
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Back before the days of RVs, nylon sleeping bags, and all the other modern camping conveniences, people still went camping. This updated and newly designed color edition of Camping in the Old Style explores the techniques and methods used during the golden age of camping, including woodcraft,... |
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Game of My Life New York Mets: Memorable Stories of Mets Baseball
Michael Garry · Sports Publishing Format: Hardcover
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This new addition to the Game of My Life series takes a personal look inside the biggest moments of the Mets' greatest and most beloved players, from journeymen to superstars. Their most unforgettable games paint a picture of Mets history, as the franchise morphed from a dismal (though... |
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Youth Soccer Drills-3rd Edition
Jim Garland · Human Kinetics; 3 edition
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Youth Soccer Drills is your indispensable tool for coaching beginning to intermediate soccer players ages 5 to 12. Rely on 100 drills and games to make practices more fun and productive. Through these practice activities, even novice coaches will soon have young players mastering the essentials... |
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Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America
Bruce Weber · Scribner Book Company Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Based on his popular New York Times series, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares the adventures of his solo bicycle ride from coast to coast. Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill. During the summer and fall of 2011,... |
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Fly Fishing for Trout: The Next Level
Tom Rosenbauer · Stackpole Books Pages: 176 Format: Paperback
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Fly fishers often ask Tom Rosenbauer how they can take their angling to the next level, and in his latest book the Orvis manager, expert fly fisher, instructor, tier, and award-winning author sets out to help them do just that. With forty years in the business, Rosenbauer knows the information... |
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Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town
S L Price · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 550 Format: Print book
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In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow south.... |
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The Color of Sundays: The Secret Strategy That Built the Steelers Dynasty
Andrew Conte · Blue River Press, Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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Today the Pittsburgh Steelers are one of pro football's most successful and prestigious franchises, but that wasn't always the case. As America was emerging from the turbulent decade of the 1960s the Steelers front office had their sites squarely focused on the future. Relive the on the field... |
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Walks of a Lifetime: Extraordinary Hikes from Around the World
ROBERT MANNING · Falcon Guides Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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Walk the World's Greatest TrailsTo walk is to discover, from those first halting steps as a child to walking the world's greatest long-distance trails. Experience breathtaking coastlines, mountain ranges, historic landscapes, wilderness areas, religious pilgrimages, great cities, and iconic... |
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Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Andrew Forsthoefel · Bloomsbury USA Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America.Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down,... |
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