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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
Author
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Princess Violetta, raised by her widowed father, the king, to ride and joust just like her brothers, is horrified when he announces plans to hold a tournament, the winner of which will win her hand in marriage.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Beginning his career on a lark as a freelance contributor to SCRABBLE news, John D. Williams fell down a rabbit hole inhabited by games, geeks. and the grammar police. For twenty five years, as the executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association, Williams served as the official spokesperson for the game, and as the middleman between legions of fanatical word game fans and the official brand. Now Word Nerd takes readers inside the byzantine,...
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Series
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...
Author
Series
Beartown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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 alive...
7) Uncle Drew
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival. Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend Uncle Drew and convinces him to return to the court one more time.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
With biographies and statistics, this book offers a fan's eye view of the competitive world of international figure skating at its highest levels. The book is published to coincide with the post-Christmas build-up to the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An electrifying debut novel about the radical intimacy of physical competition--
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to...
Author
Series
BakeGyamon volume 2
Publisher
Viz Kids
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Always looking for an adventure, Sanshiro is whisked away to a backwards universe to play Bakyamon-- a game pitting monsters against monsters. Clearing each game with just moments to spare, Sanshiro meets other contestants who aren't as happ
Author
Publisher
itbooks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Molly Bloom was a little girl in a small Colorado town, she dreamed of a life without rules and limits, a life where she didn't have to measure up to anyone or anything-where she could become whatever she wanted. She ultimately got more than she could have ever bargained for. In Molly's Game, she takes you through her adventures running an exclusive high-stakes private poker game catering to such clients as Hollywood royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio...
Author
Series
BakeGyamon volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Sanshiro's chances of having an adventure are slim to none in his tiny island hometown, until the day a mysterious stranger invites him to play a game. Without warning, Sanshiro is taken to a backwards universe to play Bakyamon, a game pitt
17) The singles game
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 top juniors in the world. When she leaves UCLA--and breaks...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Take an amazing journey with a young orphan named 'Wart' and the extraordinary wizard Merlin. According to legend, only someone with the purest character and inner strength can pull the enchanted sword from the stone and claim the throne of England. Armed with newfound confidence and the power of friendship, Wart discovers his destiny and learns the best magic is the kind found inside the soul.
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Language
English
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Description
Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when Kit takes her brother's place, clobbers the Green Knight,...
Author
Series
Travis McKinley novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010, c1996
Language
English
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