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River Characters: Deep Thoughts and Shallow Stories about Fly Fishing - Paperback

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by Walter J. Wiese (Author)Join the author on fly fishing adventures ranging from chasing carp from a sinking boat in the Ozarks to seeking bull trout in Washington. Hunt for evidence of the elusive Trout Gods or just fall-run brown trout. In these 22 essays and stories, longtime fly fishing guide and outdoor writer Walter Wiese relates these tales and more and ruminates on the deep (and shallow) questions of fly fishing.Author BiographyWalter Wiese's fly fishing articles and stories have app...

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by Robert T. Mullis (Author), Herbert J. Chapman (Associate Producer)BOB invites you to join him on some of his adventures over the past 30+ years to Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa, Ethiopia, Namibia, and Zambia. Travel with him in the open hunting cars, dugout canoes, and, trucks as he tracks the big game of Africa and faces the challenges of dangerous animals: mbogo, simba, chui, ndovo, as they are known that area of the world. To us, they are buffalo, lion, leopard, and elephant. Walk wi...

Choosing And Shooting The Diana Outlaw: Master This Outstanding PCP Air Rifle - Paperback

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by Stephen W. Archer (Author)If you're thinking about buying the Diana Outlaw, or have already done so, this book is for you.Choosing And Shooting The Diana Outlaw goes far beyond the information provided by the Owner's manual included in the box when you buy this regulated PCP air rifle.Here you will find a wealth of background information and useful tips that have been gained from my extensive practical experience with the Diana Outlaw. Every chapter is self-contained, so you can start read...

Ninety Feet Away: The Story of the 2014 Kansas City Royals - Paperback

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by Kent Krause (Author)Few baseball teams matched the success of the Kansas City Royals in the 1970s and 1980s. Following their World Series victory in 1985, the string of postseason appearances seemed likely to continue for years to come. But the winning stopped and the once-proud franchise descended into mediocrity. Bad turned to worse in the 2000s when the team lost a hundred games four times in five seasons. Players and managers came and went, but the losing continued. Mired in the longes...

Exercise for a Longer Life: A Guide for Men Over 40 - Paperback

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by Jonathan P. Brazee (Author)No Pain Means No . . . Pain and Yet a Longer Life? An overwhelming body of science has changed the way we think about exercise and health. The key to a longer life is exercise, but exercise in moderation. Moderate resistance training can increase a man's lifespan by an average of seven years, and moderate cardio can increase it by close to six years. While a sedentary lifestyle shortens both life spans and quality of life, extreme training can actually shorten li...

Powder Puff and Spurs: The story of James Cathey and the Girls Rodeo Association - Hardcover

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by Craig W. Cathey (Author), Gordon G. Cathey (Author)They called themselves girls They were daughters of the West, lovers of challenge, and mothers of women's competitive role in the modern sport of rodeo.Powder Puff and Spurs tells the story of the all-girl rodeos and the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. It is a story of women who wanted to be rodeo contestants when almost no opportunities existed for them, and it is the story of how they established their o...

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by Tyler E. Burgess (Author)Discover the magic that is Seattle, on foot. Unique, urban walks with easy to follow instructions and clear maps. Includes walks from all the Light Rail Stations. 52 maps for 210 miles of adventure, 52 weeks of the year Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: June 21, 2018

Winning Ingredients for Soap Box Derby Kit Cars - Paperback

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by David Fulton (Author)"Winning Ingredients for Kit Cars" will help you build a winning Soap Box Derby car from your All-American Soap Box Derby kit. Every aspect of building is covered including part inspection, construction techniques and tuning of your racecar. The chapters in "Winning Ingredients for Kit Cars" are: Aerodynamics, Energy, Suspension, Construction, Alignment and Adjustments, Tools, Inspection, Weight Management, Weight & Balance Calculations, and Practice.In Aerodynamic...

Aikido's Hidden Ground Techniques - Paperback

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by David B. Nemeroff (Author), Jose Andrade (Author)Do you want to have the edge in your ground grappling skills? Would you like to add a new, effective and unique approach to your ground defense techniques that the competition is missing? Then look inside to read more about the power of the Mukei No Ryu aikido-newaza system. "Aikido's Hidden Ground Techniques" has hundreds of descriptive photos including a rare photo of O'Sensei, as well as strategies and insights into ground grappling for t...

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by Chris B. Brown (Author)Masterfully blending thought provoking analysis with engrossing storytelling, The Art of Smart Football examines football's most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sport's best coaches and players. The Art of Smart Football is an eye-opening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of America's favorite sport. The Art of Smart Football features analysis of football's top strategists and schemes, including: Pete...

The Barefoot Fisherman: A fishing book for kids - Paperback

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by Paul Amdahl (Author)The Barefoot Fisherman teaches kids how to fish. It explains the secrets to catching more and larger fish. It also touches on things kids are interested in such as raising worms, catching grasshoppers, and trapping crawdads. The book helps beginners dive into fish and lures, fishing tools, soft lures and top-water lures, spinners and flies. It explores fishing techniques for both freshwater and some saltwater fish for beginners. The saltwater fish are the cool ones; sha...

