Shriver, Lionel
Summary: Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRHooper, Elise
Summary: This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOOLowe, Chaunte
Summary: " World champion high jumper Chaunte Lowe pens the captivating story of her journey from an impoverished childhood full of big dreams and devastating hurdles, to becoming a bronze medal-winning US Olympian. Everything seemed set against Chaunte Lowe. Growing up with a single mother in Paso Robles, California, where she experienced food insecurity, homelessness, and domestic abuse, Chaunte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LOWSnyder, Carrie
Summary: "As a young runner, Aganetha Smart defied everyone's expectations to win a gold medal for Canada in the 1928 Olympics. It was a revolutionary victory, because this was the first Games in which women could compete in track events--and they did so despite opposition. But now Aganetha Smart is in a nursing home, and nobody realizes that the frail centenarian was once a bold pioneer"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNYAlcott, Kathleen.
Summary: Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTKotler, Steven
Summary: Cutting-edge discoveries in embodied cognition, flow science, and network neuroscience have revolutionized how we think about peak performance aging. On paper, these discoveries should allow older athletes to progress in supposedly "impossible" activities. To see if theory worked in practice, Kotler conducted his own ass-on-the-line experiment in applied neuroscience and later-in-life skill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 KOTSummary: "Age of Champions is the award-winning documentary about five athletes [Doug Adams, George Riser, Jarol and Leah Duerksen, Charles Wilson, George Gentilhomme, and The Water Wizards] who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You'll meet a 100-year-old tennis champion, 86-year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers as they triumph over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AGEMidori, Wataru
Summary: "As schools reopen and clubs reconvene after COVID-19 closures, Kikuzato is eager to try out his new leg. But even with the improved fit, his worry about falling like he did in his first public race plagues his training for the next. Running is as much a mental game as it is a physical one, and between his fear and his fight with Take, Kikuzato isn't seeing the improvement he hoped his new leg...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RUNAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Countering growing mistrust in the wake of increasing cases of insanity among the Jedi, Han and Leia flee with three afflicted Jedi, while Luke travels to the homeworld of the Night Sister to learn why Jacen Solo turned to the dark side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLColfer, Chris
Summary: "A combination travel guide, encyclopedia, and exciting fan compendium, this ultimate guidebook includes sections such as "Who's Who," "Places to Go," and "Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Things" that explore the backgrounds and histories of the many characters, places, and magic items throughout the beloved Land of Stories series. This book also includes bonus chapters, insider information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION COLKügler, Tina
Summary: Fox siblings Fritz and Franny, and their patient dog Fred, are at the amusement park squabbling about which ride is fastest and loudest--but when they are confronted by the biggest, tallest, and loudest roller coaster they decide that maybe Fred would prefer something not quite so scary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.092 BRUDeveraux, Jude
Summary: "When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. As Etta and Henry settle into a companionable living arrangement, Etta indulges in Henry's library. The historical accounts of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEVSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: As Alexa Zimmerman tries to win over the members of her Kanasas Old Order Mennonite community, a Chicago reporter with unknown motivation becomes a long-term guest at her bed and breakfast and a cousin arrives with a secret related to Alexa's own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWOndaatje, Michael
Summary: Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber, cornet player, and full-time editor of a gossip sheet, disappears for two years, and when he returns, he goes berserk and spends his final years in the East Louisiana state hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONDHogan, Ray
Summary: "Katie Elder had a reputation that stretched from Wichita to California. She was the Queen of the Bargirls--but no man could claim her until Doc Holliday came around. Holliday was a legend all his own--gambler, killer, sometimes doctor, and the outlaw partner of Wyatt Earp. Doc said he'd never met a woman he'd kill for--but that was before he met Big Nose Kate. From Dodge City to Tombstone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOGLawrence, David
Summary: "Lucy Andia is an award-winning volleyball player. She tries out for the Peabody team sure she'll be the star. But when other girls have greater talent, Lucy has to change positions. Can Lucy embrace her new role on the team?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Panet, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAWDyer, Geoff
Summary: "A reflection on the late works and last days of artists, writers, musicians, and athletes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.92 DYESummary: Set in the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLEJamieson, Victoria
Summary: Pursued by Mr. Hamstring, a reporter who is sure he will fail, Boomer becomes the first pig ever to compete in the Animal Olympics and demonstrates that attitude can be more important than winning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2012
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Brege, K. B.
Summary: When the Ghost Board Posse arrives in Pal's hometown of Kauai, Ghost Talker leads them on a terrifying journey with zombie-like ghosts and ancient sacrificial temples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Team B Creative 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BREMeza, Erika
Summary: "A girl reframes the dangerous border crossing between Mexico and the United States as a game to help her brother through the journey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEZSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002