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- Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (Volume 23) (American Crossroads) by Adrian BurgosClassical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Norton Introduction to Music History) by Philip G. DownsBaseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball from the Twenties to the Forties, Told by the Men Who Played It by Donald HonigCosmos by Carl SaganFire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 by David BrowneThe Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life by Mike MathenyThe Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua HammerOdd Man Rush: A Harvard Kid?s Hockey Odyssey from Central Park to Somewhere in Sweden?with Stops along the Way by Bill KeenanBraving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild by James CampbellThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha ChristieShady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith HoustonGoodnight, L.A.: The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock -- The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios by Kent HartmanThe Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Dudley BuckGreat American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Corinne DemasHank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America: Hank Aaron and the Pursuit of a Dream by Tom StantonSurrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood) by Thomas EriksonRead in Order: Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot Complete Collection: Miss Marple Mysteries by Titan ReadThe Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma BombeckThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I-II (English and Russian Edition) by Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynProcrastination: How to Overcome Procrastination and Start Doing What Truly Matters by Brian MitchellFounding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights (Barnes & Noble Classics) by VariousThe Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben LindberghThe Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith FlandersMyth and Religion of the North: Religion of Ancient Scandinavia: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia by E. O. G. Turville-PetreDo Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda PetrusichWar As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest by Michael RosenbergThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie KondoDiary of a Dumpster Pup: How a cat lover saved the life of an abandoned newborn puppy. A true story. by Beverly KeilNature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves by Menno SchilthuizenTales from the margin: The selected short stories of Frederick Philip Grove by Frederick Philip GroveThe Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds by Neil GaimanRemembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage) by Marcel ProustEmma by Jane AustenTell Newt to Shut Up: Prize-Winning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution by David MaranissThe Sacketts Vol 1 (Sackett's Land / To the Far Blue Mountain / The Warrior's Path) by Louis L'AmourNana. by Emile ZolaTruevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth MacyFavre by Brett FavreThe Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers by Caroll SpinneySix Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. RoachBoys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution by Jonathan AbramsThe New-England Tragedies: I. John Endicott. II. Giles Corey of Salem Farms by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStuds Lonigan: Young Lonigan / The young manhood of Studs Lonigan / Judgment day by James T. FarrellGenghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom by Jack WeatherfordThe Case Against The Case For Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel by Robert M PriceThe Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Dr. Rob DunnTy and The Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship by Tom StantonThe Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything by K. C. ColeYou're Okay, It's Just a Bruise: A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team by MD Robert HuizengaIntroduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution, An: The Holographic Universe by Leonard SusskindThe Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting (Science Matters) by Tom StandageThe Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir by Steffanie StrathdeeThe Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - With a preface by Bernard Shaw (The life of William Henry Davies) by W.H. DaviesChicago Travel Guide -Miss passport mini three-day unforgettable vacation itinerary for Chicago (Miss Passport Travel Guides) by Sharon BellSketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly BallBeethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved by Russell MartinNew York City Travel Guide - The First-Time Visitor's Guide to a Weekend in Manhattan - What to Hit, What to Miss by Charlotte A. F. FarleyThe Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary by John SimpsonThe Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches by Bill JamesThe View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos by Joel R. PrimackCatfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. PhamBest French Travel Guide - French Travel Finds - Exceptional French Places to Stay: French Travel Phrasebook, French Travel Dictionary ,French Grammar, French Travel Vocabulary - Optional! by Christopher StrongJazz by Gary GiddinsMathematics the Truth: ‘Moving mathematics teaching into the age of quantum mechanics and relativity.’ by Malcolm CameronThe Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World by Peter WardTycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens by Kitty FergusonTerror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit by Tom StantonEscape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden21 by Frank CraneMarie Antoinette: A Captivating Guide to the Last Queen of France Before and During the French Revolution, Including Her Relationship with King Louis XVI by Captivating HistoryThe French Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Ten-Year Revolution in France and the Impact Made by Napoleon Bonaparte by Captivating HistoryThe Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit by Don CampbellIs Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed by Gavin EdwardsMusic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments and the Great Composers by Max Wade-MatthewsCrosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (The Definitive Inside Story of the Supergroup by Dave ZimmerThe Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball Americas Game by Edward AchornA League of My Own: Memoir of a Pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Patricia I BrownLost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid by J. Maarten TroostPlaying with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams by Gary W. MooreTemperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart IsacoffCasey At the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Caldecott Honor Book) by Ernest L. ThayerBetween the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh FermorBlack and Blue: The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America by Tom AdelmanDeadball Stars of the National League: The Society for American Baseball Research (Photographic Histories) by Tom SimonStarving the Artist: How the Internet Culture of "Free" Threatens to Exterminate the Creative Class, and What Can Be Done to Save It by William F. AicherThe Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve TurnerChicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul: Inspirational Stories of Baseball, Big-League Dreams and the Game of Life (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Paperback Health Communications)) by Jack CanfieldThe Penguin History of the Church: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by R.W. SouthernBurying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded by Gene CarneyLet's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies by Pamela Des Barres"Baseball Is Just Baseball": The Understated Ichiro: An Unauthorized Collection Compiled by David Shields by David ShieldsLetters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians by George CatlinSlouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me by Neal KarlenThe Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball by Paul DicksonThe "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL: The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League by Sean McIndoeFree Kindle Classics: Linked List Of Over 1,000 Fiction Books From Classic Authors For Free Download From Amazon by Morris RosenthalSome of My Best Friends Are Crazy: Baseball's Favorite Lunatic Goes in Search of His Peers by Jay Johnstone1970s Baseball: A History and Analysis of the Decade's Best Seasons, Teams, and Players by Joe GersbeckFree Science Fiction Books On Kindle: Linked List of over 350 Free SciFi Classic Stories And Early Fantasy Novels by Morris RosenthalSeasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History"―The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers by Mike ShropshireRob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups: A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues by Rob NeyerThe Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball by David PrebennaPhilly Sports: Teams, Games, and Athletes from Rocky's Town (Sport, Culture, and Society) by Ryan SwansonBaseball And Billions: A Probing Look Inside The Big Business Of Our National Pastime by Andrew ZimbalistWrong Side of the Wall: The Life of Blackie Schwamb, the Greatest Prison Baseball Player of All Time by Eric StoneA Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry And The War For The Pennant by Tony MassarottiDynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s by Jason TurbowThe Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching Duel of the Century by Jim KaplanOne Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season by Chris BallardThe Storytellers: From Mel Allen to Bob Costas : Sixty Years of Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth by Curt SmithMurph by Dale MurphyWorld History 101: From ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking conquests to NATO and WikiLeaks, an essential primer on world history (Adams 101) by Tom HeadThe Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without by Robert SchnakenbergThe Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns GoodwinField of Screams: Haunted Tales From The Baseball Diamond, The Locker Room, And Beyond by Mickey BradleyYou Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life by Yogi BerraRob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History by Rob NeyerBottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself by Michael ShapiroThe Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy CookeWhy You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds by John PowellVn by Madeline AshbyOut of My League: The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball by George PlimptonRegulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians (Synkrisis) by David Wheeler-ReedThe Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together by Michael Shapiro1960 Pittsburgh Pirates - Day by Day: A Special Season, an Extraordinary World Series by Rick CushingThe Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben SasseGood Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life by David CavanaghOne for the record: The inside story of Hank Aaron's chase for the home-run record by George PlimptonSol White's History of Colored Baseball with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 by Sol WhiteGoing to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America (Florida Sand Dollar Books) by David RieffHalf Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn't Say by Adam HamiltonMisquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus" by Timothy Paul JonesMore Readings From One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980 by Richard L. ProennekeLadies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Brian DolanIlium by Dan SimmonsDare to Do: How I Looped the Planet by Bike and Boat - 25,000 Miles, Five Years and a Few Adventures: Taking on the planet by bike and boat by Sarah OutenJesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) by Bart D. EhrmanJelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy, Revised and Expanded Edition: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots by Rick KennedyWhy We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books by Lisa AdamsAlice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster: Why the Official Story of 9/11 is a Monumental Lie by David IckeThe Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life beyond This World by Kevin MalarkeyDown to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time by Tim WendelThe Imagineering Field Guide to Epcot at Walt Disney World (An Imagineering Field Guide) by Alex WrightHanon: The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises, Complete (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Vol. 925) by Theodore BakerCount Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics) by M. R. JamesChina Simplified: History Flashback (An entertaining journey through the past to better understand modern China) by Stewart Lee BeckHealing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles L. Whitfield M.D.Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space by Deborah CadburyTaking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic by Diana L PaxsonWhat's Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can by Robert KelseyWhen Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties by Kristin LukerKilling Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'ReillyI'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway by Greg KotThe Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne CoffeyThe Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience by Timothy WhiteThe Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II by Anne R. KeeneRosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar BahariWhat To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data by Malcolm FrankConfessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Seth ShostakTim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro by Tim McCarverThe DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream by Tom ClavinLessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant by Raymond L. PooleThe Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France by Daniel de ViséStarlight and Storm: The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps (Modern Library Exploration) by Gaston