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  • Dust Bowl Girls

    The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

    by Lydia Reeder ...
    **“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyThe Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.**In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Don Revie

    Portrait of a Footballing Enigma

    Don Revie was the football man about whom few were neutral. The Leeds United team he created was possibly the finest in the history of English league football, one of legendary endurance, it characters strong and unyeilding. Yet is remained unpopular, for many felt its voracious pursuit of honours was hallmarked by cynicism and ruthlessness.This fascinating study of Revie, one of English football ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pray

    Notes on a Football Season

    by Nick Hornby ...
    Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011–2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and woes that played out on the field. There were alleged racist clashes, revealing the deep cultural ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Red Card

    How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal

    by Ken Bensinger ...
    The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A riveting book” (The New York Times).The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agent’s review of an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Crossing the Bar

    The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot

    by Paul Lobo ...
    There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a licensed harbor pilot in those treacherous waters, Lobo captained nearly 6,500 boats in a thirty-one year career-everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Paul Brown's Ghost

    How the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals Are Haunted by the Man Who Created Them

    Paul Brown was a football genius and the father of two NFL franchises?the Cleveland Browns, who carry his name, and the Cincinnati Bengals. Arguably the most important figure in the history of the sport, he was a renowned coach and owner, and when he passed away on August 5, 1991, the game lost a giant. But for the Browns and Bengals, his death would herald a new era of bad luck, poor judgment, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dreamers and Schemers

    How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis

    by Barry Siegel ...
    How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation.Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing … a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual : How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

    How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

    by Nigel Calder ...
    The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than everIf it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on:Battery technologies12- and 24-volt DC systemsCorrosion, bonding, and lightning protectionG. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Fisherman's Spring

    One of the most prolific fly-fishing writers of the twentieth century, Roderick L. Haig-Brown continues his seasons” cycle with Fisherman’s Spring, a book that is as much about the deep philosophical aspects of fly fishing as it is about fly fishing itself. Readers will learn about the abundance of spring life in the streams of British Columbia while also being treated to Haig-Brown’s thoughtful ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Storey's Guide to Training Horses, 3rd Edition

    Ground Work, Driving, Riding

    Series series Storey’s Guide to Raising
    Storey’s Guide to Training Horses is a one-stop reference for every aspect of horse training, including a complete program for turning a shy and gangly foal into a calm, confident, well-balanced equine partner. Now with full-color photography, the third edition includes step-by-step guidance on all the essential training procedures for both English- and Western-style riding, including haltering ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pro Wrestling FAQ

    All That's Left to Know About the World's Most Entertaining Spectacle

    by Brian Solomon ...
    Sport? Entertainment? Art form? Perhaps a bit of all three, with a certain intangible extra something thrown in for good measure, making professional wrestling a truly unique entity unto itself. From its origins in carnivals and sideshow attractions of the 19th century, right up to the multimillion-dollar, multimedia industry of the present day, and all the bizarre, wild, and woolly points in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Strike Four

    The Evolution of Baseball

    Baseball began as a schoolyard game, brought to America by the colonists. It evolved rapidly over the second half of the nineteenth century, with innovations and rule changes continuing throughout the twentieth century and into the modern era. But why and how did these changes take place?In Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball, Richard Hershberger examines the national pastime’s development, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Kingdom on Fire

    Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty

    In the tradition of Blood in the Garden and Three-Ring Circus comes a bold narrative history of the iconic UCLA Bruins championship teams led by legendary coach John Wooden—an incredible true story about the messy, never-easy pursuit of perfection set against the turmoil of American culture in the 1960s and 70s.Few basketball dynasties have reigned supreme like the UCLA Bruins did over college ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Outdoor Adventure Education

    Foundations, Theory, and Research

    by Alan Ewert ...
    Outdoor Adventure Education: Foundations, Theory, and Research steeps students in the theories, concepts, and developments of outdoor adventure education, preparing them for careers in this burgeoning field.This text is based on author Alan W. Ewert’s pioneering book Outdoor Adventure Pursuits: Foundations, Models, and Theories. Ewert and Sibthorp, both experienced practitioners, researchers, and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Athletics

    Primary Sources in Translation

    The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Doping

    A Sporting History

    A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports—packed with examples—that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts.Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today’s anti-doping measures go too far?Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Girls

    An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down

    by Abigail Pesta ...
    In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time.We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing, untold story. For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Redemption

    A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold

    by Bryan Clay ...
    This is the story of the most unlikely Olympic decathlete in history. Despite size and stature, Bryan Clay is the defending champion of the 2008 Olympic gold medal and winner of the 2004 Olympic silver medal in the decathlon. His journey is as inspiring as it is gritty, as troubled as it is triumphant.Far more than just a sports memoir, Redemption details the drudgery, devastation, and ultimate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Few Seconds of Panic

    A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

    by Stefan Fatsis ...
    "An insightful and . . . amusing look at the inner workings of pro football" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Word FreakIn Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis invaded the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving an expert-level ranking. Now, in his new book, he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture-pro football. After more than a year of preparation, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Wolf of Wessex

    'Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation – old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a book' The Times.AD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a mutilated corpse.Accused of the murder, Dunston must clear his name and keep the dead man's daughter alive in the face of savage pursuers desperate to prevent ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Soccerwomen

    The Icons, Rebels, Stars, and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game

    by Gemma Clarke ...
    From Michelle Akers to Megan Rapinoe, bold and inspiring profiles of the pioneers, champions and future heroines of women's soccer around the world.Women's soccer has come a long way. The first organized games on record -- which took place three hundred years ago in the Scottish Highlands -- were exhibition matches, where single women played against married women while available men looked on, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Twin Ambitions - My Autobiography

    The story of Team GB's double Olympic champion

    by Mo Farah ...
    Hodder & Stoughton admire Sir Mo's bravery in revealing his experience of being trafficked as a child. His memoir TWIN AMBITIONS, published in 2013, is based on the story he felt able to tell at the time, which we understood to be the true version of events. It is now clear that Sir Mo did not wish to share some of his difficult early experiences and we respect the decisions he made both then and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD