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Beartown volume 1
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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 by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...
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It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the final stop on the down escalator for fading stars. The annual PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament is one of the most grueling competitions in any sport. Every fall, veterans and talented hopefuls sweat through six rounds of hell at Q school, as the tournament is universally known, to get a shot at the PGA Tour, vying for...
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Golf series (Dan Jenkins) volume 2
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Dan Jenkins, sports novelist and writer for Golf Digest, continues the story of Bobby Joe Grooves in Slim and None. The aging pro-golfer is now 44, and he just has to win a major this time around. Since the days when golfing was done with a shepherd's crook, only seven men have won a major after the age of 44. Bobby Joe figures his chances are slim and none.
5) Killer poker
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The loner volume 9
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"Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own - to take this city slicker into the wilderness, and hunt him like an animal."--Back cover.
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Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 7
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"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 teach her the game, sparks begin to fly as they play their hands. But Kieron refuses to stand in the way of her dream, even if it means losing her forever...After a year of traveling, Ronny Logan is settling into...
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Little Jake adventure volume 3
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Little Sportsman, Inc
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1st ed.
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English
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Little Jake signs up for his first fishing tournament and catches a world-record big bass. But becoming a little local celebrity (which he is not fond of) interferes with his peaceful fishing.
8) Beartown
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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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 by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...
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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...
11) NBA Finals
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AV2 by Weigl
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The National Basketball League (NBA) is the world's premier professional basketball league for men. Each year, the best basketball teams in the league compete in a tournament to determine the NBA champion.
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In this prequel to the Ranger's Apprentice series, Halt and Crowley travel north seeking Prince Duncan's royal warrant to stop Morgrath from corrupting the Corps, but if they are to prevent a coup that is nearing success, the young Rangers will have to tread a dangerous path toward the annual tournament at Gorlan.
13) Puck panic
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Twelve-year-old Calvin is the small but speedy left wing for his hockey team, but when he takes a really hard bodycheck during first game of a tournament he starts to freeze up on the ice and worry he will be benched.
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Playing golf on Christmas Day, Travis McKinley, 50, has a Zen-like vision and suddenly he is playing like a pro, which is a godsend because he has just been fired from his job, writing jingles for McDonald's and needs money. His golfing career zooms, but his marriage hits the skids. Still, it all turns out well in the end.
15) The tournament
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When the feared sultan of the mid-16th-century Ottoman Empire issues a chess tournament challenge to European royals, a young Elizabeth I accompanies England's champion, only to witness a brutal murder amid dangerous court machinations.
16) Slugfest
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"Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School--so good, in fact, that he's already playing on the high school's JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eight-grade PE. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education Equivalency--PEE, also known as 'Slugfest;"--in summer school. Yash gets to know his fellow 'slugs': Kaden, an academic superstar who's physically...
17) Run, Mo, run!
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Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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English
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"Mo Jackson and his friends are competing in a track meet! Can Mo fun fast enough to win the race?"--Page [4] of cover.
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WWE Home Video
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English
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Whoever outlasts 39 other competitors earns himself a championship match at WrestleMania. The superstars of Raw and Smackdown, including past winners Randy Orton, John Cena, Edge, and Rey Mysterio, and superstars looking to add this impressive goal to their resume will do anything to overpower and outlast the competition as the Road to WrestleMania begins at the Royal Rumble.
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WWE Home Video
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English
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The biggest event of the year comes to Atlanta when WrestleMania XXVII hits the Georgia Dome! Every member of the WWE Universe has eagerly anticipated WrestleMania and the biggest Superstars of WWE up their game when they perform on sports entertainment's grandest stage. It's been a pop culture phenomenon for more than a quarter century. It is WrestleMania.
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WWE Home Video
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Collector's edition.
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English
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"It's the most impressive Wrestlemania line-up in history, boasting four main events! Shawn Michaels puts his legendary career on the line for one more chance to end Undertaker's undefeated Wrestlemania streak. John Cena aims for revenge and the WWE Championship when he faces Batista. Can World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho avoid Edge's devastating Spear? And the bad blood and pent up rage that has built up for more than a decade will finally...
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