RébuffatThe Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind- And Almost Found Myself-On the Pacific Crest Trail by Dan WhiteThe Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) (The Christian ... of the Development of Christian Doctrine) by Jaroslav PelikanOn Death And Dying - What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nursess, Clergy And Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kübler-RossThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: 25th Anniversary Edition by Rinpoche SogyalThat First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory by John EisenbergEvening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James R. GainesThank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. FriedmanTo a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) by Chris GainorZero Days: The Real Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nellie Bly, and 10-year-old Scrambler on the Pacific Crest by Barbara EgbertAbout Three Bricks Shy... and the Load Filled Up (Library of Pittsburgh Sports History) by Roy BlountDisney Trivia from the Vault: Secrets Revealed and Questions Answered (Disney Editions Deluxe) by Dave SmithWalking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail) by Kelly WintersConcierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off--and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen by Michael FazioIn Service to the Mouse: My Unexpected Journey to Becoming Disneyland's First President by Jack LindquistBefore They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks by Michael LanzaThe Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle, The Living Flame of Love, Letters, and The Minor Works) by Saint John of the CrossDesigning Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance (Langue anglaise) by Karal Ann MarlingChicken Soup for the Sports Fan's Soul: Stories of Insight, Inspiration and Laughter in the World of Sport by Jack CanfieldWill You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music by Mark ZwonitzerThe Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, And Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party by David HorowitzSad Riddance: The Milwaukee Braves' 1965 season amid a sport and a world in turmoil by Chuck Hildebrand27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse by Howard SounesVinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America (Institutional Structures of Feeling) by Stephen M. FjellmanThe Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (The Politically Incorrect Guides) by Thomas E. Woods Jr.Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack by Marc A. ThiessenThe Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson WhiteheadThe Philokalia: The Complete Text (Vol. 1); Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Markarios of Corinth by G. E.H. PalmerBertha of the Big Foot (Berte as grans pies): A Thirteenth-Century Epic by Adenet le Roi (MEDIEVAL & RENAIS TEXT STUDIES) by Anna Moore MortonCarlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle by Lars AndersonThe Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past by Charlie EnglishDangerous Beauty - Life and Death in Africa: Life and Death In Africa: True Stories From a Safari Guide by Mark C. RossAnd the Band Played on: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Randy ShiltsFinding One: Finding one's self amidst societal norms, digital life, and pursuing goals by Vaughn DabneyLibertys Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World by Michael MeyersonFacing the Green Bay Packers: Players Recall the Glory Years of the Team from Titletown, USA by Chuck CarlsonLiterary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from its Beginnings to the Present Day by Lawrence FerlinghettiThe Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 (Circles of the Twentieth Century) by Steven WatsonBooks by Rohinton Mistry (Study Guide): Novels by Rohinton Mistry, a Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey, Family Matters, Tales from Firozsha Baag by Llc BooksHoly Shakespeare!: 101 Scriptures That Appear in Shakespeare's Plays, Poems, and Sonnets by Maisie SparksThe Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition by Hans T. DavidMarco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides) by Rolf PottsMy Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen van BergeijkThe Bizarre Truth: How I Walked Out the Door Mouth First . . . and Came Back Shaking My Head by Andrew ZimmernStupidparty Math v. Myth: Unmasking the Destructive Forces Eroding American Democracy by Patrick M. AndendallChoosing Light: When an Earthquake Buried Me and My Family for 5 Days I Learned to Fully Live by Viral DalalGoing for the Gold: How the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Won at Lake Placid (Dover Books on Sports and Popular Recreations) by Tim WendelSix Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes by Isabella L. BirdThe Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem by Ken BuddAmazon Prime and Lending Library: Getting the Most Value From Your Prime Subscription by Steve WeberThe Swiss Family Perelman: A Rollicking International Road Trip with America's Greatest Humorist by S. J. PerelmanKindle Buffet: Find and download the best free books, magazines and newspapers for your Kindle, iPhone, iPad or Android by Steve WeberThirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'n' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic by Luke SullivanThe Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, the Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, As Told by Himself by William F. Cody101 Things You Never Knew About Walt Disney World: An Unauthorized Look at Tributes, Little Touches, And Inside Jokes by Kevin YeeThe Gamer: An 11-time All-Star's Inside Story of the Pain, Grit, Guts and Glory of Life in the Majors by Gary Carter Abraham, KenBronx Bummers: An Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls by Robert DominguezGarrett On The Case - Contains Angry Lead Skies; Whispering Nickel Idols - Book Club Edition by Glen CookGuidry by Ron GuidryEmperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse by Mike VaccaroWhy Is The Foul Pole Fair?: Answers to 101 of the Most Perplexing Baseball Questions by Vince StatenBlood Feud: Detroit Red Wings v. Colorado Avalanche: The Inside Story of Pro Sports' Nastiest and Best Rivalry of Its Era by Adrian DaterThe World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an ... Than 90 of This Century's Best-Known Writers by Timothy FerrisA Minor Case of Murder: A Cassie O'Malley Mystery (Five Star First Edition Mystery) by Jeff MarkowitzThe Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved (The Baseball Oral History Project) (Volume 1) by Fay VincentA Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians - from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between by Stuart IsacoffThe Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent by Jason WebsterWe Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved (Baseball Oral History Poject) by Fay VincentFifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had by Edward AchornHe's Scared, She's Scared: Understanding the Hidden Fears That Sabotage Your Relationships by Steven CarterThe Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. RitterSleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to Teeing It Up with the President by Elden AukerThe Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. 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