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Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail
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Edmund Hillary · 245 pages
Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
Bear Grylls · 304 pages
Only one in four people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those few the majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the extreme weather conditions and months of limited sleep, and reached the summit at the age of 23, becoming the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest.
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
Tori Murden McClure · 292 pages
During June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a 23-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. She lost communications, but nevertheless decided to keep going, without updates on the location of the Gulf Stream and the weather--in what became the North Atlantic's worst hurricane season. When a series of violent storms nearly killed her, she had to signal for he
Just a Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes
Rosie Swale Pope · 336 pages
After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by a bus, confronted by bears, chased by a naked man with a gun and stranded with severe frostbite, Rosie's breathtaking 20,000-mile solo journey is as gripping as it is inspiring.Rosie's solo run around the world started out of sorrow
The Mountain: My Time on Everest
Ed Viesturs, David Roberts · 352 pages
The only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks sets his sights on Mount Everest, in a work that combines his own climbs as well as narratives of famous climbs throughout the last century.
No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits
Jordan Romero · 368 pages
This book is a thrilling tale of the youngest person to climb the seven summits. Go on this adventure with Jordan as he climbs the tallest mountains in each continent.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan · 447 pages
Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adven
Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Americ a
Marshall Ulrich
In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir
Amanda Beard, Rebecca Paley · 256 pages
The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea
Chris Jericho, Peter T. Fornatale · 432 pages
"The New York Times bestselling author, wrestler, metal rocker, and over-the-top media personality shares his latest wild and hilarious adventures. World Wrestling Entertainment has named Chris Jericho as one of the top ten wrestlers--and one of the top five talkers--of all time. Certainly, the past six years have been spectacular for Jericho. After a sluggish return from his 2005 sabbatical, Jeri
This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
Gilbert Tuhabonye, Gary Brozek · 275 pages
Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
Joe Buck · 295 pages
"In his debut memoir, Joe Buck talks about his life, his career, and his memorable relationship with his father, legendary sportscaster Jack Buck"--Baker & Taylor.
Focused: Staying on Track, One Choice at a Time
Noelle Pikus Pace · 144 pages
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
Samuel Wilson Fussell · 252 pages
An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
Oliver Horovitz · 322 pages
Oliver Horovitz had been accepted at Harvard, but he couldn't start for another year. A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland--a town with the U.K.'s highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf 's most famous eighteen holes--where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee
The Hardcore Truth: The Bob Holly Story
Bob Holly, Ross Williams · 300 pages
My Personal Best : Life Lessons from an All-American Journey
John Wooden, Steve Jamison · 192 pages
"In this book, basketball coach John Wooden reveals the educational journey he took throughout his legendary life, from his earliest days on a small Indiana farm to the glory of his historic record-setting UCLA dynasty. Throughout My Personal Best, Coach Wooden introduces us to the men and women who shaped him and the many important life lessons they taught along the way."--Jacket.
Doc: A Memoir
Dwight Gooden, Jeff Johnson · 285 pages
"A brutally honest memoir of talent, addiction, and recovery from one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time. As a shy nineteen-year-old, Dwight Gooden swept into New York, lifting a team of crazy characters to World Series greatness and giving a beleaguered city a reason to believe. Then he threw it all away. Now, with fresh and sober eyes, the Mets' beloved Dr. K shares the intimate detai
Hero of the Underground: A Memoir
Jason Peter, Tony O'Neill · 289 pages
Peter, a professional football player whose career was cut short by a neck injury, describes his life of heroin and crack addiction.
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall · 256 pages
House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge
Lenny Dykstra, Peter Golenbock · 340 pages
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Addicted to Danger: A Memoir
Jim Wickwire, Dorothy Bullitt · 336 pages