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The Ultimate Survival Guide
Chris McNab - Amber Books Format: Print book
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The world is a hostile environment, capable of throwing the unexpected at you at any moment. Bringing together the knowledge gained by those who have learnt it the hard way, The Ultimate Survival Guide is the only book you will ever need. Personal grit and courage count for a lot, but if you don't... |
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The Olympics: A History of the Games
William Oscar Johnson - Oxmoor House Format: Hardcover
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The Olympics, in all their glory, are seen through the photographs and essays of the magazine "Sports Illustrated". The book also includes all the statistics and winners from the modern games, looking at the growth and evolution of the games into the international spectacle of today. |
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Every day I fight
Stuart Scott - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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"When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live." - Stuart Scott The fearless, intimate, and inspiring story behind ESPN anchor Stuart Scott's unrelenting fight against cancer, with a foreword... |
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Men in Green
Michael Bamberger - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller "Maybe the best golf book I've ever read. " --Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal "Surprisingly candid... Bamberger doesn't flinch at portraying the Tour's earthier aspects... But the book is overwhelmingly a love song. " --John Paul... |
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Baseball's Most Notorious Personalities: A Gallery of Rogues
Jonathan Weeks - Scarecrow Press Format: Book
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Of the 17,000-plus players who have donned major league uniforms over the years, not all were particularly nice or ethical. In fact, the actions of a handful were so heinous, they left an indelible mark on the sport. In Baseballs Most Notorious Personalities A Gallery of Rogues, Jonathan... |
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After The Wind : 1996 Everest Tragedy--One Survivor's Story
Lou Kasischke - Good Hart Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before - including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time.... |
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50 Hikes on Michigan & Wisconsin's North Country Trail
Thomas Funke - The Countryman Press Format: Print book
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Challenging hikes to the precipices of dramatic cliffs, gentle walks to breathtaking waterfalls, and satisfying rambles to geological formations that reveal millions of years of natural history. In the same class as the Appalachian Trail, the North Country National Scenic Trail is over... |
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The Fall Line: How American Ski Racers Conquered a Sport on the Edge
Nathaniel Vinton - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A journey into the world's original extreme sport: downhill ski racing.Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until... |
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Parcells: A Football Life
Nunyo Demasio - Crown Archetype Format: Hardcover
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Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated... |
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The Golden Era of Major League Baseball: A Time of Transition and Integration
Bryan Soderholm-Difatte - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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When Jackie Robinson made his debut at Ebbets Field on opening day in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first major league team with a black player anywhere in its organization. By the end of the Golden Era of baseball, a period in and around the 1950s, there would be an unprecedented... |
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Chris Chelios: Made in America
Chris Chelios - Triumph Books (IL) Format: Paperback
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An irreverent, raucous account of Chelios's life and 26 seasons in the NHL From being inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013, to serving in an executive role on the Detroit Red Wings, and signing on to become an NHL analyst for Fox Sports 1, Chris Chelios has proven himself to be a man of many... |
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan - Audible Studios Format: Audiobook
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer. Barbarian Days is William Finnegans memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful... |
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Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair: Gunsmithing at Home
Edward A. Matunas - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Diagnose and repair a broad selection of popular hunting firearms in the convenience of your home workshop and save money, too. Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair is an authoritative guide to maintaining, repairing, and improving rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Many of the repairs professional gunsmiths... |
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When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl
Harvey Frommer - Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015. Format: Print book
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Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL-NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers... |
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For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
Duncan Hamilton - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last, brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWIIMany people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award... |
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A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
Jonathan Schuppe - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of Americas most dangerous citiesWhen Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newarks rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed,... |
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Relentless: Seven Marathons, Seven Continents, Seven Days
David Gething - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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The World Marathon Challenge - seven marathons on seven continents in seven days - is the ultimate race for adventurous runners. It tests the athletes to their limits, going from biting cold Antarctic conditions one day to dry desert heat another. To survive the onslaught of sensations... |
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Robert Kurson - Random House Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men - John Chatterton and John Mattera - are willing to risk... |
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One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits
Adam Skolnick - Crown Archetype Format: Print book
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One Breath is a gripping and powerful exploration of the strange and fascinating sport of freediving, and of the tragic, untimely death of America's greatest freediver Competitive freediving - a sport built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath - tests the limits of human... |
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Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Christopher Camuto - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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Hunting from Home is the culmination of a long and thoughtful journey through the rich natural landscape of the southern Appalachians. A vivid rendering of the four seasons on a Shenandoah Valley farm and in the Virginia mountains. Christopher Camuto has been praised for writing "with... |
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A Few Seconds of Panic: A 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
Stefan Fatsis - Tantor Audio Format: Audiobook
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In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving expert status (comparable to a grandmaster ranking in chess) . Now he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture: pro football. After more than a year spent working out with... |
