Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of Football in Africa
By: Ian Hawkey
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In June 2010, Africa will host the World Cup, the most significant global sporting spectacle ever t…
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1. Open
By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi
4.31
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
"Control what you can control."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"The most animated talks we have are about…things"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
2. Penso quindi gioco
By: Andrea Pirlo , Alessandro Alciato
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
"Per me il gruppo conta tantissimo, ma se mi dimenticassi di me stesso toglierei forza proprio ai m… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
"After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"I don’t give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"It’s an enemy that I can’t allow to wound me a second time. It’s already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"- Mino, toglimi una curiosità. Come si pronuncia il tuo cognome? Dove va l’accento? Ràiola o Raiòla? - Come vuoi tu, basta che mi paghi."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
3. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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- nonfiction
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
4. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
By: Joe McGinniss
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor l… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
5. All Played Out
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Italia '90 - Gazza cried and football changed forever. Once you could ignore football, avoid the ba… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
6. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more
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7. Death and the Penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more
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8. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
9. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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10. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
11. Tor!: The Story of German Football
By: Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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12. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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13. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
By: John Foot
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analys… read more
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14. The Damned Utd
By: David Peace
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the countr… read more
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15. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
16. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
17. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
18. The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
By: Ben Mezrich
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post! From one of our most innovative and celebrated aut… read more
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- nonfiction
"Because so many people were betting against GameStop —and brick-and-mortar retail in general — the overall short position was enormous, almost comically so. At certain points over the past six months…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"And as a long-short fund, he'd also been obligated to take short positions — betting against companies — which was a tactic that, to most experts in finance, was uncontroversial. The thinking went, w…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Which meant, if somehow GameStop did start to go up, the people who had shorted the company would begin to feel pressure to buy; the more the stock went up, the heavier that pressure became. As the s…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Keith was sophisticated enough to understand the inherent risk of options; buying options wasn't as dangerous as short selling, because your potential for loss was capped, because you could always le…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
19. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
20. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
21. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
22. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more
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23. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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24. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
25. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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26. Tears at La Bombonera: Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America
By: Christopher Hylland
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Tears at La Bombonera is author Christopher Hylland's six-year journey living, working, and traveli… read more
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- nonfiction
- football
27. The Three Lives of the Kaiser
By: Uli Hesse
3.88
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Franz Beckenbauer is Germany's greatest-ever football player and one of the game's biggest icons of… read more
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- football
28. Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
By: John McManus
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An intimate portrait of life in one of the world's richest nations ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
29. Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao
By: Christopher James Evans
4.69
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao is the first English language book that tells… read more
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30. Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of Football in Africa
By: Ian Hawkey
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In June 2010, Africa will host the World Cup, the most significant global sporting spectacle ever t… read more
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- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
31. The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 49
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.82
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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