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1) Beartown
Author
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 might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric chess master, whose unstable childhood rendered him incapable of relating well to others, finds that chess is his only escape and solace. At an Italian resort, where he is favored to win a prestigious chess championship, he meets and falls in love with a caring woman. When a former mentor turned jealous saboteur tries to destroy his confidence, the fragile genius may lose more than just the big game.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Playing golf on Christmas Day, Travis McKinley, 50, has a Zen-like vision and suddenly he is playing like a pro, which is a godsend because he has just been fired from his job, writing jingles for McDonald's and needs money. His golfing career zooms, but his marriage hits the skids. Still, it all turns out well in the end.
5) Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius and obsession in the world of competitive Scrabble players
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Series
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's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success -- and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
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...
8) Vision quest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
High school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed, trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who's the best wrestler in the state.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Round one of the Spring Tournament begins! Karasuno faces off against the Tsubakihara Academy, a team that's come to nationals for the second year in a row. Mistakes and problems pile up as the huge gymnasium begins to mess with Karasuno's ability to navigate the new court. Kageyama begins to acclimate to the new environment, but the Tsubakihara players aren't pushovers...and they have a secret weapon!
10) Blazewrath games
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate contemporary world, this debut fantasy novel features dragons and their riders as they compete in an international sports tournament.
Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first ever World Cup appearance,...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Karasuno wins their first match of the Spring Tournament! Hinata goes to watch Fukurodani and Nekoma play their games and runs into the other Little Giant from the All-Japan Youth Camp--Kamomedai High's Korai Hoshiumi! Then the second day of the tournament begins, and the seeded teams join the fray!
13) A knight's tale
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rousing story of lowborn William Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Barker
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Marigold Cartwell has only one goal: to defeat her long-time rival on the archery field. She knows she can outshoot irritating, cynical Tistan Gates, but the local bowmen's society--the one he belongs to--refuses to allow women to compete. Spurred on by her rejection, Marigold decides to start a new society. Naturally, it has only one rule: no men. Tristan Gates knows how relentless Marigold can be, but Tristan has enough wrries of his own, what with...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? The Inarizaki vs. Karasuno game continues! With their own Freak Quick and on-the-fly plays, the Miya twins and Inarizaki make it clear that they are in, in fact, the greatest contenders in the tournament. Meanwhile, Nekoma struggles through...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Shoyo Hinata is out to prove that in volleyball you don't need to be tall to fly! Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? Inarizaki's Atsumu Miya has found a target to pick on, and he's racking up service aces off of...Nishinoya?!...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? The game with Inarizaki heats up as Saeko Tanaka and her taiko drum crew arrive to cheer on Karasuno! The nation's best setter, Atsumu Miya, has even Nishinoya wincing when he's up to...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When Poppy the pig's dream of being an ice skating star takes her to a big competition in Paris, she meets all sorts of interesting animal competitors from different sports and learns that a smile is the same in any language.
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