Summary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRIO'Connor, Ian
Summary: Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL--the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the team to five Super Bowl championship trophies. In this revelatory new and robust biography, readers will come to understand and see Belichick's full life in football, from watching Naval Academy games as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BELICHICK, BILL OCOBeams, Clare
Summary: Sarah Waters meets Red Clocks in this searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, which probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman's body and why. The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher has waned in recent years,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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Summary: For 108 years, fans of Chicago Cubs baseball suffered every playofff season, with mishap after mishap each being traced back to 1945 when a friendly goat was kicked out of a World Series game. But the 2016 season felt different. Would this finally be the year that the Billy Goat Curse was reversed? Author Brad Herzog tells the story of the curse's origin and follows the Cubs right through that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERContents: Part of the union / The Brothers (2:55) -- Ordinary boy / Small wonder (2:55) -- The Hertfordshire rock / Ricky Wilde (2:47) -- When work is over / The Kinks (2:06) -- Sailing / The Sutherland Bros Band (2:36) -- In your life / Adam Faith (2:39) -- Londonderry / Phil Cordell (3:08) -- Cut loose / Stud Leather (3:02) -- I'm on fire / The Troggs (2:12) -- Kill / Mike McGear (1:49) -- And the fun...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THRBeams, Clare
Summary: "From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"--NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Contents: 1. Walking on sunshine / Katrina & The Waves -- 2. Head over heels / Tears for Fears -- 3. It's a mistake / Men at Work -- 4. Life in a northern town / The Dream Academy -- 5. Beat's so lonely / Charlie Sexton - - 6. Guitar, talk, love & drums / Gary Myrick -- 7. Since yesterday / Strawberry Switchblade -- 8. Obsession / Animotion -- 9. Endicott / Kid Creole & The Coconuts -- 10. Perfect way /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NEWGifford, Frank
Summary: A fiftieth anniversary tribute to the 1958 National Football League championship game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, told by a recipient of the MVP award, traces each team's story and winning season while evaluating the game's historical relevance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 GIFContents: Kiss you all over (Exile) (3:28) -- Stumblin' in (Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman) (3:28) -- Which way you goin' Billy? (The Poppy Family) (3:21) -- Last song (Edward Bear) (3:10) -- Oh, babe, what would you say? (Hurricane Smith) (3:24) -- Love really hurts without you (Billy Ocean) (2:59) -- Kung fu fighting (Carl Douglas) (3:14) -- Right back where we started from (Maxine Nightingale) (3:12) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSummary: He was called 'the bionic kid'. Todd Marinovich was molded by his father to be an athlete from birth, including stretching exercises in his crib and a strict diet and fitness routine. A pioneer who developed ground-breaking strength and conditioning techniques, Marv Marinovich believed his strict systems would sculpt his son into a top athlete. But along with the pursuit of perfection came...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ESPN Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMECohen, Rich
Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.357 COHSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 LEASummary: Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Invincible 2006Lowe, Keanon
Summary: "The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LOWE LOWBowden, Mark
Summary: Recreates the drama of Johnny Unitas's heroics in the 1958 sudden-death classic between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.332 BOWBear, Elizabeth
Summary: The Gage and the Dead Man brought a message from the greatest wizard of Messaline to the ruling queen of Sarathai, one of the Lotus Kingdoms. But the message was a riddle, and the Lotus Kingdoms are at war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Greg
Summary: Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner who seeks out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors --long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent -- an act that forces his father's hand and forever changes Bornstellar's destiny ... and the fate of the entire galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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Summary: Olly isn't enjoying activity camp. Why should he bother building a shelter or foraging for food with his teammates - he'd rather be at home in the warm and dry, where the sofa and the video games are. But then Olly gets given a compass with a mysterious fifth direction. When he follows it, he's magically transported to a high mountain range where he meets survival expert Bear Grylls. With his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Grylls 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRYGrylls, Bear
Summary: "Sophie loves camp--except for all the creepy-crawlies. Getting trapped in the tent with a daddy longlegs is terrifying, and spiders make her scream. It's so embarrassing. But then a mysterious compass transports her to a fiercely hot desert, where Bear Grylls, her guide, is watching. The sun is beating down, and together they must trek to find water and overcome the dangers lurking in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Grylls/Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRYGrylls, Bear
Summary: "Mia thinks rules are made to be broken. If it's not her idea, she's not interested. Then her friend gives her a compass, and she unexpectedly finds herself adrift on a sailboat with a faulty engine in the middle of the wide, blue ocean. Bear Grylls is captaining the boat, but it's all hands on deck when a whale tail causes a breach in the hull and water rushes in..."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2021