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  Growing Old Growing Cold - Notes...

  Kathleen McDonnell

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  What is it about freezing cold water that draws people in? Throughout history, humans have gravitated to cold water swimming and celebrated its healing properties, calling it the secret to good health and serenity. Today, cold water swimmers gather in groups from Galway to Georgian Bay to jump into frigid waters for fun, competition, and even as a form of activism and protest.
  		 
  Kathleen McDonnell started swimming in Lake Ontario, infamous for its chilly depths, because it was close to home. As time went on she began to rely on a daily dip, even breaking through winter ice to raise her spirits and refresh her body. In this wide-ranging memoir, McDonnell shares her love of cold water swimming and the lessons she has learned from a slow and steady commitment to the waves.

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  Where the Trout Are All as Long...

  John Gierach

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  Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Fly-fishing's finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of rattlesnakes and a private pond where the trout are all as long as your leg. As Gierach says, "The secret places are the soul of fishing." Hearing about a new one never fails to entice us.And so Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg transports the listener to the best of these places, where the fish are always bigger and the hatches last forever. After all, it's these magical places that Gierach so vividly evokes that remind us how precious—and precarious—are the unspoiled havens of the natural world.

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  17 Simple Golf Tips Guaranteed...

  Empowered Living

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  Every great golfer knows there is always a little room for improvement in their game. These 17 simple tips are guaranteed to improve your game . . . and your swing! 
  Here's what you will learn: 
  1)     Tips to improve your back swing 
  2)     How to hit a draw 
  3)     How to hit a fade 
  4)     What is the cause for hitting the ball off the toe of the club and what is a good drill to correct this 
  5)     How to better align yourself toward the target 
  6)     How do you stop lifting your head when driving the ball 
  7)     How to Chip With a Hybrid 
  8)     How do you fix the problem of your hands and arms moving faster on the downswing than your lower body 
  9)     What simple drill can I do to cure my slice 
  10)  How do I correct my Outside-In swing path 
  11)  How much should I lean the shaft into a shot 
  12)  How to correct the arms from swinging too far away from the body 
  13)  What drill improves hitting the ball square at impact 
  14)  How to perfect the Flop Shot 
  15)  Does having a club fitted improve your play 
  16)  Why does a draw go farther than a slice 
  17)  How to play out of a bunker

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  Griezmann - Updated Edition

  Luca Caioli

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  FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MESSI AND RONALDO
  
  Quick, incisive and versatile, Antoine Griezmann is the
  
  ultimate modern forward.
  
  But did you know that he had to leave France in order to
  
  find a professional club willing to take a chance on him?
  
  Or that he wears the number 7 shirt as a tribute to his idol,
  
  David Beckham?
  
  Or that Real Sociedad fans came to affectionately refer to
  
  him as 'The Little Devil'?
  
  Find our about all this and more in Luca Caioli and Cyril
  
  Collot's tirelessly researched biography, featuring exclusive interviews with
  
  those who know him best.
  Includes all the action from the 2017/18
  
  season and the 2018 World Cup

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  Muir and More - John Muir his...

  Ronald Turnbull

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  John Muir – a life, but also a hike. Muir is 200 miles of high-level granite and pine, but also the inventor of a clockwork self-awakening bed and the American national park system. Muir is East Lothian's Man of the Millennium – this despite the fact that he left Scotland for ever at the age of eleven – and one of the best long paths in the world.
  Award-winning outdoor writer Ronald Turnbull follows John Muir from his birthplace in Dunbar to the Californian trail that bears his name. A perceptive, humorous companion over 210 miles of the Sierra Nevada (and 45 miles of East Lothian coast), Turnbull shares remote camps with some eccentric trail types, pokes fun at Thoreau and explores the paradoxes inherent in the preservation of wilderness. Most of all, he reflects on the life and ideas of John Muir himself: pioneering conservationist, writer and walker, inspired visionary and tiresome tree-hugger - the exiled Scot who invented the American outdoors.

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  Jackie Robinson and Moses...

  Charles River Editors

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  In his introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader, sports historian Jules Tygiel succinctly observed, “Extraordinary lives often reveal ordinary truths. Jackie Robinson was born in 1919 and died in 1972. He crammed into these brief fifty-three years a legacy of accomplishment, acclaim, controversy, and influence matched by few Americans. He was, even before his historic baseball breakthrough, an athlete of legendary proportions. He won fame and adulation as the first African-American to play in the major leagues in the twentieth century, launching an athletic revolution that transformed American sports. He garnered baseball's highest honors: Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame. More significantly, Robinson became a symbol of racial integration and a prominent leader in the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet Jackie Robinson's half century among us illuminates not just the contours of an exceptional life, but much about the broader African-American experience of those years.” 
  	Given his legacy, many Americans today believe Jackie Robinson was the first black man to play in Major League Baseball, but that answer is wrong. As far back as the late 19th century, there had been professional baseball leagues that were every bit as segregated as any other aspect of society, but before that, there were, for a brief shining moment, there were teams of black and white men playing with and against each other.  
  One of the first black men to play on such a team was Moses Fleetwood Walker, and he was the first who openly identified as black. As racism and segregation successfully pushed black players out of professional baseball, it was all but forgotten that professional baseball had once been integrated before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, ensuring that the contributions of Walker and other early black athletes would be obscured and then eclipsed. 

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