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20 Minute Yoga Workoutsby American Yoga Association Staff, Alice ChristensenISBN 0345388453 (0-345-38845-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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America's Game: The Epic Story Of How Pro Football Captured A Nationby Michael MacCambridgeISBN 0375725067 (0-375-72506-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Another Season: A Coach's Story of Raising an Exceptional Sonby Gene Stallings, Sally CookISBN 0316811963 (0-316-81196-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Season: A Coach's Story of Raising an Exceptional Son'Book summary:When beloved University of Alabama football coach Gene Stallings's son was born with Down syndrome and a serious heart defect, doctors predicted he wouldn't live to see his first birthday and urged Coach Stallings and his wife to institutionalize him. But for Gene and Ruth Ann that was not an option. Johnny quickly won the hearts and adoration of the Stallings family and everyone who took the time to know him, and, proving the doctors wrong by leading an active life, he became a vital and important part of his family, his community, and his father's career. With intimate glimpses of family life and thrilling football anecdotes, ANOTHER SEASON is brimming with poignant lessons about defying the odds and finding joy in every moment. [via]
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Baseball Rules Illustratedby George SullivanISBN 0346125243 (0-346-12524-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Library
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Being Freddie: The Story So Farby Andrew FlintoffISBN 0340896280 (0-340-89628-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportwriter's Sonby John Jeremiah SullivanISBN 0374172811 (0-374-17281-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Bobby Orr:My Game: My Gameby Mark Mulvoy, Bobby OrrISBN 0316664901 (0-316-66490-1)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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The Boxer's Heart: How I Fell in Love with the Ringby Kate SekulesISBN 0375503951 (0-375-50395-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Celtics Pride: The Rebuilding of Boston's World Championship Basketball Teamby Bob RyanISBN 0316763683 (0-316-76368-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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The Complete Book of the Olympics, 1992by David WallechinskyISBN 0316920533 (0-316-92053-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics 1994by David Wallechinsky, David WallenchinskyISBN 0316920800 (0-316-92080-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Cork Boatby John D. PollackISBN 0375422579 (0-375-42257-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Corner Of A Foreign Field: The Indian History Of A British Sportby Ramachandra GuhaISBN 0330491172 (0-330-49117-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Curveballsby John Rolfe, Mary WilshireISBN 0316754528 (0-316-75452-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Damon Hill's Grand Prix Yearby Damon HillISBN 0330344102 (0-330-34410-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guysby Dave BarryISBN 0345440633 (0-345-44063-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys'Book summary:For thousands of years, women have asked themselves: What is the deal with guys, anyway? What are they thinking? The answer, of course, is: virtually nothing. But that has not stopped Dave Barry from writing an entire book about them, dealing frankly and semi-thoroughly with such important guy issues as:
- Scratching
- Why the average guy can remember who won the 1960 World Series but
not necessarily the names of all his children
- Why guys cannot simultaneously think and look at breasts
- Secret guy orgasm-delaying techniques, including the Margaret Thatcher
Method
- Why guys prefer to believe that there is no such thing as a "prostate" [via]More editions of Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys:
Dave Litfin's Expert Handicapping: Winning Insights into Betting Thoroughbredsby Dave LitfinISBN 0316527815 (0-316-52781-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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Day Hiker's Guide to VermontISBN 0318121190 (0-318-12119-0)
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Diamond Dreams: Thirty Years of Baseball Through the Lens of Walter Ioossby Thomas Boswell, Walter IoossISBN 0316420123 (0-316-42012-3)
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Walter Iooss, a Sports Illustrated photographer for over 30 years, captures what he calls in his introduction "a thread that has connected the various stages of my life, as well as my photographic career... baseball." As Iooss also says, "every shot has a story," and these photos of the absolute greats in the history of the game such as Hank Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Brooks Robinson, Yogi Berra, Cal Ripken, Reggie Jackson, Ken Griffey, Jr. and many others provide glimpses of heroes in action as well as often intimate portraits of self-appointed gods and humble team players. Washington Post-based syndicated columnist Tom Boswell's accompanying prose adds an extra dimension every bit as revealing and poignant as the Iooss pictures. He bares tales from his own experience and observations over many years of following the game firsthand in the dugout trenches. In one passage he describes a scene he witnessed where then 45-year-old Sandy Koufax, working as a Dodger pitching coach, pitched "off the rubber" in a batting practice 45 minutes before a World Series game and threw so perfectly he almost destroyed "the confidence of the heart of the Dodger batting order" before another Dodger coach ran up and whispered something in his ear to end the session. Moments like this captured in both the photographs and the text, make Diamond Dreams a truly worthwhile book for anyone who might be what Boswell refers to as a "good baseball fan." --Walt Opie [via]
