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2) Hotshot
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Inheriting a luxurious oceanfront resort under a condition that she must run it profitably for one year to claim full ownership, food critic Peyton Lockhart is targeted by dangerous rivals and is protected from a threat against her life by childhood friend and attractive FBI agent Finn MacBain.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. It's why, when Sera's best friend reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority whoselects the Olympic Team, Sera denies what she knows about his treatments, thus preserving favor. Their friendship shatters. But Sera protected her dream--didn't she? Soon she isn't training for the...
4) Sooley
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
5) Kneel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small Louisiana town. As the team's varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. When his best friend...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Izzy Barr is the star athlete of the third grade: she hits home runs on her softball team and is one of the fastest runners in her class. But at home, her half-brother, Dustin, seems to be her father's favorite athlete--why else would her dad go to all of his games and miss some of hers? Izzy pretends that she doesn't care, but as the citywide 10K run approaches, she wants nothing more than for her dad to join the rest of her family and her best...
7) Jim & Me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
He was the world's greatest athlete, and a hero-until his medals were taken away. Stosh is shocked when his enemy, Bobby Fuller, begs him for a favor. He wants Stosh to take him back in time to meet Native American Jim Thorpe-an Olympic champion who lost his medals in a scandal. Thorpe went on to play professional baseball and football, but he could never again achieve such fame. His name was disgraced. Join Stosh and Fuller on a quest to save Jim's...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Making rules is easy Following them is hard Temptation by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson Millionaire security expert and rancher Zeke Travers always separates emotion from work until a case leads him to Sheila Hopkins--and the immediate, scorching heat between them. Suddenly, Zeke is tempted to break the rules. And it's only a matter of time before he gives in… FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Playing with Seduction by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
If NFL player Brody Shaw wants to retire from his hometown team, the Dallas Bulldogs, he needs to keep his head down and his nose clean. When the stray dog he rescued bites the pet sitter, it sets off an avalanche of bad publicity, and it's time to bring in a professional. Dog-trainer Lily Costello has no intention of training Brody's dog, CC--football players are bad news, and Brody Shaw is a player if she's ever met one. Then she sees the brand...
10) Feels So Right
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Therapy Notes: Patient is in pain, uncommunicative. Must work on acceptance of injury, as well as standard treatment for L4-L5 disc rupture. Seriously sexy guy. Must think unsexy thoughts ... Former triathlete Colin Russo is a physical therapist's nightmare. Sidelined -- possibly for good -- with an injury, he's angry, impatient and a serious pain in Demi Anderson's side. The worst part? The man is hotter than a heat wave in July, and it's all Demi...
11) Lady Be Good
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"[A] sexy and whimsical modern fairy tale." -- Greensboro News & Record "The always-funny Susan Elizabeth Phillips ... has the heat turned up all the way for this one." -- Detroit Free Press The only four-time recipient of the Romance Writer's of America's prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award, the incomparable Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of America's most beloved authors -- and Lady Be Good is one of the perennial New York Times bestseller's...
12) The blind side
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the life of All-American football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother, adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and a first-round NFL draft pick.
13) My Forever Home
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Love comes to the rescue Vet school drop-out Tess Grasso dreams of having her own pet therapy business, but she meets one disastrous obstacle after another. There's no denying she has a way with animals, so in the meantime she puts her skills to use at a local no-kill shelter. Between helping her furry companions and a budding relationship with fellow dog lover Mason Redding, Tess begins to find fresh confidence ... What Tess doesn't know is that...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
He's the hottest MMA fighter in the game, but one woman is ready to try out a few steamy moves of her own in an unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster With the life he's led and the muscles he's gained, Armie Jacobson isn't afraid of anything. Except maybe Merissa Colter's effect on him. It's not just that she's his best friend's little sister. Fact is, she deserves better. Women pursue him for one night of pleasure,...
15) Wildest Dreams
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River series, Robyn Carr, rediscover the charming coastal town of Thunder Point, where hard work and determination are all it takes to make dreams come true Blake Smiley searched the country for just the right place to call home. The professional triathlete has traveled the world, but Thunder Point has what he needs to put down the roots he's never had. In the quiet town, he can focus on...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two friends return home from the Korean War to find their world -- and themselves -- irrevocably altered in this novel hailed by Kurt Vonnegut as "gruesomely accurate and enchanting" and "wildly sexy" Willard "Sonny" Burns and Tom "Gunner" Casselman, Korean War vets and former classmates, reunite on the train ride home to Indianapolis. Despite their shared history, the two young men could not be more different: Sonny had been an introverted, bookish...
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