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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn [Secure]
by Larry Colton
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In Native American tradition, "counting coup" meant literally touching one's enemy in battle and living to tell about it. Now it means playing winning hoops and dominating one's opponent. Counting Coup is the story of the girls' varsity basketball team of Hardin High School in Crow, Montana. The team is comprised of both Crow Indian and White girls, and is led by Sharon Laforge, a moody, undisciplined, yet talented Native American who hopes to be the first female player from Hardin to earn a bas... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Got Fight? [Secure]
by Forrest Griffin
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Wondering why you should purchase this book when there are other titles on the shelves written by much higher-caliber fighters? Well, Forrest Griffin is not as good-looking as those guys. He's not as smart as them. He's also not as athletically endowed. And let's face it, neither are you. Those other fighters are pretty much better than you in every way. But you can actually aspire to be as good as Forrest one day. Why? Because he is nothing special, just like you. Forrest is not a martial artis... more info>>
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Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker [Secure]
by Chris Moneymaker
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Chris Moneymaker was just a regular guy working as an accountant in Tennessee, who enjoyed playing online poker--and winning. On a fluke he decided to enter the World Series of Poker, paid the $40 application fee, and, with only three years' experience playing the game, won it all: $2.5 million. Merging Chris' amazing story with actual tools to help the average joe become a poker star, this is the must-have poker book for online dreamers and budding young amateurs alike.
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Phil Hellmuth Presents: Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells [Secure]
by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
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Every great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error. But now, Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis--or, to put it simply, a man who can tell when someone's lying--offers foolproof techniques, illustrated... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis [Secure]
by Pete Sampras
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Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking. Until now. In A Champion's Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people "inside his head... more info>>
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Boys Will Be Boys [Secure]
by Jeff Pearlman
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They were America's Team--the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, and Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, the Cowboys rank among the greatest of all NFL dynasties. In similar fashion to his New York Times bestseller The Bad Guys Won!, about the 1986 New York Mets, in Boys Will Be Boys, award-winning writer Jeff Pe... more info>>
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CSI: Snake Eyes [Secure]
by Max Allan Collins
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Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence--miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds of rounds fired on the casino floor. Called to an out-of-control crime scene--located outside Las Vegas in the legendary town of Boot Hill--forensic investigators Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle quickly discover that the tw... more info>>
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Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Hearland [Secure]
by Mark Kreidler
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Somewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling. Each a three-time state champion, Jay Borschel and Dan LeClere have a chance in their senior year to join the sport's most elite group: the "four-timers," wrestlers who win four consecutive state titles. For Jay, a ferocious competitor who feeds off criticism and doubt, a victory would... more info>>
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I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It: Some Things I've Learned So Far [Secure]
by Charles Barkley, Michael Wilbon
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Charles Barkley has never been shy about expressing his opinions. Michael Jordan once said that we all want to say the things that Barkley says, but we don't dare. But even die-hard followers of the all-time NBA great, the star of TNT's Inside the NBA and CNN's TalkBack Live, will be astonished by just how candid and provocative he is in this book--and just how big his ambitions are. Though he addresses weighty issues with a light touch and prefers to stir people to think by making them laugh, t... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Playing Through: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Golf [Secure]
by Peter Post
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There's a social aspect to golf that's unique to the sport. It's the only sport where you're building relationships at the same time that you're trying to play your best and win--and maybe close a business deal. While the rules of golf are clearly defined, the etiquette of golf is less codified. Making the wrong move can cause annoyance, errors in play, or even injury--all things your fellow golfers won't forget. Now bestselling etiquette authority and passionate golfer Peter Post explains what ... more info>>
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Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France [Secure]
by Floyd Landis
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The series of events surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race's opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable fashion just before the Tour's final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing... more info>>
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Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored [Secure]
by Richard Cole
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No one knew Led Zeppelin like Richard Cole. The band's tour manager for more than a decade, Cole was there when they burst onto the music scene, achieved cult status, cut platinum records, and transformed popular music. Second only to the Beatles in sales for years, Led Zeppelin was rock's premier group. But unlike the boys from Liverpool, the excitement of this band"s music was matched by the fever pitch of their antics on and off the stage.... In hotel rooms and stadiums, in a customized priva... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Starcraft: Dark Templar #1: Firstborn [Secure]
by Blizzard Entertainment
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Jake Ramsey--an unassuming, yet talented archaeologist--has been given the chance of a lifetime. Hired to investigate a recently unearthed Xel'Naga temple, he knows this latest assignment will open up whole new possibilities for his career. Yet, when Jake discovers the remains of a long-dead protoss mystic, his hopes and dreams are irrevocably drowned in a flood of alien memories. Bonded to the spirit of the dead protoss, Jake has become the sole inheritor of the protoss's total history--every e... more info>>
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Survive! [Secure]
by Les Stroud
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From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest--and most remote--regions on Earth. Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program Survivorman transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of Survive!, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival. Stroud offers readers the essential skills and tactics necessary to... more info>>
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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World [Secure]
by Joshua Prager
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The 1951 regular season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. And not once in major league baseball's 278 preceding playoff and World Series games had a team overcome a three-run deficit in the ninth inning. But New York rallied, and at 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The Giants won the pennant. The Echoing Green follows the reverberations of th... more info>>
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Who Put The Butter In Butterfly? ... and Other Fearless Investigations Into Our Illogical Language [Secure]
by David Feldman
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Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips. From cooties and mugwumps to Ps and Qs and Peeping Tom, this is a doozie of a diversion.
