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Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life (Tramp Lit Series)
Par Ian Cutler. 2019
Jim Christy’s life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy…
has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia in the 50’s and 60’s before thebook moves on to recount his later exploits from some of the most remote and random corners of the world.Jumpman: The making and meaning of michael jordan
Par Johnny Smith. 2023
How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To become the most…
revered basketball player in America, it wasn't enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero. Reconstructing the defining moment of Jordan's career—winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season—sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress. Jumpman reveals how Jordan maintained a "mystique" that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable. Blending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties, Jumpman demonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember todayChristmas at the chateau (Chateau #2)
Par Annabel French. 2023
Buy this gorgeous, feel good and heartwarming romance for a slice of escapism to the Swiss alps! Christmas magic at…
the turn of a page... 'Transports you right to the heart of the most magical Christmas – a snow covered chalet, a lovely community and a gorgeous tummy flip worthy man.' Real Reader Review, Life has gone a little bit downhill for Naomi Winters... Ever since her ex-husband Ollie filed for a divorce last Christmas, Naomi is a self-confessed scrooge. She hates her job, has exactly zero hobbies, and on top of that she's all alone this holiday season. Spurred on by her best-friend Mia – who has invited her to spend Christmas at her snow-kissed Chateau in the Swiss Alps – she decides it's time for change. But, when she arrives, she's shocked to see Mia's big brother Gabriel. It's been fifteen years since they last saw eachother, forcing her to face memories she'd rather forget. As Naomi grapples with getting her life back on track, she throws herself into various festive activities, and she can't seem to escape Gabriel this time... Will he manage to thaw her icy heart, or is she on a downward slope to disappointment? Escape to the Swiss Alps with this festive, feel-good novel! Full of warmth and romance, it's perfect for fans of Lucy Coleman, Karen Swan and Katie Fforde. Readers love Christmas at the Chateau: 'So cute that I cried along with Naomi! A lovely winter read.' Real Reader Review, 'The star of the book was the scenery – the soft powdery snow, the crisp pine trees, the fairy lights twinkling, the smell of the hot chocolate. I loved this book! It was gorgeous, festive and romantic.' Real Reader Review, 'An absolutely delightful novel, wonderful characters, glorious Swiss setting and all the trimmings of a white Christmas.' Real Reader Review, 'This is such a lovely book, exactly the kind I need at Christmas!' Real Reader Review, 'The perfect book to get lost in for a few hours and to get you feeling Christmassy! ??' Real Reader Review, 'Perfect read for curling up on the sofa with a blanket and a decadent hot chocolate. This is definitely a winner.' Real Reader Review, 'A beautifully written heartwarming romance that transports you right to the heart of the most magical Christmas – a snow covered chalet, a lovely community and a gorgeous tummy flip worthy man.' Real Reader Review, 'A perfect piece of romantic, cosy Christmas escapism' Real Reader Review, 'As comforting as a roaring fire on a freezing cold day – not one to be missed.' Real Reader Review, 'With a picturesque setting and the promise of a potential romance rekindling, this is a gorgeous second-chance love story.' Real Reader ReviewGator country: Deception, danger, and alligators in the everglades
Par Rebecca Renner. 2023
This program features a bonus conversation between the author and Officer Jeff Babauta (who led the undercover investigation known as…
Operation Alligator Thief) and an introduction read by the author. David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order to protect the natural world. A head-spinning adventure soon unfolds. Jeff deals with glow-in-the-dark alligators and high-speed airboat rides, but quickly learns that not all poachers are villains. They're simply people trying to survive, fighting against the poverty and greed holding them down. Jeff wants to solve the mystery of alligator poachers, and in doing so he must venture deeper into a strange ecosystem where right is wrong, and justice comes at the cost of those who've welcomed him into their world. Gator Country is the twisting true story of the impossible choices individuals must make to stay afloat in this world. Through its wholly unique blend of reporting, nature writing, and personal narrative, this book transports listeners to vibrant and dangerous Florida landscapes and offers intimate portraits of those who call the region home. Broad in scope and vivid in detail, Gator Country is a fast paced tale of the risks people will take to survive in one of the world's most beautiful yet formidable landscapes and the undercover investigation that threatens to topple the whole scheme. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron BooksINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In "one of the most important athlete memoirs of its generation" (Kate Fagan, #1 New…
