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Looking for inspiration and motivation on your daily run? Find your best running read for tomorrow's outing.

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running

A Memoir

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore comes this rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakamiโ€™s four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. Settings range from... Read more

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Marathon Woman

Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

By: Kathrine Switzer
Narrated by: Kathrine Switzer
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently... Read more

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The Long Run

A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion

By: Catriona Menzies-Pike
Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

An unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running.

Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. "Runner" was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a... Read more

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Can't Nothing Bring Me Down

Chasing Myself in the Race against Time

By: Ida Keeling
Narrated by: Lisa Renee' Pitts
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression and the civil rights movement--but her greatest trials were yet to come.Miss Ida, as she is known in her community in the Bronx, grew up as a child... Read more

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The Illegal

By: Lawrence Hill
Narrated by: Gideon Emery
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Keita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home-- a brutal dictatorship that produces the world' s fastest marathoners-- to live as an illegal refugee in a wealthy western nation, surviving on winnings from local races. But the government is cracking down on illegal immigrants, so Keita-- who will... Read more

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Chasing Grace

What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me about God and Life

By: Sanya Richards-Ross
Narrated by: Sanya Richards-Ross
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

For as long as she can remember, Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross's life has been measured in seconds. The fewer, the better. But when the race is over, how do you know what to run towards next? In Chasing Grace, join Sanya as she helps you see your own experiences through God's eyes.Most people equate success with having more, but... Read more

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Born to Run

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“This pasty nerd never thought sheโ€™d be hanging on to every word about long distance running! Thatโ€™s how riveting, joyful, meaningful, and fun this book about racing, community, physiology, prehistory, and, greatest runners in the world, the indigenous Tarahumara, is. A modern classic published 15 years ago, the science here may be dated... Read more

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