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Dickie Bird Autobiographyby BirdISBN 0340684577 (0-340-68457-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Dickie Bird: My Autobiographyby Dickie BirdISBN 0340684585 (0-340-68458-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, And the Shot Heard Round the Worldby Joshua PragerISBN 0375421548 (0-375-42154-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Essence of the Game Is Deception: Thinking about Basketballby Leonard KoppettISBN 0316502014 (0-316-50201-4)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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The Eternal Summer: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Yearby Curt Sampson, Dan JenkinsISBN 0375753680 (0-375-75368-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Every Week A Season: A Journey Inside Big-time College Footballby Brian CurtisISBN 0345483375 (0-345-48337-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The First Coming: Tiger Woods Master or Martyrby John FeinsteinISBN 0345422864 (0-345-42286-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Coming: Tiger Woods Master or Martyr'Book summary:Few things are more fun than reading a book from a writer who's got an ax to grind, an unhidden bias and an argument as sharp as his blade. John Feinstein, who is as prolific and authoritative as any sportswriter sharpening a, uh, pencil these days, takes a breather from the usual in-depth reportage of big books such as A March to Madness and A Civil War to tee off on Team Tiger in what is essentially a long magazine essay stuffed between book covers. The First Coming may be short, but like a wily par 3, it's loaded.
Feinstein makes this clear from the get-go: he is awed by what Tiger Woods can do with a golf club, and he detests the way money rules sports. Thus, his beef isn't with the phenom of the fairways, regardless of how surly and capricious and self-inflated he can be; it's with Tiger's entourage--his father (who's likened the son to the Second Coming), his management company, and his endorsement sponsors, all of whom seem bent on extracting every pound of flesh they can in pursuit of the almighty dollar. In Tiger's case, the number comes to a very dividable stack of about 100 million of them. Feinstein declares a holy war on Tiger's team. The journalist is extremely tough on Earl Woods, for example, comparing him to one-time tennis hopeful Jennifer Capriati's father. He argues convincingly that, with Tiger's financial den secure, the golfer should forget about burning himself out by chasing every cent he can rake in for them and take dead aim on only one target for himself: the majesty of chasing Jack Nicklaus's seemingly unsurpassable achievement of 18 major tournament victories.
"The most important question that remains unanswered," writes Feinstein, "is this: Who is Tiger Woods? He's not the messiah, that's for certain." At this stage in his life and career, though, the positive side of that answer remains hidden in the rough, even for a scribe of Feinstein's provocative daring. [via]
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Flanagan's Runby Tom McNabISBN 0340274824 (0-340-27482-4)
Softcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Fowler: My Autobiographyby Robbie Fowler, David MaddockISBN 0330437631 (0-330-43763-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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The Franchiseby Peter GentISBN 034528299X (0-345-28299-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Game Face : What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?by Jane Gottesman, Penny MarshallISBN 0375506020 (0-375-50602-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Golfer's Lifeby Arnold Palmer, James DodsonISBN 0345414829 (0-345-41482-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Golfer's Life'Book summary:From his first steps onto the public stage, this true icon of sport exuded an aura more inviting than off-putting, and his substantial record--92 titles worldwide, four Masters championships, a U.S. Open crown, and back-to-back British Open victories--speaks for itself. So does his autobiography. It is friendly, chatty, honest, passionate, long on spirit, and deft with the anecdotes it shares. As a storyteller, Palmer is as down the middle with the failures and hard times as he is with the remarkable triumphs. He writes thrillingly about golf at its most competitive; probingly about his rivals, particularly Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus; revealingly about the extended slump that followed the '64 Masters, his last win in a major; fairly and nobly about his own legendary status; emotionally about his family and his complex relationship with his father; and quite movingly about both his and his wife's battles with cancer: "The very word...used in the same sentence as Winnie's name struck cold terror in my heart."
