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Everest : Mountain Without Mercy by Broughton Coburn and Tim Cahill (Introduction). Broughton Coburn, a long-time resident of Nepal and a friend of David Breashears, was commissioned to write a book about David's IMAX filmmaking expedition on Everest, the tragedy on Everest, and the mountain itself. He has more than succeeded with Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, a taut recounting of disaster and triumph at 29,000 feet.

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Joe Montana's Art and Magic of Quarterbacking by Joe Montana and Richard Weiner. During his 16 years as an NFL quarterback, Joe Montana won four Super Bowls and the respect of fans everywhere. His legendary tenure with the San Francisco 49ers through the 1980s will be remembered as one of the most dominating periods in professional sports. And unlike many of the great quarterbacks, Montana posted both the numbers and the big wins necessary to cement his place in the Hall of Fame.

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Golf Magazine's Complete Book of Golf Instruction by James A. Frank, John Andrisani, Lorin Anderson, Golf Magazine, and George Peper. One of the most comprehensive and beautifully designed instructionals ever teed up, the Complete Book taps into a clubhouse full of golf's best professors. These pros break down the teaching of the game into 12 components--from the pre-swing to practice routines--fully illustrated with helpful photographs and drawings. Large both in size and scope, Golf Magazine's Complete Book of Golf Instruction is simple enough to make sense to every level of player, and sophisticated enough to offer no single system of cure-alls that would eventually break your heart.

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A March to Madness : The View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference by Judith Martin. A March to Madness, chronicles the 1996-97 Atlantic Coast Conference's ineluctable journey to March Madness. Exhaustively reported, and penned with as much poignancy as panache, it's the story of the most competitive college basketball conference in the U.S., filtered through the eyes--and complex lives--of its head coaches.

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Wait Till Next Year : A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time comes a personal and fond remembrance of a Brooklyn childhood. Doris Kearns Goodwin fell in love with baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers when she was six and her father taught her how to record the complex symbols and lines in her scorebook. "By the time I had mastered the art of scorekeeping, a lasting bond had been forged between my father and me," she writes about the summer of '49.

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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. "God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability, and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't--cannot--answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way on McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," and the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways.

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Weight Training for Dummies by Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg. Any large bookstore has a few shelves of books about exercise and fitness. Usually they fall into one of two categories: basic books meant for people who've never exercised before, and bodybuilding manuals meant for people who do nothing but. Weight Training for Dummies is just about the only book that spans the knowledge gap between the two groups. It has plenty of easy-to-understand instruction for complete beginners, but there's also a lot of information for those who've been training a while.

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Portraits of the Game : Classic Photographs from Turofsky Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame by Andrew Podnieks. For nearly a third of a century, the Turofsky brothers of Toronto--Nat and Lou--found magic through the lenses of their cameras, particularly when those lenses were focused on hockey and the original six clubs that made up the NHL. Innovators and master craftsmen, their stark black-and-white photos are still haunting more than 60 years after they were taken.

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The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a you from winning. This classic bestseller can change the way your game of tennis is played. This book will help you improve your concentration, deal with nervousness, anger and frustration, and overcome boredom.

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The Best of Outside : The First 20 Years by The Editors of Outside Magazine (Editor) and Outside Magazine (Editor). For two decades Outside magazine has remained committed to good writing, publishing feature articles from well-known authors on a variety of topics connected to the outdoors, adventure, travel, and just about anything else that happens beyond the confines of the mall.

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