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CSI #6: Binding Ties [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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 Ten years ago, Las Vegas was terrorized by "CASt"--a vicious serial killer responsible for nearly half a dozen brutal murders, and who tested the mettle of the LVPD's new Captain, Jim Brass. After a two-year spree, CASt suddenly disappeared and has not been heard from ... until now. Gil Grissom and his CSI team are called in to investigate a homicide that perfectly fits the notorious criminal's modus operandi. But all hell breaks loose when a reporter made famous by the original cases receives a...
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Poker Nation: A High-Stakes Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker. From basement games to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you'll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards, read a legendary player's body language, hang in there when the chips are down, and take his beatings like a man. Even if you don't know the difference between a flop and a river card, Bellin keeps you in the game with his portraits of the colorfu...
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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Lance Armstrong &
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The ascent triggered something in me. As I churned upward, I reflected on my life, back to all points, my childhood, my early races, my illness and how it changed me ... I saw my life as a whole. I saw the pattern and the privilege of it, and the purpose of it, too. It was simply this: I was meant for a long, hard climb.People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down in his prime, who fought back to win the world's most gru...
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Poker: The Real Deal: Insider Tips from the Co-Host of Celebrity Poker Showdown [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Like a secret society, poker has its own language and customs--its own governing logic and rules of etiquette that the uninitiated may find intimidating. It's a game of skill, and playing well depends on more than just a good hand or the ability to hide emotion. The first step toward developing a style of play worthy of the greats is learning to think like a poker player. In a game where there are no absolutes, mastering the basics is only the beginning--being able to pull off the strategy and t...
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Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Seth Mnookin
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On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core and revealed fault lines in a fractious newsroom that was already close to open revolt. Staffers were furious--about the perception that management had given Blair more leeway because he was black, about the special...
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Facing Ali: 15 Fighters 15 Stories [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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Stephen Brunt
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Muhammad Ali cast a blinding light on his sport, on the tumultuous times in which he reigned as champion, and on all the people who surrounded him, including the fighters brave enough to stand alone, across the ring from the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Ali's own story has been told repeatedly, but the stories of those who faced him have been mostly ignored. For each, the moments alone in the ring with Ali changed their lives. Facing Ali tells the stories, in the fighters' own word...
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Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Chris Moneymaker
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Chris Moneymaker was just a regular guy working as an accountant in Tennessee, who enjoyed playing online poker--and winning. On a fluke he decided to enter the World Series of Poker, paid the $40 application fee, and, with only three years' experience playing the game, won it all: $2.5 million. Merging Chris' amazing story with actual tools to help the average joe become a poker star, this is the must-have poker book for online dreamers and budding young amateurs alike.
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Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Phil Hellmuth Jr.
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Now you can play and win at the world's most popular gambling card game with the help of the "Poker Brat" himself. It makes no difference if you're a novice or a serious player, gambling online, in casinos, or in a friend's basement, Hellmuth can help you elevate your game with the secrets and strategies that made him a nine-time World Champion and the #1 professional money winner of all time. Here are the rules of the game from the master, including invaluable advice on how to play the hand yo...
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Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Donald J. Trump
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The host and coproducer of the megahit reality show The Apprentice presents a unique collection of golf advice. From Palmer and Player, Mickelson and Vijay to Pat Boone, Stone Phillips, and even Yogi Berra, these players, teachers, businesspeople, and celebrities will help you play better and score lower. Everyone who plays golf has that little nugget of information they turn to on the course. But never before has such an array of golfing advice been pulled together in one place. Donald Trump, h...
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The Red Tent [Secure Mobipocket/Palm Reader]
by Anita Diamant
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The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters wh...
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The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Dan Jenkins virtually invented the golf novel with the classic Dead Solid Perfect, his rollicking account of the life and times of PGA touring pro Kenny Lee Puckett. For thirty years his fans have waited for the follow-up; in The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Jenkins has surpassed himself. Bobby Joe Grooves is a sixteen-year tour veteran trying to turn his one annual tournament win and considerable Texas charm into his first appointment to the Ryder Cup team. Standing betwee...
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The Road to the Chess Grandmaster Title: Part 2 [Audio/Video]
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ChessWise Multimedia Series: In this series of Audio/Video chess lectures, Maurice Ashley, the first African-American Chess Grandmaster in history, explores key games from his career that led to the coveted title. This video features a game played by GM Ashley against International Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov, who is the current U.S. Champion and is known as a brilliant attacking player. A noted chess commentator for ESPN, GM Ashley's commentary is both entertaining for chess fans and instruc...
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Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Rick Reilly
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The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world's most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf. Who knows a golfer best? Who's with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their games by cad...