If A Golfing Life sometimes finds itself ankle-deep in the rough of its own sentimentality--"I'm damned proud of my efforts"--it also surprises with unflinching candor and self-awareness: "Walking down the fairway, shaken to the core," he concedes of his titanic collapse in the final round of the 1966 U.S. Open, "I doubt if I have ever felt as alone or as devastated on the golf course. I know what a train wreck the world is witnessing." In the end, the volume's real appeal isn't just the charismatic persona of Palmer himself--it's his ability to take aim at the birdies and bogeys of a full life on and off the course and assess them with clarity, charm, equanimity, and wit. --Jeff Silverman
The Greatest : My Own Storyby Muhammad Ali, Richard DurhamISBN 0345286227 (0-345-28622-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Guide Book of the Long Trailby Brian T. FitzgeraldISBN 0318121182 (0-318-12118-2)
Softcover, Green Mountain Club
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Hard Eightby Janet EvanovichISBN 0375431705 (0-375-43170-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Eight'Book summary:In Hard Eight, Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter's seen before. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who's planning to collect on a child custody bond that will leave Evelyn's grandmother homeless. Stephanie's first clue that there's more to it than that comes in the form of Eddie Abruzzi, a shady local businessman who warns her to butt out of the case. Stephanie doesn't scare easily, but when Abruzzi's henchmen leave a bag of snakes on her doorknob and tarantulas in her car, she has no choice but to call Ranger, the hunky man of mystery whom she already owes too many favors. Steph knows that Ranger will soon be calling in his marker, but with her ex- fiancé Joe Morelli out of the picture, that should be OK--shouldn't it? In the meantime, she's got other fugitives to catch, aided by the usual band of misfits, plus a bumbling correspondence-school lawyer who's developed the hots for Stephanie's sister, Valerie. And Steph's in for a surprise from her mother, who proves she's not above wielding a dangerous weapon to save her daughter's life.
Author Janet Evanovich has made a bold move in using a soupçon of child jeopardy to pull this series out of the comfortable but formulaic pattern it was threatening to fall into. It's still funny, and yes, some cars are destroyed, but now there's a real edge of darkness under the humor. Fans needn't fear, though: Jersey girl Stephanie is still full of sass and Tastykakes. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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Heaven Can Waitby Leonore FleischerISBN 0345320441 (0-345-32044-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Home of the Bravesby David KlassISBN 0374399638 (0-374-39963-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Infinite Jestby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316920045 (0-316-92004-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The John McPhee Readerby John A. McPheeISBN 0374517193 (0-374-51719-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The John McPhee Readerby William L. Howarth, John A. McPheeISBN 0374179921 (0-374-17992-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The John McPhee Reader'Book summary:The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the authors first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, who has been called a master craftsman so many times that it is pointless to number them.[via]More editions of The John McPhee Reader:
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Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writerby A. J. Liebling, David RemnickISBN 0374104433 (0-374-10443-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling was the first of the great New Yorker writers, a colorful and tireless figure who helped set the magazine's urbane style. Today, he is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing or as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick, a Liebling devotee, suggests in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling was a writer bounded only by his intelligence, taste, and ardor for life. Like his nemesis William Randolph Hearst, he changed the rules of modern journalism, banishing the distinctions between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Whatever his role, Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this grand and generous book is to be swept along on a thrilling adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide.More editions of Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writer:
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Lacrosse Face-offby Matt Christopher, Stephanie True PetersISBN 0316796417 (0-316-79641-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Laws of Order: A Book of Hierarchies, Rankings, Infrastructures, Measurements, and Sizesby Jeff RovinISBN 0345365852 (0-345-36585-2)
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Lords of the Realm : The Real History of Baseballby John HelyarISBN 0345392612 (0-345-39261-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Maniac Mageeby Jerry SpinelliISBN 0316809063 (0-316-80906-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maniac Magee'Book summary:Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one can undo. "Kid's gotta be a maniac," is what the folks in Two Mills say. It's also the story of how this boy, Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, confronts racism in a small town, tries to find a home where there is none and attempts to soothe tensions between rival factions on the tough side of town. Presented as a folk tale, it's the stuff of storytelling. "The history of a kid," says Jerry Spinelli, "is one part fact, two parts legend, and three parts snowball." And for this kid, four parts of fun. Maniac Magee won the 1991 Newbery Medal. [via]
