The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
By: Howard Bryant
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage w…
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1. A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)
By: Dave Zirin
3.93
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sport… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
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"The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy."-Dave Zirin, A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)
2. King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
By: David Remnick
4.27
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
There were mythic sports figures before him--Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio--but … read more
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- history
- politics
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- nonfiction
- african american
3. Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
By: John Wooden , Steve Jamison
4.46
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."--John Wooden Evoking da… read more
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"There is nothing stronger than gentleness."-John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
"Discipline yourself and others won't need to."-John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."-John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
"The smallest good dead is better than the best intention"-John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
4. Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game
By: John Feinstein , Arnold Jacob Red Auerbach
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
America's favorite sportswriter teams up with Red Auerbach, the most successful and admired coach i… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
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5. The Revolt of the Black Athlete
By: Harry Edwards
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
The Revolt of the Black Athletehit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniver… read more
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6. You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements
By: David McCullough Jr.
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
McCullough's graduation speech "You Are Not Special" struck a cultural nerve and instantly went vir… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Five-Carat Soul
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The … read more
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- audiobook
8. I Never Had It Made
By: Jackie Robinson , Alfred Duckett
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The autobiography of a boy of summer who became a man for all seasons Before Barry Bonds, before Re… read more
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9. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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- baseball
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- sports
- audiobook
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
10. Tar Baby
By: Toni Morrison
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Babyis Toni Morrison's reinvention of the lov… read more
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11. But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
By: Chuck Klosterman
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that c… read more
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12. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
By: Gilbert King
3.67
Format: 348 pages, ebook
Devil in the Groveis the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the mos… read more
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13. Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
By: William C. Rhoden
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the ce… read more
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14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Blueprint
By: Rae Giana Rashad
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating debut exploring power imbalances, bodily autonomy, love, and the generational legacy … read more
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- race
- audiobook
17. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
18. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
By: Evan Drellich
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more
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- baseball
- history
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- sports
- audiobook
19. Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
By: Larry Loftis
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy The year is 1942, and Wo… read more
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"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
20. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
By: Anissa Gray
3.63
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, id… read more
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- audiobook
"Burn it all down. Let it go."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"I keep wondering how you find compassion for your own self when you go against what's good in you."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"My Big Mama raised us. She'd tell me and my two girl cousins every time we left the house, 'Y'all be careful. It's dangerous being a girl out there.'"-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"Sometimes life an pull a lot out of you, Althea. Just squeeze you dry. And if you don't have a way to get back whatever's good and precious to you, it's like losing your soul."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
21. 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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22. Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
By: Lauren Hough
3.40
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with th… read more
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"There are few codes held more deeply among the poor, the religious, and the uneducated than that it is good and healthy and wholesome parenting to hit your kids. That their kids grow up with anger-ma…"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"People describe falling in love as meeting someone who they feel like they've known all their lives. Someone who understands them immediately. To me, that seems more like a nightmare than a fantasy. …"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"I told him it would be a week, seven to ten days to get a new line. He said through his teeth he needed an exact day. I gave him my supervisor's number. This whole time, his wife was in the kitchen w…"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"Those are the moments I’m proud of. The times I saw through them. The times I made them work to break me, even though I knew they would. The times I questioned the lies being fed to me, though everyo…"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
23. Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs
By: Jimmy Johnson
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first … read more
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24. I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography
By: John Thompson
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off … read more
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- african american
25. The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
By: Dave Zirin
3.75
Format: 219 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports… read more
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26. The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
By: Howard Bryant
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage w… read more
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- politics
- sports
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
27. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
By: Katie Barnes
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more
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- sports
- history
- nonfiction
28. The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season
By: John Feinstein
3.88
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago after changing the sports book landscape with his mega-hit, A Season on the Brink… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
By: Craig Calcaterra
3.99
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer. Sports fan… read more
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- sports
- audiobook
30. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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- history
- politics
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31. Fans Have More Friends
By: Ben Valenta
4.12
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE POWER OF BELONGING Research shows that 61 percent of Americans feel lonely, … read more
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