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1) LeBron James
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Kaleidoscope Publishing
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2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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This title introduces readers to LeBron James, covering his early life, career, and life off the court. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.
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Kaleidoscope Publishing
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2019
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This narrative sports series introduces readers to five major sport leagues covering important moments, rivalries, and the history of each sport. Each title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.
3) Bonefish
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Five years ago, I had never heard of a bonefish. The first man who ever spoke to me about this species said to me, very quietly with serious intentness: 'Have you had any experience with bonefish?' I said no, and asked him what kind that was. His reply was enigmatical. 'Well, don't go after bonefish unless you can give up all other fishing.'
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First published in 1653, Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler" is a classic and much-loved treatise on the art of fishing. Immediately popular after its publication, "The Compleat Angler" was reprinted and updated numerous times by Walton. Written as a conversation between the fictional characters of the experienced angler Piscator and his student Viator, which was changed to a hunter named Venator in later editions, the treatise is part an instructional...
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An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting . . . an instant classic" (New York Times Book Review). By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights, and The Office, this absorbing, funny, and vivid narrative gets to the heart of a massive and stressful collective endeavor. Here is football...
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From farm ponds to the Amazon, Lefty's wit and wisdom captured in 101 stories about his most memorable fly-caught fish. The late Lefty Kreh was an outdoor writer for more than 50 years and was named "Angler of the Year" by Fly Rod and Reel magazine in 1997. He fished with newsman Tom Brokaw, Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia), and actor Michael Keaton on the Outdoor Channel's Buccaneers & Bones. He wrote for nearly every major outdoor magazine...
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In his book, Jones covers the wary whitetail from Canada to old Mexico and all locations in-between-he even covers the diminutive Coues deer of the Southwest. To be successful at whitetail hunting you need to be serious, and who is more serious than the professional whitetail guide, the man (or woman) who makes his/her living at it? So, read the other one-person accounts for exciting stories, but read this book for the invaluable information needed...
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There may be no better example of American individualism and rugged outdoorsman than the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. In this volume we find two of Roosevelt's works on hunting, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman", and "The Wilderness Hunter", combined into one volume. Roosevelt, who as President would bring some 230 million acres of land under the protection of the National Parks and Forest Services, was an avid naturalist and...
10) Buffalo!
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Craig Boddington is a veteran hunter of Africa's game lands. He has hunted one animal more than any other, the buffalo. He also has hunted them in every place in Africa where a huntable population exists. Craig tells his readers where to hunt, how and when to hunt, and what will happen when they do hunt. He describes what it means to rush the herd, one of his favorite methods of hunting these worthy opponents. Published entirely in color, this book...
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Craig Boddington's first African hunting book, From Mount Kenya to the Cape, chronicled his hunting exploits from 1977 to 1986. Since that time, he has written a book every ten years on his African experiences. Now he's back with Tracks Across Africa, which chronicles his third decade of African hunting. Pretty much, every country open to hunting in this period saw Craig Boddington walking on its soil: C.A.R., Chad, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania,...
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Trout eat a large variety of food items and diets and feeding behaviors change over time. Jason Randall is the author of Moving Water and Feeding Time. He enjoys promoting his books at fly fishing shows across the country and is a frequent contributor to American Angler. He lives in Woodstock, Illinois.
After reading Feeding Time, I was astounded. Chapter after chapter, Jason takes the reader from start to finish about habitat cycles and the habits...
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"If you are a bird hunter looking to improve your marksmanship, welcome to the skeet field!" Mulak explains how the sport of skeet can help you hunt those unpredictable birds. Illustrations and photographs clearly show the right way--and the wrong way--to shoot skeet and improve your score. Mulak's information takes you from the skeet range to the hunt, with a new set of tools at your fingertips.
What makes someone a good shot? Author Steven Mulak...
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Kevin Robertson has hunted with multiple clients for dangerous game, and over the years, he has had a number of funny, interesting, and sad encounters. Now for the first time ever, Doctari has, committed these stories to paper, and we guarantee these anecdotes will keep you entertained for hours. Pull up a chair and read along as Doctari, relates his stories as though they are being, told around a campfire in a safari camp.
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Hannes Wessels is one of the most talented writers that we at Safari Press have read in a long time. This former PH in Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe writes tales of hapless figures and derring-do gone wrong that will make you laugh out loud-a rarity in the cut-and-dry genre of big-game hunting. There is the story about a PH who wanted to impress the beautiful daughter of a client and landed up in the emergency room with a rifle barrel stuck up his...
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Ian Nyschens (pronounced \nations\") shot as many elephants as Walter Bell did--well over 1,000--and under much more difficult circumstances. His book will rank or surpass the best elephant-ivory hunting books published in the twentieth century. Remarkably, his adventures took place much later than the likes of Bell, Sutherland, Neumann, and others. The stories of his hunts with his double rifle are sure to impress.
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Hockey Card Stories reveals what was really going on in your favourite old hockey cards through the eyes of the players depicted on them. Some of the cards are definitely worth a few bucks, some a few cents - but every story told here is priceless. Sportsnet's Ken Reid presents the cards you loved and the airbrushed monstrosities that made you howl, the cards that have been packed away in boxes forever, and others you can't believe ever existed. Whether...
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With a history that straddles two coasts and more than a century of winning, the San Francisco Giants baseball club stands out as one of the great franchises of professional sports. The Giants' World Series victory in 2012 marked their second championship in three years and helped further secure the team's place among baseball's elite teams. The organization boasts more Hall of Fame inductees than any other baseball team, as well as 22 National League...
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