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Amours Romans, nouvelles, etc Basketball players Fiction College athletes College athletes Fiction Dating (Social customs) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction North Carolina Fiction Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc Sportifs universitaires Romans, nouvelles, etc Sudanese United States FictionBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: Against the backdrop of a revolution in college sports paying athletes to play a family conflict emerges that is just as poignant and upsetting as any Saturday afternoon football rivalry. Eddie Williams, the father of three immensely talented football sons and one estranged daughter is found dead in a media trailer outside U of M stadium the day of the clash with Michigan State. That same day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press, LLC 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: An obsessive college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOVGrisham, John
Summary: In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. During the tournament, Samuel receives devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC GRISobel, Corey
Summary: "Corey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOBSummary: Set in the world of 1980s college life, it follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Get ready for the best weekend ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EVEReilly, Grace
Summary: "James - Football is my everything. I live, eat, breathe the sport. But when I transfer to McKee University to escape the distractions that nearly cost me my future in the NFL, I'm faced with another consequence: retake and pass the writing class I failed at my last college, or lose any chance I have at making it big. That's where fellow senior Beckett Wood -- gorgeous, stubborn, and just my...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGrisham, John
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2021Habash, Gabe
Summary: "In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABMargolin, Phillip
Summary: "The "master of heart-pounding suspense"--New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin--returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MARReilly, Grace
Summary: Cooper. As a pro-bound college athlete with a good-time reputation, I usually have my pick of puck bunnies. But lately, I've been in a dry spell that feels more like a curse, and the stress is affecting my game--the one thing that can't happen if I'm going to keep building my case for a future in the NHL, starting with making team captain. Enter Penny Ryder. She's my coach's daughter, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "In his twenties, Ethan Holt won the decathlon at the Olympics and was jokingly nicknamed 'Hercules'; now, in his late thirties, he's returned to his ivy-covered alma mater to teach, and to raise his young daughter Skip as a single father. After a hushed-up scandal over his Olympics win and the death of his wife in a car accident five years ago, Ethan wants nothing more than to forget his past....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyrus Books/FW 2016