Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History
The Oral History of a Legendary Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Tom Brady marching the team upfield in the final minute of the 2001 Super Bowl. Troy Brown playing offense, defense, and special teams. The Tuck Rule. A rogue groundskeeper plowing a path for kicker John Smith at the end of a scoreless, snowy game. Gino Cappelletti setting the AFL record for points...
by Monica Seles, James LaRosa
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The Academy is an International Sports Mecca for teen athletes. There are only two ways in. Deep pockets or enough talent to score a scholarship.
Young tennis star Maya's dreams have finally come true when she earns a scholarship to The Academy. Plucked from her small town, Maya moves to the...
58 Degrees North
The Mysterious Sinking of the Arctic Rose
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In the spring of 2001, an industrial fishing trawler went down in the icy waters just below the Arctic Circle, with its position last recorded at 58 degrees north. The Arctic Rose sank so abruptly that there was not even time to put on survival suits or call for help, and all fifteen men aboard were...
Off Course
An A Circuit Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Equestrians Tommi, Kate, and Zara are expected to perform at every horse show big or small. So with the biggest show of the season just weeks away, they should be in prep mode. But that's easier said than done. Kate and Zara are both dealing with boy drama. And a road trip steals Tommi's focus. Then...
Leningrad
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Anna...
The Mistress of Abha
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The year is 1930 and the British are in Arabia. Ivor Willoughby, a young Orientalist, embarks on an ambitious quest to find his father, an officer abroad with the British Army. In all of Ivor's life, Robert has returned to England only once, bedraggled and wild-eyed with tales of As'ir, a land of...
The Most Memorable Games in Giants History
The Oral History of a Legendary Team
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
With extensive reporting and engrossing storytelling, Jim Baker and
Bernard Corbett give us the scenes of one of the NFL's most successful
and popular franchises. Interviews with Giants legends who participated
in these historic moments put us behind closed doors in the
commissioner's office during...
Taking the Field
A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
With 162 games a year, the playoffs, and an active offseason, baseball fans almost never stop thinking about their team. And Howard Megdal is no exception: a lifelong and feverish Mets fan, he has been there through thick and (more often) thin. And yet-year in and year out, the Mets seem to find ways...
by Robert Bausch
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
When Skip Granger, the assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, first sees Jesse Smoke, she is on the beach in Belize. And she has just thrown a regulation football a mile.
Granger knows that Smoke's talent is unprecedented for a woman, and nearly unparalleled among men. As Granger observes...
I Found My Tribe
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk, It's Not Yet Dark, and When Breath Becomes Air.
Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker and author husband Simon Fitzmaurice who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes....
The Shotokan Karate Bible 2nd edition
Beginner to Black Belt
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
An authoritative text providing the newcomer to karate with all they need to know. Packed with clear photographs detailing techniques and kata (the combinations of techniques students must master to progress through the belts), this book is organized and designed to take the student step-by-step through...
by Anthony Bourdain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Chef, author, and raconteur Anthony Bourdain is best known for traveling the globe on his TV show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Somewhat notoriously, he has established himself as a professional gadfly, bête noir, advocate, social critic, and pork enthusiast, recognized for his caustic sense of...
by Jacques Couvillon
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Welcome to Horse Island, where knowing about chickens is the key to popularity and eggs are more valuable than money. This is where eleven-year-old Don Schmidt lives on a chicken farm with his parents. He is sort of unpopular, both at home (where his mother refers nonstop to his talented, dancing,...
Amped
How Big Air, Big Dollars, and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
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Amped is the first comprehensive account of the history, culture, and business of action sports-skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, and freestyle motocross. Journalist David Browne interviews more than 100 athletes, pioneers, industry executives, manufacturers, and the adolescent...