Summary: SEASON 1: Set in sun-soaked Miami, the series revolves around retired football superstar/financial manager Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) and his inner circle of friends/clients-each a pro when it comes to playing the game, but not when it comes to life off the field. SEASON 2: Digging deeper into the extravagant, high-stakes world of pro-football in Miami, FL, the new season finds the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can't imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper. And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2024
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Summary: NFL star Jake Masters has a spinal injury that ended his career. Now confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility. But his twin sister, Beth, has no intention of letting him languish there forever, and she's gifting a matchmaking business to Jake; whether he likes it or not. It's soon clear that he needs an assistant. Enter Gracie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MICMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: "Single mom Dori Robertson is suddenly under pressure to find a new father for her eleven-year-old son. And he's already chosen the guy, former pro-football player Gavin Parker. As it turns out, Gavin's daughter wants her dad to marry again, too. When the kids join forces, Gavin suggests he and Dori start dating, just to satisfy the kids. Dori figures it's safe enough, until he kisses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin, when a man wins everything only to lose it, he recognizes the love of his life is the only thing worth having. Twelve years ago Matthew "The Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and graduating as one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was selected as the #1 pick in the NFL....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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Summary: Ruddy McCann, former college football star, has experienced a seismic drop in popularity; he is now a full-time repo man in Kalkaska, Michigan and part-time bouncer at his sister's bar. His best friend is his low-energy Basset hound Jake, with whom he shares a simple life of stealing cars. Simple, that is, until Ruddy starts hearing a voice in his head. The voice introduces himself as Alan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CAMDoig, Ivan.
Summary: Ivan Doig crafts an epic tale of 11 college football teammates confronting World War II. Eager to serve, TSU's champion athletes are stationed across the globe in various theaters. But one of them, Ben Reinking, is recruited by the propaganda machine to follow his former teammates and write their heroic stories for small-town newspapers across America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: "The heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the transformative friendship binding a fallen-from-grace NFL player and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who meet on the streets of New Orleans, offering a rare glimpse into the precarious world of homelessness and the lingering impact of systemic racism and poverty on the lives of NOLA's citizens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, JACKIE JACWoods, Sherryl
Summary: When she meets charismatic playboy Mack Carlton who regularly visits her young patient, Dr. Beth Browning falls in love with this man, despite her own wariness to embark on a new relationship due to past betrayals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Woods 2016Freedman, Mike
Summary: A cutthroat power war at a prestigious Houston consulting firm is spearheaded by an old-money jock who uses downsizing to control his clients and a dishonorable veteran who exploits the respect of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FRELiasson, Miranda
Summary: "Hadley Wells swapped her dreams of saving the planet for the glamour of Hollywood. But when a very public breakup reveals cracks in her not-so-perfect life, she returns to her hometown to reassess what it is she truly wants. Unfortunately, Seashell Harbor has some trouble of its own--including the first man to ever break her heart. A serious injury forced footballer Tony Cammareri into early...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Discovered by the former quarterback she was hired to tail, detective Piper Dove pretends to be the athlete's stalker and is subsequently hired as his bodyguard, an arrangement threatened by their growing chemistry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Phillips 2016Brown, Sandra
Summary: Rather than let the man who beat a woman into a coma walk free, State Prosecutor Kate Lennon knows she can charge him with murder, if she can convince the victim's ex husband to pull the plug.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BROSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000