Pacat, C. S.
Summary: "Scrappy fencer Nicholas Cox comes to the end of his path to prove himself worthy of a father he never knew in the face of surly upperclassmen, nearly impossible odds, and the talent of his rival, sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama. Sparks fly white-hot on the pitch as Nicholas and Seiji finally face off once again in the halls of King's Row. It's a match that will change King's Row (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC PACMidori, Wataru
Summary: "The race in Shibuya has given Kikuzato a taste of what running and competing on a blade could be, but it will take more than a new leg for him to truly be a contender the next time he races. Kikuzato needs to learn how to run, and Usami is only too happy to give him some pointers after school at track and field club. Kikuzato thought his days of training with a team were behind him, but with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 RUNBausch, Robert
Summary: "When Skip Granger, the assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, first sees Jesse Smoke, she is on the beach in Belize. And she has just thrown a regulation football a mile. Granger knows that Smoke's talent is unprecedented for a woman, and nearly unparalleled among men. As Granger observes her throughout a season as quarterback for the Washington Divas of the Independent Women's Football...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUMacColl, Mary-Rose
Summary: From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel of a young woman swimmer in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she's done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACDahl, Michael.
Summary: In rhyming text a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAHPatterson, James
Summary: Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019Pacat, C. S.
Summary: "Just as Nicholas, Seiji and the fencing team at the prodigious Kings Row private school seem to be coming together, a deadly rival from their past stands in their way once more. MacRobertson is the school that knocked Kings Row out of the State Championships last year - but unless Nicholas and Seiji can learn to work together as a team, their school is doomed once again! And maybe those two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC PACMidori, Wataru
Summary: "Kikuzato finally meets Doujima, the first para-athlete--and adult--he's ever looked up to. But it turns out Doujima shares a complicated history with Kikuzato's prosthetist, Chidori. Meanwhile, Kikuzato's middle school friend Takegawa reminisces over the past after he's told to quit the soccer club, and the track-and-field club's competitions are brought to a halt by the COVID-19...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RUNMcInerny, Ralph M.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a Notre Dame athletic department faculty member, professor Roger Knight and his P.I. brother Phil, meet a host of suspects at the victim's wake, including two women who both claim they were secretly engaged to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MCIBrunt, Douglas
Summary: Tennis prodigy Anton Stratis struggles with stardom and family as he seeks to find balance and wholeness in a life dominated by his athletic talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUGibson, Rachel.
Summary: After her very wealthy--and very old--husband dies, Faith Duffy inherits a pile of money and a pro hockey team. Sexy player Ty Savage dreams of winning the Stanley Cup. Faith loathes Ty at first, but soon she begins to see there's more to him than sex appeal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIBThaler, Mike
Summary: Field day is one week away, and everyone has to go. But you'd rather go home! Crazy coach Kong is making up all the events! You might leap over lions, hop over hippos, skip through snakes, and tiptoe around tigers! Will it be a field day of dreams or a field day of screams?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE THAMacGregor, Roy
Summary: When young hockey enthusiast Gabriella gets a nine on her jersey instead of her favorite player's number, she loses her enthusiasm for the game until she learns the stories of great players who have worn the number.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: "The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always been a good girl. She excelled at tennis early, coached by her father, a former player himself, and soon became one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: "The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always been a good girl. She excelled at tennis early, coached by her father, a former player himself, and soon became one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Weisberger 2016Parker, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSyken, Bill.
Summary: "After losing his starting position as a college quarterback to a shoulder injury, Nick Gallow has remade himself as a punter. Now in his fifth year in the pros with the Philadelphia Sentinels, Nick spends most of his time on the sidelines. He no longer makes winning plays, and when the team visits a hospital, the sick kids would rather talk to the players they've actually heard of. But Nick is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKKitamura, Katie M.
Summary: Cal, the only mixed martial arts fighter to take legendary fighter Rivera the distance, and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with Rivera, four years later. In the three fraught days leading up to this momentous match, each privately begins to doubt that Cal can win. The men strive to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITGrisham, John.
Summary: The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIRippin, Sally.
Summary: Come along with Billie as she sets out to prove that girls can play soccer too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE RIPSummary: Will there be sports in man's future? Science fiction says, "Well, yes and no." Yes, there will be sports - of a sort. No, they won't necessarily be the same sportrs we know today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: "Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGHinodeya, Sankichi
Summary: "You won't believe who has joined Team Blue to fill in for a missing teammate so they can compete in the Square King Ranked Battle Cup! Get ready for a whole new arc featuring some mixed-up new teams! Plus, a bonus story featuring Emperor!"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HINHinodeya, Sankichi
Summary: "Team Blue engages in their most complicated Turf War yet as they combat the Shadows, whose personalities are exact mirror reflections of Team Blue's own! The result of the challenge will determine the fate of Inkopolis Square!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022