Bandon Public Library

"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...

An entertaining look at one of hockey's most unique traditions: the emergency backup goaltender Tom Fenton was in a barber's chair when he got the call. Nathan Schoenfeld was giving his 5-week-old twin boys a bath. Eric Semborski was teaching kids to play hockey at a suburban rink. Within hours, each was wearing a mask, pads, and an NHL uniform as an emergency goalie, perhaps the most unusual position in all of sports. Odd Man In shares...

Angry at the world when a near-fatal car crash takes him off the ice permanently, hockey superstar Mark Bressler is bent on making life miserable for everyone--especially his latest team-provided personal assistant: outspoken, flamboyant, and unemployed actress Chelsea Ross. Chelsea is out to revamp her acting career and badly needs the $10,000 bonus she'll get if she lasts three months with Mark; failure is simply not an option. But neither is the...

"Lexie Kowalsky, a runaway bride from a reality TV show, hops a float plane for Sandspit, British Columbia. Sharing her flight is Sean Knox, new star of the Seattle Chinooks, the hockey team her father coaches. Sean knows this could spell trouble for his career, but the chemistry is too strong to ignore"-- Lexie Kowalsky thought she was ready to get married in front of millions of people, but at the last minute she fled the set of television's hottest...

The story of Doug Glatt, a dumb but lovable bar bouncer plucked from obscurity to be the enforcer for a minor league hockey team.

"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means...

He's a player in more ways than one... College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final...

Caillou loves ice skating. He wants to play hockey with the big kids. After Daddy takes him to the store to buy equipment, Caillou is finally ready to start playing. But as soon as he enters the rink he realizes that the bigger kids are much more experienced than he is. Caillou can't keep up with them! Daddy explains that if he keeps practicing, he will be just as good as they are when he's older. Caillou goes to Leo's house to practice his hockey...

Hannah Wells is a student at Briar University where she is attracted to Garrett Graham, another student in her Philosophical Ethics class. If she wants to get her crush's attention, she will have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice, even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the school's hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.

After enduring a week of punishing try-outs and making the cut for the girls' varsity field hockey team, new players must participate in a night of questionable bonding traditions and loyalty tests, orchestrated by the most senior girls on the squad and performed with the implicit permission of their seemingly all-American young male coach. Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight's...