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A Race Like No Other
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Liz Robbins |
When 39,195 competitors thunder over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to begin the thirty-eighth running of the famed New York City Marathon, they experience one of the most exhilarating moments in sport… |
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Running to paradise
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Frances Bremer |
While preparing to run in a marathon, a priest realizes the reasons for his vocation. |
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Running the rift
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Naomi Benaron |
Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics, but Jean is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. But when the president's sudden assassination plummets the co… |
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An accidental athlete
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John Bingham |
"John Bingham is a beloved evangelist of running. Known by fans as "The Penguin" for his gentle humor and back-of-the-pack speed, Bingham's memoir An Accidental Athlete explores with wit and poignanc… |
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Run!
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Dean Karnazes |
A'Running with Karnazes is like setting up one's easel next to Monet or Picasso.' The New York Times In his follow-up to the bestselling Ultramarathon Man, Dean Karnazes is back with more mind-blowin… |
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Eric Liddell
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Janet Benge |
A biography of the Scottish missionary and runner who won a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics and went on to do missionary work in China. |
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Running with Raven
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Laura Lee P. Huttenbach |
The Amazing Story of One Man, His Passion, and the Community He Inspired. In 1975 Robert "Raven" Kraft, a high school dropout and aspiring songwriter, made a New Year's Resolution to run eight miles … |
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The new rules of running
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Vijay Vad |
"The definitive guide to injury-free running, racing, and marathoning, from top sports medicine specialist Vijay Vad, The New Rules of Running illustrates proper technique, shows step-by-step exercis… |
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Unbreakable runner
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T. J. Murphy |
Stamina, strength, endurance, resilience: these are the keys to successful running. Yet injury rates from running are at an all-time high, and training is often to blame. CrossFit Endurance found, … |
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Twin ambitions
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Mo Farah |
This is the boy from Mogadishu, Somalia, who came to Britain at the age of 8, leaving behind his twin brother, with a few words of English and wanting to play for Arsenal. Fortunately his PE teacher … |
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After the race
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Michael B. Jones |
"After the race recounts the unraveling of the family Reed and the raw, serpentine trails the father-son pair of Wayne, an Army Special Forces veteran whose reckless pursuit of contentment propels th… |
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Rigo's team
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Judy Nayer |
Rigo is a good runner and wants to form a track team. Learn how he succeeded in making a team. |
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Running Home
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Alisha Perkins |
As the wife of a professional baseball player, Alisha Perkins has long struggled to find an identity of her own-a struggle made worse by an anxiety disorder that has plagued her since childhood. One … |
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Marathoning
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Bill Rodgers |
An autobiographical story of the running career of the marathon runner who won the Boston, New York and Fukuoka, Japan marathons. |
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The runner
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Cynthia Voigt |
As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team gradually helps him see the value… |
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