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What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery—of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture;...
Sundays Will Never Be the Same
Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
From the former NASCAR champion and current Fox Sports announcer, an intimate account of one of the most dramatic and tragic days in the history of NASCAR: the 2001 Daytona 500—the day that racing legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died.
In Sundays Will Never Be the Same, former NASCAR champion and...
by Dr. Bob Rotella
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
This old adage is familiar to all golfers but is especially resonant with Dr. Bob Rotella, the bestselling author of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and one of the foremost golf authorities today. In Putting Out of Your Mind, Rotella offers entertaining and instructive insight into the key element of...
No Limits
The Will to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps—up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots—shows us the secrets to his remarkable success—from training to execution.
For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress...
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the...
The Good Son
The Life of Ray ',Boom Boom', Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
FRANK SINATRA FAWNED OVER HIM. WARREN ZEVON WROTE A TRIBUTE SONG. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.
From the mobbed-up...
The Unstoppable Golfer
Trusting Your Mind & Your Short Game to Achieve Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Dr. Bob Rotella is the preeminent golf psychologist to the game’s top players—he has coached stars like Keegan Bradley, Padraig Harrington, and Darren Clarke—and he has offered his advice to golfers of all skill levels in his bestselling books, including Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and Golf...
The Golfer's Mind
Play to Play Great
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
For the last decade, golfers of all abilities have been drawn to the writings and teachings of Bob “Doc” Rotella. His books Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, Golf Is a Game of Confidence, The Golf of Your Dreams, and Putting Out of Your Mind have all become classics for golfers everywhere. Weekend...
The Scorecard Always Lies
A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
As Tiger Woods broke down in tears on the 18th green at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, legions of spectators strained their eyes to read the emotion on his face. Like the millions watching on television, they knew that Tiger had just won the British Open, and that his father had recently died. Beyond...
The Longest Way Home
One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
WITH AN IRREPRESSIBLE TASTE for adventure, candor, and a vivid sense of place, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey played out amid some of the world’s most evocative locales.
Unable to commit to his fiancée of nearly four years—and...
Crazy River
Exploration and Folly in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out...
Immortal Milk
Adventures in Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Is there a food more delightful, ubiquitous, or accessible than cheese? This book is a charming and engaging love letter to the food that Clifton Fadiman once called "milk’s leap toward immortality." Examining some cheeses we know as well as some we don’t; the processes, places, and people who...
A French Affair
The Paris Beat, 1965-1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1999
America and France have always had a special relationship. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the two have enjoyed a love affair of sorts, with all the love/hate dynamics that suggests. From Benjamin Franklin charming Louis XVI to Jackie Kennedy enchanting Charles de Gaulle, the...
Birth of the Cool
Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Miles Davis and Juliette Greco, Jackson Pollock and Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan and William Burroughs.
What do all these people have in common? Fame, of course, and undeniable talent. But most of all, they were cool.
Birth of the Cool is a stunningly illustrated, brilliantly written...