Straw: Finding My Way
By: Darryl Strawberry , John Strausbaugh
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Strawis the story of a guy who had two strikes against him in the middle innings of life and hit o…
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1. The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
By: Michael Connelly
4.12
Format: 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he e… read more
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"You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall."-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?"-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions."-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into th…"-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
2. Straw: Finding My Way
By: Darryl Strawberry , John Strausbaugh
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Strawis the story of a guy who had two strikes against him in the middle innings of life and hit o… read more
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- baseball
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- sports
3. 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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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
"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
4. The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #23)
By: Michael Connelly
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 Ne… read more
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5. The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream
By: Tom Clavin
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In The DiMaggios, acclaimed sportswriter Tom Clavin reveals the untold Great American Story of thre… read more
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6. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
By: Jeff Pearlman
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more
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8. Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
By: Jeff Pearlman
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Timesbest-selling author, the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre A towering … read more
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9. The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
By: John "Chick" Donohue
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. 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
- sports
- biography
- memoir
"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
11. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
By: Henry Winkler
4.14
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
12. The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
By: Adam Lazarus
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American John Glenn, the unassail… read more
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- nonfiction
- baseball
- biography
- sports
13. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
14. If You Would Have Told Me
By: John Stamos
3.81
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
15. Will
By: Will Smith
4.26
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! “It's the best memoir I've ever read.” —Oprah Winfrey … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"No paralysis, do analysis. No paralysis, do analysis!"-Will Smith, Will
"...either "know what you're talking about or be quiet". (Will's mom)"-Will Smith, Will
"Learning is really easy when you can feel that your teachers love you."-Will Smith, Will
"The slamming of her bedroom door functioned as a disastrous exclamation point."-Will Smith, Will
16. No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
By: Michael J. Fox
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our live… read more
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- nonfiction
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- memoir
17. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
18. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel
By: Mark Paul
4.03
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke th… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more
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- sports
- biography
20. Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
By: Richard Snow
3.97
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece Califor… read more
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- biography
21. Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay
By: Todd Zolecki
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hall of Famer, Cy Young winner, and All-Star will forever be used to describe the illustrious caree… read more
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- baseball
- biography
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