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  • A Dynasty Interrupted

    The Rise and Fall of the 1980s Atlanta Braves

    by Patrick Montgomery ...
    A captivating inside look at the 1980s Atlanta BravesThe Braves have a long and storied history, taking them from Boston to Milwaukee and then finally to Atlanta. Some of baseball's most accomplished ballplayers were part of the Braves organization at some point, but amazingly, World Series titles did not materialize in Atlanta for years.In A Dynasty Interrupted, Patrick Montgomery tells the story ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Baseball's Great Expectations

    Candid Stories of Ballplayers Who Didn't Live Up to the Hype

    by Patrick Montgomery ...
    "[It’s] Montgomery’s journalistic eye for distilling the humanity behind the unfulfilled athletic potential that makes this a real home run." - Booklist, Starred Review • A Booklist Top 10 Book on Sports 2024Stories of baseball idols and heroes are oft-repeated, but what about those players who everyone thought would be the next “great one” and have since disappeared from the sport... ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Baseball Miracle of the Splendid 6 and Towny Townsend

    Heartbreak, Inspiration, and How Baseball Can Be

    by Patrick Montgomery ...
    Marvin "Towny" Townsend, a baseball coaching legend in Hampton Roads Virginia, once was a budding young baseball prodigy. A college All-American, drafted four times by Major League Baseball, including being a #1 Pick by the Boston Red Sox. Big and strong at 6'2" and playing shortstop in the minor leagues, he looked ready for baseball stardom until racism reared its ugly head from within the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Choose Your Own Adventure Collection: Origin Four

    The Abominable Snowman, Journey Under the Sea, Space and Beyond, The Lost Jewels of Nabooti

    by R.A. Montgomery ...
    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...
    Series series Choose Your Own Adventure

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    **This action-packed, four-audiobook collection takes YOU on over 152 adventures!Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember.**Trek through some of the highest mountains in the world, search for the lost city of Atlantis in your very own submarine, and track down legendary jewels stolen from a Paris museum in this new ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Oceanic Manta Adventure

    Saving the Angels of the Sea

    by Sy Montgomery ...
    Illustrated by Patrick Joyce ...
    Series series Scientists in the Field
    Sibert Medalist, National Book Award Honoree, and New York Times bestselling author Sy Montgomery dives below the surface to study giant manta rays in Ecuador in this final installment in the award-winning Scientists in the Field series.On the vast Pacific, the ocean heaves and sighs like a beating heart. But dive beneath the surface, and angels appear. Giant manta rays—wider than a car is long, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Grandma Gatewood's Walk

    The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

    by Ben Montgomery ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Happy City

    Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    by Charles Montgomery ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl?Award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Barracuda

    by Christos Tsiolkas ...
    Narrated by Grant Cartwright ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 45 min

    He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat him, no one came close. His whole life Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic gold. Everything he's ever done ‒ every thought, every dream, every action ‒ takes him closer to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Thirst

    2600 Miles to Home

    by Heather Anderson ...
    Narrated by Heather Costa ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    By age twenty-five, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains.In her new memoir, Thirst: ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders

    A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History

    by Rob Neyer ...
    BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS.BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME.Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Grandest Stage

    A History of the World Series

    by Tyler Kepner ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series—a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic.The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

    by Tucker Elliot ...
    The team that won the first World Series in baseball's modern era is now officially a part of the Sports by the Numbers franchise!THE TEAM: The Boston Red Sox dominated the early 20th century, winning five World Series titles before the Evil Empire tasted postseason success for the first time. With the 86-year nightmare that followed now firmly in the past, Boston is dominant once again, having ... Read more

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