Sports & Recreation
Discover the best sports books at our online bookstore, featuring top sports titles, compelling sports autobiographies, and engaging basketball books. Explore must-read and best-selling sports romance books and more, perfect for fans of every athletic pursuit.
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DogteamOn a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you'll wish would never end. Through this exquisite prose poem,...
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme SportsWHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt: - Shooting waterfalls in a barrel - The...
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Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North WoodsSurvival in the wilderness--Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting...
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Rising Above: Inspiring Women in SportsBehold the power of women These are the inspirational real-life stories of female superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more -- role models all. For sports fans, aspiring athletes and readers of sports biographies. Growing up in a crime-plagued,...
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Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become StarsDiscover inspirational real-life stories of superstar athletes in this collection of sports biographies featuring LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Tim Howard, and more Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome in 6th grade. He went on to become a national treasure after...
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A Field Guide to Sailboats of North AmericaThis book features the history of boat production and detailed statistical data such as draft, sail area, and hull construction. Illustrations and detailed descriptions are provided for each of 255 boats. A new chapter guides potential boat buyers through the decision-making process and offers...
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The Games: A Global History of the OlympicsA Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt's sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens...
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Fall Line: America's Rise to Ski Racing's SummitHarnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the...
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The Sixth Man (the Triple Threat, 2)Perfect for sports-loving kids and fans of books by Mike Lupica, book two in the Triple Threat series by New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein delivers a hard-hitting account of prejudice and perseverance on the basketball court. It's basketball season. And for once,...
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Dogsledding and Extreme Sports: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #26: Balto of the Blue DawnThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #26: Balto of the Blue Dawn, they had...
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Absolutely Lucy #4: Lucy on the BallIlene Cooper's fourth story of a boy and his beagle takes Bobby and Lucy into the wild playing fields of grade-school soccer. Every kid loves soccer, right? Not Bobby. He likes to watch sports, but he doesn't really like to play them. He'd rather...
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Baseball: An Illustrated History, Including the Tenth InningNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The acclaimed companion volume to Ken Burns's grand-slam PBS documentary--updated and expanded to include the two-part Tenth Inning that looks back on the age of steroids, home-run records, the rise of Latino players, and so much more. "A rich concoction of...
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The Best of Outside: The First 20 YearsThe man-eating proclivities of Komodo dragons. The complicated art of being a cowgirl. A picaresque ramble with a merry band of tree-cleaners. The big-wave crusaders of the world's best surfers. For the past twenty years, Outside magazine has set the standard for original and...
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The Whale that Lit the WorldFishing tales on the Pacific, where one man encounters the massive whales.Author: Josh ChurchmanPublisher: Lulu.comPublished: 11/16/2018Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44dISBN: 9780359225972This title is not returnable
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Making the SaveWhen the Soccer Cats decide to earn money to buy a gift for Coach Bradley, Bucky goes out of his way to make the gift a wonderful surprise.Author: Matt ChristopherPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 07/01/2004Pages: 55Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.04h x 4.76w x 0.18dISBN:...
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball ForeverWith unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December 1977 when, as a fistfight broke out on the court between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers, Kermit Washington delivered...
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The Lucky Baseball BatThis Matt Christopher classic story of a boy and his lucky baseball bat will capture readers' imaginations while teaching them vital lessons about the importance of friendship, teamwork, and believing in themselves.When Marvin moves to a new neighborhood, he wants nothing more than to...
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Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed EverythingDiscover Aly Raisman's inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, and learning to think positive even in the toughest times on her path to gold medal success in two Olympic Games--and beyond. Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy...
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Catch That Pass!Only one thing keeps Jim from being the best linebacker in the team - his fear of getting tackled. But his friend Chuckie knows Jim isn't a coward. With Chuckie's special courage as an example, can Jim find the strength to face his fears...
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Heads UpAmanda Caler comes to realize she's afraid of the soccer ball, and as if that weren't enough, it looks as if someone is trying to steal her spot at halfback. Illustrations.Author: Matt ChristopherPublisher: Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 60Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize:...
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