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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
HANNAH KIMBERLEY · St. Martin's Press Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes... |
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Along the Appalachian Trail
Leonard M. Adkins · Arcadia Publishing Format: Book
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Crossing through 14 states from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail enters New Jersey through the Delaware Water Gap, crosses New Yorks Hudson River, and rises over Connecticuts Lions Head. The area is considered by some to be the pathways birthplace, for in 1923, just two years after... |
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Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete
Joan Steidinger · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Sisterhood in Sports How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls... |
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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
Jeff Pearlman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Pages: 482 Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports' most-revered - and dominant - dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade... |
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Hope: A School, a Team, a Dream
Bill Reynolds · St. Martin's Press, 2016. Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island was once a model city school, graduating a wide range of students from different backgrounds. But the tumult of the 1960s and the drug wars of the 70s changed both Providence and Hope. Today, the aging school is primarily Hispanic and African-American,... |
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Tiger, Meet My Sister
: And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said
Rick Reilly · Plume Format: Paperback
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“Reilly’s is so good, it almost is painful for sportswriters like me to read him.” -- The Sherman Report Rick Reilly is a sports writer like no other. A former ESPN columnist and eleven-time National Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly can make readers laugh, cry, and sometimes... |
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred
George Will · Crown Archetype Pages: 223 Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs' century-long search for World Series gloryIn A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless... |
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A Fly Rod of Your Own
John Gierach · Simon & Schuster Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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John Gierach, "the voice of the common angler" (The Wall Street Journal) and member of the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, brings his sharp sense of humor and keen eye for observation to the fishing life and, for that matter, life in general.John Gierach is known for his witty, trenchant... |
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Forward: A Memoir
Abby Wambach · Dey Street Books Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." - NPR"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." - Sheryl Sandberg,... |
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Field & Stream Outdoor Survival Guide: Survival Skills You Need
T. Edward Nickens · Weldon Owen; Original edition
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95 Essential Survival Skills Survive almost anything nature throws at you with this collection of tested wilderness skills. -Prevail against ice, cold, and hypothermia -Scramble out of raging whitewater -Stare down the angriest predatorsWith practical advice for survival situations from... |
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I'd Know That Voice Anywhere: My Favorite NPR Commentaries
Frank Deford · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days, Deford is perhaps best known for his weekly commentaries on NPR's... |
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Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing
Erin Beresini · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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A?fun, funny, fist-pumping?romp through the thriving new fitness culture of obstacle course racing? Obstacle course racing is the fastest-growing sport in U.S. history. Every week, thousands of marathoners, CrossFitters, and casual weekend warriors shell out money to run through mud and fire,... |
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