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Let's Play Yoga!: How to Grow Calm Like a Mountain, Strong Like a Warrior, and Joyful Like the Sun

MRCIA DE LUCA - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

A playful, exuberantly illustrated book that introduces yoga to kids ages 5 to 8 with simple postures and techniques to foster a calm mind and healthy body How can a magic tree, a cow with a fidgety son, or a wise lion teach kids about being kinder, calmer, and stronger? With yoga! In Let's...
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Amazon Woman: Facing Fears, Chasing Dreams, and My Quest to Kayak the Largest River from Source to Sea

Darcy Gaechter - PEGASUS BOOKS
Format: Hardcover

Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Amazon Woman shows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life they've imagined.This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaetcher's...
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Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl

Rebecca Quin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin - a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch - delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. . By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already...
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The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience

Jennifer Pharr Davis - Viking
Format: Hardcover

National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Jennifer Pharr Davis unlocks the secret to maximizing perseverance--on and off the trailJennifer Pharr Davis, record holder of the FKT (fastest known time) on the Appalachian Trail, reveals the secrets and habits behind endurance as she chronicles...
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Step-Training Workout: Quick and Effective Workouts for the Whole Body

Sofia Sjostrom Stahl - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback

Using a staircase, you can now easily do short intensive, interval training using only your own body weight. Give your body exactly what it needs -- plenty of strength and conditioning -- but without taking too much time out of your busy day or spending loads of money on a gym. Learn to utilize...
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The Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love

Gotham Chopra - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people's lives all over the world. Sports is a religion. This isn't a metaphor...
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When Your Back's Against the Wall: Fame, Football, and Lessons Learned through a Lifetime of Adversity

Michael Oher - Avery
Format: Hardcover

The NFL champion whose life inspired the hit movie The Blind Side is back with an inspiring and motivating book on overcoming any obstacle, no matter how tough the odds. Millions of people became part of Michael Oher's story when they watched a version of him on the big screen; read...
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The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano and the Story of an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

John Feinstein - Doubleday, 2016.
Format: Print book

The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends - University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano - by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John...
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism

HOWARD BRYANT - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismNamed a best book of 2018 by Library JournalIt used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church...
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Fodor's Las Vegas

Fodor's Travel Publications - Fodor's Travel; 31st edition
Format: Paperback

This new edition has been with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor's Las Vegas travel guide includes: to the top things to see and do to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 11 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT...
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