Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher
By: Rob Goldman
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
To any baseball fan, Nolan Ryan’s name still conjures up images of blistering 100-mile-per-hour fas…
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1. Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future
By: John Eisenberg
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, on the heels of the “Greatest Game Ever Played,” professional football began to flour… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
2. The German Girl
By: Armando Lucas Correa
4.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly ambitious and beautiful debut novel, perfect for fans of Sarah's Key and All the Light… read more
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3. End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
By: James L. Swanson
4.04
Format: None pages, ebook
In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chas… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Ken… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
6. Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
By: Rich Cohen
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season For R… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
- biography
7. The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
By: John Eisenberg
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story of baseball's most legendary "Iron Men," Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who e… read more
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- baseball
- nonfiction
- sports
8. The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
By: David Halberstam
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected jou… read more
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
9. Hoover: The Life and Times of Herbert Hoover
By: Kenneth Whyte
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
10. Ali: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Timesbest-selling author with unique … read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
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11. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
By: David Maraniss
4.33
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
12. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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13. The Bad Guys Won!
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… read more
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14. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
By: None , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without questi… read more
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15. Shoeless Joe
By: W.P. Kinsella
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more
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- sports
"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
16. Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
By: John Feinstein
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league… read more
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17. Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
By: Daniel de Visé
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-lif… read more
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18. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
By: Henry Winkler
4.14
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
19. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
By: Andrew McCarthy
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and ac… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
20. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
21. The Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
4.74
Format: 869 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
22. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
23. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
24. Running with Sherman
By: Christopher McDougall
4.25
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in Ame… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
- biography
"Brain opioids are so powerful that if you exercise, you can lower your “mental health burden"-Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman
"Normally, up to 75% of all prisoners who are released will be arrested aging within five years. But among prisoners who’ve worked with animals, the recidivism rate tends to be as low as 10 percent. P…"-Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman
25. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
26. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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- baseball
- biography
- sports
27. Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics
By: Dan Shaughnessy
4.22
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the … read more
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- sports
- biography
28. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
By: Howard Bryant
4.23
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
29. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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- nonfiction
"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
30. Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher
By: Rob Goldman
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
To any baseball fan, Nolan Ryan’s name still conjures up images of blistering 100-mile-per-hour fas… read more
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31. 70’s & 80’s Tales of the Texas Rangers
By: Jim Kern
3.78
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Sinking the owner’s borrowed 50-foot yacht, emptying a hotel’s worth of fire extinguishers on your … read more
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