The Call of the Road: The History of Cycle Road Racing
By: Chris Sidwells
3.69
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. Since th…
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1. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
By: Douglas Adams
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu o… read more
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"Fuck ’em,"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
3. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
4. Draft Animals
By: Phil Gaimon
3.60
Format: 246 pages,
From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one man's… read more
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5. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more
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6. Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France
By: Max Leonard
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
If you complete a bike race of over 3,000 miles in last place, overcoming mountain ranges and merci… read more
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7. The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
By: Lee Stetson , Fiona King
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of hi… read more
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8. Anansi Boys
By: Neil Gaiman
4.30
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
God is dead. Meet the kids. Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dea… read more
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9. It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
By: Robert Penn
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,… read more
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10. Zorba the Greek
By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis
4.04
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more
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"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"-None, Zorba the Greek
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"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."-None, Zorba the Greek
11. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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12. The Rider
By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more
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13. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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14. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France
By: Richard Moore
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more
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15. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
16. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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17. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
18. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was
By: Daniel Friebe
4.31
Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more
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19. Record Play Pause
By: Stephen Morris
4.38
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age… read more
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20. The Passengers
By: John Marrs
4.07
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone h… read more
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21. Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat
By: Sarah Outen
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France… read more
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22. Bunnyman: A Memoir
By: Will Sergeant
4.23
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
The Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football … read more
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23. Coal Black Mornings
By: Brett Anderson
4.19
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more
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24. Three Weeks, Eight Seconds: The Epic Tour de France of 1989
By: Nige Tassell
4.24
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
The 1989 Tour de France is arguably the greatest ever. It saw American rider Greg LeMond overturn a… read more
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25. Le Fric: Family, Power and Money: The Business of the Tour de France
By: Alex Duff
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The fascinating and unknown story of the Tour de France's ever-changing relationship with money and… read more
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26. Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling
By: Peter Cossins
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why h… read more
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27. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
By: Tom Bullough
3.98
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more
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28. Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists
By: Michael Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprising… read more
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"I lived in a world where, one way or another, everything was divided into things that might make me faster and things that might make me slower. Pretty much anything pleasant fell into the second cat…"-Michael Hutchinson, Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists
29. Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
By: Stephen Fabes
4.19
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know somethin… read more
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30. The Call of the Road: The History of Cycle Road Racing
By: Chris Sidwells
3.69
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. Since th… read more
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31. Great Rides According to G
By: Geraint Thomas
3.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
2023. First Edition. 209 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Pictorial cloth covered board… read more
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