Ergebnis für "Game On" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym...

Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s all-time leading rusher of the Dallas Cowboys, Dancing with the Stars champion, and successful real-estate investor, outlines the principles that helped him become a winner on and off the football field.

Dottir is the inspiring and poignant memoir written and read by two-time CrossFit Games champion, Katrin Davidsdottir. As one of only two women in history to have won the title of “Fittest Woman on Earth” twice, Davidsdottir knows all about the importance of mental and physical strength. She...

Even if you thought you knew everything about basketball legend Larry Bird, this audiobook is full of surprises. Bird speaks with amazing candor, offering a personal and honest look at his career with the Celtics, his experience with the ’92 Olympics Dream Team, and his transition from superstar player to respected coach. Bird offers striking revelations about his health problems and how they shaped the man and his game. He shows how the things he learned as a player formed his thinking as a coach.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Lukewarm is no good.' As a youngster, Ellie Kildunne was told girls don’t play rugby. But that’s what she was good at, and she was determined to find a way. Growing up in Yorkshire, Ellie started playing rugby aged six with a boys’ team, which she continued to...

An inspiring memoir by CrossFit legend Annie Thorisdottir, the first woman to win the CrossFit Games twice. In 2011, Annie Thorisdottir earned the title “Fittest Woman on Earth” after winning the CrossFit Games in only her third year as a competitor. In 2012, she did it again, becoming the...

The instant New York Times bestseller from “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is a “relentlessly funny and surprisingly inspirational” (Forbes) memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every millennial woman should have it on her bookshelf.' Pandora Sykes, journalist and co-host of The High Low Podcast The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation. The panic years can hit at any time but they are...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Bella’s brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. A compassionate and important book’ Joe Lycett ‘Perfect for resetting a glum January mindset’ Alexandra Heminsley ‘My kind of role...

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and...

Bloomsbury presents The Moves that Matter written and read by Jonathan Rowson. 'A powerfully unconventional and mind-expanding book ... A generous, nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all' Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote Refined and perfected...

'After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.' Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full and candid story of that life, and what it is to be part of the ever evolving Fleetwood Mac.

New York Times Bestseller! An electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose record-breaking rise from NCAA women’s basketball to the WNBA has captivated the nation—by award-winning journalist Christine Brennan, one of the most respected voices in women’s sports. America...

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, NFL legend Ray Lewis—Baltimore Ravens linebacker and one of the greatest defensive players in football history—shares an unflinching account of his troubled childhood, his rise to athletic greatness, the storm that threatened to ruin his NFL career...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BC NATIONAL AWARD FOR CANADIAN NON-FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador—who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015—the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a...

Too much power. Wow. Too much energy. Wow. Too much anticipation. WOW. It’s the nationally bestselling memoir from the biggest star in gaming: Dr Disrespect. Dr Disrespect is a 6-foot-8 freak of nature with a 37-inch vertical, the two-time, back-to-back 1993–94 Blockbuster Video Game...

'ENTHRALLING' FourFourTwo 'STIRRING' Dublin Herald 'FASCINATING' Red and White Kop 'ASTONISHING' Bleacher Report The Sunday Times Bestseller Twentieth anniversary edition, fully updated with a new foreword from Rafael Benitez When Rafael Benitez was appointed manager of under-achieving Liverpool...

An amazing true story of World War II that reveals how British and American military intelligence smuggled supplies and escape tools into German P.O.W. camps disguised as Monopoly game sets, enabling imprisoned servicemen to escape. Monopoly X is the fascinating true story of what is arguably...

From The New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing comes an update of John Steinbeck’s trip in Travels with Charley, a cross-country journey exploring modern America with Lauren Hough’s signature observational wit, searing social commentary, and perspective as...

Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a queer and mixed-race grandson of two preachers; as a traveller, immigrant, and games scholar; and as a father, caregiver, and mourner.