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Author
Series
Beartown volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses aspects of organized hockey, including its history, youth leagues, minor leagues, college hockey, women's leagues, the National Hockey League, the Olympics, and how to join a hockey league.
Author
Publisher
Carlton
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Ryder Cup is one of the world's greatest sporting contests. Every two years, the best golfers from the U.S.A. and Europe go head-to-head in a team event that creates fever-pitch pressure for the players and unrivaled excitement for spectators.
Author
Language
English
Description
Carrie Soto is the best tennis player in the world, and she knows it. Her father, Javier, is a former tennis champion himself, and he's dedicated his life to coaching her. By the time she retires in 1989, she holds the record for winning 20 Grand Slam singles titles. But then, in 1994, Nicki Chan comes along. Nicki is on the verge of breaking Carrie's record, and Carrie decides she can't let that happen: She's coming out of retirement, with her father...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A year ago Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he makes his living playing golf in paradise, and everything should be perfect; but Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an impostor who doesn't deserve his success. Then Travis blows a tournament and is suspended for assaulting another player. His family and friends are shocked, and Travis realizes he needs to...
9) Drop shot
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar volume 2
Language
English
Description
Once, Valerie Simpson's tennis career skyrocketed; now, the headlines belong to a player from the wrong side of the tracks. But when Valerie is shot dead in cold blood and dropped outside the stadium at the U.S. Open, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates the killing and uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive mainline club. As Myron is drawn into the case--along with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A globe-trotting romp through the world of ultra-competitive chess, in which the author submits himself to humiliating defeats and the tutelage of ornery mentors in his search for glory--a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game"--
Author
Publisher
Little Brown Adult Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
An in-depth portrait of the NCAA Final Four competition is presented from the perspectives of schools, coaches, and players who have made it to college basketball's final weekend, in a collection of dramatic and inspiring stories that also includes accounts by officials, referees, and scouts.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Coming into 2016, the Americans had lost an astounding six out of the last seven Ryder Cup matches, and tensions were running high for the showdown that took place in October, 2016 in Hazeltine, Minnesota, just days after American legend Arnold Palmer had died. What resulted was one of the most raucous and heated three days in the Cup's long history. Award-winning author John Feinstein takes readers behind the scenes, providing an inside view of the...
Author
Series
Harmony novel volume 7
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 into...
15) Final round
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
As the prestigious world of professional golf prepares for the Masters Golf Tournament at Georgia's elite Augusta National Golf Club, a cunning killer waits in the shadows to unleash his own lethal game.
17) Forbidden City
Author
Series
City Spies volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded...
Author
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...
19) Grand slam
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jalen DeLuca can analyze and predict almost exactly what a pitcher is going to pitch, but without the statistics he has on the pro players, Jalen finds success to be extremely challenging, especially with all the extra drama of his mom coming back into his life.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 44
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Geronimo agrees to be a caddie for his grandfather in a golf tournament, he and Special Agent OOK team up to prevent the theft of the Super Mouse Cup.
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