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41) Dogwood Hill
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Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 12
Description
When former pro football quarterback Aidan Mitchell comes to Chesapeake Shore to coach the high school team, Liz March, who has sworn off men, finds herself falling for him until a devastating secret from his past threatens to destroy everything.
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You can't separate football from the man. The game gave him everything and "Bullet Bill" Dudley said as much. But you can separate the man from football. As a husband, father, businessman and citizen, he put far more into this world than he took out. Three years before Bill died, he asked his son-in-law Steve Stinson to write his story.
William McGarvey "Bullet Bill" Dudley (December 24, 1921 — February 4, 2010) led a thrilling career as a professional...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xix, 295 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
There is no question that football is indeed America's most popular sport, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame's 50th Anniversary book totally captures our passion for the game. Having opened its doors in Canton, Ohio on September 7, 1963, the Hall will be celebrating its 50th anniversary year from 2012 to 2013, commencing with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, a ten-day period in early August which culminates in the annual Hall of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls has got it made - a full football ride to U Miami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. She says: Football, shmootball. Here's what Claudia Clarke cares about: Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism the list goes on. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. T-Diddy Smalls and his harem of bimbos. He Said,...
47) Peyton Manning
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This title introduces readers to Peyton Manning, the National Football League's Super Bowl-winning quarterback. Manning's life story is examined from his childhood in Louisiana where he was Gatorade Circle of Champions National Player-of-the-Year, to his years at the University of Tennessee, where he was first team All-American and Heisman Trophy runner-up on the way to being drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 1998 NFL Draft. Manning's years...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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The defensive lineman for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights, who was paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a severe spinal injury during a game, shares the transformative journey he calls "the best year of his life" during which he, guided by faith and optimism, triumphed over pain and adversity.
49) Bleachers
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
A former All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees, Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Coach Eddie Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, Neely struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
Introduces twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber, who worked hard to overcome obstacles and became National Football League stars, one as runningback for the New York Giants, the other as cornerback for the Tampa Bay Bucs.
51) Snapped
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Series
Playbook (Alexa Martin) volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 340 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Elliot Reed is living her best life. Well, that might be an exaggeration, but she's trying really hard. With her dad's passing, this year has not been the easiest. But now that she's landed her dream job as the Strategic Communications Manager for the Denver Mustangs, things are starting to look up. Or at least they were until Quinton Howard Jr. decides to use the field as his stage when he becomes the first player to take a knee during the national...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 659 pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation,...
53) Bold love
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Series
Forever Adirondacks volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"Denny Torres needs a break. After a series of embarrassments on and off the field, the Adirondacks provide the perfect hideout for his new, quiet, post-football life...Bee does not have time for a hunky former athlete...Bee's just going to ignore the fact that when Denny offers her the chance to channel her creative energy into redesigning his house, she finds herself building the home--and the life--of her dreams"--
54) Concussion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – and beloved – institutions in the world.
55) Tim Tebow
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
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"Bestselling author Amy Clipston returns with a small-town romance full of charm, treasure, and happily ever after"--
In the decade since high school graduation, Christine Sawyer has realized her dream of opening Treasure Hunting Antique Mall. She's happy with her life-- if a bit lonely. She was always less lucky in love than her fraternal twin sister, Britney. Brent Nickelson is trying to come to grips with the shambles his life has become: after...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 43
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Description
"When off-field violence repeatedly lands the NE Patriots' Kinjo Heywood bad press, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client. When Heywood's son is kidnapped, Spenser puts together his own all-star team of toughs. It will take both Hawk and Spenser's protege, Zebulon Sixkill, to watch Spenser's back and find the child"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
132 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches are in agreement on his future. Colin feels differently. Colin isn't excited about baseball. In the words of five-time all-star MLB player Adam Jones, "Baseball is a white man's game." Colin looks up to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In the NFL--America's most popular sports league--quarterbacks are kings. The right QB becomes the face of a franchise and marches his team--and millions of fans--on a glorious winning odyssey that can last for a decade or longer. The wrong QB leads his team to losses, infighting, second-guessing, and fan misery. Quarterbacks are drafted straight out of college with indescribable expectations and tantalizing dreams of stardom resting on their shoulders...
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