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Gordie: A Hockey Legend
Roy MacSkimming - Douglas & McIntyre Format: Book
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This richly illustrated, thoroughly researched and completely unauthorized biography takes readers behind the legend of the great Gordie Howe. Signed by the Detroit Red Wings at 16, Gordie became a six-time leading scorer, a six-time Hart Trophy winner as the most valuable player, and he surpassed... |
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The ABCs Of Reloading: The Definitive Guide for Novice to Expert
Rodney James - Krause Publ; Ninth Edition edition Format: Paperback
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A step-by-step guide to reloading rifle and handgun cartridges and shotshells!In these days of widespread ammunition shortages, it pays--literally--to know how to "roll your own" cartridges. But don't think it's some kind of rocket science. Let The ABCs of Reloading show... |
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Jack O'Connor: The Legendary Life of America's Greatest Gunwriter
Robert M Anderson - Safari Press Format: Book
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Read the only authorized biography of Jack O'Connor: his early years; his rise to the top of his profession; his hunts for tiger in India, sheep in North America and Asia, buffalo in Tanganyika; his absentmindedness; and his glory years. |
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Trading Bases: How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball
Joe Peta - New American Library Format: Book
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An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball's famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here is the story of how Joe Peta turned fantasy baseball into a dream come true. Joe Peta turned his back on his Wall Street trading career to pursue an ingenious... |
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Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football
John U. Bacon - St. Martins Griffin Format: Hardcover
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The paperback version of Endzone includes an all-new, 57-page Afterword covering Michigans triumphant 2015 season, and never-dull 2016 off-season. Informed by exclusive, in-depth interviews with Jake Rudock, Blake ONeill, Jake Butt, Jim and Sarah Harbaugh and his parents.The New York Times... |
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Camping in the Old Style, new edition
David Wescott - Gibbs Smith; Revised edition Format: Hardcover
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Back before the days of RVs, nylon sleeping bags, and all the other modern camping conveniences, people still went camping. This updated and newly designed color edition of Camping in the Old Style explores the techniques and methods used during the golden age of camping, including woodcraft,... |
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The Closer
Mariano Rivera - Little Brown & Co. Format: Hardcover
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The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted... |
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Slim in 6 DVD Workout
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Cardio Core! Express - Burn fat as you tighten and strengthen your entire core with all-new calorie-blasting moves. |
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Just Add Water: A Surfing Savant's Journey with Asperger's
Clay Marzo - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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From the best freestyle surfer in the world, an inspiring and moving memoir about his ascendance to the top of the surfing world while struggling for most of his young life with undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome Clay Marzo has an almost preternatural gift with a surfboard. From his first... |
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My Fight / Your Fight
Ronda Rousey - Regan Arts Format: Hardcover
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THE ONLY OFFICIAL RONDA ROUSEY BOOK "The fight is yours to win." In this inspiring and moving book, Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and Hollywood star charts her difficult path to glory. Marked by her signature charm,... |
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Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong
David Walsh - Atria Books Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Walsh, the definitive account of the author’s twelve-year quest to uncover and make known the truth about Lance Armstrong’s long history of performance-enhancing drug use, which ultimately led to the cyclist’s being stripped of his seven... |
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The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
Lars Anderson - Ballantine Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Lars Anderson comes the first full biography of the top family in American sports. Two generations of Mannings have produced three star quarterbacks: Archie, the folk hero at Ole Miss and a star with the Saints; Peyton, considered one of the best of all time;... |
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The Pool Bible
Nick Metcalfe - Chartwell Books Format: Hardcover
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Pool is one of the world's most popular sports--and one of the most exciting.Rack 'em up with The Pool Bible and get a complete understanding of the game including the history, legends of the game, cue choice and care, shots and angles, trick shots, and variations like eight ball,... |
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The Life You Imagine : Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams
Derek Jeter - Crown Publishers Format: Book
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When Derek Jeter was eight years old, he walked into his parents' bedroom and told them he wanted to play for the Yankees. Instead of brushing off their young son, Charles and Dorothy Jeter worked out a plan with him to make his dreams a reality. This story is at the heart of The Life... |
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Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon
Jim Trotter - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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A moving portrait of the life and legendary career of one of the NFL's most beloved players Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau is widely considered one of the best linebackers ever to play the game. A ten-time All-Pro and twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, Seau was picked for the NFL's "All-Decade... |
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Rivers of Sand: Fly Fishing Michigan And The Great Lakes Region
Josh Greenberg - Globe Pequot Press; First Edition edition Format: Paperback
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Rivers of Sand is an exploration of the unique techniques needed to fish the waters of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, and a discussion of and paean to the region itself., |
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
Jonathan Franklin - Atria Books Format: Print book
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"The best survival book in a decade" (Outside magazine) , 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico... |
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Philip H Knight - Scribner Format: Print book
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Young, searching,... |
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Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans
Adam Rackley - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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A riveting first-person account and history of rowers who have attempted to navigate across the AtlanticMore people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters... |
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Africa
Art Wolfe - Wildlands Press Format: Book
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This stunning collection of photographs covers five ecosystems -- savannah, woodland, rainforest, wetland, and desert -- and depicts habitat, animals, and human inhabitants for each. The photographs represent 20 trips to Africa over a span of 20 years, including a March 2001 photo safari... |
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Gordie: The Legend of Mr. Hockey
Detroit Free Press - Triumph Books Format: Paperback
