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1) Beartown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Winning a junior ice hockey championship means everything to the residents of Beartown, a struggling community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and an steadily encroaching wilderness. Victory could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. Victory would mean everything to outcast Amat, to golden boy and star player Kevin, and to dedicated general manager Peter, whose...
4) Drop shot
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar novel volume 2
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once, Valerie Simpson's tennis career skyrocketed; now, the headlines belong to a player from the wrong side of the tracks. But when Valerie is shot dead in cold blood and dropped outside the stadium at the U.S. Open, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates the killing and uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive mainline club. As Myron is drawn into the case--along with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous...
5) Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful characters for which the Scrabble game is life-playing competitively in tournaments across the country. It is also the story of how the Scrabble game was invented by an unemployed architect during the Great...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dusti Delaney enlists Kieran O'Toole to teach her poker so she can win enough to pay for her sister Abby to finish school, and widow Ronny Logan tries to resist her attraction to her new neighbor, Austin Hawke.
Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney have spent their entire lives on Rainbow Lane, but they dream of something bigger. So when a poker tournament comes to town, Dusti is determined to win enough money to leave. Enlisting expert Kieron O'Toole to...
Author
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Goldhil Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The world's best players match wits and skill in the most exciting poker tournament ever. Stakes are high and the gambling is intense in this fast-paced series. Join the action as legendary players battle rising superstars in a no limit Texas Hold'em championship.
14) 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.
Series
Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence volume Lecture 1
Publisher
Morgan & Claypool
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Discusses aspects of organized hockey, including its history, youth leagues, minor leagues, college hockey, women's leagues, the National Hockey League, the Olympics, and how to join a hockey league.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"This reference work is a complete source for the results of each of golf's major tournaments (the Master's Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open Championship, and PGA Championship). Appendices list all players with possible name variations or for whom there is conflicting data"--Provided by publisher.
