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  Under Jackie's Shadow - Voices...

  Mitchell Nathanson

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  The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post–Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.

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  The Power of the Paddle

  Jordan Wylie

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  The Sunday Times Bestseller
  'His name was Ibrahim. He was about five years old and the thing he wanted most in the world was to go to school.'
  In a tiny country on the Horn of Africa, extreme adventurer, former soldier and star of Channel 4's Hunted Jordan Wylie made an extraordinary promise to a remarkable young boy. Ibrahim's home Djibouti is a refuge from neighbouring war zones, playing host to children excluded from the basic privileges we take for granted in the West. So, armed with skills learned from a lifetime of adventures, Wylie vowed to raise funds to build a new school for those children.
  And thus began a series of exceptional challenges, seeing Wylie row solo across the pirate-infested Bab el-Mandeb Strait in a world first and run extreme marathons in ice-cold climates. To cap it off, he embarked on a journey stand-up paddleboarding around mainland Great Britain, along the way facing military firing ranges, crazy teenagers on jet-skis, psychotic jellyfish and, finally, Covid-19.
  This is the inspirational true story of the lengths one man went to fulfil a young boy's dream – and of the good that can be achieved even in the hardest of times.

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  Level Up - The fitness...

  Mark Coles

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  Level Up is about becoming the person you want to be, developing the business that you want to run, and creating the life you want to live. For every significant step you take on the journey to achieving these goals, you will have to Level Up.
  This audiobook provides you with three clear Level Up road maps to guide you on your journey:
   
  
  - The Personal – Be More! road map will help you break through personal limitations and strive for excellence
  - The Physical – Learn More! road map will help you improve your coaching skills, knowledge, results and reputation in the fitness industry
  - The Professional – Do More! road map will increase your business acumen, your levels of professionalism, and your understanding of marketing, money and sales

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  Five Rings and One Star - From...

  Andrea Schiavon

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  5 September, 1972. 4.30 a.m. The Munich Olympic Village. Black September, a group of Palestinian terrorists, break into the Israeli team's apartments. It is the beginning of the most tragic event in Olympic history and, after twenty hours, the day will end in a massacre, with the deaths of eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and a German policeman.  This is the story of the race-walker Shaul Ladany: a survivor. But more than just a member of the Israeli team from those terrible events in Munich, Ladany was a survivor of the darkest period in twentieth century history, having been interred as a child at the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, the camp where Anne Frank died. For the second time in his life, Ladany has survived history.  Ladany, the world record holder in the fifty-mile walk and a professor of industrial engineering, is one of Israel’s most successful athletes, having won dozens of national championships and competed at both the 1968 and 1972 Olympics; he was a student at Columbia University in New York, a soldier in the Six Days War and the Yom Kippur War. From Eichmann to Sharon, from Bikila to All Blacks, from Nixon to Thatcher: they are all a part of Ladany’s walk through the twentieth century. Award-winning author and journalist Andrea Schiavon tells Ladany's extraordinary life and, walking with him, chronicles a whole century of events in this astonishing, touching and epic biography.

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  PS I Still Hate It Here - More...

  Diane Falanga

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  Another collection of hilarious real-life letters from kids at summer camp sure to amuse anyone who’s ever been a homesick child or a parent of one. 
   
  From the editor of the bestselling P.S. I Hate It Here comes an all-new, even more outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny collection of real letters written by children ages eight to sixteen to their parents about their adventures at summer camp. Written with the same wit and honesty as those in the first book, these new letters take the reader on a familiar adventure that conjures up the experience of being away from home, and the hilarious and lasting memories that accompany that special place called sleepaway camp. 
   
  Praise for P.S. I Still Hate It Here 
   
  “Will give you and your friends a good laugh while you’re at the beach and the kids are away.” —Geek Mom

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  NPR Sound Treks: Adventures -...

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  Experience a refreshing adrenaline rush on this NPR guided tour of the ultimate in outdoor fun: Whether whitewater rafting on the Hudson River, mountain climbing in the Himalayas, kayaking in Alaska, airboarding in Oregon’s Cascade mountains, or bungee jumping in Australia, each story is an amazing sound adventure—and a great escape.The NPR Sound Treks series features outstanding audio documentaries, stories, and commentary from the NPR archives. Each volume features sounds from nature, insights from experts and others who love the outdoor experience (naturalists, zoologists, biologists, adventurers, even a cowgirl), and vivid storytelling that captures the excitement of the wildernessContents:Introduction by Jon HamiltonRacing for Adventure in BorneoThe Unger Report: Indoor SkydivingLeaping Down UnderSliders: Racing Down Berkeley’s Steep HillsBraving the Badwater UltramarathonAir Boarding: Surfing the Slopes, Belly-FirstWhitewater Rafting on New York’s Hudson RiverRock Climber Chris Sharma Chases Next “King Line”Kayaking in AlaskaClimbing Blind in the Himalayas

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