AWESOME ME: ELTON JOHN OFFICIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Elton John in PDF Format - Available now, Me is a no-holds-barred account of the life and work of the multiple Grammy-award-winning international superstar, Elton John. From his first American tour, where he astonished audiences dressed in silver hotpants and a t-shirt emblazoned with the sequinned slogan ROCK AND ROLL, to his chart-toppi...
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail book description: Wild is Cheryl Strayed’s first-person memoir of her 1,100-mile (1,800 km) hike along the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to the border with Washington State, and contains flashbacks to prior life occurrences that led her to begin her mountain-climbing journey. Strayed had been de...
Humans of New York book description: Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their stories. The result of these e...
All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found book description: In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. At the age of twenty-three, Connors was a young man ...
Milepost 2015 book description: The MILEPOST is the “quintessential” travel guide to Alaska and the highways and byways of the North. Since 1949, this “bible of North Country Travel” has offered mile-by-mile logs of all Northern routes, with details on road conditions, ferry travel, lodging, camping, fishing, sightseeing and services in Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta and Nort...
Baseball Prospectus 2015 book description: The essential guide to the 2015 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you’re a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won’t be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2015 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their mana...
The Matheny Manifesto book description: Mike Matheny was just forty-one, without professional managerial experience and looking for a next step after a successful career as a Major League catcher, when he succeeded the legendary Tony La Russa as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012. While Matheny has enjoyed immediate success, leading the Cards to the postseason three times in his first ...
You Can’t Make This Up book description: In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports. No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. Over the course of his f...
The Only Game book description: Can a young baseball star maintain his love of the game after the loss of his brother? Find out in this start to the Home Team series about a small town with high hopes, from New York Times bestselling author and sportswriting legend Mike Lupica. Jack Callahan is the star of his baseball team and sixth grade is supposed to be his year. Undefeated season. Reco...
Fast After 50: How to Race Strong for the Rest of Your Life book description: For runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, and cross-country skiers, getting older doesn’t have to mean getting slower. Drawing from the most current research on aging and sports performance, Joe Friel—America’s leading endurance sports coach—shows how athletes can race strong and stay healthy well past ag...