The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainierby Bruce BarcottISBN 0345426339 (0-345-42633-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Miracle on the 17th Greenby James Patterson, Peter DejongeISBN 0316693359 (0-316-69335-9)
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Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spyby Louis KaufmanISBN 0316483486 (0-316-48348-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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My Spin on Cricketby Richie BenaudISBN 0340833939 (0-340-83393-9)
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Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Paytonby Don Yaeger, Walter PaytonISBN 0375758216 (0-375-75821-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Olympiadby Tom HoltISBN 0349113165 (0-349-11316-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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Olympic Gamesby Chris Oxlade, David BallheimerISBN 0375802223 (0-375-80222-3)
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Picador Book of Sportswritingby Nick ColemanISBN 0330344595 (0-330-34459-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Playing Hard Ballby E. T. SmithISBN 0349116660 (0-349-11666-0)
Softcover, Abacus
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Playing Hard Ball: A Kent Crickter's Journey into Big League Baseballby E. T. SmithISBN 0316860565 (0-316-86056-5)
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The Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0345348036 (0-345-34803-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
The Question of Brunoby Aleksandar HemonISBN 0375727000 (0-375-72700-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Reggieby Reggie Jackson, Mike LupicaISBN 0345312163 (0-345-31216-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Richard's Bicycle Bookby Richard BallantineISBN 0330242032 (0-330-24203-2)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Rocky IVby Sylvester StalloneISBN 0345328493 (0-345-32849-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Saint: My Autobiographyby St JohnISBN 0340841141 (0-340-84114-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIby Robert KursonISBN 0345482476 (0-345-48247-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II'Book summary:In the tradition of Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air and Sebastian Jungers The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mysteryand make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.
But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bonesall buried under decades of accumulated sediment.
No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.
Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailorsformer enemies of their country. As the mens marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.
Author Robert Kursons account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the oceans underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea. [via]More editions of Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II:
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Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mineby Thom JonesISBN 0316472409 (0-316-47240-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine'Book summary:Welcome back to the world of boot camp, boxing gyms, psych wards, and pharmaceutical highs. Once again, Thom Jones seems less to write fiction than to allow his characters to pour their stories directly into the reader's ear. Here the cast includes some of the usual suspects--jittery fighters, Marines, Vietnam vets--as well as some new but equally quirky voices, from a nebbishy vice principal to a 92-year-old woman. First seen in Jones's debut collection, The Pugilist at Rest, the crack Marine recon team Break On Thru makes several more sorties--most notably in "Fields of Purple Forever," in which the civilian Sergeant Ondine takes up swimming much the same way Odysseus, say, took up sailing: "Ondine a night swimmer and he all over the night. Captain of the night. I swim in the fields of purple. Nothing and no one can harm me forever." "Tarantula" chronicles the rise and fall of John Harold Hammermeister, vice principal of W.E.B. Du Bois High School, where the students fail to be impressed by his caged spider and the frustrated janitors prove his undoing. "My Heroic Mythic Journey" follows the downward career arc of its boxer protagonist, who becomes featherweight champion of the world only to fall for a "bleach-bottle blond with a cheating heart" and a loaded .38. Most winning of all is the elderly narrator of "Daddy's Girl," who manages to preserve her faith even with two dead husbands, countless family tragedies, and eyelids growing up into her eyes: "You have to believe like a little child. Believe it because it's impossible." Only the overlong concluding story, "You Cheated, You Lied," disappoints; as chaotic as the main characters' mood swings, it follows two crazy teenagers in love and off their medication. But this tale is an exception in an otherwise noteworthy collection. Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine only confirms Jones's place as one of the most original American writers at work today. --Mary Park [via]
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Sports Illustrated 1995 Sports Almanacby Editors of Sports IllustratedISBN 0316808601 (0-316-80860-1)
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The Sports Illustrated 1996 Sports Almanacby Editors of Sports IllustratedISBN 0316808830 (0-316-80883-0)
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The Sports Illustrated 1998 Sports Almanacby The Editors of SiISBN 0316800082 (0-316-80008-2)
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Statistics in Sportby Jay BennettISBN 0340700726 (0-340-70072-6)
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The Stats Baseball Scoreboardby John Dewan, Don Zminda, Stats, Inc, John GrimwadeISBN 0345364341 (0-345-36434-1)
