Whether the Pittsburgh Marathon has you lacing up your shoes to compete, or recommitting to your New Year’s Resolution, these books can keep you on track.
We’ve got experienced marathoners offering inspiration, motivation, and strategy. If that doesn’t provide a sufficient challenge, we’ve got novels clocking in at over 700 pages to help you sustain your feats of discipline and endurance. Check out a few to get yourself moving.
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A film critic of questionable success acquires the only copy of a stop motion animation with a three-month long run time and subsequently attempts to convince the world that the movie stands among the greatest in history.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
As Jacob Frank, an enigmatic religious leader, travels across mid-eighteenth-century Europe, he gathers followers, creates doctrines, and continually disrupts Jewish and Christian societies in this sweeping epic from the Nobel Prize winner.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
Olympian and history making distance runner Linden shares stories of overcoming obstacles and upending expectations in her memoir of competition and grit.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
In this multigenerational family saga, grandfather and granddaughter, both athletes embarking on formidable feats of distance running, grapple with the consequences of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Part toolkit for self-improvement, part clarion call for self-discipline, the latest book from the former Navy Seal blends intense axioms with the brutal details of ultrarunning.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Sports journalist and running coach Murphy walks readers through evidence-based training principles that offer guidance to both seasoned and novice marathoners.