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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Prague

DK TRAVEL. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksFind your corner of Prague with this essential travel guide to this beautiful city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to Prague before you've even packed your case - cross the iconic Charles Bridge,...
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Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life

Dirk Hayhurst - Citadel
Format: Paperback

Old demons together with new enemies and a season ending-- possibly career ending-- injury look to knock Hayhurst out of baseball forever.  Isolated from his family, broken, and branded a traitor by his teammates for writing inside the locker room, Hayhurst finds himself at a crossroads:...
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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Danielle Friedman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

For American women today, working out is as accepted as it is expected, fueling a multibillion-dollar fitness industrial complex. But it wasn't always this way. For much of the twentieth century, sweating was considered unladylike and girls grew up believing physical exertion would...
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Stan Hochman Unfiltered: 50 Years of Wit and Wisdom from the Groundbreaking Sportswriter

Hochman, Gloria - TEMPLE UNIV PR


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How to Read Nature: An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed

TRISTAN GOOLEY - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

"For those inclined to solve mysteries written into the landscape, this author's lead is one they'll want to follow." - The Wall Street Journal When most of us go for a walk, a single sense - sight - tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times-bestselling...
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The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

Kara Goucher - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running. . Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship...
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The Man I Never Met: A Memoir

ADAM SCHEFTER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful true story of loss and hope by one of the biggest names in sports media.On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried,...
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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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The Yucks: Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

JASON VUIC - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in "a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths" (Publishers Weekly) : the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly...
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WWE Encyclopedia Of Sports Entertainment

Steve Pantaleo - WWE Books/Dorling Kindersley
Format: Print book

The most expansive, all-encompassing chronicle unleashed on the WWE Universe, this New York Times bestseller includes over 400 full-color pages and over 1,200 Superstar and event profiles. The WWE all-time roster in this book has been expanded to unprecedented proportions, and now features...
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