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Big shots volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Wells Whitaker was once golf's hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his "promising" career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life. Josephine...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"In this sexy, unputdownable read about young tennis stars who train relentlessly to compete at the highest levels while living in a world obsessed with good looks and Instagram followers, Charlie must discover the secret to having it all-- or finally shatter the illusion for good."--
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Series
Beartown volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...
5) The natural
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
xii, 231 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.
6) Calico Joe
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Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher.
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Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 3
Description
Myron Bolitar, after having his goal to play for the NBA stopped by an injury, becomes involved in the underbelly of the 90s sports world when he searches for a missing basketball star.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
vii, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Harper's Magazine has been America's preeminent monthly periodical for more than 150 years. Rules of the Game: The Best Sports Writing from Harper's Magazine takes a look into this storied magazine's unparalleled archive and uncovers funny, touching, exciting, intriguing stories of the sporting life, both professional and amateur, and what it means to us. These essays show that how we play and write about sports not only reflect our nation's character,...
11) Deal breaker
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Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 1
Description
Softhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar must unravel a complex mystery involving blackmail and family tragedy when his client, celebrated rookie quarterback Christian Steele, receives a phone call from a supposedly-dead ex-girlfriend.
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Beartown volume 3
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
13) The grip
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Series
Marcus stroman volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm..
Description
Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.
14) Shadowed
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Nate plays soccer, but he doesn't love it. He plays because it's what his family expects. Then Lucas Cawley moves in across the street. Lucas isn't like any of Nate's sports friends--he's poor, his parents are mostly absent, and he's devoted to his sister, Megan, who has a learning disability. Lucas may be an outcast at school, but he and Nate find common ground in their fierce games of one-on-one basketball. It's not long before Nate realizes that...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"--
"Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's owner-who happens to be her father--sends...
16) Camp average
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Series
Camp Average volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Camp Average is a middle-grade novel that tells the story of a group of 11-year-old boys sharing Cabin 10 at a six-week summer sports camp for boys. The actual name of the place is Camp Avalon, but the kids call it Camp Average, because they never win at any sport. And that's the way they like it. But this summer, Winston, the new camp director doesn't like losing, and he's not about to start! Led by the main protagonist, Mack, and his best friend...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
58, 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
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Not-so-tiny tales of Simon Seahorse volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
Simon and his older sister try out for the bubble ball team together, but they end up on opposing sides.
"Simon tries out to be on a bubble ball team with his sister in this third book in The Not-So-Tiny Tales of Simon Seahorse chapter book series. Bubble ball is the most popular sport in Coral Grove. And Simon's oldest sister, Kya, is really good at it. One day, she announces that all the bubble ball teams are holding tryouts. Simon knows that whatever...
19) Camp So-and-So
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Twenty five girls are invited to attend Camp So-and-So and work with their cabin mates to compete in the All-Camp Sports 7 Follies. But this is no ordinary camp. Cabin 1 must face off with the campers across the lake. Cabin 2 is being stalked by a murderous former camper. Cabin 3 must break and age-old curse. Cabin 4 will meet their soul-mates. Cabin 5... well, it might already be too late for Cabin 5.
20) Half Moon summer
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Two seventh graders, Drew and Mia, spend their summer in Half Moon Bay, California, training for a half-marathon, and supporting each other as their families struggle with medical and financial problems.
"Drew was never much of a runner -- until his dad's unexpected diagnosis. Mia has nothing better to do -- until she realizes entering Half Moon Bay's half-marathon could solve her family's housing problems. And just like that they decide to spend...
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