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Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete [Secure]
by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Sonja Steptoe
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Jackie is known throughout the world as the best female athlete ever--the winner of six Olympic medals, three of them gold; the current world-record holder in the heptathlon (the women's version of the male decathlon); the one-time world-record holder in the long jump; and an All-America basketball player. She grew up in East St. Louis in a house "little more than wallpaper and sticks." Her parents were poor teenagers when they married. She made her first long-jump pit in her backyard from borro... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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'Have you Seen...?' [Secure]
by David Thomson
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In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales. Now, thirty-three years later, we have the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice--that of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian. Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this sweeping collection presents the films that Thomson offers in response to the question he gets ... more info>>
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10 Count Trivia: Events and Championship [Secure]
by Dean Miller
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Will you be counted out? Can you pin down the answer before that fateful 10 count sounds? Or will you be left out? There is only one way to discover just who is the champ, who really knows sports entertainment. Ten little questions to prove if you really know everything about the events and championships that have raised the rafters in arenas across the globe and carved a place in the history of WWE for the Superstars who dared to step into the ring.We dare you to step up. Take the challenge. It... more info>>
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101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent: Making Athletics a Positive Experience for Your Child [Secure]
by Joel Fish
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The determining factor in whether a child between the ages of six and seventeen enjoys athletics is his or her parents--not the sport, coach, or team. Yet, parents are often unaware of how their behavior and expectations impact their child's experience.In 101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent, Dr. Joel Fish, a sport psychologist who is also the dad of three young athletes, shares both his clinical expertise and practical experience to help parents develop a deeper understanding of the many iss... more info>>
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1941: The Greatest Year In Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War [Secure]
by Mike Vaccaro
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Joe DiMaggio ... Ted Williams ... Joe Louis ... Billy Conn ... Whirlaway. Against the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world, these athletes transformed 1941 into one of the most thrilling years in sports history. In the summer of 1941, America paid attention to sports with an intensity that had never been seen before. World War II was raging in Europe and headlines grew worse by the day; even the most optimistic people began to accept the inevitability of the United States being... more info>>
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24 Declassified: Head Shot [Secure]
by David Jacobs
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In less than twenty-four hours, in a palatial hideaway in the mountains of Colorado, a group of America's most powerful industrialists will be gathering for their annual summit. The bizarre disappearance of all the members of a local crackpot cult--and of two ATF agents assigned to keep an eye on them--may have no connection whatsoever to the impending high-powered conference. But with so many corporate titans grouped together in one location, CTU can't afford to take chances. Sent to investigat... more info>>
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700 Sundays [Secure]
by Billy Crystal
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From the story of the Crystal family's proud connection to the New York jazz scene of the 40s and 50s ... to the hilarious living room performances that would sow the seeds of Billy's unparalleled career ... to the times of tragedy, heartbreak, and his mother's unending courage, 700 Sundays celebrates the memories, the love, and all the other wonderful gifts parents can give a child. Based on his Tony Award-winning play, 700 Sundays is not the story of Billy Crystal's great career. It is a tribu... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America [Secure]
by Paul Cuadros
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A Home on the Field is about faith, loyalty, and trust. It is a parable in the tradition of Stand and Deliver and Hoosiers--a story of one team and their accidental coach who became certain heroes to the whole community. For the past ten years, Siler City, North Carolina, has been at the front lines of immigration in the interior portion of the United States. Like a number of small Southern towns, workers come from traditional Latino enclaves across the United States, as well as from Latin Ameri... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York [Secure]
by Liz Robbins
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When 39,195 competitors thunder over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to begin the thirty-eighth running of the famed New York City Marathon, they experience one of the most exhilarating moments in sports. But as they cross five towering bridges and five distinct boroughs, carried 26.2 miles by the cheers of two million fans and by their own indomitable wills, grueling challenges await them. New York Times sportswriter Liz Robbins brings race day to life in this gripping saga of the 2007 Marathon, w... more info>>
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