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Michigan will never forget Gordie Howe's presence on and off the ice - he combined skill, savvy, strength, meanness and longevity like no other hockey player. Known to generations of fans as Mr. Hockey, Howe passed away on June 10, 2016 at the age of 88. The Detroit Red Wings legend's... |
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A Life Well Played: My Stories
Arnold Palmer - St Martin'S Press Format: Print book
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The instant New York Times bestsellerThis book is Palmer's parting gift to the world -- a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes and timeless wisdom that readers, golfers and non-golfers alike, will celebrate and cherish. No one has won more fans around the world and no player... |
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The Road Headed West: A 6,000-Mile Cycling Odyssey through North America
Leon McCarron - Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. Format: Print book
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What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime?Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense.Over five months... |
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No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams
Marcus Brotherton - Gallery/Jeter Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman Jr. - the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL - tells his inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work and a no-excuses attitude that ultimately earned him a Super Bowl... |
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Gunsmithing Made Easy: Projects for the Home Gunsmith
Bryce M. Towsley - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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One of America’s foremost experts on gunsmithing, Bryce Towsley here provides the definitive guide for anyone interested in building or maintaining guns. He gives detailed explanations and color illustrations for just about every aspect of gun repair. Featured tutorials include:... |
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Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas - Random House Trade Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture starring Will Smith, Concussion is the riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence... |
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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Jeff Passan - Harper Paperbacks Format: Paperback
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Yahoos lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports - the pitching arm - and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors.Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers... |
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Nailed!: The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra
Christopher Frankie - Running Press; 1 edition Format: Book
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Nailed! is a dramatic biography of Lenny Dykstrathe heroic center fielder for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies in the ’80s and ’90s whose gritty play earned him the nickname Nails.” Dykstra’s unlikely post-baseball rise in the business world... |
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Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania
Daniel Bryan - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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One of the most popular WWE champions tells his behind-the-scenes story for the first time.Daniel Bryan has whipped the WWE universe into a frenzy. In 2014, as the biggest week of his life unfolds, Aberdeen, Washington's bearded son reflects in full detail on his incredible path to the top and gives... |
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Coaching Youth Basketball
American Sport Education Program. - Human Kinetics Format: Book
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An introduction to coaching philosophy, and to teaching basketball skills, this book contains 32 illustrated practice drills, with all the information needed to coach effectively. Step-by-step techniques are included, identifying each drill for beginner, intermediate or advanced players.... |
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Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL
John Feinstein - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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A behind-the-scenes tour of the ups and downs of an NFL season focuses on the Baltimore Ravens and reveals the lesser-known aspects of the professional league, from the dangerous conditions under which athletes are expected to train to the unrelenting pressures faced by coaches and players.... |
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Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre A towering figure on the field for two decades who breezed into the Hall of Fame, Brett Favre was one of the game's last cowboys, a fastball-throwing, tobacco-chewing gunslinger who refused to give... |
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Rio Grande RIO226 Coloretto Board game44; Pack Of 2
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The players draw cards from a card supply in the middle of the table. During the game the players try to specialize in a few colors as at the end of the game a player can score plus points for only 3 colors; the rest score minus points. The more cards a player has of a color the more points... |
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The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
Shaun Assael - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing was in its glory days.On January... |
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The Game before the Money: Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL
Jackson Michael - University of Nebraska Press Format: Hardcover
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The Game before the Money recounts the National Football League's story and the evolution of America's most popular sport in the vivid words of men who built the NFL. This unprecedented look at football history from the players' perspective combines the stories of icons such... |
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Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
John Branch - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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"Shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites." -- Steve Almond, New York Times Book Review The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions... |
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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic Games -- by one of the most celebrated sportswriters of our time. Renowned sportswriter David Goldblatt has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal for writing "with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic"... |
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Mr. Hockey: My Story
Gordie Howe - G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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The definitive autobiography from hockeys greatest living legendMr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe.Big, skilled, tough on the ice, and nearly indestructible, Howe dominated both the sport and the record books like no one has before or since. Over an incredible six decades, the Hall of Famer... |
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The Whore of Akron
Scott Raab - Harper Format: Print book
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Who is LeBron James? In the wake of his suddendeparture from Cleveland’s hopeful Cavaliers to join Pat Riley’s Miami Heat,this is the question that is burning in the hearts of basketball fans aroundthe country. Now, in the tradition of Frederick Exley’scult-classic sports... |
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The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Dave Revsine - Lyons Press Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller and Boston Globe Bestseller! It’s America’s most popular sport, played by thousands, watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every year. It’s also America’s most controversial sport, haunted by the specter of life-threatening... |
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar - Chronicle Books Format: Hardcover
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incidentunexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange... |
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