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Game: An Autobiography

GRANT HILL - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey - to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace - made possible above all by a family's loveGrant Hill always had game....
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey - ‎Verso
Format: Hardcover

An unconventional history of homosexuality for readers of The Deviant's War by Eric CerviniWe all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Too many popular histories seek to establish...
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The High Sierra: A Love Story

Kim Stanley Robinson - ‎Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson ( - Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder) . Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra...
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Swing and a Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me

PAUL O'NEILL - ‎Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The fun and fiery memoir of All Star Yankee and five-time World Champion, Paul O'Neill.In SWING AND A HIT, O'Neill elaborates on his most important hitting principles, lessons, and memories - exploring those elements across ten chapters (to align with the nine innings of a baseball...
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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

Howard Bryant - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball's epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America's heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.Few names in the history of baseball...
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In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair

BOB RYAN - ‎Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover

A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting....
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Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski

Ian O'Connor - ‎Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover‏

"The definitive biography of college basketball's all-time winningest coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first...
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Valentine's Way: My Adventurous Life and Times

Bobby Valentine - Permuted Press
Format: Hardcover

A frank and often hilarious account of the baseball life from one of the game's great iconoclasts. " ... the most entertaining baseball book of the year!" - Baseball AlmanacFrom his first year in Rookie ball, when Tommy Lasorda ordered him to send a letter to the Dodgers'...
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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles - ‎Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover‏


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