Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor...
Sports fiction
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Author:Catozzella, GiuseppeSummary: - Author:Miles, KeithSummary:
Alan Saxon, pro golfer and amateur sleuth, has hit rock bottom. After a disastrous season on the golf circuit, he is hounded by his bank, harassed by his ex-wife and on the verge of losing his current girlfriend. So, when his friend and...
- Author:Connor, DavidSummary:
Gymnast Ben Thornton is beginning to accept his sexuality, but in the charged atmosphere of the London Olympics, sex is easier to find than the love he seeks. Ben is so desperate to recapture something he felt long ago that he’s too...
- Author:Kelly, Adrian MichaelSummary:
Nominated for an Alberta Book Award. Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop. Not that skinny. Skin and bloody bone, boy. Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident. And away Dad goes out the door and thump...
- Author:Rivers, Jacob F.Summary:
Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen brings to new readers a wealth of hunting and fishing lore heretofore hard to find by any but scholars in the field of Southern literature. Rivers has gathered a host of well-read and well-heeled...
- Author:Ulrich, MaureenSummary:
Face Off begins where Power Plays ends, the girls have shifted from hockey to ball with an exciting summer looming before them. Things are perfect for Jessie: high school, hockey and Mark. Jessie thinks she has things under...
- Author:Hoblin, PaulSummary:
Things were looking good for Jeff. He was ready to rule the school his senior year as the starting running back on the football team. That is, until Scooter came to town. From the moment the tiny kid stepped onto the field, Jeff's...
- Author:Bailey, TessaSummary:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan... Wells Whitaker was once golf's hottest rising star,...
- Author:Bailey, TessaSummary:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan... Wells Whitaker was once golf's hottest rising star,...
- Author:Hooper, EliseSummary:
Acclaimed author Elise Hooper explores the gripping, real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Perfect for...
- Author:Zweig, EricSummary:
Eric Zweig is a managing editor with Dan Diamond & Associates, consulting publishers to the National Hockey League. He has written about sports and sports history for many major publications, including the Toronto Star and the Globe...
- Author:Green, TimSummary:
After Benjamin Reed's dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis--connected to all his years in football--Ben's mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit. Ben isn't playing just for himself. This might be...
- Author:Brunner, LeahSummary:
After getting my heart broken, I've sworn off athletes forever. Then my best friend has to go and marry an NHL player, and his teammate, Colby Knight, won't leave me alone. Colby is a master at scoring (on and off the ice),...
- Author:Rock, NoraSummary:
After a member of her competitive cheerleading team is injured in practice, sixteen-year-old Marnie is asked to be a flyer-the most coveted role in cheerleading. The Soar Starlings team has a real shot at the provincial championship,...
- Author:McCann, JamesSummary:
After losing yet another tae kwon do tournament, Jinho gives in to his anger and breaks his opponent's fingers. While this gets him barred from competing at his dojang, it also gets him scouted by Austin, a trainer for an underground...
- Author:Francis, FelixSummary:
In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call...
- Author:Méndez, Yamile SaiedSummary:
In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan leads a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in the shadow of her soccer-star brother, and under the abusive rule of her short-...
- Author:Monninger, JosephSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway is happy to work in his uncle's auto repair shop and cruise through school without much effort. He's a quarterback on his high school's undefeated football team, but he never plays. Why...
- Author:Howling, EricSummary:
In this high-interest sports novel, Jamal and his teammates take a stand against their new coach when his bullying and discrimination go too far.
- Author:Myers, B. R.Summary:
When seventeen-year-old track and field star Jesse Collins's dreams of a full scholarship are shattered after the sudden death of her dad, she leaves home to work as a summer camp counsellor to escape the nosy stares in small town-- and...
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