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The Soul of Success
The head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers traces the life experiences and philosophies that inspired his championship-winning techniques, citing his relationships with such players as Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Kobe Bryant while describing how he forged successful teams by combining talents and promoting trust.
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Class A
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Iowa's Clinton LumberKings minor-league baseball team had a remarkable 2010 season, chronicled here through the experiences of its players and dedicated fans. The year's stories included challenges facing a once-thriving lumber town, achievements in a Depression-era stadium and the contributions of a former major league backup catcher-turned-minor league manager.
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
German-born biergarten owner Chris Von der Ahe bought the St. Louis Browns baseball team in order to sell more beer, but the purchase became a turning point in American baseball history.
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This Love Is Not For Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez
As Mexico descends into a feudal narco-state — one where cartels, death squads, the army and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking — the border city of Juarez has been hit hardest of all. Yet more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Juarez," or "Love for Juarez." And nothing exemplifies the spirit and hope of Juarenses more than the Indios, the city's beloved but hard-luck soccer team.
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Game Over
How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
Dave Zirin reveals how the most important debates about class, race, religion, sex and the quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. Game Over looks at the shady side of the NCAA, 2011's explosive MLB All-Star Game and why the Dodgers crashed and burned.
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington state — and she would do it alone.NPR Bestseller
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Color Blind
The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
Taking readers back in time to the mid-1930s, Tom Dunkel chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, N.D., that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.
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Long Shot
The 12-time All-Star catcher describes the inspiration he gleaned from his self-made father, his early career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, his memorable 2000 World Series with the New York Mets and the controversies that have marked his career.
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Sum It Up
1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
The former head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team describes how her upbringing helped her to develop a balanced coaching style and recounts her battle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.NPR Bestseller
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The Power of Negative Thinking by Bob Knight
The Power of Negative Thinking
An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results
Using examples from his long career, a legendary basketball coach outlines the benefits of negative thinking, which helps build a realistic strategy that takes all potential obstacles into account.
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Top Dog
The Science of Winning and Losing
The co-authors of the New York Times best-selling NurtureShock turn their attentions to the cutting edge science behind life's triumphs and failures and offer insight from politics, finance, science, sports and economics to tip the odds in your favor. (business & economics). Simultaneous.
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The Disaster Diaries
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse
Plagued by insomnia and nightmares about a zombie apocalypse, Harvard grad turned boxer, cowboy, sailor and Wilderness EMT Sam Sheridan sets out to acquire the skills necessary to survive any doomsday scenario — from earthquakes and floods to invasion by alien monsters.
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Francona
The Red Sox Years
The former Red Sox manager reflects on his tenure with the team, chronicling the challenges of managing difficult players, satisfying multiple owners, and dealing with both championship and losing seasons.NPR Bestseller
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The Ledge
An Adventure Story Of Friendship And Survival On Mount Rainier
The Ledge documents the 1992 mountaineering venture during which co-author Jim Davidson and his best friend, Mike Price, ascended Mount Rainier before a tragic fall that instantly ended Mike's life and forced Jim to climb to safety with sparse equipment.
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Wherever I Wind Up
My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball
Relates the author's unlikely journey to the big leagues after his athletic dream was nearly destroyed and how he was sustained by his Christian faith and the love of his family before emerging as one of the National League's premier pitchers.
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Jewish Jocks
An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
With contributions from celebrated Jewish writers including David Remnick, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dahlia Lithwick, Jewish Jocks provides an overview of the most influential Jewish figures in sports, from Howard Cosell to Sandy Koufax.
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Muck City
Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town
Muck City traces the intertwined stories of an orphaned quarterback, a celebrated football coach and an aspiring medical student whose prospects were collectively shaped by the formidable challenges, shameful history and football enthusiasm of their hometown in the Florida Everglades.
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Running Ransom Road
Confronting The Past, One Marathon At A Time
A sober alcoholic documents his 18-month effort to run marathons in the cities where he once lived and engaged in abusive behaviors, assessing the redemptive benefits of running and the stories of fellow addicts who pursued similar dreams.
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Soccernomics
Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey—and Even Iraq—are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game of soccer works, "Soccernomics" reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about the world's most popular game. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup.
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Into the Silence
The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Wade Davis describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflected England's post-World War I redemption efforts.
