Touched by God: How We Won the Mexico '86 World Cup
By: Diego Armando Maradona
3.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The long-awaited firsthand account of the most remarkable--and controversial--World Cup triumph in …
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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
By: Malcolm Gladwell
3.97
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
2. A Scanner Darkly
By: Philip K. Dick
4.02
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more
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"We're all dreaming,"-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"I have seen myself backward."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
3. Of Love and Other Demons
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more
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"<>, dijo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Do not allow me to forget you"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
3.97
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more
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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
5. Chronicles, Volume One
By: Bob Dylan
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"People were people."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
6. Soccer in Sun and Shadow
By: Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of tha… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
"و كان لدى الرب وقت ليهتم بشئون كرة القدم، فكم من مسئوليها سيبقون أحياءً"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"¿En qué se parece el fútbol a Dios? En la devoción que le tienen muchos creyentes y en la desconfianza que le tienen muchos intelectuales"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman…"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"Han pasado los años, y a la larga he terminado por asumir mi identidad: yo no soy más que un mendigo de buen fútbol. Voy por el mundo sombrero en mano, y en los estadios suplico: una linda jugadita, …"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
7. The Complete Maus
By: Art Spiegelman
4.57
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more
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"Ingen är normal."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"He’s more attached to things than people."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
8. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
9. Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
By: Guillem Balagué
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Otra manera de ganar es la primera biografía de Pep Guardiola, y la única en haber entrado a la int… read more
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- biography
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
10. Death with Interruptions
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
4.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more
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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
11. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
12. Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina i… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
13. Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World
By: Raphael Honigstein
4.42
Format: 718 pages,
July 13th 2014, World Cup Final, the last ten minutes of extra time: Germany forward Mario Gotze, r… read more
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- sports
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- football
14. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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- nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
15. 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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16. The Bottom Corner: A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football
By: Nige Tassell
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Everyone loves an FA Cup upset: a smug Premier League team being knocked out by plucky underdogs. I… read more
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17. Timeline
By: Michael Crichton
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more
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"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
18. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
By: Steven Pressfield
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more
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19. 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
20. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
21. Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends
By: Martin Lindstrom
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Martin Lindstrom, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, harnesses the power of "small data" in his quest to… read more
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22. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
By: David Allen
4.01
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more
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"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
23. Cosmopolis
By: Don DeLillo
4.00
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more
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24. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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25. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
By: Michael Cox
4.37
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more
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26. Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend
By: Andrew Downie
4.13
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
'Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, … read more
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- soccer
- nonfiction
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27. La tercera
By: Alejandro Wall
4.09
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
Desde adentro y desde afuera, la historia de cómo la Argentina y Messi ganaron la Copa del Mundo en… read more
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28. Touched by God: How We Won the Mexico '86 World Cup
By: Diego Armando Maradona
3.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The long-awaited firsthand account of the most remarkable--and controversial--World Cup triumph in … read more
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- nonfiction
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- sports
29. Bilardo-Menotti: La verdadera historia (Spanish Edition)
By: Néstor López
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Escrito como una novela basada en hechos reales, este libro cuenta que antes de liderar las dos co… read more
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30. El último mundial (Spanish Edition)
By: Cune Molinero
3.80
Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition
Este libro podría empezar con una foto. O más bien con dos. Las dos fotos del festejo en el balcón… read more
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31. El rey de cocaína: Mi vida con Roberto Suárez Gómez y el nacimiento del primer narcoestado (Spanish Edition)
By: Ayda Levy
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Bautizado por la prensa internacional como “el rey de la cocaína”, Roberto Suárez Gómez llegó a exp… read more
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