11 Top nonfiction books like Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy by John Howard Steel

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Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy

By: John Howard Steel

4.38

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

The surprising story of Pilates—the man and the method. Part biography, part history, and part m…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy by John Howard Steel , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.78

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more

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"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

2. Pilates Anatomy

By: Rael Isacowitz , None

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

This is Pilates as you've never seen it before. With detailed descriptions, step-by-step instructio… read more

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3. Fear Nothing (Detective D.D. Warren, #8)

By: Lisa Gardner

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Kolejna bestsellerowa powieść kryminalna uznanej autorki, Lisy Gardner, w wersji audio. Tym raze… read more

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4. Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

By: Terri Apter

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. … read more

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5. Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

By: Maisie Hill

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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7. Suffering is Never for Nothing

By: Elisabeth Elliot

4.68

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

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8. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

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9. Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

By: Gabrielle Lyon

3.75

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new … read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
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10. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

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11. Still True

By: Maggie Ginsberg

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-o… read more

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12. A Song to Drown Rivers

By: Ann Liang

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown … read more

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"Please,"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

"His eyes fluttered open, focused on me; it was how he had looked at me in all our time together, across the palace rivers, across the polished floors of his chambers, underneath the moonlight. no mat…"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

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13. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

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"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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14. Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

By: Joseph H. Pilates

4.23

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

First published in 1945, this new printing of the first major publication by Joseph H. Pilates and … read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
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15. Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy

By: John Howard Steel

4.38

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

The surprising story of Pilates—the man and the method. Part biography, part history, and part m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • fitness
  • biography
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16. Science of Pilates: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice (DK Science of)

By: Tracy Ward

4.39

Format: 679 pages, Kindle Edition

Explore the physiology of 30 key Pilates exercises, in-depth and from every angle, and master each … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology—Revised Edition for the 21st Century

By: Joseph Pilates

4.18

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

First published in 1945, Pilates Return to Life Through Contrology contains the authorized, legal, … read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
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18. Your Health: A Corrective System of Exercising that Revolutionizes the Entire Field of Physical Education

By: Joseph H. Pilates

3.84

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

First published in 1934, this new reprint of Your Health includes Joseph Pilates' early Twentieth C… read more

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19. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

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20. Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

By: Joseph Pilates

4.42

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published in 1945, Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology contains the authorized, legal,… read more

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  • nonfiction

20 best-selling fiction books like Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart

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The Last Murder at the End of the World

Stuart Turton

3.68

Transform Your Habits

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Alex Finlay

3.79

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Paul Tremblay

3.45

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