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Dressing Barbie
Carol Spencer - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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A legendary fashion designer for Barbie shares the story of her adventures working behind-the-scenes at Mattel, and spotlights the creations that transformed the world's most famous doll into a style icon in this beautifully designed book - published in commemoration of Barbie's sixtieth... |
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Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks
Ron Rapoport - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive and revealing biography of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks, one of America's most iconic, beloved, and misunderstood baseball players, by acclaimed journalist Ron Rapoport.Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team shortstop, played in fourteen All-Star... |
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I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Emily Nussbaum - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. From her creation of the first "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer... |
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How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
Jeremy Wade - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The star of the Discovery Channel's River Monsters and author of the bestselling River Monsters shares a meditation on fishing--and life.In his bestselling first book, Jeremy Wade, the star of the hit TV series River Monsters, memorably recounted his adventures on six continents... |
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Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
Christie Aschwanden - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of how the human body can best recover and adapt to sports and fitness training.In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks... |
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The Sixth Man: A Memoir
Andre Iguodala - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the champion Golden State Warriors.Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors' third NBA championship in the last four years, his game has never been stronger.... |
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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Caroline Van Hemert - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Hope Jahren, Helen MacDonald, and Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's journey from Washington State to high above the Arctic Circle -- traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power -- to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own love... |
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Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football
John Urschel - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestsellerJohn Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, tells the story of a life balanced between two passionsFor John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child developed into mastery of the elegant systems... |
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Citizen Akoy: Basketball and the Making of a South Sudanese American
Steve Marantz - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships (2010-13) and was a threetime AllState player. One of the most successful high school athletes in Nebraska's history, he's also a South Sudanese refugee. At age four, Akoy and his family... |
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Horizon
Barry Lopez - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life.Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from... |
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Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life
Beppe Severgnini - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity."I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions,... |
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KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest
Marcus Thompson - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history - Kevin Durant. The NBA has never seen a player quite like Kevin Durant. Larry Bird wasn't as quick, Magic Johnson didn't... |
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Running Home: A Memoir
Katie Arnold - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, a former Outside magazine writer tells her story - of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.I'm running to forget, and to remember. Katie Arnold... |
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
Tyler Kepner - Doubleday
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 todayThe baseball... |
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
Daniel R. Day - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn't just about fashion. It's about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud." - Ava Duvernay, director of Selma,... |
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Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player
Pete Rose - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered records that were thought to be unbreakable. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine,... |
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Find Momo across Europe: Another Hide-and-Seek Photography Book
Andrew Knapp - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback
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Play hide-and-seek with Momo, the bandana-wearing, head-tilting border collie who loves to tuck himself away for the stunning photographs taken by his BFF Andrew. The pair's first books - Find Momo, Find Momo Coast to Coast, and the board book Let's Find Momo! - explored... |
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See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
Frances Mayes - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisineThe Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous... |
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The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer
Laurent Dubois - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the worlds most popular sport" (Simon Kuper, coauthor of Soccernomics) .. Soccer is not only the worlds most popular game; its also one of the most widely shared... |
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Inseparable: How Family and Sacrifice Forged a Path to the NFL
Shaquem Griffin - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Much more than a sports memoir, in Inseparable Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin share the previously untold details of the powerful and inspiring story behind the modern NFL's first one-handed player, and his twin brother's unrelenting devotion, sacrifice, and love. It's the story... |
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The Lucky Thirteen: The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
Edward Bowen - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season) . Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L. Bowen takes us through the rich history... |
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The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
Mark Synnott - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the most compelling accounts of a climb and the climbing ethos that I've ever read." --Sebastian JungerThe Impossible Climb climaxes with Alex Honnold's unprecedented, almost unimaginable feat: a 3,000-foot vertical climb up El Capitan in Yosemite, without... |
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Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
Bob Klapisch - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished "straight-from-the-gut"... |
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Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
Matthew Kepnes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Part travel memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad. "Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding... |
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Mantle: The Best There Ever Was
Tony Castro - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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THE BEST MICKEY MANTLE BOOK EVER * From Tony Castro, the award-winning, bestselling author of Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son and DiMag & Mick, comes the concluding book of his Mickey Mantle Biographical Trilogy -- the man of whom even Joe DiMaggio said "to say there... |
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The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer
Caitlin Murray - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports. But despite their dominance, and their rosters... |
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Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
Bill Geist - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author... |
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Tell It to My Heart: How I Lost My S#*T, Conquered My Fear, and Found My Voice
Taylor Dayne - Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Tell It to My Heart: How I Lost My S#*T, Conquered My Fear, and Found My Voice captures Taylor Daynes ascent against all odds, and the stories behind the dance soundtrack of our lives. From her early life growing up in a challenging blue-collar Long Island home in the 1960s and 1970s through... |
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She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild
Gale Straub - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure.Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel... |
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Fishing Through the Apocalypse: An Angler's Adventures in the 21st Century
Matthew L. Miller - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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What does the future hold for fish and the people who pursue them? Fishing Through the Apocalypse explores that question through a series of fishing stories about the reality of the sport in the 21st century. Matthew Miller (director of science communications for The Nature Conservancy)... |
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Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher
David Cone - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Met and Yankee All-Star pitcher David Cone shares lessons from the World Series and beyond in this essential New York Times bestselling memoir for baseball fans everywhere."There was a sense about him and an aura about him. Even when he was in trouble, he carried himself like a pitcher... |
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After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets
Art Shamsky - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The inside account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets - a consistently last-place team that turned it all around in just one season - told by '69 Mets outfielder Art Shamsky, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, and other teammates as they reminisce about what happened... |
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If These Walls Could Talk: Boston Red Sox
Jerry Remy - Triumph Books
Format: Paperback
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The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic teams in Major League Baseball, with nine World Series championships and countless greats who have donned the Sox uniform. In If These Walls Could Talk: Boston Red Sox, former player and longtime broadcaster Jerry Remy provides insight into... |
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Edgar: An Autobiography
Edgar Martinez - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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Patience, persistence, and the most unlikely of circumstances vaulted Edgar Martinez from a poor neighborhood in Dorado, Puerto Rico to the spotlight in Seattle, where he spent the entirety of his 18-year major league career with the Mariners. At last, his path is destined for one last... |
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Never Cry Halibut: and Other Alaska Hunting and Fishing Tales
Bjorn Dihle - Alaska Northwest Books
Format: Paperback
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From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and fishing in Alaska.Accompanied by photographs, each story reflects the author's three-decade relationship with the wildest places left in North... |
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Starting the US Open: From Shinnecock to Pebble Beach
Ron Read - Fitting Words
Format: Hardcover
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For 23 years, Ron Read witnessed the toughest shot in golf, the opening drive from the #1 tee of the United States Open Championship. A vantage point few have enjoyed. The US Open ranks with the World Series, the Super Bowl, and Wimbledon for its prestige and meaning to its respective sport.... |
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Michael Shnayerson - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar... |
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A Craftsman's Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning
Eric Gorges - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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The host of TV's A Craftsman's Legacy makes the case that the craftsman's way--the philosophy, the skills, and the mindset--can provide a helpful blueprint for all of us in our increasingly hurried, mass-manufactured world. Today, even as so many of us spend hours in front of screens... |
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Justify: 111 Days to Triple Crown Glory
Lenny Shulman - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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With a trademark powerful stride amid a blaze of red and yellow silks, Justify emphatically crossed the finish line at the 2018 Belmont Stakes and became just the 13th winner of horse racing's elusive Triple Crown. One of the most charismatic and talented runners in the history of the sport,... |
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