Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95

From the former New York Times Beijing bureau chief comes a closely observed story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to make the playoffs by copying the American stars of the NBA.
       
When the worst professional basketball team in China, the Shanxi Brave Dragons, hired former...

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More Than a Game

Written by Phil Jackson and Charley Rosen

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95

More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson's journey—from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year's L.A. Lakers world champion—and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen's journey as... Read more >

Ashley Book of Knots

Written by Clifford Ashley

Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: June 21, 1944
Price: $85.00

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Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Written by Michael Lewis
Read by Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2003
Price: $17.50

Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected... Read more >

No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $11.99

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to... Read more >

The Book of Five Rings
A Graphic Novel
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Miyamoto Musashi
Illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada
Translated by William Scott Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.95

This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a strategic mind. With evocative drawings and a distilled... Read more >

The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Written by Susan Casey

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $9.99

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,  ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis­missed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws... Read more >

Gun Guys
A Road Trip
Written by Dan Baum

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99

Here is armed America—a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns—which horrifies and fascinates many other... Read more >

Open
An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Read by Erik Davies

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $27.50

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.

Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis... Read more >

Play Baseball the Ripken Way
The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Fundamentals
Written by Cal Ripken, Jr., Bill Ripken and Larry Burke

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $18.00

Every year, hundreds of thousands of children play “Cal Ripken Baseball” in the largest division of Babe Ruth League, Inc. Play Baseball the Ripken Way is the ultimate guide to playing the game, by one of the sport’s living legends.

Baseball is America’s national pastime, but that doesn’t mean we’re all... Read more >