Play Their Hearts Out
A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
Written by George Dohrmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $16.00
Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting
Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports
Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America’s basketball stars...
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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...
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
Written by Warren St. John
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $15.00
What is it about sports that turns otherwise sane people into raving lunatics? Why does winning compel people to tear down goal posts, and losing, to drown themselves in bad keg beer? In short, why do fans care?
In search of answers, Warren St. John seeks out the roving community of RVers...
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Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Written by Beck Weathers
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 21, 2000
Price: $7.99
I am neither churchly nor a particularly spiritual person, but I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.
On May 10, 1996...
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The Downhill Lie
A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years passed and the memories of slices and hooks faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as...
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Among the Thugs
Written by Bill Buford
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that...
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