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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Lara Prior-Palmer · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook
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At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"-an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian... |
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Distant Skies: An American Journey on Horseback
Priblo Chapman, Melissa A. · TRAFALGAR SQUARE
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Melissa Chapman was 23 years old and part of a happy, healthy, loving family. She had a decent job, a boyfriend she cared about, and friends she enjoyed. Yet on the first of May in 1982, she said good-bye to all of it. Carrying a puppy named Gypsy, she climbed aboard a horse and rode away... |
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Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
R. D. Rosen · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making... |
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Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America
Bruce Weber · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Based on his popular New York Times series, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares the adventures of his solo bicycle ride from coast to coast. Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill. During the summer and fall of 2011,... |
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Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE
Pat Patterson · ECW Press
Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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"Pat is one of the greatest mentors I've ever had in the world of sports-entertainment." - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
When Pat Patterson was 17 years old, he was asked to leave his home after telling his parents he was in love . . . with a man. Moving... |
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