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  Raising an Athlete - The Real...

  Kayla Lee Bailey

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  The most important moment in youth sports happens in the car ride home—not on the field. 
  As a sports parent, you know the feeling. Your child walks off the field quieter than usual, shoulders tight, and you want to help. But what should you say? Most parents don't realize that the invisible work—how you respond to failure, when you stay quiet, and what you reinforce in those small moments—shapes whether your child builds real confidence or carries pressure that follows them off the field. 
  Raising An Athlete is not about developing professional players. It's about raising humans who understand themselves, handle pressure with grace, and know their worth isn't tied to wins or stats. 
  Through real stories and the proven Car Ride Method™ framework, Kayla Lee Bailey shows you exactly how to navigate the complex role of being a sports parent—without adding weight to what your athlete already carries. You'll discover why the invisible scoreboard matters more than the one everyone's watching, how to build real confidence through failure, recognize burnout before it's too late, and help your athlete see themselves as more than their sport. 
  Because raising an athlete isn't about the sport. It's about the human.

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  Ashforth's Curiosities of...

  David Ashforth

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  A sport based on one animal sitting on top of another and trying (usually) to be the first pair to reach a wooden stick is a curiosity in itself. So it's no surprise that horseracing is full of curiosities.
  
  
  The curiosities in this collection have been chosen to arouse interest. They are stories of those curious creatures – people, and of horses.
  
  
  The curiosities are arranged in themes so that the reader can dip in and out, as the mood takes them. The collection should leave them with a benevolent view of an intriguing sport, if they didn't already have one.  
  
  Owners, jockeys, the horses, racecourses, officials, prizes, trainers and staff, racing journalists, betting, bookmakers, punters, skulduggery – one of Britain's best loved racing journalists David Ashforth has found the stories to capture the readers attention on all these topics and more.

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  Training to Win - The Complete...

  FBHS Moore

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  A comprehensive guide for the modern-day event rider to support every stage of the training process from the early years up to the first 4*. The introduction gives a thorough vision on the crucial ingredients of what makes a champion at any level, whether it is the Badminton Grassroots, the Youth Europeans, or the World Equestrian Games. This proven and successful training system is broken down into three equally applicable sections: Training to Learn; Training to Compete; and Training to Win.
  
  The reader will be taken through the four to five years that essentially it will take to produce the horse and rider partnership to a high level of performance. Every physical and mental skill required will be demonstrated by an exercise, which can be easily followed with tips on equipment required, setting up the exercise and relevance to competition.
  
  This informative book will be a great support to the event rider, focusing on the three periods of the eventing year: the winter training period, the spring fitness period and the lead up to a championship or long format. There will be coverage on season planning, course design, performance profiling, goal setting and, most importantly, advice on how a rider can manage nerves in a competition environment. The book is packed with performance-enhancing ideas and for any rider wanting to improve their training system this is an essential guide to developing the confidence to succeed.

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  The Black Cats Quiz Book - 1000...

  Mart Matthews

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  How much do you really know about the club you love?
  You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Sunderland Quiz Book.
  It's not often that books on football make reference to the Beatles, the Battle of Hastings, Fred Dibnah, Bob Dylan, Rommel and Sherlock Holmes – but this one does!
  Try these for size:
  1. Which is the only ground on which Sunderland have both won and lost in an FA Cup semi-final?
  2. The only man to manage the club both before and after the Second World War also appeared on Ghostbusters. Who was he?
  3. Most Sunderland fans know that the club's two FA Cup wins came in 1937 and its reverse: 1973. But which club did Sunderland beat on the way to Wembley in both those seasons?

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  Savage Arena - K2 Changabang and...

  Joe Tasker

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  'One of the best and most important climbing books that has been written.' – Sir Chris Bonington 
   
  Joe Tasker lies, struck down by illness, in a damp, bug-infested room in the Himalaya, wondering if he will be well enough to climb Dunagiri, his first venture to the ‘big’ mountains. One of Britain’s foremost mountaineers and a pioneer of lightweight climbing, he is about to attempt one of the first true ‘alpine-style’ climbs in the Greater Ranges. 
   
  The Dunagiri attempt forms part of Tasker’s striking tale of adventure in the savage arena of the mountains. A superb writer, he vividly describes the first British winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang – considered a ‘preposterous’ plan by the climbing world – and his two unsuccessful attempts on K2, the second highest mountain on Earth. 
   
  Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it. It is also a story of the stresses and strains of living for long periods in constant anxiety, often with only one other person, and of the close and vital human relationships which spring from those circumstances.

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  Legacy

  Nick Compton

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  Powerful memoir of cricket, family and depression by former England cricketer Nick Compton. 
  Nick Compton had it all. A literal golden boy, to many observers it would seem that he was born to be a great in the sporting arena coming as he did from an incredible sporting ancestry. HIs grandfather Sir Denis Compton played cricket for England and football for Arsenal. 
   
  Honed at an elite English boarding school, with a telegenic profile perfectly suited to the modern media environment, Nick appeared to be blessed with that rare ability to be able to stride out and face down the world's quickest bowlers, to survive and thrive in the danger zone at the hands of the hurtling new ball. 
   
  However, greatness in any field comes at a price and this memoir explores the almost 'Faustian pact' he made in order to secure that time in the sun. It will show what 'Mistress Cricket' demanded from Nick as his side of that bargain. The family he left behind, the failed relationships both personal and professional and the utter physical and mental exhaustion which resulted from his drive to stay at the top.

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