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Moon Washington
Matthew Lombardi · Moon Travel
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
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Discover Washington with Moon Travel Guides!Whether you're headed to top of the Space Needle or Mount Rainier, explore the unique culture and rugged wilderness of the Evergreen State with Moon Washington. Strategic itineraries that can adapted for your budget and timeline, including... |
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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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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Joel Greenberg · Bloomsbury
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other... |
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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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Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players, Parents, and Coaches
Cynthia Lair · Readers to Eaters; Second Edition edition
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Eat to win! Practice is only part of a winning sports strategy. Whole foods have to be part of the playbook to increase energy, endurance, and focus, both on and off the field. What to eat and when to eat, pre-game, during and afterwards? How much fluid do you need to be hydrated? What... |
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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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The Campout Cookbook: Inspired Recipes for Cooking Around the Fire and Under the Stars
MARNIE HANEL · Artisan
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Forget freeze-dried astronaut meals and bags of stale, store-bought gorp. Finally, here's a cookbook that complements the magic of gathering around a campfire and sharing a meal with friends. From the IACP Award-winning authors of The Picnic, which brought taste and style to eating outdoors... |
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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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Ali: A Life
JONATHAN EIG · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself) . Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth... |
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Tiger Woods
Jeff Benedict · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian, deliver the first major biography of Tiger Woods - sweeping in scope and packed with groundbreaking,... |
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A History of Women's Boxing
Malissa Smith · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics—more than 100 years later—that women’s boxing was officially added to the Games.... |
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Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games
Michael Weinreb · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning writer, journalist, and college football expert: an entertaining cultural history that highlights the key moments, games, personalities, and scandals of the popular and controversial American pastime.Every Saturday in the fall, countless college students, alumni, and sports... |
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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
George Howe Colt · Scribner
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story in the tradition of The Boys in the Boat about an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents of one of the most... |
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Runner's World Big Book of Running for Beginners: Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Have Fun
Jennifer Van Allen · St Martins Pr
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Every day, people are reaching their get-up-or-give-up moments and resolving to change. And they're realizing that running is the simplest, cheapest, and most effective way to lose weight, gain confidence, and relieve stress. For newcomers, the obstacles are fierce. There are fears... |
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