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  • The Secret Carp (audio) cover art

    • The Secret Carp (audio)

    • By: Chris Yates
    • Narrated by: Chris Yates
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • A fishing book with a difference, The Secret Carp tells the true story of the events of a single day and night beside an English carp lake in high summer....

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    • 1923

    • The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
    • By: Ned Boulting
    • Narrated by: Ned Boulting
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923, he set about learning everything he could about it - taking him on an intriguing journey that encompasses travelogue, history and detective story....

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    • Harvey Penick's Little Red Book

    • Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime of Golf
    • By: Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake
    • Narrated by: Jack Whitaker
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-00
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Harvey Penick's life in golf began when he was eight years old, caddying at the Austin, Texas, Country Club. Eight decades later...

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    • Riding with the Rocketmen

    • One Man's Journey on the Shoulders of Cycling Giants
    • By: James Witts
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In this entertaining and warm-hearted tale, James Witts gains access to the world's greatest teams and riders to reveal the tricks of the trade....

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    • Death in the Afternoon

    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport....

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    • All Fishermen Are Liars

    • By: John Gierach
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels around North America seeking out quintessential fishing experiences....

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    • Unfair Play

    • The Battle for Women's Sport
    • By: Sharron Davies, Craig Lord
    • Narrated by: Gina Murray, Sharron Davies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

    • On the face of it, women's sport is on the rise, garnering more attention and grassroots involvement than ever before. However, the truth is that in many respects progress is stalling, or even falling back...

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    • In the Dojo

    • A Guide to the Rituals and Etiquette of the Japanese Martial Arts
    • By: Dave Lowry
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In the Dojo provides a wealth of information that beginning students will pore over and advanced students will treasure....

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    • Long Distance

    • Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
    • By: Bill McKibben
    • Narrated by: Rex Anderson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In his late 30s, celebrated essayist, journalist, and author Bill McKibben - never much of an athlete - decided the time had come for him to really test his body....

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    • Surf Is Where You Find It

    • By: Gerry Lopez
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Written by one of the most revered surfers of his generation, Gerry Lopez's Surf Is Where You Find It is a collection of stories about a lifetime of surfing....

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    • NFL Century

    • The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League
    • By: Joe Horrigan
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL's 100th-anniversary season....

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    • Winning Fixes Everything

    • How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess
    • By: Evan Drellich
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself....

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    • Hardcore History

    • The Extremely Unauthorized Story of the ECW
    • By: Scott E. Williams
    • Narrated by: Karl Miller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • ECW was one extreme contradiction piled on top of another....

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    • No Shortage of Good Days

    • By: John Gierach
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In No Shortage of Good Days John Gierach takes listeners from the Smokies in Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado. It's all fishing and all irresistible....

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    • Scribe

    • My Life in Sports
    • By: Bob Ryan
    • Narrated by: Bob Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Scribe reveals the people behind the stories, as only Bob Ryan can, from the NBA to 11 Olympics to his surprising favorite sport to cover - golf....

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    • Young Woman and the Sea

    • How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
    • By: Glenn Stout
    • Narrated by: Gisela Chipe
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Based on years of archival research that unearthed Ederle’s memory from obscurity, Young Woman and the Sea is the exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel....

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    • The Longest Silence

    • A Life in FIshing
    • By: Thomas McGuane
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays—including seven collected here for the first time—borne of a lifetime spent fishing....

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    • Kiss or Kill

    • Confessions of a Serial Climber
    • By: Mark Twight
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Sit back and join the ride with this collection of edge-of-your-seat climbing stories by Mark Twight, aka Dr. Doom....

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    • The Tower

    • A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre
    • By: Kelly Cordes
    • Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959....

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