The Good The Bad and The Goalie - Paperback

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by Joseph Allen Costa (Author)Marcus Owen is just eleven years old, but his over protective parents, aka the professors, already have his life planned out. After middle school, Marcus will attend a prestigious high school, Ivy League university and then earn a Ph.D. At any moment the professors may spring a pop quiz on him. Marcus may have to ask for his morning cereal in Latin or recite the Fibonacci sequence to earn dessert. The professors are also steadfast in their conviction to keep Marc...

Fun Skate Tricks for Beginners: A Workbook of Slalom Basics - Paperback

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by Naomi Grigg (Author)This book is intended for absolute beginner skaters. Its most important aim is simply to help beginner skaters have fun on their skates. If you're familiar with freestyle slalom skating, you'll recognize many of the moves in this book as precursors to slalom tricks. But this book is really not about slalom skating. It's about having fun on skates, and wanting to skate more and more. Yes, the tricks in this book do lead toward slalom skills, but they stand on their own ...

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by Rod Vick (Author)Kaylee O'Shay has always wanted to dance in Ireland. When her Aunt Kat offers to take the family on a trip to the Emerald Isle, it seems like a dream come true. However, the dream turns to a nightmare when Kaylee learns the reason behind Aunt Kat's generosity.Author BiographyAuthor Rod Vick has written twelve books on Irish dance, including the seven-book Kaylee O'Shay, Irish Dancer series, and the two-book Irish Witch's Dress collection. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0...

Youth Tackle Football: A Guide to Teaching Safer Football and Preventing Injuries - Paperback

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by Mary Jo Stresky (Editor), Alan Jackson (Author)The severity of injuries, including concussions, to kids playing youth tackle football can be as traumatic as to the big brutes playing college and NFL football. A high school and youth tackle football coach - and a parent of athletic sons and daughters who've had their share of injuries - after his son suffered a concussion Alan Jackson became fully aware of the devastating injuries children can sustain on the field. The more he researched lo...

An Unlikely Voyage: 2000 miles alone in a small wooden boat - Paperback

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by John Almberg (Author)"As I sailed out of the Steinhatchee River, out onto the Gulf of Mexico, my heart picked up a beat," writes John Almberg. "It suddenly struck me that this was the first time I'd ever sailed beyond the narrow, protected waters of Long Island Sound. "Am I really going to do this?" Equipped with cheerful optimism, invention, and persistence, this ordinary middle-aged man takes you on a sailing adventure from Florida's Nature Coast to Long Island Sound-2000 miles through o...

Threaded Journeys: Fishing, Hunting, Conservation, Adventure...and America's Future - Paperback

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by Tom Johnson (Author), Karin Johnson (Editor), Katie Johnson (Editor)Threaded Journeys is a compilation of fly fishing and bow hunting stories 'interwoven' with discussions on various issues regarding conservation, preservation, and healthy living. The author, Tom Johnson, delves into topics about our blue-green planet and its resources that we must preserve. He argues that employing the use of our natural resources while mitigating damage to the environment is our great challenge going for...

101 Mistakes All Golfers Make (and how to fix them) - Paperback

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by Jon Sherman (Author)Golf is a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be a complicated one. Sometimes the best answers are the simple ones. Written in an easy-to-understand format, 101 Mistakes All Golfers Make will serve as your guide to golf for years to come. Players of all levels will learn how to improve their mental game, course strategy, practice methods, technique, and much more. By seeing the most common mistakes made by all golfers, you will get something that is often lacking in ...

I want to be a CHAMPION...: A Champion's letter to kids with a dream - Paperback

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by Sunny Hale (Author)Do you want to give your son or daughter a head start in success with achieving their own dreams? Do you need someone to help them see what is possible if they will go to work and stay away from trouble? This is your book: -) In this short easy to read book, author Sunny Hale reveals a powerful and positive message of inspiration, expert advice and wisdom for kids who have a dream of their own on how to achieve it and what to watch out for that can steal their dream. Th...

Shotokan Transcendence: Beyond the Stealth and Riddles of Funakoshi Karate - Hardcover

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by Kousaku Yokota (Author)Shotokan Transcendence is the third episode in the author's ongoing work, which goes beyond the myths and enlightenment of mysteries. Yokota Shihan provides straightforward answers often glossed over or unaddressed. The reader will find the thought-provoking material covered in his work simple and straightforward enough for beginners and yet diverse and comprehensive enough for the well experienced, too. The way the information is presented is sure to provoke all mar...

McDowell Rock: A Climber's Guide - Paperback

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by Cheryl Beaver (Author), Erik Filsinger (Author)McDowell Rock - A Climber's Guide is the authoritative source on rock climbing in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve of Scottsdale, Arizona. Erik Filsinger has been the key contact between the City and the rock climbing community. He served on the City's Preserve Commission and the Board of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy. In those positions he assisted the City in developing their rock climbing plan. In McDowell Rock, Erik Filsinger and Cheryl Be...

