Abrams: 1969 books
by Shoham Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Little Nina will not go to bed. Not when the adults are having so much fun in the other room without her! Before her exasperated parents can catch up, Nina escapes her bedroom and races through the house, sampling cakes and just generally stirring up trouble. With Nina on the loose, a cordial family...
The Spartacus Road
A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal,...
Buffalo Bird Girl
A Hidatsa Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman—a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community, which lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended...
by Alan Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic...
by John Feinstein, Walter Iooss Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A portrait of legendary golfer Arnold Palmer from a New York Times–bestselling sportswriter, with numerous photos included.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Arnold Palmer amassed an astounding record of ninety-two worldwide titles, four Masters championships, a US Open crown,...
by Robert Edelstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
“A book that should be required reading for everyone who considers themselves to be a NASCAR fan” from the author of Full Throttle (SB Nation).
NASCAR Legends traces the story of stock car racing through the courageous, record-breaking drivers who made it the number one spectator sport in America....
The Secret Lives of Sports Fans
The Science of Sports Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
What is happening in our brains and bodies when we feel strong emotion while watching a game? How do sports fans resemble political junkies, and why do we form such a strong attachment to a sports team? Journalist Eric Simons presents in-depth research in an accessible and brilliant way, sure to interest...
Kinetic Golf
Picture the Game Like Never Before
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In Kinetic Golf, Nick Bradley uses 115 extraordinary photographs, accompanied by clear, direct text, to raise the bar on golf instruction and give golfers—amateur or professional—a unique way of actually feeling their way to mastering the game. Offering insights that words alone cannot convey,...
Full Throttle
The Life and Fast Times of NASCAR Legend Curtis Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
“A superbly researched and engagingly written biography” of NASCAR legend Curtis Turner, known as the Babe Ruth of stock car racing (Sports Illustrated).
Curtis Turner’s life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history; the adrenaline rush of the...
The United States of Soccer
MLS and the Rise of American Soccer Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States “ with the condition that the U.S. would start a new professional league. The North American Soccer League had failed just four years prior, and the prospects of launching a new league for Americans, who didn’t...
The Night Casey Was Born
The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad "Casey at the Bat"
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball—a lively story that “hits it out of the park” (The Baltimore Sun).
The sport that came to be known as America’s Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco...
The Career Code
Must-Know Rules for a Strategic, Stylish, and Self-Made Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The co-founders of the hugely successful Who What Wear empire share their best career advice for smart, stylish, self-starting women of all professional levels.
In The Career Code, the third book in the smash-hit Who What Wear series, fashion and digital entrepreneurs Katherine Power and Hillary...
Dead Distillers
A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The founders and award-winning distillers of Kings County Distillery follow their successful Guide to Urban Moonshining with an extensive history of the figures who distilled American spirits.
Dead Distillers is a spirited portrait of the unusual and storied origins of forgotten drunkenness.
The...
Sh*tty Mom for All Seasons
Half-@ssing It All Year Long
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The authors of the New York Times–bestselling Sh*tty Mom are back with a hilarious guide presenting common parenting scenarios with advice for getting through the year the sh*tty mom way.
Told in the same tongue-in-cheek voice as the original, this sequel is full of funny parenting tips and relatable...