Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People—And Olympic Gold
By: Ethan Scheiner
4.52
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biti…
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1. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
By: Wayne Coffey , Jim Craig , Ken Morrow
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrat… read more
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"The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be."-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
"You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980."-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
"You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than…"-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
2. Spaceman of Bohemia
By: Jaroslav Kalfar
3.81
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery Orphaned as a boy, raised in the … read more
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"I put my hands upon these books, remembering those nights of silence when our forearms had touched and we had read until sleep took us, the pages mixed between limbs and sheets."-Jaroslav Kalfar, Spaceman of Bohemia
"Alas, we are what we are, and we need the stories, we need the public transportation, the anxiety meds, the television shows by the dozens, the music in bars and restaurants saving us from the terror…"-Jaroslav Kalfar, Spaceman of Bohemia
"Time was not a line, but an awareness. I was no longer a body, but a series of pieces whistling as they bonded. I felt every cell within me. I could count them, name them, kill them, and resurrect th…"-Jaroslav Kalfar, Spaceman of Bohemia
"But one has to ask: why do the big things at such a high cost? I chose the quiet life. I like the idea of being recognized by my field and no one else. This way I have a purpose, one I believe in, bu…"-Jaroslav Kalfar, Spaceman of Bohemia
3. The Revenant
By: Michael Punke
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more
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"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
4. Munich
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more
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6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
7. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
By: Malka Ann Older
3.64
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more
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8. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
By: Brad Meltzer
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
12. The Watchmaker’s Hand (Lincoln Rhyme, #16)
By: Jeffery Deaver
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and killin… read more
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13. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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14. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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15. 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
16. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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17. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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18. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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19. Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch, #14)
By: Paul Doiron
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double m… read more
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20. Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
By: Rebecca Quin
4.51
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. B… read more
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you"-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
"Then and there, I vowed to lose weight so I might have a chance of actually being like my mom when I grew up. But then I got hungry and sad and just wanted pizza. Beauty was my mom's domain. Pizza wa…"-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
21. Draft Day: How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind
By: Doug MacLean
3.57
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
Doug MacLean, former NHL coach, general manager, team president, and one of the game’s biggest pers… read more
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22. The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
By: Tomihiko Morimi
3.55
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE* An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four pa… read more
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"Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil."-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
"He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy."-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
"When your chance comes, don’t miss it. When it comes, you can’t go idly doing the same things you’ve always done. Be bold, and try seizing your chance by doing sometimes completely different. If you …"-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
23. The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
By: Anne R. Keene
3.60
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in th… read more
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"Pick up any photograph of Ted Williams in 1943 and there’s a good chance you’ll see him seated on a footlocker beside Babe Ruth or perched on a chipped cement wall wearing a jersey stitched with dark…"-Anne R. Keene, The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
24. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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25. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
26. The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game
By: Tim Brown
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"This isn’t just a story about baseball. It’s about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting wh… read more
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27. Off the Record
By: Peter Mansbridge
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more
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28. Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years
By: Steven P. Gietschier
4.75
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The Turbulent Midcentury Years explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the… read more
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29. On the Clock: Toronto Maple Leafs: Behind the Scenes with the Toronto Maple Leafs at the NHL Draft
By: Scott Wheeler
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A singular, transcendent talent can change the fortunes of a hockey team instantly. Each year, NHL … read more
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30. Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People—And Olympic Gold
By: Ethan Scheiner
4.52
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biti… read more
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31. Behind the Mask: A Revealing Look at Twelve of the Greatest Goalies in Hockey History
By: Randi Druzin
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dozen incredible stories about hockey’s most legendary goalies, on and off the ice. While his tea… read more
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