Sith Academy: The Path of Power - Hardcover

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by The Dark Lords (Author)This is the full color, hardcover edition of the first book from Sith Academy, a dark side school founded by the first real Sith Order on this planet. The writings and exercises contained in this book are designed to awaken your Power-Craving - the first requirement of all would-be Dark Lords. This book will also begin to explore your "inner Dark Lord" and develop your Sith Persona - the darker, freer, more powerful being you long to be. It contains the first Echelo...

Crafting A Bamboo Fly Rod: A Practical Guide to Making Your First Bamboo Fly Rod - Paperback

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by Scott Nilsson (Author)Comprehensive guide to making a bamboo fly rod.Author BiographyMy name is Scott Nilsson and I have fly fished since 1972. As many of you know, this sport can reward an individual in a variety of ways. As does a river, the rewards of fly fishing change over the years and also offer different opportunities. In my case, this sport gave it's greatest gift by allowing me to make new friends and offering me the opportunity to grow through experimentation. I no longer center...

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by Mark Meissner (Author)"Muscles and Their Exercises" is a pictorial muscle anatomy and exercise guide that takes readers through the major muscles of the body with the author's own hand sketched illustrations of each muscle and muscle group. It also provides beginning and finishing movement exercise demonstration pictures for the isolation exercises that work each muscle, as well as non-isolation exercises that each muscle participates in. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9.69 x 7.44...

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by R. a. Bard (Author)On the ocean, some voyages proceed smoothly, and some go weirdly south. It's the weirder ones, selected from the many passages made by the author over sixteen years as an offshore delivery captain, that are collected here. None are full-scale disasters, but even minor calamities are exciting enough on a small boat, whose mechanical systems are constantly doing their best to disintegrate, on which crew relations can spiral into dysfunction, and where you're vulnerably exp...

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by Linda Kay (Illustrator), Max C. Weiss (Author)The Baseball King, Max C. Weiss' first published book, was inspired by this eight-year-old author's entrepreneurial spirit, his love for baseball, and his interest in storytelling. Encouraged by his younger siblings, Max weaves a narrative that explores the bond of friendship and the dedication and sacrifice required to become the best. Illustrated by Max's grandmother. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: July...

Raised Behind the Trigger: One father's journey to preserve our outdoor heritage by teaching his daughters how to hunt - Paperback

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by Tim E. Hovey (Author)With a firm desire to pass on our hunting heritage to his children, Tim Hovey began teaching his daughters, Alyssa and Jessica how to target shoot in 2007. Along the way he taught them the importance of resource management, hunter ethics and to respect all forms of wildlife. As his daughters' skills developed, they expressed a desire to hunt with their dad. Putting all they've learned to use, they began bringing home wild game of their own. As their family shooting tra...

Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond - Paperback

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by Valerie L. Askren (Author)Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond is your personal guide to walk, roll, and stroll your way across Kentucky. This newly revised 3rd Edition describes over 100 hikes, urban walks, and public gardens, complete with full-color topo maps, photos, and side trip reccomendations. Lightly doused with humor and just the right amount of historical trivia, this book focuses on many of the lesser known hiking spots in the Bluegrass region. Whether you rarely get off the couch or ...

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by Paul Gallagher (Author), Monica Chenglo (Illustrator)This children's picture book is based on a true story. It's about a Surfer and his close interaction with his ocean friends. These include tide pool creatures, seals, dolphins and turtles. He becomes close with a seal he names Mr. Silverhead and then the adventure begins. It's a fun and educational story that kids want to read again and again. The story took place in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary where interaction with marin...

Advanced Catfishing Made Easy - Paperback

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by Brad Durick (Author)Advanced Catfishing Made Easy is a one stop shop to catch catfish. This system is designed to allow you to look up the weather and water conditions in preparation for your fishing trip.It is then broken down by the region in which you are located within the United States. From there it breaks down the seasons that a catfish follows every year and breaks down the weather and water conditions within each of those seasons.You simply match your local conditions to the seaso...

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by Kenneth Wayne Ringer (Author)Coach Gene Lorendo: The "Rough & Tough" Right-Hand Man for Shug Jordan at Auburn for 25 Years. Presenting the first biography of this legend and giant of Auburn football, filled with stories of his amazing exploits: * How Gene Lorendo went from a no-star to a 5-star football player. * Led the SEC in pass receiving at Georgia in 1949. * Was a 3-sport athlete at Georgia, lettering in football, basketball and track. * Played in three bowl games: Sugar, Gator a...

Saber Fencing for Kids: That Every Parent Must Read - Paperback

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by Alex Shender (Illustrator), Alex Fotiyev (Author), Oleh Tretyak (Author)Old books described fencing as a combat skill where your life depended on it. It was necessary to defeat your enemies and protect yourself on the battlefield. They described attacks with sharp point of the blade and the cutting edges, it talked about honor, and bravery and physical fitness necessary to dodge attacks and swing the weapon. Since then fencing has become a sport primarily concerned with physical fitness an...