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“john schulian”

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  • The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins

    A Library of America Special Publication

    Edited by John Schulian ...
    A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletesSpanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box craft. These unforgettable dispatches from World Series, Super Bowls, and title bouts for the ages were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Football: Great Writing About the National Sport

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Various ...
    Men’s Journal**’s “Ultimate Football Reading List”**“First-rate” sports writing on American football from an all-star line-up that includes Red Smith, Jimmy Breslin, Michael Lewis, and more (Wall Street Journal)Since football’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Twilight of the Long-ball Gods

    Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball

    by John Schulian ...
    A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America’s game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter’s dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to the Negro leaguers, mining-town dreamers, and certifiable eccentrics who give baseball its heart and soul, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Various ...
    A collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ring—and the crazy carnival world outside itFrom neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, American writers have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Better Goodbye

    A Novel

    by John Schulian ...
    Sports Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2015PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award WinnerNick Pafko knows he can't be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly, and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end? Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage parlor looking for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Better Goodbye

    A Novel

    by John Schulian ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    A retired masseuse and a retired boxer take jobs working for an actor, and love and jealousy soon follow.Nick Pafko knows he can’t be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly—and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end is Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli comes the story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's daughter. She spends the mornings hanging out with shoplifters and reformed arsonists in the women's excercise yard, ... Read more

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    Bull Mountain

    by Brian Panowich ...
    Narrated by Brian Troxell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    Winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best First NovelFrom a remarkable voice in Southern fiction comes a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made its home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To ... Read more

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    Golden Hill

    A Novel of Old New York

    by Francis Spufford ...
    Narrated by Sarah Borges ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of the Year * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize * ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Closed Casket

    The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

    by Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie ...
    Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah and the world’s favorite detective Hercule Poirot return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders, the national bestseller hailed by the Washington Post as “literary magic.” ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Dance of the Bones

    A J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker Novel

    by J. A. Jance ...
    Narrated by J.R. Horne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career.Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John ... Read more

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    The Silence of the Lambs

    25th Anniversary Edition

    by Thomas Harris ...
    Narrated by Frank Muller ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    Listen to the silence...An instant classic novel of chilling psychological suspense...a critically-acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity...From the tormenting words of the homicidal maniac Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the flesh-rending depravity of an elusive killer to the sheer courage of a young F.B.I. novice, who risks her life to track him down and stop the bloodshed, experience the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD