Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
Publisher
Pioneer
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
The National Beyblade Championship match is underway, with underdog Tyson facing off against reigning champion, Kai. Does Tyson have what it takes to be the new champ? After the competition, Kai, Tyson, Ray, Max and Kenny form a new team, the Bladebreakers. They are invited to China to compete in the Asian Beyblade Tournament, where they encounter the cutthroat White Tiger team. The Whit Tigers have a personal vendetta against Ray, who used to be...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious boy named Daichi will stop at nothing until he defeats Tyson and becomes the National Beyblading champion. But when he and Tyson battle, their Beyblades release ancient forces that become the evil Shadow-Bladers who vow to destroy mankind."
Publisher
Geneon/Pioneer
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"As Kai explores the mysterious Russian abbey, he realizes he was trained there as a child. Boris, the leader of the abbey's secret Beyblade facility, entices Kai to return and join the Demolition Boys, the abbey's specially trained uber-team. Kai is tempted by the taste of supreme power and the ultimate prize of the Black Dranzer, the most powerful Beyblade ever built. Turning traitor, Kai becomes a pawn in Boris's plot to brainwash Beybladers and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the highly acclaimed bestseller A Good Walk Spoiled, John Feinstein captures the world of professional golf as it has never been captured before. Traveling with the golfers on the PGA Tour, Feinstein gets inside the heads of the game's greatest players as well as its struggling wannabes. Meet superstars like Nick Price, who nailed a fifty-foot putt at the seventeenth to win the British Open, and Paul Azinger, who marked his return from a bout with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...
8) The partisan
Author
Language
English
Description
"Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they're about to compete in the deadliest game ever played. Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless Lithuanian resistance fighter who is hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world. Men who are also on the radar of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of the most revered events in American sports. Readers will also find dramatic stories from the officials and referees to the scouts and ticket-scalpers.
10) Drop Shot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the second Myron Bolitar novel from Edgar Award–winner Harlan Coben, a young woman’s tragic death spirals into a shattering drama of menace, secrets, and rage. Suddenly Myron is in over his head—and playing the most dangerous game of all.
“Engaging . . . hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Once, Valerie Simpson’s tennis career skyrocketed;...
“Engaging . . . hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Once, Valerie Simpson’s tennis career skyrocketed;...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
14) Blazewrath games
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in an alternate contemporary world, this debut fantasy novel features dragons and their riders as they compete in an international sports tournament.
18) LIV and let die
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling author of Phil-and one of the most trusted correspondents on the front lines of golf-delivers a no-holds-barred account of LIV Golf's bid to usurp the PGA Tour -one of the most chaotic moments in golf history.
Over the past two years, professional golf has been at war, and Alan Shipnuck has been our most trusted correspondent on the front lines. Following closely on the heels of his bestselling sensation Phil, Shipnuck...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after their final clash at the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, Johnny Lawrence is at his lowest point as a jobless handyman haunted by his wasted life. When he rescues a bullied kid from bullies, he is inspired to resurrect the notorious Cobra Kai dojo. It also resurrects his old rivalry with Daniel LaRousso. Daniel is a successful businessman who may be happily married but is missing an essential balance in life since the death of...