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Series
Beartown volume 2
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) Sooley
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Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
5) Creed II
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Description
Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family's past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what's worth fighting for, and discover that nothing's more important...
6) Creed III
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.
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Series
Stink Moody volume 6
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Description
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
Author
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Description
Presents simple facts about hockey, including terms, positions, and plays.
"With a fun mix of Sports Illustrated action photography, simple text, a full glossary of terms, and cool graphics, My First Book of Hockey introduces readers to the basics. Kids (and maybe a few adults, too!) will learn how power plays work, how the three-period game flows, what a hat trick is, what's up with the referee's crease, and more."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why-as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of a...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
14) Mixed doubles
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
15) The best team money can buy: the Los Angeles Dodgers' wild struggle to build a baseball powerhouse
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 19
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
After trying unsuccessfully to play a variety of school sports, Heidi turns to the Book of Spells for help.
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Series
Mermaid tales volume 17
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Shelly Siren loves playing on Trident Academy's Shell Wars team. But is she ready to complete in the Shell Wars Championships in the fintastically famous city of Atlantis? As part of their trip, the mergirls get a tour of Atlantis and swim through Poseidon's Temple where Shelly sees a spookfish, which according to legend, carries a horrible curse.
18) Savanna showdown
Author
Series
Race the wild volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Fearing her less-than-ideal running skills will be a detriment to Team Red when the race continues across the African savanna, Mari endeavors to use her eclectic knowledge about the region's animals to help her teammates.
19) Chuck
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Before all that, Chuck Wepner was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match.
20) Muhammad Ali
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Introduces Muhammad Ali, detailing how young Cassius Clay learned how to box and became a legendary athlete, civil rights activist, and global icon.
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