5 must-read health books like The Born Again Runner: A Guide to Overcoming Excuses, Injuries, and Other Obstacles—for New and Returning Runners by Pete Magill

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The Born Again Runner: A Guide to Overcoming Excuses, Injuries, and Other Obstacles—for New and Returning Runners

By: Pete Magill

3.88

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

From the lead author of Build Your Running Body (“the best running book ever”—Runner’s World founde…

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1. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

By: Shawn Achor

4.00

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work har… read more

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2. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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3. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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4. The Curse of the Pharaohs

By: Elizabeth Peters

4.29

Format: 120 pages,

Victorian Amelia Peabody continues to journal her Egypt adventures, toddler Ramses left in England.… read more

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5. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

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"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

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6. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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7. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

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8. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

By: Elizabeth Peters

4.00

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian advent… read more

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"God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes."

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had be…"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to me…"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

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9. The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

By: Luanne G. Smith

4.06

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

In Victorian England a witch and a detective are on the hunt for a serial killer in an enthralling … read more

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"Never ask a question you don't want to know the answer to."

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"[S]ometimes it's necessary to put one foot on each side of the law to walk a straight line."

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"[W]hat made them contrary was their apathy towards other people's opinions about them. Well, outward appearances were one thing. Inside, with only each other to confide in, they felt the cold shoulde…"

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"The finality of a person's life confounded the ego. How could a body and mind that walked, talked, and had brilliant, witty thoughts suddenly cease to be? How could a body shrug off its mortal coil a…"

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

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10. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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11. Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

By: Kelly Starrett

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Simple and proven physical practices designed to improve the way your body feels—less stiffness! fe… read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • health
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12. Darius (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #0.5)

By: J.R. Ward

4.37

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Listening Length: 6 hours, 57 minutes In this powerful audio exclusive, #1 New York Times bests… read more

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13. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

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14. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more

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  • health
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

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15. Banned Book Club

By: Kim Hyun Sook

3.97

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her … read more

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"In times like this, no act is apolitical."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"Everyone has a right to the truth. But I don't owe you mine."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"But if they're going to keep calling us communists, we might as well learn what that means!"

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

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16. Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

By: Scott Douglas

3.76

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times –bestselling author and lifelong runner, a groundbreaking guide to fighting d… read more

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"Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier"

-Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

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17. Broken Open: Mountains, Demons, Treadmills And a Search for Nirvana

By: David Clark

3.95

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

David Clark is a formerly obese alcoholic and fast food junkie who found a new life in running. Now… read more

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18. William

By: Mason Coile

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more

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19. The Born Again Runner: A Guide to Overcoming Excuses, Injuries, and Other Obstacles—for New and Returning Runners

By: Pete Magill

3.88

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

From the lead author of Build Your Running Body (“the best running book ever”—Runner’s World founde… read more

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20. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

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8 Best nonfiction books like The Born Again Runner: A Guide to Overcoming Excuses, Injuries, and Other Obstacles—for New and Returning Runners by Pete Magill

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They Called Us Enemy

George Takei

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

Kelly Starrett

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Lauren Fleshman

4.47

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Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.65

Transform Your Habits

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Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.00

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They Called Us Enemy

George Takei

4.42

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Robin Ha

4.22

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