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    • Tour-Tested Secrets for Getting Up and Down
    • By: Stan Utley, Matthew Rudy
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Veteran golfers know that the secret to a lower score is a solid short game, but mastering those small strokes can be maddening - even for the pros. One of golf's most revered instructors, Stan Utley now reveals the step-by-step tactics behind his revolutionary short-game techniques....

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    • Dave Stockton's Guide to Unlocking Your Signature Stroke
    • By: Dave Stockton, Matthew Rudy - contributor, Phil Mickelson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • In Unconscious Putting, Stockton shows how players at every handicap level - from pros to weekend golfers - can putt effortlessly and with confidence by integrating a new mental approach with a few simple physical routines that will keep them locked on target....

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    • By: John Gierach
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • In his latest fresh and original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world....

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    • By: John Gierach
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Robin Yocum
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,679 ratings
    • Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio....

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    • By: John Gierach
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Writer and an acknowledged master of fishing John Gierach presents brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general....

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    • By: John McPhee
    • Narrated by: John McPhee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master John McPhee. It is divided into two parts. It is an "album quilt", an artful assortment of nonfiction writings that have not previously appeared in any book....

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    • By: John Gierach
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman takes us through a year with a top fishing scribe, John Gierach, who dedicates himself to his passion despite his belief that "In the long run, fishing usually amounts to a lifetime of pratfalls punctuated by rare moments of perfection."....

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    • American Writers on Fly Fishing
    • By: Robert DeMott - editor
    • Narrated by: Brian Morris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Jim Harrison, Pam Houston, Ted Leeson, Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, and more, share stories of fly fishing and life on the river....

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    • Five Essays
    • By: David Foster Wallace
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: A collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers....

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    • By: Henry David Thoreau
    • Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Thoreau gives an account of three canoe and hiking journeys - by himself and with others - through the mostly uninhabited forests of Maine in the 1850s....

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    • Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, taking listeners through the seasons. In Paulsen’s north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious....

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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism....

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    • Essays on the Japanese Martial Arts and Ways
    • By: Dave Lowry
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • The goals of the budo - the martial arts and ways of Japan - lie in refining the body and spirit. These goals are not always the obvious ones - and are learned only through the guidance and direction of great teachers....

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    • The Writings of George Mallory
    • By: George Mallory
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Unabridged selections from George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations....

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    • A Fishing Memoir
    • By: Guy de la Valdene
    • Narrated by: Jay Myers
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On the Water is a gorgeously written collection of essays that all take place on or near the water and pay tribute to the flora and fauna associated with those ecosystems....

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    • An Essay
    • By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s deeply personal essay explores racial conflict through the prism of his childhood and the influence of his father, a police officer who walked the beat between two worlds....

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    • Personal Essays on Fly Fishing and the Transformative Power of Nature
    • By: John Dietsch, Paul VanDevelder - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jim Denison
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • John Dietsch - fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It - explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss....

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