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2020
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Shane Ryan Staley brings you one of the year’s most shocking and emotionally-charged tales.Redemption is a novella about how the balance of life affects us, in death and on God’s terms.John wakes up to the fact that the balance in his life is horribly wrong. While neglecting his family for work, he suffers a terrible loss. His son has disappeared. During the months that follow, his life is ripped apart.The mystery of his son’s disappearance is slowly unraveled as pa...
2020
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Chris Tyler's world has collapsed. A final touch from his dying father causes a mysterious change in him. Now he is plagued by visions that are leading him back to his father's lot at a desolate campground. Chris searches for an answer about who his father really was. He discovers that his father had participated in a bloodletting ritual that was performed to cleanse his soul of darkness. What came out of the cleansing was an evil like no other . . . one that has outlived his father and is...
Slaying the Tiger
A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
2015
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Slaying the Tiger, one of today’s boldest young sportswriters spends a season inside the ropes alongside the rising stars who are transforming the game of golf.For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick “Tiger” Woods. But as his star has fallen, a new, ambitious generation has stepped up to claim the crown. Once the domain of veterans, golf saw a youth revolution in 2014. In Sla...
The Cup They Couldn't Lose
America, the Ryder Cup, and the Long Road to Whistling Straits
2022
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The definitive story of the Ryder Cup—the event that pits the best golfers from America against the best from Europe—exploring the modern history of the tournament that led to the showdown at Whistling Straits in 2021.The task facing Steve Stricker at the 2021 Ryder Cup was enormous. It was his job, as the American captain, to stare down almost 40 years of Ryder Cup history, break a pattern of home losses that had persisted almost ...
The Cup They Couldn't Lose
America, the Ryder Cup, and the Long Road to Whistling Straits
- Narrated by
- Shane Ryan
Unabridged
10 hours 4 min
2022
EN
The definitive story of the Ryder Cup—the event that pits the best golfers from America against the best from Europe—exploring the modern history of the tournament that led to the showdown at Whistling Straits in 2021.The task facing Steve Stricker at the 2021 Ryder Cup was enormous. It was his job, as the American captain, to stare down almost 40 years of Ryder Cup history, break a pattern of home losses that had persisted almost ...
Slaying the Tiger
A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
- Narrated by
- Sean Pratt
Unabridged
13 hours 53 min
2015
EN
For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. But as his star has fallen, a new, ambitious generation has stepped up to claim the crown. Once the domain of veterans, golf saw a youth revolution in 2014. In Slaying the Tiger, Shane Ryan introduces us to the volatile, colorful crop of heirs apparent who are storming the barricades of this traditionally old-fashioned sport.As the golf writer for Bill Simmons's Grantland,...
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An American Caddie in St. Andrews
Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
- Narrated by
- Oliver Horovitz
Unabridged
9 hours 15 min
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In the middle of Oliver Horovitz's high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. He'd been accepted, but he couldn't start for another year.A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland—a town with the U.K.'s highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf's most famous eighteen holes—where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program. In...
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- A Golf Bestseller
2015
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“Maybe the best golf book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Reynolds, The Providence JournalThe instant New York Times bestseller from acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger—a warm, nostalgic, and intimately reported account of golf’s greatest generation.With “exceptional insight into some of America’s greatest players over the last half-century” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Men in Green is t...
Moment of Glory
The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf
- Narrated by
- L.J. Ganser
Unabridged
12 hours
2010
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After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players -- Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and Shaun Micheel -- would seize the day, rising to become champions in his wake.Mike Weir -- considered a good golfer but not a great one -- triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian to win a Major. Jim Furyk emerged victorious in the U.S. Open. In the British Open, Ben Curtis became the only player since Fra...
The Masters
Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia
- Narrated by
- Barrett Whitener
Unabridged
10 hours 13 min
2005
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The Masters golftournament weaves a hypnotic spell. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant ofcareers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestseller Hogan, reveals in The Masters,a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous Augustacourse.The Mastersis an amazing slice of history. Sampson takes us inside the presidency ofDwight D. Eisenhower, Augusta's most famous member. He ex...
One on One
Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game
- Narrated by
- David de Vries
Unabridged
16 hours 19 min
2011
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John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends.John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and John McEnroe.Since his days as a young Washington Post journalist, Feinstein has written tw...
The Grand Slam
Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf
- Narrated by
- Grover Gardner
Unabridged
19 hours 7 min
2006
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In the wake of the stock-market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports. In the summer of 1930, Bobby Jones, a twenty-eight-year-old amateur golfer, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, this natural, self-taught player conquered the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the US Open, and finally, the US Amateur Championship—an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam. No one has e...











