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  Revisiting the Depths:...

  Amy Tan

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   "... is a work of art... (and) ... compelling read for those drawn to personal growth, environmental concerns, and the spiritual connection with nature." 
  "The writing doesn't just tell—it immerses.  ... a thoughtful meditation on life." 
  — Literary Titan 
  "... a must-read ... Readers will finish this book feeling inspired and with a newfound understanding of the indomitable human spirit." 
  "... an immersive memoir that transports readers to another time and place. ...relatable to readers from all walks of life." 
  — Books to Hook Publishing 
  You Need to Read this Award-Winning Memoir of Healing and Self-Discovery 
  Amy Tan masterfully blends self-help with a powerful story of healing and growth in this inspirational book. If you’re looking for healing books for women, men, and even young adults. 
  A traumatic first dive dampens her love of the ocean. Thirty years later, the ocean is still in her blood, but fear holds her back from trying again. 
  Unable to ignore the lure of the waters and the beauty of the ocean, she decides to overcome her fear and reclaim her life. On the beautiful, little-known Tioman Island, she gathers her courage. 
  Guided by her divemaster and supported by her husband, Amy learns to trust herself. With every dive, the ocean inspires her to overcome all that holds her back – and not just in the water. 
  Each trip below the surface challenges her fear and helps her discover who she is truly meant to be. Get inspired with this growth mindset book to face your fears, find peace, and jump into life with your whole heart. 
  If you only read one memoir this year, make it this one – discover the lessons learned in the depths of the ocean and unlock the keys to personal growth and spiritual growth.

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  Voices From The Hills -...

  Steve Chilton

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  Voices From the Hills is a history of female participation in mountain running, a development that was fiercely resisted in its early years. Steve Chilton has researched his subject deeply, interviewing many female athletes whom he rightly describes as pioneers. Thanks to them, female participation has become accepted and followed avidly in all its aspects including the long distance, high ascent runs over ranges such as the Mamores and recognised challenges such as the Bob Graham Round. The many voices who speak directly from the page represent many different personalities that are united in a powerful determination to realise their various potentials and to prepare the way for the athletes who would follow in ever greater numbers.

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  Rory Land - The Up-and-Down...

  Timothy M. Gay

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  Timothy M. Gay writes that four-time major champion Rory McIlroy is "golf's ageless Opie Taylor," a superstar whose charm transcends national boundaries and enlivens the game. His swing is so powerful that Tiger Woods is teaching his own son to mimic Rory's action. 
   
   
   
  But a charismatic persona and a pretty swing don't translate into winning championships. Rory has failed to win another major and fallen short of achieving the career Grand Slam. 
   
   
   
  He's become a lightning rod, getting into a smackdown at the '23 Ryder Cup and, after his betrayal by PGA Tour brass, causing confusion by going from an impassioned opponent of a deal with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf to an outspoken proponent. 
   
   
   
  McIlroy is from Northern Ireland, a geopolitical anomaly where religion and patriotism have been used as bloody cudgels. Both sides of his family were battered by the North's sectarian Troubles. 
   
   
   
  Rory is a man essentially without a country, which might explain why he's become so obsessed with the Ryder Cup. Gay argues that McIlroy has invented his own fiefdom, which the author has dubbed "RORY LAND." 
   
   
   
  Rory Land tells the saga of a compassionate superstar living in a world where "money has no conscience."

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  Ultramarathon Man - Confession...

  Dean Karnazes

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  Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner helped introduce the world to ultramarathoning. Now, after three decades of running ultramarathons across the globe, Dean Karnazes is still going strong. This updated and revised edition includes an afterword full of the lessons he’s picked  
  up along the way. He gives personal details on the essential pillars of health—fitness, diet, and sleep.  
   
  What does he eat, what supplements does he take, and what kind of mattress does he sleep on? Aging well takes work, and the man who hasn’t stopped is sharing the tips and learnings that have kept him going, mile after grueling mile. 
   
  Ultramarathon Man is Karnazes’ story: the mind-boggling adventures of his nonstop treks through the shoe-melting inferno of Death Valley, the lung-freezing ferocity of the South Pole, and the awe-inspiring beauty of the towering peaks and craggy canyons of the Sierra Nevada. 
   
  With an insight and candor rarely seen in sports memoirs, he reveals how he navigates the solitary, manic, self-absorbed life of extreme ultrarunning with a full-time job, a wife, and two children, and how running has made him who he is today: a man with an ironclad body, a teenager’s energy, and a  
  champion’s wisdom.

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  The Death and Resurrection of...

  William R. Douglas

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  "A truly, well written, must-read book!" - Reader review___A truly unique, and groundbreaking Sports Fiction, and Dystopian Book for Young Adults on up, suitable for Young Adults (YA) and adult fiction lovers everywhere!The Death and Resurrection of Baseball: Echoes from a Distant Past, is getting great reviews for its unique Sports Fiction storyline, and what-ifs:What if a Second Civil War is the endpoint in the current trajectory of America's divisiveness?What if early warning signs of baseball's popularity continue downward?What if among the personal and cultural casualties of a Civil War II, baseball was to die as a sport?The Death and Resurrection of Baseball take those what-if propositions and transports the reader 140 years from now into the futuristic United States of America to the year 2166. A United States that is far from our current recognition.In the year 2166, a post-Second Civil War United States of America is finally back on its feet. Among the countless personal and cultural casualties of the war, the sport of baseball has been dead for over a hundred years.12-year-old Joe Scott lives in the northern Illinois city of McHenry and goes exploring in the woods one day in a no man's land that a hundred years earlier was the site of the bloodiest battle of the Second Civil War. While there, he discovers a relic from the distant past, from before the war. It sparks a search for its meaning.Little does he know that the wheels of Providence have been unwittingly set in motion, leading to a stunning discovery in Dyersville, Iowa.This second discovery has a direct connection with the relic found in McHenry. As events unfold, Joe finds himself at the center of the rediscovery of the sport of baseball, long lost and forgotten by the ravages of time and the lingering aftereffects of the Second Civil War.

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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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