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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
One of the most celebrated contemporary golf writers captures golf as a way of life, profiling golfers with unique stories and showcasing both private and public courses across the U.S. and the U.K.
After a lifetime of writing about the professional sport, Michael Bamberger, “the poet laureate of golf” (GOLF magazine), delivers an exhilarating love letter to the amateur game as it’s played—and lived—by the rest of us.
Over Michael Bamberger’s...
Publisher
Jim Dashiell
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Appalachian Trail was beautiful, evil, demanding but forgiving. It taught us the importance of individuality, luck and determination. The best lesson, however, was the value of the people who hiked it, maintained it, provided trail magic to the random anonymous hiker. We're all family on the Trail. Shared hardships act as a bond. This book offers observations of the same experiences from a variety of viewpoints complete with the good and bad memories....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Washington Post, and Time magazine, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport over four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular season hit in Pittsburgh, to ringside for...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hand-picking the keenest insights and funniest exchanges from eighty-four episodes of the groundbreaking streaming series, this carefully curated book offers excerpts from casual yet intimate conversations with the funniest people alive and behind-the-scenes photos and anecdotes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The final work from the legendary teacher. His gentle demeanor and timeless wisdom made Harvey Penick America's best-loved teacher of the game of golf. At the time of his death in April 1995, Harvey was well along in the work on this, his fourth book of golf instruction. Like his classic Little Red Book, The Game for a Lifetime is filled not so much with swing tips and stance aids, but with a timeless philosophy that seeks to improve play by improving...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years, millions of listeners tuned in to hear Rush Limbaugh's voice. He was an unwavering American patriot, a true leader, friend, family member, and voice of reason on the radio. At its peak, The Rush Limbaugh Show aired on more than 650 radio stations nationwide, and his inimitable commentary and distinctive sense of humor garnered an audience exceeding 30 million loyal listeners. By the time Rush reached his pinnacle of success...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Parkes gathers tales from twenty-two knitters and examines a subject that is irresistible to us all-the yarn stash. Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several life expectancy. With her trademark wry, witty approach, Parkes brings together fascinating stories from all facets of stash-keeping and knitting life. Whether the yarn stash is muse, memento, creative companion, career guide,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street...
Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story -- sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed -- of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse.
Korda is a terrific...
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