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The Ultimate Survival Guide

Chris McNab - Amber Books
Format: Print book

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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A Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of Grand Traverse and Leelanau Counties, Michigan: All publicly accessible rivers and inland lakes and their access ... two favorite northwestern Michigan counties

Jim Stamm - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

The northwestern Michigan counties of Grand Traverse and Leelanau have an abundance of inland lakes: 146 named lakes, and many, smaller unnamed lakes. (Add the neighboring Benzie County, and there are well over 214 lakes in the three northwestern counties.) The size of the lakes range...
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When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

Harvey Frommer - Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015.
Format: Print book

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

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 Naturalist Goes Fishing: Casting in Fragile Waters from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand's South Island

James McClintock - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of fishing classics, A Naturalist Goes Fishing combines elements of the triumph between fisher and fish, humor and wit, and a passionate concern for the natural environment. James McClintock takes us to some of the most breathtaking waters the world has to offer while capturing...
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How to eat in the woods : a complete guide to foraging, trapping, fishing, and finding ... sustenance in the wild.

Bradford Angier - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Print book

A comprehensive, practical, and reliable guide to finding food in the woods and living off the land, by respected wilderness survivalists. With text by wilderness survivalists, the information in "How to Eat in the Woods" is tried, trusted, and true. One of the most complete books...
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Ultimate Guide to Successful Gun Trading: How to Make Money Buying and Selling Firearms

George Knight - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

Looking to turn your interest in guns into a profitable business venture? Whether you are a sportsman, estate heir, or gun collector, this book is what you've been searching for. In The Ultimate Guide to Successful Gun Trading, George Knight brings his masterful business sense to the world...
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This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

L Jon Wertheim - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers...
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The ABCs Of Reloading: The Definitive Guide for Novice to Expert

Rodney James - Krause Publ; Ninth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From one of Outside magazines Literary All-Stars comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon during the legendary flood of In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Seabiscuit the engrossing tale of the fastest...
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

Jonathan Franklin - Atria Books
Format: Print book

"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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The Whistleblower: Rooting for the Ref in the High-Stakes World of College Basketball

Bob Katz - ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover

During a season on the road with college basketball referees, Bob Katz watched the games they officiated, listened in on their candid conversations in locker rooms and hotel lobbies, and explored the challenges they must regularly confront. In thisportrait of one consummate professional...
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Philip H Knight - Scribner
Format: Print book

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

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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Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

Jack McCallum - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers.   In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop...
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Africa

Art Wolfe - Wildlands Press
Format: Book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nailed! is a dramatic biography of Lenny Dykstra—the 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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Great Lakes Steelhead, Salmon & Trout: Essential Techniques for Fly Fishing the Tributaries

Karl Weixlmann - Stackpole Books
Format: Book

Essential food and flies for Great Lakes species Detailed information on the major fisheries and their tributaries Tackle and techniques for guaranteed year-round success Steelhead is the most sought-after Great Lakes species, attracting fly fishers from around the country. Guide extraordinaire...
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Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

Mark Schultz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The riveting true story of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot...
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Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania

Daniel Bryan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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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Got to Give the People What They Want: True Stories and Flagrant Opinions from Center Court

Jalen Rose - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

"I want to start conversations, and even better, arguments." - From the Introduction One of the most outspoken and original voices in sports sounds off while revealing his incredible life story. Jalen Rose has never been quiet. Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the 70's...
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Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre

Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

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

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 Hoops Whisperer: On the Court and Inside the Heads of Basketball's Best Players

Idan Ravin - Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Basketball’s most unlikely—and most sought-after—training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he’s helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their...
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The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights

Shaun Assael - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

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

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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Wildlife and Woodlot Management: A Comprehensive Handbook for Food Plot and Habitat Development

Monte Burch - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book

Combining today’s issues of creating self-sustaining environments with the age-old sports of hunting, shooting and trapping, Wildlife and Woodlot Management is the ultimate guide to attracting game to your property. Expert outdoorsman Monte Burch teaches a wide variety of techniques...
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Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard

John Branch - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

"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

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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Rise and Fire: The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot --- and How It Transformed Basketball Forever

Shawn Fury - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

It's hard to believe that there was a time when the jump shot didn't exist in basketball. When the sport was invented in 1891, players would take set shots with both feet firmly planted on the ground. Defenders controlled the sport, the pace was slower, and games would frequently end with...
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Mr. Hockey: My Story

Gordie Howe - G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

Tom Stanton - ‎Lyons Press; No Statement of Edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerForeword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True CrimeDetroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group...
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Donnie Eichar - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

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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