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 | Fever Pitch
By: Riverhead Trade Price: $ 5.59 Reviews: 121 Average Rating: 4.5
In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch--which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play.... |
|  | Among the Thugs
By: Vintage Price: $ 15.00 $ 8.46 Reviews: 63 Average Rating: 4.0
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and Englands soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and... |
|  | Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
By: Holmes & Meier Publishers Price: $ 15.00 $ 9.00 Reviews: 19 Average Rating: 5.0
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|  | Mia Hamm: On the Field with... (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)
By: Little, Brown Young Readers Price: $ 4.99 $ 1.50 Reviews: 5 Average Rating: 4.5
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|  | Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the Worlds Fastest Woman
By: Voyager Books Price: $ 7.00 $ 3.15 Reviews: 14 Average Rating: 5.0
Before Wilma was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, shed run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad. |
|  | Gerrard: My Autobiography
By: Transworld Publishers Price: $ 14.95 $ 9.03 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
Steven Gerrard is a hero to millions, not only as the inspirational captain of Liverpool FC, but as a key member of the England team. Here, for the first time, he tells the story of his lifelong obsession with football, in an honest and revealing book which captures the extraordinary camaraderie, the soul-destroying tensions and the high-octane thrills of the modern game as never before. He speaks for the first time about the torturous will-he-wont-he Chelsea rumours and his undying passion for Liverpool. We experience first-hand the... |
|  | Pele (DK Biography)
By: Dk Children Price: $ 4.99 $ 1.90
Perfect for book reports or summer reading, the newest titles in DKs acclaimed Biography series celebrates two stars who always hit the mark: Annie Oakley and Pele. |
|  | Go For the Goal: A Champions Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
By: Harper Paperbacks Price: $ 12.95 $ 1.99 Reviews: 44 Average Rating: 4.5
Mia Hamm, star of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Cup champion, and five-time National Player of the Year, has a simple take on her talents that also explains her success: "Many people say Im the best womens soccer player in the world. I dont think so. And because of that, someday I just might be." Thats whats so appealing about Hamm as a role model, and its the inspirational message at the heart of her autobiography. But Goal is only in part about herself--"There is no me in Mia," she suggests. Sure,... |
|  | Moments
By: Macmillan Price: $ 27.00 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
Cristiano Ronaldo is the world famous Manchester United and Portuguese International footballer, admired around the world for his unique style of play. Football fans recognise instantly how he dribbles the ball, but theres a great deal about him that has never been made public before. Cristiano recognises that his youth does not yet give him the right to produce an autobiography, and Moments does not set out to be one. It is an invitation to the reader to share with him some of the most fantastic moments of his career so far, and get to know... |
|  | The Soccer War
By: Vintage Price: $ 13.95 $ 7.85 Reviews: 15 Average Rating: 4.5
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a... |
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