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Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America's heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the...

When acclaimed golf writer James Dodson leaves his home in Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father first taught him the game that would shape his life and career, he's at a point where he has lost direction. But once there, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062330925Author George HincapieFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 249g

Leicester City's Premier League victory was the 5,000-1 triumph that delighted the world. But how did Claudio Ranieri pull off one of the greatest achievements in sport? This is the inside story of the rise and rise of the butcher's son from Rome, whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982165925Author Monica AldamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 136mm *...

They called Max Baer the "Clown Prince of Boxing," but trainer Ray Arcel remembered a night in 1933 when he worked Baer's corner in what was probably Max's greatest triumph, the night he smashed Max Schmeling to defeat in 10 brutal rounds. That was no...

Palmer, a long-time friend of Bruce Lee and one of his youngest martial arts students, recounts Lee's early years, when he would train a multicultural group of local toughs in empty parking lots and backyards around Seattle. Palmer spends a summer with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956431370Author Nick HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint De Coubertin BooksPublisher De Coubertin BooksDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 26mm

On 5 April 2008, Timmy Murphy won the Grand National on the Comply Or Die. In this revised and updated edition of his acclaimed autobiography "Riding the Storm", Murphy tells the story of a man who pursued his dream and fulfilled it. Blessed with a rare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746056Author David WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

By the end of the 2016 season, Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs both finally admitted to themselves and to each other that they were losing interest in the Tigers and, consequently, in baseball itself-a thread that had not only connected the two of them,...

Journeyman is a first-person biography of Ojibwe rightwinger Jamie Leach, son of the legendary NHL superstar Reggie Leach. Follow the fascinating hockey trajectory from his childhood years watching his father play for the Philadelphia Flyers, to Jamie’s...

Golfing legend Ben Hogan went to his grave believing he had won a record five US Open titles. The USGA says otherwise, and the controversy has endured for over 75 years. In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf...

Diagnosed with leukaemia in November 2008, Chris Todd tells the story of this period of his life in diary form. It is a personal, honest and often humorous account of a leukaemia sufferer's battle with this life-threatening disease, and also of Chris's...

Diagnosed with leukaemia in November 2008, Chris Todd tells the story of this period of his life in diary form. It is a personal, honest and often humorous account of a leukaemia sufferer's battle with this life-threatening disease, and also of Chris's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743268936Author Jonathan EigFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1999 and Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780385484510Author Mitch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578686110Author Anthony Zute GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dinner for Breakfast ProductionsPublisher Dinner for Breakfast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748412Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Fifty years ago, Secretariat, a horse so brilliantly fast and powerful that many of his records still stand today, completed its historic American Triple Crown victory. Secretariat's rider was Ron Turcotte, a master of his craft who grew up as one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735245006Author Justin BourneFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062496829Author Vin BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476711218Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938855238Author Kim ShottFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Bill PearlPublisher Bill PearlWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 16mm

Thanks to a combination of physical prowess, indomitable will, and sharp and unconventional powers of observation, Urijah The California Kid Faber has risen to the top of the mixed martial arts food chain. In "The Laws of the Ring", he draws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550227604Author Larry MatysikFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 447g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228267Author Larry ZbyszkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 318g

This is the third book in Adam Pollack's series on the heavyweight champions of the gloved era. Bob Fitzsimmons was boxing's first pound for pound great, winning the world middleweight title before becoming the world heavyweight champion (and later...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137629Author Matt FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609079253Author John StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shadow MountainPublisher Shadow MountainWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250007001Author Jim DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388292627Author Mihir BoseFormat HardbackPage Count 598Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company

The Big O by Patrick Skene is the story of Olsen Filipaina, a New Zealand Hall of Fame rugby league legend who was a pathfinder for the Maori and Pasifika players who today dominate the Australian National Rugby League. In a career that saw him play 29...

Now in paperback! "From the first page to the last, Klein's prose retains its powers of enchantment and illumination. It is one of the best boxing books ever penned." -Boston Globe "[A] muscular, relentlessly detailed book." -Wall Street Journal ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345386816Author Arthur AsheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847710857Author Roberto MartinezFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The 1980s ushered in the golden age of professional wrestling as television shifted from the scratchy, black and white screened grapplers of the earlier years to colorful, larger-than-life men like Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Jessie 'The Body'...

OpTic Gaming, the four-time Call of Duty Major League Gaming Champions and one of the top eSports teams in the world, now takes fans behind the controller-into the game and the minds of the greatest gamers in the world-in this fascinating and unique...

The story of one young African boy's journey to UK Premiership soccer stardom.From the Zambian plains to Wembley, this is the story of the boy who was born to be a Bluebird. Earnie follows Robert Earnshaw's journey from the Zambian village where he was...

The story of one young African boy's journey to UK Premiership soccer stardom.From the Zambian plains to Wembley, this is the story of the boy who was born to be a Bluebird. Earnie follows Robert Earnshaw's journey from the Zambian village where he was...