Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
By: Derrick E. White
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Black college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The fir…
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1. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
By: Marcus Luttrell , Patrick Robinson
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan fo… read more
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2. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civiliza… read more
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3. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
By: H.G. Bissinger
3.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more
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4. 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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5. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
By: Lee Child
2.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and i… read more
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6. Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series
By: Dan Wetzel , Josh Peter , Jeff Passan
4.18
Format: 342 pages,
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7. Indentured: The Rebellion Against the College Sports Cartel
By: Joe Nocera , Ben Strauss
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For more than half a century, the NCAA has been one of the most powerful, and impregnable, institut… read more
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8. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
9. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
10. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
11. 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
12. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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13. 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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14. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more
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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
15. The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
By: John Gwynne
4.54
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
THE DEAD GODS ARE RISING. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal pr… read more
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16. 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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17. Hell Is a World Without You
By: Jason Kirk
4.59
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empath… read more
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"It's a disorienting moment, when you realize the Christmas story you've read a hundred times has always included, hidden in plain sight, an anarchist manifesto."-Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You
18. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
By: Spencer Ackerman
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, depl… read more
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19. Secret Identity
By: Alex Segura
3.62
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery … read more
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20. Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
By: Derrick E. White
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Black college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The fir… read more
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21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