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On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood [Secure Palm/eReader]
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A brilliant, dead-on debut about what it takes to make it in today's Hollywood, On Spec follows the paths of six Hollywood hopefuls--a screenwriter, an agent, a development girl, an actress, a studio chief and an aspiring producer--as they experience the pitfalls and payouts of life on the Hollywood fast track. More than just a novel about the entertainment industry, On Spec is a parody of modern life, where winner takes all and the losers are tossed to the wayside without a second thought. (Published: 2000)
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The Secrets of Sony Playstation2 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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It's been called "the future of entertainment"--an electronic system that combines the best of gaming with web and DVD-playing capabilities. Released in Japan in March 2000, the Playstation2 has already sold more than two million units, with projected sales of ten million units worldwide by March 2001. In The Secrets of the Playstation2, you'll learn from a gaming industry insider about the hottest system ever released--its capabilities, its software, the types of games being developed to best t...
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Off-Hollywood Film Guide: The Definitive Guide to Independent and Foreign Films on Video and Dvd [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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The Off-Hollywood Film Guide cuts through the clutter of the thousands of films currently available on video and DVD by specifically catering to independent and foreign film enthusiasts. In addition to a list of essential must-see films, this guide includes hundreds of entries, each with brief commentary and a list of pertinent details, such as release date, cast, director, awards garnered, special DVD features, and double-feature suggestions. The listings are also cross-referenced by genre, dir...
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Sole Influence: Basketball, Corporate Greed, and the Corruption of America's Youth [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Dan Wetzel &
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A private war is being waged on city playgrounds and in high school gyms in the never-ending search for the next big player--and the potential millions in sales that player could bring to the major athletic shoe companies by endorsing their products. Far from the glamour of the NBA or the NCAA Final Four, the sport has changed into a high-stakes war of greed and includes such tactics as expensive gifts, pampered perks, grade fixing, standardized-test fraud, and kickback recruitments. For every l...
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101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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From America's leading mystery authority, this informative guide is packed with plot twists, cast lists, delectable bits of fun, and often scandalous trivia. The finest Hitchcockian suspense movies, the toughest gangster flicks, the wittiest Thin Man titles, the bleakest noir films, and the best of the '80s and '90s. This survey is enhanced by the extensive knowledge and sharp style of Otto Penzler, who Booklist calls "a mystery superbuff." In reviews both savvy and engaging, Penzler presents a ...
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Let's Go to the Videotape!: All the Plays--and Replays--from My Life in Sports [Secure Palm/eReader]
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If you know sports, you know Warner Wolf, the funniest, most irreverent sports reporter in America. Here are his reminiscences, with observations on which ballparks have the best peanuts, who had the greatest baseball team of all time, and much more. Go inside the world of sports--the way it really is. (Published: 2001)
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Inside the Meatgrinder: An NFL Official's Life in the Trenches [Secure Palm/eReader]
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Chad Brown &
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Chad Brown did hard time in the National Football League, playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Oilers, and New Orleans Saints. But for the past five seasons, he has been one of the NFL's top officials, working in the middle of the line of scrimmage, known by those who do battle there as the "meat grinder." Chad has gone head-to-helmet with the biggest, baddest, and most offbeat players in the league, making calls that can make or break seasons and sometimes careers. From his early days p...
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Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete [Secure Palm/eReader]
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee &
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Jackie is known throughout the world as the best female athlete ever--the winner of six Olympic medals, three of them gold; the current world-record holder in the heptathlon (the women's version of the male decathlon); the one-time world-record holder in the long jump; and an All-America basketball player. She grew up in East St. Louis in a house "little more than wallpaper and sticks." Her parents were poor teenagers when they married. She made her first long-jump pit in her backyard from borro...
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The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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In a business that produces over 40,000 spec scripts each year, of which only 3000 are optioned, and a mere 50 made, a project that never sees the light of day isn't a failure--it's the norm. In the spirit of Film Threat--Gore's alternative movie glossy--this book celebrates the most remarkable of aborted projects: "they might not have turned into great films," he writes, "but as ideas they were truly great." Many of these jettisoned movies are already Hollywood legends, and Gore's descriptions ...
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Creed: From Zero to Platinum [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Creed's story is indeed an inspirational one. The group of rockers originating from Tallahassee, Florida, made an indelible impression with their debut album, My Own Prison, released on the independent Wind Up Records label. Creed dominated the rock charts and made history when all four singles from this freshman album captured the number one position. Their success is all the more genuine because it was done without the backing of huge corporate dollars or the hype of a glitzy media campaign. W...
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Shoeless Joe [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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W. P. Kinsella
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Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. It speaks to him the famous line, "If you build It, he will come." Needing no further explanation, Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the middle of his field of corn. The voice will speak only two more things to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance," and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Digging up his corn to bui...
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Larry Holmes: Against the Odds [Secure Palm/eReader]
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In Against the Odds, the reader will experience the uplifting odyssey that took Larry Holmes from a boxing nobody to a world champion. Holmes is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions of our time and held the title for more than seven years. But his rise to the top was hardly an easy one. His road to becoming the champion--from which he would net $40 million--was one requiring doggedness and extreme courage. (Published: 2000)
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