Confident Powerboating

ConfidentPowerboating addresses your safety concerns, providing a detailed guide to avoiding problems, coping with difficult situations, and responding to emergencies effectively. Also, each section contains several anecdotes of problems encountered and resolved (or not).

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Pete Maravich: The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete

A portrait based on access to the NBA star's personal records offers insight into his NCAA records, placement as one of the NBA's top fifty players, psychological troubles, post-retirement depression, religious faith, and early death at the age of forty.

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Life of Evel: Evel Knievel

A commemorative portrait, published to coincide with the first anniversary of his death, covers such topics as the record-breaking bike stuntman's contribution to the establishment of extreme sports, his battles with addiction, and his financial ups and downs.

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The Yankee Years

The former Yankees manager provides a thought-provoking and candid behind-the-scenes study of the Yankees organization, from top to bottom, detailing the challenges of working for a team in which executives and the media question every decision, managing a clubhouse of superstars, and the issues confronting modern baseball.

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Running for Mortals:

You don’t have to run fast or competitively to reap the rewards that running has to offer. What you do need is the courage to start. That is the "Penguin mantra" that has enabled John Bingham—through his best-selling book No Need for Speed, his popular monthly column for Runner’s World magazine, and his many appearances at major running events throughout the year—to inspire thousands of men and women to take up the sport for fitness and the sheer enjoyment that running brings them.

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Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die

Draws on the expertise of diving authorities from around the world to describe fifty of their favorite diving destinations for divers to experience their unique underwater wonders, ranging from such Caribbean favorites as the Grand Cayman Isles to Lembognan, Indonesia, accompanied by helpful trip planning suggestions.

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This is the first-ever biography of the legendary wrestler Gorgeous George, filled with incredible never-before-told stories. George directly influenced the likes of Muhammad Ali, who took his bragging and boasting from George; James Brown, who began to wear sequined capes onstage after seeing George on TV; John Waters, whose films featured the outrageous drag queen Divine as an homage to George; and too many wrestlers to count. Amid these pop culture discoveries are firsthand accounts of the pro wrestling game from the 1930s to the 1960s.--From publisher description.
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Chasing the Hunters' Dream: 1001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hun

An illustrated reference to 1,001 top-selected hunting destinations throughout the world draws on the authors' personal experiences with hunting big and small game, shares tips for traveling on a budget, and covers how to pursue trophies internationally.

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Good book for a snowy winter day

A thrilling compilation of real-life adventure stories of survival in extreme conditions presents tales of narrow escapes from death in the mountains and ranges from the saga of a famed mountaineer's daughter who succumbs to high-altitude sickness on the peak for which she was named to the daring escape of three Italian POWs by climbing Mount Kenya
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O to dream of summer!!!

This book is your guide to 100 waterfalls scattered throughout the Hudson Valley. It's a wonderful armchair reading book for those of us not adventurous enough to tackle the rigors of winter hiking.

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