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My Losing Season
A Memoir
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $16.00
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Pat Conroy, one of America’s premier novelists, has penned a deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself. During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid...
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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
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Journey to the Heart of Aikido
The Teachings of Motomichi Anno Sensei
Written by Linda Holiday
Contribution by Motomichi Anno
Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $21.95
Journey to the Heart of Aikido presents the teachings of Motomichi Anno Sensei, one of the few remaining direct students of Morihei Ueshiba, the legendary founder of Aikido. After a lifetime of practice and teaching in Japan, the United States, and Europe, Anno Sensei conveys through his teachings Aikido's essential spirit...
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The Talent Code
Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Written by Daniel Coyle
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $13.99
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play...
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Hagakure
The Book of the Samurai
Written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $19.95
Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of
Hagakure, a series of texts written by an eighteenth-century samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It is a window into the samurai mind, illuminating the concept of
bushido (the Way of the Warrior), which dictated how samurai were expected to behave, conduct...
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The Longbow
Written by Mike Loades
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $18.95
Boasting a rate of shooting not seen again in English hands until the late 19th century, the longbow was the weapon at the heart of the English military ascendancy in the century after 1340. Capable of subjecting the enemy to a hail of deadly projectiles, the longbow in the hands of...
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Messi
A Biography
Written by Leonardo Faccio
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.95
For soccer enthusiasts and sports fans in general, an in-depth look at the life of the beautiful game’s greatest star, Argentine footballer Lionel Messi.
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Whether you call it soccer, football,
fútbol, or the “beautiful game," it is the most popular sport in the world, and Argentine footballer Lionel Messi stands as one...
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The Book of Five Rings
Written by Miyamoto Musashi
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $7.99
The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes...
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