York Times bestselling author), Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running. Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship deal when she graduated from college. Then in 2004, she was invited to join a secretive, lavishly funded new team, dubbed the Nike Oregon Project. Coached by distance running legend Alberto Salazar, it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. Kara was soon winning a World Championship medal, going to the Olympics, and standing on the podium at the New York and Boston marathons, just like her coach had done. But behind the scenes, Salazar was hiding dark secrets. He pushed the limits of anti-doping rules and created what Kara experienced as a culture of abuse, the extent of which she reveals in her book for the first time. Meanwhile, Nike stood by Alberto for years and proved itself capable of shockingly misogynistic corporate practices. The Longest Race is an unforgettable story that is "as interesting as it is important" (Molly Huddle, two-time Olympian) and also a crucial call to action. Kara became a crusader for female athletes and a key witness helping to get Salazar banned from coaching at the Olympic level. The Longest Race will leave you "motivated, empowered, and ready to take on the world" (Allyson Felix, Olympic gold medalist) as it reveals how Kara broke through the fear of losing everything, bucked powerful forces to take control of her life and career, and reclaimed her love of runningUndisputed: A Champion's Life
Par Donovan Bailey. 2023
A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning…
world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he also learned that in the bureaucratic world of Canadian sports, an athlete who didn't come up in the system needed to take charge of his fate if he was going to become the world’s best. As he ascended from outsider to dominant athlete, others didn’t always understand the rigour at work behind Bailey’s confident demeanour. He’d learned from watching Muhammad Ali that a champion needed to act like a champion. But media grew fixated on the sprinter’s immodesty, the likes of which they never saw from Canadian athletes, especially track athletes in the wake of the Ben Johnson doping scandal at Seoul in 1988. Bailey was having none of it, and when he called out Canada's subtle racism and contradicted the prevailing idea most Canadians had of their country, he left in his wake a media uproar and cracked wide open the nation’s moral complacency. In addition to his unforgettable 100-metre and 4x100 relay gold-medal sprints in Atlanta, Bailey's track career was a litany of records and rare accomplishments, including his audacious 1997 race in Toronto's SkyDome against American 200-metre Olympic champion Michael Johnson to determine who was really the world’s fastest man. There was no disputing the result. Bailey had been coached in success before he was seriously coached in athletics. Following the lead of his father, a machinist-turned-real estate investor, Bailey became a millionaire by the age of 21, an experience he continues to draw on as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Frank about his dominance on the track and unapologetic for expecting as much of those around him as he expects of himself, Undisputed is an athlete's story that refuses to settle for second best.Le traîneau de la liberté: l'aventure extraordinaire d'une femme dans le Grand Nord
Par Marcelle Fressineau. 2004
L'auteure raconte comment, à 41 ans, elle a quitté son confort européen pour aller vivre sa passion des chiens de…
traîneaux au Québec. De Tania, la chienne berger allemand qui veille sur elle dès sa naissance, à Cheyenne, la leader de sa meute de 60 chiens, ce sont les aventures et mésaventures d'une femme déterminée, qu'aucune épreuve ne décourage dans la poursuite de ses objectifs.Plus fort qu'un roc
Par Aron Ralston. 2005
En 2003, l'auteur, alpiniste expérimenté du Colorado, est victime d'un accident lors d'une randonnée effectuée seul dans l'Utah. Dans un…
canyon, un rocher a écrasé l'un de ses avant-bras. Il raconte les cinq jours à attendre en vain les secours, sa lutte contre la déshydratation et l'hypothermie, ses hallucinations et enfin sa décision de s'amputer.Explorateur d'océans: la vie, un vaste territoire d'incertitudes et autant de promesses à explorer
Par Jean-Louis Etienne, Jean-Louis Etienne. 2021
A partir de son expérience d'explorateur et des nombreuses expéditions scientifiques et océanographiques auxquelles il a participé et qu'il retrace…
dans cet ouvrage, J.-L. Etienne exprime son amour de l'océan et rappelle qu'il s'agit de l'un des deux poumons de la planète, dont la préservation est indispensable pour réguler le climat et nourrir les hommes.Y en aura pas d'facile: dix clichés du sport et leurs racines philosophiques (Présent)
Par Jean-François Doré. 2003
Pour plusieurs, associer sport et philosophie, c’est tenter de résoudre la quadrature du cercle, comme si le sport et l’intellect…
étaient par essence contradictoires. Pourtant, dans l’ordre des pratiques culturelles universelles, le sport est l’activité qui rallie le plus grand nombre de participants. Des millions de gens pratiquent quotidiennement un sport, alors que des milliards de spectateurs assistent aux grands-messes que sont les Jeux olympiques ou la Coupe du monde de soccer. À l’instar de Claude Ruel, célèbre instructeur chef du club de hockey Le Canadien, sachant « qu’il n’y en aurait pas de facile », Jean-François Doré brise cette antinomie en explorant les racines philosophiques de dix clichés du sport. Pour réussir ce tour de force, il s’inspire des grands penseurs d’hier et d’aujourd’hui : de Platon et Aristote jusqu’à Jean-Paul Sartre et Albert Camus, en passant par Montaigne, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Marx ...Il était une fois les Expos: 2, Les années 1985-2004
Par Jacques Doucet. 2011
" Ce second tome couvre la période allant de 1985 à 2004 et ne se limite pas aux exploits des…
Expos sur le terrain (match parfait de Dennis Martinez, saison crève-cœur de 1994, émergences de Pedro Martinez et de Vladimir Guerrero), mais approfondit aussi les événements qui ont provoqué la mise en tutelle des Expos par les ligues majeures puis finalement leur départ, tout en apportant des éléments d'information inédits. " -- 4e de couvMagic: The life of earvin "magic" johnson
Par Roland Lazenby. 2023
This program features a prologue read by the author. The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, from…
