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Beartown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything."--
Winning a junior ice hockey championship means everything to the residents of Beartown, a struggling community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and an steadily...
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Language
English
Description
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
Author
Language
English
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...
4) Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Stefan Fatsis, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them-and him. Scrabble might truly be called America's game. More than two million sets are sold every year and at least thirty million American homes have one. But the game's most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the...
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney have spent their entire lives on Rainbow Lane, but they dream of something bigger. So when a poker tournament comes to town, Dusti is determined to win enough money to leave. Enlisting expert Kieron O'Toole to teach her the game, sparks begin to fly as they play their hands. But Kieron refuses to stand in the way of her dream, even if it means losing her forever ... After a year of traveling, Ronny Logan is settling...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
8) Drop shot
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Series
Language
English
Description
Sports agent Myron Bolitar repsents two of the hottest tennis players in the game. But when his female player is murdered and his male player is the suspect, Myron has a new case to solve.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Peter LaFleur is a charismatic underachiever and the proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe's. The facility's ecclectic cleintele is decidedly less-than-your-average Joes. Peter's humble gym catches the eye of White Goodman, the egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym. White places a foreclosing attorney inside the Average Joe's establishment to finalize his takeover of the gym, but attorney Kate is won over by Peter's boyish charm and joins the Average...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of the most revered events in American sports. Readers will also find dramatic stories from the officials and referees to the scouts and ticket-scalpers.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Just when we need some magic in our lives, bestselling author James Patterson brings us a stirring tale of life, love, and the power of Christmas miracles.
Travis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone-playing...
Travis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone-playing...
13) Blades of glory
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy brawl on the podium after tying for gold at the world championship. Banned for life from men's single skating competition, the arch-rivals find a loophole that allows them to skate again as a pair
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Series
Language
English
Description
Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), is regarded by most as a two-bit town. Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanon seeks to change that perception with a charity golf tournament! This presents a bit of a challenge, since no one in Maggody plays golf and there is no course. But when the prize for the first hole-in-one is announced - a top-of-the-line bass boat - the town goes golf crazy. But when the winner is found dead, the prize is up for grabs again and everyone in town...
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Junie B. cannot play in the school kickball tournament because of a sore toe, she brings her unique talents to the halftime show.
18) Casino Royale
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
19) Lady bloodfight
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Jane, a beautiful but troubled American backpacking her way through Hong Kong, successfully fends off three thugs trying to rob her, it draws the attention of Shu, a female fighting champion. Shu recruits and trains Jane to fight in the vicious, all-female underground martial arts tournament known as The Kumite. After months of rigorous training, Jane is ready to face off against her killer rivals, including the apprentice of Shu's nemesis, a...
20) LIV and let die
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling author of Phil-and one of the most trusted correspondents on the front lines of golf-delivers a no-holds-barred account of LIV Golf's bid to usurp the PGA Tour -one of the most chaotic moments in golf history.
Over the past two years, professional golf has been at war, and Alan Shipnuck has been our most trusted correspondent on the front lines. Following closely on the heels of his bestselling sensation Phil, Shipnuck...
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