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Soccerwomen: The Icons, Rebels, Stars, and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game

Gemma Clarke - Bold Type Books
Format: Paperback

Bold and inspiring profiles of the pioneers, champions and future heroines of women's soccer around the world. Women's soccer has come a long way. The first organized games on record -- which took place three hundred years ago in the Scottish Highlands -- were exhibition matches,...
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Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

Wil Haygood - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year.1968 and 1969:...
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Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming

Howard Means - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history,...
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Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football

John Urschel - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Basic Pool: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide

Arthur Cranfield - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

Learn tips and tactics from the very best, in this newly revised and expanded edition.In the game of pool, few names hold more weight than Arthur "Babe" Cranfield. Ranked among the best billiard players in world history, Cranfield is indisputably one of the greats of the game....
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Rail-Trails Southern New England: The Definitive Guide to Multiuse Trails in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy - Wilderness Press
Format: Paperback

Explore more than 50 top rail-trails and multiuse pathways across three states -- Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island -- with this official guide.All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted to public multiuse trails. Here, the experts from Rails-to-Trails...
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Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal

KEN BENSINGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal - the biggest international corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by US investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World...
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Roger That!: With Fifth Super Bowl Win, Brady and Belichick's Patriots Show Who's Boss

The Boston Globe - Triumph Books
Format: Paperback

Take that, Roger Goodell. In a season that began with a controversial four-game suspension for their acknowledged leader, Tom Brady, the New England Patriots tuned out the distractions and the enmity to once again do their job better than anyone else. They went 14-2 for the league's...
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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid

Willie Mays - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field in this reflective and inspirational memoir."It's because of giants like Willie that someone like me could even think about running for President." -- President...
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