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Ready, set Summer Olympics!

Published July 1, 2012 Submitted by: Erin

How to watch the Olympics : the essential guide to the rules, statistics, heroes, and zeroes of every sport / David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton ; diagrams by Belinda Evans.
 

 A visitor's guide to the ancient Olympics / Neil Faulkner

The complete book of the Olympics / David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky

The Olympics' strangest moments : extraordinary but true tales from the history of the Olympic Games / Geoff Tibballs.

Munich 1972 : tragedy, terror, and triumph at the Olympic Games / David Clay Large.

Igniting the flame : America's first Olympic team / Jim Reisler.
 

The price of gold : the toll and the triumph of one man's Olympic dream / Marty Nothstein with Ian Dille.

Off balance : a memoir / Dominique Moceanu with Paul and Teri Williams.

Running with the Kenyans : passion, adventure, and the secrets of the fastest people on earth / Adharanand Finn.

Nazi games : the Olympics of 1936 / David Clay Large.

Wonder girl : the magnificent sporting life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias / Don Van Natta Jr.

Rome 1960 : the Olympics that changed the world / David Maraniss.

The big fight : my life in and out of the ring / Sugar Ray Leonard with Michael Arkush.

St. Louis Olympics 1904 / George Matthews and Sandra Marshall.

Knitting for gold / Sue McBride.

Something like the gods : a cultural history of the athlete from Achilles to LeBron / Stephen Amidon.

Rivals : legendary matchups that made sports history / edited by David K. Wiggins and R. Pierre Rodgers.

In the water they can't see you cry : a memoir / Amanda Beard ; with Rebecca Paley.

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