The United States of Soccer: MLS and the Rise of American Soccer Fandom
By: Phil West
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condi…
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1. The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America
By: Grant Wahl
3.93
Format: None pages,
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2. Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game
By: David Wangerin
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
David Wangerin's humorous and thorough book tells the story of American soccer's long struggle from… read more
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- soccer
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3. Bloodline
By: Claudia Gray
4.73
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars comes a thrilling prequel to St… read more
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4. Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more
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5. Rock 'n' Roll Soccer: The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League
By: Ian Plenderleith , Rodney Marsh
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s - presented soccer as performance,… read more
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- soccer
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6. Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more
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7. Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer
By: None
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
All over the world, soccer is known as "the Beautiful Game" and is the most popular sport. But in t… read more
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8. 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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9. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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10. The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
By: John "Chick" Donohue
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You wi… read more
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11. 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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12. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
13. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
14. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
By: Michael Lewis
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more
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15. Star Wars: The Living Force
By: John Jackson Miller
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a gal… read more
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16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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17. Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
By: Rory Smith
3.84
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs … read more
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- soccer
- sports
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18. Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By: Paul Goldberger
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through… read more
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19. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
By: Benjamin Herold
3.89
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more
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20. Blood Sugar
By: Sascha Rothchild
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“I could just kill you right now!” It’s something we’ve all thought at one time or another. But Rub… read more
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"Wanting to get married for the sake of the title is shortsighted and ends in getting fired."-Sascha Rothchild, Blood Sugar
"My way was not right, and his way was not wrong. We were merely different. Which is what makes marriage so beautiful. Loving another person not for their sameness, but for the oppositeness."-Sascha Rothchild, Blood Sugar
"I thought about all the flowers he had given me over the years. How there is always an end to things. No matter how long the flowers stayed fresh, they always seemed to die too soon. I suppose the mo…"-Sascha Rothchild, Blood Sugar
"I knew that the teenage brain was not fully formed, the frontal lobes not yet connected. Therefore a clear understanding between cause and effect cannot be wholly processed by a teenager, which can m…"-Sascha Rothchild, Blood Sugar
21. Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
By: Claudia Gray
4.17
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navi… read more
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"Many paths can lead to the dark side."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
"There was no Jedi so wise that he could not be undone by his own assumptions."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
"What action could not do, diplomacy might accomplish. Or, failing that, money."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
"His shifted his voice into an imitation of Yoda's. 'Up the hell he should shut."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
22. Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas
By: Jesse Cole
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their sto… read more
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23. Queen's Shadow (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #1)
By: E.K. Johnston
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Written by the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Star Wars Ahsoka! When Padmé Nab… read more
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"We are brave, your highness."-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #1)
"My hands are yours for as long as you need them."-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #1)
"Any path can be a poor one if it goes blindly in one direction."-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #1)
"Senator Organa, now is not a good time," she said. "What do you want?"-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #1)
24. Movies (And Other Things)
By: Shea Serrano
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick… read more
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"My favorite thing is to imagine Elle meeting up with some of her friends a few weeks after her fight with Beatrix and someone asking her what happened to her one good eye and Elle saying that it was …"-Shea Serrano, Movies (And Other Things)
25. Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From Jeff Pearlman―the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus ―comes the rollickin… read more
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26. The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer
By: Caitlin Murray
4.46
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set re… read more
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27. Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
By: Ken Bensinger
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest international corruption case of r… read more
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28. The United States of Soccer: MLS and the Rise of American Soccer Fandom
By: Phil West
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condi… read more
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29. New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever
By: Adam Elder
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the… read more
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30. Switching Fields
By: George Dohrmann
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce eli… read more
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31. Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game
By: Grant Wahl
3.87
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
How do some of soccer’s smartest and most accomplished figures master the craft of the game? This i… read more
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