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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
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By Scott Young ,

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Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time
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By Jennifer Shahade ,

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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
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Beginners

By Tom Vanderbilt ,

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Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
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By David Mikics ,

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Jackie Wins Them All
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Jackie Wins Them All

By Fabian E. Ferguson , Alisa Aryutova (illustrator) ,

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My Name Is Tani... and I Believe in Miracles: The Amazing True Story of One Boy's Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion
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My Name Is Tani... and I Believe in Miracles

By Tanitoluwa Adewumi , Kayode Adewumi , Oluwatoyin Adewumi

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Forbidden City
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Forbidden City

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Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
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The Ink War: Romanticism versus Modernity in Chess
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By Willy Hendriks ,

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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume I (1920-1937)
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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships

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Soviet Outcast
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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume III (1948-1953)
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The Most Honoured Profession
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Winning
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The Essential Sosonko: Collected Portraits and Tales of a Bygone Chess Era
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By Genna Sosonko ,

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Chess Theory from Stamma to Steinitz, 1735-1894
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Chess Theory from Stamma to Steinitz, 1735-1894

By Frank Hoffmeister ,

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Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina
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My Dark Romeo
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My Dark Romeo

By Parker S. Huntington , L. J. Shen ,

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The Villa
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The Villa

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The Beauty of Games
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The Beauty of Games

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