Sports and Leisure

Recent movers and shakers in sports and leisure.

Updated May 2, 2025
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Why we love football : a history in 100 moments
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author of Why We Love Baseball After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to...
Just add water
Ledecky, Katie
Paper Book
A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swimmers ever to compete: Katie Ledecky. Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a three-time Olympian, a seven-time...
Out of the darkness : the mystery of Aaron Rodgers
O'Connor, Ian
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." --Peter King Four-time New York Times bestselling sport biographer Ian O'Connor pulls...
The boys of Riverside : a deaf football team and a quest for glory
Fuller, Thomas (Journalist)
Paper Book
NAMED A BEST BOOK BY BOOK RIOT, AND MORE! . The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team's triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated, their inspirational brotherhood, a fascinating portrait of deafness in America, and the indefatigable head coach who spearheaded the...
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Light, Daniel
Paper Book
A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth. Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South...
Tiger, Tiger : His Life, As It's Never Been Told Before
Patterson, James/ De Jonge, Peter
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Patterson's account is compelling" (Daily Mail). The only major author to have nine holes-in-one gets inside the mystery of Tiger Woods in a biography that reads like an unputdownable...
The Basketball 100
The Athletic
Paper Book
A celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBA--from The Athletic's foremost basketball writers and analysts the game has to offer. With a foreword by Charles Barkley. Over the course of 100 luminous player profiles, the...
Sundays at the Track: Inspiring True Stories of Faith, Leadership, and Determination from the World of NASCAR
Weeks, Lee
Paper Book
Maneuvering a 3,400-pound machine at nearly 200 miles per hour among dozens of other race cars is intense. So is life. And the experiences of NASCAR drivers, crews, owners, and executives on and off the track are ones all of us can benefit from in our everyday lives. In 36 chapters about many of...
Mountaineering : the freedom of the hills
Linxweiler, Eric
Paper Book
"The definitive guide to mountains and climbing." - Conrad Anker Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is the most significant guidebook ever published. Born from the handwritten climbing tips of early volunteers of the Seattle-based Mountaineers organization, this fundamental...

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