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The Wild Silence: A Memoir

Raynor Winn · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the wild...
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Successfully Skipper a Sailboat: Modern Lessons From the Fastest-Growing Global Sailing Education and Certification Program

Grant Headifen · Seahorse Pub
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Take the first steps to become certified to charter a boat anywhere in the world.Imagine having the credentials to charter and skipper a boat in the Caribbean - or anywhere in the world.Grant Headifen and the experts at NauticEd have certified thousands of sailors for bareboat skippering...
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrands Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitlers 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Browns robust book tells the story of the University of Washingtons 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic...
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The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup

JOHN FEINSTEIN · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Walk Spoiled, a dramatic chronicle of the bitterly-fought 2016 Ryder Cup pitting a U.S. team out for revenge against the Europeans determined to keep the Cup out of American hands.Coming into 2016, the Americans had lost an astounding...
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Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

Erica Westly · Touchstone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A real-life A League of Their Own meets The Girls of Atomic City: the first fascinating history of fastpitch softball from its beginnings as an industrial worker's game to an Olympic sport with millions of fans and players worldwide, and the incredible, larger-than-life women...
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Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years: An Inside Look at the Golden Age of Football

WAYNE STEWART · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The 1950s and 60s was a golden age for professional football. It was perhaps the toughest and roughest era for the sport, before rules were created to better protect the players, but it was also a time when legends were born. To many football fans this era remains the Glory Years of the NFL,...
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Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body

Jivana Heyman · Shambhala
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

This daring, visionary book revolutionizes yoga practice--and makes it truly accessible to everyone, in every body, at any age, and in any state of health.

Yoga practice has so much to offer us physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. But many of us feel discouraged to practice...
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The Captain: A Memoir

David Wright · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

David Wright played his entire fourteen-year Major League Baseball career for the New York Mets. And when he came back time and again from injury, he demonstrated the power of hard work, commitment, and love of the game. Wright was nicknamed "Captain America" after his performance...
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall · Vintage
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback

The astonishing national bestseller and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run.

An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability...
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Ali: A Life

JONATHAN EIG · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year

"Stunning . . . Eig's brilliant, exhaustive book is the biography the champ deserves." - NPR.org

The definitive biography of an American icon, from...
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