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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Your favorite players have left you with a deep and intricate memory of their greatness, not to mention well-honed arguments as to why your favorites are really the best. In arenas, in front of your TV, and in bars, you have debated friends and strangers alike. Yours won six titles, batted .350 in the clutch, or generated 82% of their team's scoring. Greeny shows that not all numbers are created equal. Some are accomplishments. Others are identity....
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
3) A por más
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Publisher
LID
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
Español
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A por más recopila los secretos del esfuerzo de 29 números uno que lo dan todo entrenando para llegar a tocar el cielo de una medalla olímpica. Ellos y sus entrenadores cuentan en primera persona, como nunca se ha hecho, al equipo de 26 grandes periodistas de EFE Deportes (capitaneado por Luis Villarejo), el proceso de cómo lo hacen, de dónde sacan fuerzas cuando no las hay o detalles inéditos del trabajo diario. Son nombres en mayúsculas...
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English
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From world-class marathoner and 4-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan and chef Elyse Kopecky comes a whole foods, flavor-forward cookbook that proves food can be indulgent and nourishing at the same time. This cookbook for runners that shows fat is essential for flavor and performance and that counting calories, obsessing over protein, and restrictive dieting does more harm than good. Packed with more than 100 recipes for every part of your day, nutritional...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Willye White was the first American woman to compete in five Olympic Games. Born in 1939 in Money, Mississippi, money was exactly what she didn't have. Abandoned by both her parents, she worked alongside her grandparents in the cotton fields. Willye dreamed big. When her cousin noticed she was the fastest runner around, Willye jumped at the chance to put on her traveling shoes and run her way to greatness. Swift as rushing wind, first Willye ran for...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation,...
9) Sooley
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English
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In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quickness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Although fans the world over have been fascinated by the modern Summer Olympics since 1896, the Winter Olympics didn't officially begin until 1924. The event celebrates cold-weather sports, displaying the talents of skiers, ice skaters, hockey players, and, most recently, snowboarders. Like its summer counterpart, the Winter Games are dedicated to bringing together the world's top athletes to honor their talents and see who gets to stand on the medal...
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English
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"In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competed as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field, and was feted as America's Golden Girl-- until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her, and risks everything to join the Olympic team. From Missouri, tomboyish...
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America's Test Kitchen
Language
English
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Description
American's Test Kitchen and a clinical dietitian and nutritionist work together to provide recipes that give you energy and endurance for the activities you love, using science backed levels of carbohydrates, protein and healthy fats, plus flavor that packs a punch.
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English
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A talented runner fully committed to Olympic dreams, Sabrina Rice's future was shattered by a devastating diagnosis. Several years later, she has new goals and dreams that have nothing to do with running-- until the day she sees Brandy Philip running across the community college campus, easily outpacing security. Sabrina immediately recognizes world-class speed, and it's all the more painful that it belongs to a teenage graffiti artist. Is God calling...
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