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Ultimate Speed: The Fast Life and Extreme Cars of Racing Legend Craig Breedlove
Samuel Hawley · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do something big: harness the thrust of a jet in a car. With a growing obsession that would cost him his marriage, he started building in his dad's... |
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Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
RJ Young · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest - funny and searing - of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun better than a white person
The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white... |
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Brothers in Arms: Koufax, Kershaw, and the Dodgers' Extraordinary Pitching Tradition
Jon Weisman · Triumph Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the most storied franchises in all of sports, with enduring legacies both on and off the diamond. Chief among the hallmarks of the organization is an unparalleled pitching dominance; Dodger blue and white brings to mind brilliance on the mound and the Cy Young... |
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One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together
Amy Bass · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, ONE GOAL tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state--and ultimately national--glory.
When... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
Born in Richmond, Virginia,... |
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Yoga Fitness for Men
DEAN POHLMAN · DK
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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A no-nonsense introduction to yoga for men who want to build strength, improve performance, and increase flexibility.
Maximize your athletic performance, reduce your post-workout aches, and help prevent injuries with yoga. With more than 25 yoga routines and over 50 key postures,... |
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
HOWARD BRYANT · Beacon Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism
Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal
It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another... |
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Just Show Up: And Other Enduring Values from Baseball's Iron Man
Cal Ripken Jr. · Harper
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr.the 19-time All-Star, World-Series winning legend, American League MVP, and record holder who played 2,632 consecutive gamesoutlines eight rules for the game of baseball and life, drawn from the lessons he has learned on and off the field. Cal... |
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Taut Lines: Extraordinary True Fishing Stories
Cameron Pierce · David R Godine
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Taut Lines is an anthology of fishing tales like no other. Many of the stories are written by females, bringing a relationship twist to this male-dominated pastime. Pierce has extended the field, to push the reader beyond the usual, and predictable, anthologies of man against fish. These... |
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
Tyler Kepner · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
The... |
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
KATE HARRIS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic." - Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road - an illuminating... |
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