Hoop Dreams
By: Ben Joravsky
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to life all the richness and subtlety of the e…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
3. Sacred Hoops: SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
With a new introduction, Phil Jackson's modern classic of motivation, teamwork, and Zen insight is … read more
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4. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
By: Bill Simmons
4.20
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to wri… read more
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"But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper."-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
"If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up."-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
5. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
By: Peter Guralnick
4.16
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more
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6. Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
By: Peter Guralnick
4.37
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the … read more
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7. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
8. About a Boy
By: Nick Hornby , Udo Wachtveitl
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child… read more
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- adult
9. The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty
By: Adrian Wojnarowski
3.24
Format: None pages,
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10. The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
By: John Feinstein
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riv… read more
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11. Basketball Junkie
By: Bill Reynolds , Chris Herren
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
I was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, … read more
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12. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
By: Ben Mezrich
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldUs most sophisticated casinos fo… read more
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13. Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, The American Dream
By: Mitch Albom
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
Recounts the remarkable story of University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Jalen Rose… read more
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14. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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15. The Jordan Rules
By: None , None
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jor… read more
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16. Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
By: Jonathan Abrams
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies w… read more
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17. 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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"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
18. The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
By: Kenneth H. Blanchard , Jon Gordon
3.88
Format: None pages,
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19. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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20. A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference
By: John Feinstein
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
It's the book in which America's favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful … read more
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21. Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection
By: George Karl
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history--and one of the most successful, amassing mor… read more
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22. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
By: John Feinstein
4.08
Format: 288 pages,
"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more
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23. Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul
By: Bill Reynolds
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team … read more
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24. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
25. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
26. Tracy Flick Can't Win
By: Tom Perrotta
3.64
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more
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"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win
"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win
27. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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28. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
29. Black Klansman: A Memoir
By: Ron Stallworth
3.61
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
In 1978 the community of Colorado Springs, Colorado experienced a growth of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) memb… read more
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"In essence, [David Duke] mainstreamed the Klan, making it seem an acceptable and viable alternative for those looking for a means to express their displeasure with the status quo of their lives and g…"-Ron Stallworth, Black Klansman: A Memoir
"The white nationalist, nativist politics that we see today were first imagined and applied by David Duke during the heyday of his Grand Wizardshop, and the time of my undercover Klan investigation. T…"-Ron Stallworth, Black Klansman: A Memoir
30. Personal Fouls: The Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams of Big Money Basketball at Jim Valvano's North Carolina State
By: Peter Golenbock
3.43
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Personal Fouls [hardcover] GOLENBOCK, Peter [Aug 01, 1989] read more
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31. Hoop Dreams
By: Ben Joravsky
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to life all the richness and subtlety of the e… read more
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