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The Special Relationship

Australia and the Monarchy

by David Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality. Even today, an invitation to meet a member of the royal family remains a pinnacle of social achievement. What is the magic the royals...
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A Coach's Life

My 40 Years in College Basketball

by Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2000

Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina...
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Satchel

The Life and Times of an American Legend

by Larry Tye
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Through dogged research and extensive interviews,...
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Carlisle vs. Army

Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle

by Lars Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008

A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America’s finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation’s greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. But beyond telling the tale of this momentous...
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by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a...
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Never Die Easy

The Autobiography of Walter Payton

by Walter Payton, Don Yaeger
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001

"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they called Sweetness, for the way he...
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Challenging Beliefs

Memoirs of a Career

by Tim Noakes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

Tim Noakes is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right. Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined the way elite athletes and teams approach their professions,...
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I Am Zlatan

My Story On and Off the Field

by Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile—no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccer’s brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the world’s most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan,...
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by Jess Halloran, Jelena Dokic
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017

This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell. Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest...
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Dare to Lead

Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

by Brené Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • **Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and...
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Skin in the Game

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the *author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of...
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Dick Johnson

The autobiography of a true-blue Aussie sporting legend

by Dick Johnson, James Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

The incredible story of Dick Johnson - the Aussie battler who became an all-time V8 great. Ford legend Johnson did not get his break in motorsport until he was famously smashed out by a rock in the 1980 Bathurst 1000. But true to his never-say-die attitude, he went on to establish one of Australia's...
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Slow Death

Memoirs of a Cricket Umpire

by Rudi Koertzen
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

For 30 years, batsmen around the world have feared the slow and deliberate way Rudi Koertzen raises his left arm to give them out - so much so that it has given rise to his nickname, Slow Death. Despite the sinister sobriquet, Rudi Koertzen remains one of the most loved and respected umpires in world...
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Rowdy

The Roddy Piper Story

by Ariel Teal Toombs, Colt Baird Toombs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

The biggest pro wrestling bio since Bret Hart's Hitman: legendary Rowdy Roddy Piper's unfinished autobiography, re-conceived and completed by his children, actress/musician Ariel Teal Toombs and wrestler Colt Baird Toombs. In early 2015, Roderick Toombs, aka Rowdy Roddy Piper, began researching...
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