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Street & Smith's Guide to Pro Basketball 1996-97by Street and Smith'sISBN 0345404416 (0-345-40441-6)
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Sunday Driverby Brock W. YatesISBN 0374271836 (0-374-27183-6)
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The Sweetheart Seasonby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0345416422 (0-345-41642-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweetheart Season'Book summary:Though most men had returned to their hometowns after World War II, few came back to the tiny village of Magrit, Minnesota. Irini, a nineteen year-old woman, works in the Scientific Kitchen at Margaret Mill, a cereal factory, with most of Magrit's other eligible bachelorettes. Hoping to promote his business and attract some suitors for his staff, the owner of the mill forms a women's baseball team called the Sweetwheat Sweethearts. Irini, who wields a fearsome throwing arm, strong from kneading bread dough, is the team's star center fielder and her successes, failures, and revelations on and off the ball field are endearingly recalled by her now grown daughter. [via]
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Talkin' Baseball: An Oral History of Baseball in the 1970sby Phil PepeISBN 0345414977 (0-345-41497-7)
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To the Hiltby Dick FrancisISBN 0330352253 (0-330-35225-3)
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The Underdog: How I Survived the World's Most Outlandish Competitionsby Joshua DavisISBN 0345476581 (0-345-47658-1)
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Wait Till I Make the Show: Baseball in the Minor Leaguesby Bob RyanISBN 0316763675 (0-316-76367-5)
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A Whole Other Ball Gameby Joli SandozISBN 0374525218 (0-374-52521-8)
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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetypeby Clarissa Pinkola EstesISBN 0345396812 (0-345-39681-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'Book summary:The author is not only a Jungian analyst, but a storyteller. She is steeped in the traditions of storytelling from both the Latin and the Hungarian sides of her family, and I very much enjoyed the ways in which she uses this legacy of the storyteller as healer to make her points. I never thought of storytelling in this way before, but reading this book I found it to be true. (I feel that her stories have helped heal me.) I am a storyteller myself, of a sort, so for me the book was a kind of homecoming. If you have ever wondered why fairy tales seem so cruel and peculiar, you will find the answers in this book. Fairy tales have been mangled in the translation, but this author shows you where they came from and what they are really about. While I am a huge believer in free-market capitalism, growth, business, and civilization (as opposed to back-to-nature Green-ery), I have tremendous concerns about the increasingly violent and impersonal nature of our society. This book shows you how to cultivate a healing, loving attitude toward the world without becoming a doormat--quite the contrary, it shows how love can give you more strength and power than you'll ever find in a boardroom. [via]
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The Wrong Horse: An Odyssey Through the American Racing Sceneby William MurrayISBN 0316591319 (0-316-59131-9)
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Yoga for Healthby Richard HittlemanISBN 0345327985 (0-345-32798-5)
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Zen in the Art of Archeryby Eugen HerrigelISBN 0375705090 (0-375-70509-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen in the Art of Archery'Book summary:So many books have been written about the meditation side of Zen and the everyday, chop wood/carry water side of Zen. But few books have approached Zen the way that most Japanese actually do--through ritualized arts of discipline and beauty--and perhaps that is why Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery is still popular so long after it first publication in 1953. Herrigel, a philosophy professor, spent six years studying archery and flower-arranging in Japan, practicing every day, and struggling with foreign notions such as "eyes that hear and ears that see." In a short, pithy narrative, he brings the heart of Zen to perfect clarity--intuition, imitation, practice, practice, practice, then, boom, wondrous spontaneity fusing self and art, mind, body, and spirit. Herrigel writes with an attention to subtle profundity and relates it with a simple artistry that itself carries the signature of Zen. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Mujeres Que Corren Con Los Lobos: Mitos Y Cuentos De LA Mujer Salvajeby Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Maria Antonia MeniniISBN 0375707530 (0-375-70753-0)
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Mujeres que corren con los lobos is the first Spanish-language edition available in North America of the epoch-making Women Who Run with the Wolves. In its English-language version, this amazingly influential and luminous bestseller has touched the souls of millions of women, and men, with its exploration of what may be the most powerful of archetypes, the Wild Woman. With a unique vision and intelligence, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés tells and examines a rich intercultural mix of myths, fairy tales, and stories--familiar traditional tales, her own and those of her families' elders. She has hit a well-spring of feminine instinct, creativity, and power that washes over every woman throughout the world.
An important edition to the Vintage Español list, Mujeres que corren con los lobos is sure to be a major success in the Spanish-speaking American market. [via]More editions of Mujeres Que Corren Con Los Lobos: Mitos Y Cuentos De LA Mujer Salvaje:
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