the highly respected, career sportswriter and author of Michael Jordan: The Life . Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy sport of American professional basketball from a second-tier sport with low ratings into the global spotlight—a transformation driven by Magic's ability to eviscerate opponents with a playing style that featured his grand sense of fun. He was a master entertainer who directed the Los Angeles "Showtime" Lakers to the heights of both glory and epic excess, all of it driven by his mind-blowing no-look passes and personal charm. Then, in 1991, at the height of his charismatic power, Johnson shocked the world with a startling cautionary tale about sexually transmitted disease that pushed public awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Then out came his confession of unprotected sex with hundreds of women each year, followed by his retirement, an attempted return, and a proper farewell on the iconic 1992 Olympic Dream Team. Longtime biographer Roland Lazenby spent years tracking the unlikely ascension of Johnson—an immensely popular public figure who was instantly scandalized but who then turned to his legendary will to rise again as a successful entrepreneur with another level of hard-won success. In Lazenby's portrayal, Johnson's tale becomes bigger than that of one man. It is a generational saga spanning parts of three centuries that reveals a great deal, not just about his unique basketball journey but about America itself. Through hundreds of interviews with Johnson's coaches, representatives past and present, teammates, opponents, friends, and loved ones, as well as key conversations with Johnson himself over the years, Lazenby has produced the first truly definitive study, both dark and light, of Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr.—the revolutionary player, the icon, the manRadiant: the dancer, the scientist, and a friendship forged in light
Par Liz Lee Heinecke. 2021
Althea: The life of tennis champion althea gibson
Par Sally H Jacobs. 2023
"Chanté McCormick rises to the challenge of narrating Jacobs's comprehensive biography of Althea Gibson with grace, energy, and a rich…
voice."- AudioFile "A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my personal shero, who overcame daunting odds – on the tennis court and off - to stand at the world pinnacle of her sport and became an inspiration to many." — Billie Jean King In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive a powerhouse player who would integrate "the game of royalty." The player was a street-savvy young Black woman from Harlem named Althea Gibson who was about as out-of-place in that rarefied and intolerant world as any aspiring tennis champion could be. Her tattered jeans and short-cropped hair drew stares from everyone who watched her play, but her astonishing performance on the court soon eclipsed the negative feelings being cast her way as she eventually became one of the greatest American tennis champions. Gibson had a stunning career. Raised in New York and trained by a pair of tennis-playing doctors in the South, Gibson's immense talent on the court opened the door for her to compete around the world . She won top prizes at Wimbledon and Forest Hills time and time again. The young woman underestimated by so many wound up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II, being driven up Broadway in a snowstorm of ticker tape, and ultimately became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated and the second to appear on the cover of Time . In a crowning achievement, Althea Gibson became the No. One ranked female tennis player in the world for both 1957 and 1958. Seven years later she broke the color barrier again where she became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). In Althea, prize-winning former Boston Globe reporter Sally H. Jacobs tells the heart-rending story of this pioneer, a remarkable woman who was a trailblazer, a champion, and one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth centuryHoop tales: UConn Huskies men's basketball (Hoop tales series)
Par Wayne Norman. 2005
Radio analyst Wayne Norman and UCONN alumnus Robert Porter share their favorite memories of this beloved team. Thrilling victories, crushing…
defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fans have made the UCONN Huskies a basketball favorite. Together you'll relive fifty years of highs and lows and become reacquainted with some of the team's all-time greatest heroes and legendsA speck in the sea: a story of survival and rescue
Par John Aldridge. 2017
Big Red confidential: inside Nebraska football
Par Armen Keteyian. 1989
This book brings to life the raw intensity and richly colorful experience of Husker Power. Yet it also shows that…
beneath this mighty exterior lies a turbulent, troubled team of players and coaches. It exposes the big-time money and pressures that come with being the winningest team in college football100 things Cardinals fans should know & do before they die (100 Things ... Fans Should Know)
Par Derrick Goold. 2012
With 125 years of Cardinals history, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every St. Louis fan…
should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature calls. This updated guide to all things Cardinals covers the artifact on public display that pays homage to Busch Stadium, the story behind the infamous "kidnapping" of Flint Rhem, the unforgettable acrobatics of "The Wizard" Ozzie Smith, and details on all 11 World Series championships, including the amazing 2011 triumph. AdultMacy
Par Kyle Macy. 1980
The University of Kentucky basketball player recounts his career playing for the Wildcats, including winning the 1978 NCAA Championship title.…
He set records for consecutive free throws and career assists, and among other honors, was named Most Valuable Player in the SEC. 1980All in: From Refugee Camp To Poker Champ
Par Jerry Yang. 2011