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The Family Guide to Outdoor Adventures: 30 Wilderness Activities to Enjoy Nature Together!

Creek Stewart - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Explore and experience nature with your kids with these 30 fun and educational family activities dedicated to spending more time outside.. Less screen, more green! In the world of smartphones, tablets, and online learning, the need for children to engage with nature has never been more...
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Game-Day Eats: 100 Recipes for Homegating Like a Pro

Eddie Jackson - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

Create epic feasts for game days at home with this full-color cookbook from former NFL star and celebrity chef Eddie Jackson that includes 100 fresh and inventive recipes for tailgating at home.There's nothing like day full of football and great food. While many fans tailgate on game days...
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Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

Chris Herring - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise. Since 2001, they've spent more money, lost more games, and won fewer playoff series than any other NBA team. But during the preceding era, the Big Apple had a club it was madly in love with - one that...
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

Eric Blehm - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration...
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My Cubs: A Love Story

Scott Simon - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured - and now triumphant - franchise.No metaphor is necessary;...
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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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The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality

Mike Sielski - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Kobe Bryant's death in January 2020 did more than rattle the worlds of sports and celebrity. The tragedy of that helicopter crash, which also took the life of his daughter Gianna, unveiled the full breadth and depth of his influence on our culture, and by tracing and telling the oft-forgotten...
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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

Charles Jardine - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

With over 100 movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career--and now his 85th year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge...
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Amazing Racers: The Story of Americas Greatest Running Team and its Revolutionary Coach

Marc Bloom - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback

The inspiring, untold story about a group of remarkable athletes and their groundbreaking coach who live and train in startling ways - and are redefining running excellence in the United States.. What would one call taking teens with no evident running talent and challenging them with boundless...
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Lonely Planet Epic Snow Adventures of the World 1

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover

Explore the world's most thrilling snow adventures with the latest installment in Lonely Planet's Epicseries. From skiing British Columbia's Coast Mountains to ice-caving in Iceland and splitboarding the mountains of Hokkaido in Japan, this book contains 50 first-person stories...
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