Summary: Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONShawl, Nisi
Summary: Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAAdler, David A.
Summary: Mo Jackson and his friends practice passing the baton ahead of their track meet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ADLSummary: Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MCFCopies Available at Kingsley
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Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENCatozzella, Giuseppe
Summary: Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-old Ali trains her, times her, and pushes her to achieve her goals. For both children, Samia's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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Summary: Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid with aspirations to be a great athlete. As he explores his primal surroundings, along the Loxahatchee River and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, he is befriended by Trapper Nelson, "the Tarzan of the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Parker 2015Parker, John L.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSummary: High school basketball coach John Harrison receives unfortunate news that will change his life. The largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down, forcing many families to leave in search of other job opportunities. John and his family are faced with an uncertain future, and his dreams of winning the state basketball championship are in jeopardy. He agrees to coach the cross-country...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY OVEHill, Lawrence
Summary: Keita Ali is on the run. He is desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous black island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world. Keita signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, who provides Keita with a chance to run the Boston marathon in return for a huge cut of the winning purse. But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILLust, Andreas
Summary: A man leads a double life as a championship runner and a bank robber.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROBMills, Claudia.
Summary: "The third book in the Franklin School Friends series is a fast and funny story about sports, friendship, and sibling rivalries"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILBlackburne, Livia
Summary: "Mulan goes from a celebrated war hero to a reluctant Empress and must once again rise above expectations and prove she doesn't have to be anyone but herself to save China"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASummary: Nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned King of Scots in the fourteenth century fights for freedom to defy an empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ROBMaddox, Jake
Summary: Since she received an old game console Ivette has become involved with speedrunning an old game called The Shattered Blade--so interested she enters a contest which pits her against an online gamer called Quick Silver.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADMaddox, Jake
Summary: Antonia volunteers to play a different role when a new and inexperienced player joins her esports team, but when her new position proves to be more difficult than she expected, she realizes she must learn new strategies or risk letting her team down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADMaddox, Jake
Summary: Being in a wheelchair prevents Iako from hitting the real gridiron, but he makes up for it by being a whiz at the video game, Football Blitz, so when the opportunity arises, Iako enters an esports tournament to prove he can compete as well as anyone else.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: Thema has always preferred books to video games, but when her younger twin brothers show her the battle game Shrinking Island Showdown she is hooked--and with her brothers help she plans to become good enough to compete in an esports competition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADMaddox, Jake
Summary: Francis is spending a week at an esports camp, hoping to get even better at Red Car Racers, his favorite game; but finding himself surrounded by older and more experienced players he stuggles with his performance--and his confidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: De Niro stars as champion boxer Jake La Motta, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the heights of his sport, only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAGLevenseller, Tricia
Summary: The crew of the Vengeance finds itself in a fight to save the world when it accidentally awakens the King of the Undersea who can control the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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Summary: "In When the Goddess Wakes, the final book of the Ring-Sworn trilogy, Howard Andrew Jones returns to the five realms of the Dendressi to conclude his heroic, adventure-filled epic fantasy trilogy. The Naor hordes have been driven from the walls, but the Dendressi forces are scattered and fragmented, and their gravest threat lies before them. For their queen has slain the ruling council and fled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013