Books for Dads & Dudes

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Father’s Day is coming up this weekend! Here are some books for the dads (and dudes) in your life:

RAISING MEN: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons by Eric Davis
Using a unique blend of discipline, leadership, adventure, and grace, Eric and his SEAL brothers share lessons about how to connect, and reconnect, with sons and teach readers how to raise real men—the Navy SEAL way.

BILL O’REILLY’S LEGENDS & LIES: THE PATRIOTS by David Fisher
The must-have companion to Bill O’Reilly’s historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots! Heavily illustrated with spectacular artwork that brings this important history to vivid life, THE PATRIOTS is an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders.

SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: Jürgen Klinsmann, Coaching the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team and the Quest for the World Cup by Erik Kirschbaum, with a foreword by Jürgen Klinsmann
Controversial U.S men’s soccer coach Jürgen Klinsmann reveals his thoughts on building a winning soccer team. “Kirschbaum examines how a shy German striker cobbled together his experiences as a player in four different countries to create a personal coaching philosophy. This work will be appreciated by soccer fans, especially with the United States hosting the Copa América Centenario in 2016.” — Library Journal

THE ONLY RULE IS IT HAS TO WORK: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh & Sam Miller
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team? That’s what Lindbergh and Miller got to do when the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor-league team in California, offered them the chance to run the team’s baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. “For fantasy baseball junkies and baseball purists alike, this is a vivid, joyful exploration of recruiting and running a team by numbers—and instinct.”
Publishers Weekly

NEVER A DULL MOMENT: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded by David Hepworth
A rollicking look at 1971—the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni Mitchell. “An exuberant tour through a pivotal year in the development of popular music and culture.” — Kirkus Reviews
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