Mike Lupica
41) Defending champ
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When the girls soccer team learns it has been canceled due to budget cuts, they come up with a plan to raise the necessary funds through a face-off with the boys' team, which is led by sneering superstar Chase Gwinn.
42) True legend
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
43) Last man out
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
44) Lone stars
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
[250] pages ; 24 cm
Description
When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.
45) The big field
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Series
Zack and Zoe mysteries volume 3 and 4 and 5
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (2 hrs., 50 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
There's nothing eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe Walker love more than playing sports and solving mysteries. And when those two worlds collide ... well it doesn't get any better than that.
The football fiasco: In this third mystery, Zach and Zoe discover their football has been completely deflated, leaving them without a ball to play with at recess. But who's behind it.
The soccer secret: Soccer season is underway, and though Zach and Zoe play...
47) Broken Trust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 51
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Formats
Description
Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica.
Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura,...
Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura,...
48) Revenge Tour
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation.
PI Sunny Randall owes a favor. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend Spike to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity of Melanie Joan’s stalker, she learns that much of the...
PI Sunny Randall owes a favor. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend Spike to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity of Melanie Joan’s stalker, she learns that much of the...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 51
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
When the beautiful wife of a brilliant scientist, whose groundbreaking work with lithium has made him a billionaire, asks him to look into her husband's past due to his recent paranoia and violent behavior, Spenser makes a discovery that causes him to question his own views on morality.
Author
Series
Zach and Zoe mysteries volume 1 and 2
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
2 CDs (1 hr., 50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
There's nothing eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe Walker love more than playing sports and solving mysteries. And when those two worlds collide, well it doesn't get any better than that.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her.
Author
Description
Seven original baseball short stories in the mystery and murder genres, written by an all-star lineup of writers, each of whom understands the game's lore and tactical nuances as well as its deep roots in American life. Compiled by Otto Penzler, the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery, and suspense fiction. Stories include:
• "Ropa Vieja" by Laura Lippman-A rich...