 | Ruffians
Publication Date: December 1, 1999From the moment he signs his big contract with the NFL, Clay Blackwell's talents plunge him into a realm of ruthlessness, lawlessness and a conspiracy that makes playing for the Ruffians of Birmingham, Alabama, the most dangerous job a man could have. ...
 |  | Hot Ticket (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Series: Berkley Sensation Deirdre Martin’s Same Rink, Next YearOnce a year, concierge Tierney O’Connor hooks up with the same hot goaltender at the hotel where she works. It’s a perfectly uncomplicated arrangement—until a blizzard turns their annual one-nighter into a lost weekend steamy enough to melt the ice. Julia London’s Lucky CharmUninhibited radio host Kelly O’Shay loves to take on the egos of overpaid sports stars. Then she goes after hot-shot shortstop Parker Price, whose losing streak takes an unexpected turn when he go...
|  | The Kid Who Batted 1.000
Release Date: April 30, 2002The Des Moines Majestyks are deep in the cellar...so deep that it seems nothing short of divine intervention could even get them up to the ground floor.They do have one star, Juan-Tanamera "Bueno" Aires, an ex-basketball phenom who performs miracles at the plate and magic in the field. Unfortunately, team owner Holden Canfield, who’s struck it rich with an Internet start-up, spent the entire team budget on acquiring "Bueno," leaving the rest of the roster painfully devoid of talent.Manager Zuke Johansen has just about given up hope when an unexpected thing ...
|  | Sweet Turnaround J
Publication Date: June 8, 2009"It was going to be the best year of my life. This year we'd go to State and win it all. That's all I thought about. In March, I was going to be cutting down the net and holding a trophy in the air."Sixteen-year-old All-State, Janey Holmes is devastated, her dream shattered. Her old school suddenly closes over the summer and she finds herself at a new school, on a basketball team that hasn't won a game in over three years.As the Riverside Ravens climb from a hopeless start to challenge the best teams in the District, Janey learns what happens when her passion fo...
|  | The Greatest Course That Never Was: The Secret of Augusta National's Lost Course
Publication Date: May 1, 2001When a young lawyer comes across a half-baked caddie with an incredible story too good to pass up, hell soon find himself travelling across the country in hot pursuit of the truth. This story is bigger than Bobby Jones Impregnable Quadrilateral and Byron Nelsons consecutive victories. The question is, will his career as a lawyer be there for him when he comes back? ...
|  | The Back Nine
Release Date: March 27, 2007Golf: it’s that simple, and that bedeviling, and that’s what it comes down to when Charlie McLeod—having fled unspecified disaster back East—turns up at a golf club near San Francisco and is entranced again by a game that had defined him until, years ago, he had to give it up. Now he begins caddying, a job that respects every privacy and motivation, while wrestling with those things that had exiled him not only from the sport but from life itself.In the profane, reassuring yet competitive world of the caddy shack, lost souls jostle for posi...
|  | The Marine (Wwe)
Release Date: July 25, 2006| Series: Wwe Following a rescue mission in Afghanistan, discharged marine John Triton returns home to South Carolina and into the loving arms of his wife, Kate. Though happy to be home, Triton soon discovers that adjusting to a 'normal life' doesn't come easy for him. In fact, suppressing his intense training and strong survival instincts may be the greatest challenge he has ever faced. That is, until a camping trip to the mountains results in an unfortunate encounter with five ruthless killers on the run, and Kate becomes their unwilling hostage. Left for dead, T...
|  | A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories
Publication Date: January 1999There are 23 stories and three poems in this volume, all on the subject of football. Contributors include Irvine Welsh, Iain Sinclair, Glyn Maxwell, Geoff Nicholson, Kim Newman, Liz Jensen and John Hegley. ...
|  | Toss: A Novel
Release Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 1 and up "The most brutal study of football since North Dallas Forty."--Kirkus ReviewsNot since North Dallas Forty has there been such a vivid, startling, and truthful look into the world of pro football.Written by future Hall of Fame quarterback Boomer Esiason and bestselling author Lowell Cauffiel, Toss is a brutally honest, profanely funny, and often shocking novel of the players, coaches, groupies, gamblers, con artists, drug addicts, and hangers-on that make up the high-stakes world of pro football."Gripping." --Library Journal"Provides a detail...
|  | Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology
Release Date: September 12, 2006From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man wh...
|  | Blood Bowl: Dead Ball
Publication Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Blood Bowl You can't keep a good player down. ...
|  | Once Upon a Fastball
Release Date: April 29, 2008Your legacy is in the Attic. The words leap from the cryptic poem left for Harvard professor Seth Stein by his Papa Sol, the doting grandfather who vanished without a trace four years earlier. It was Papa Sol who instilled an unquenchable passion for baseball in Seth's soul; it was Sol who also ignited Seth's obsession with history, spinning fabulous tales of times and people long gone. And when Papa Sol disappeared, it was Seth who stepped up to the plate, caring for Sol's bewildered wife as she clung to her cherished memories. Seth is still searching for answers...
|  | Back Porch Swing
Publication Date: December 1, 2005Lance Stoler has some tough decisions to make. He's a highly recruited high school senior from a small town in eastern Kentucky. But playing basket ball isn?t the only thing on Lance's mind. There's the girl he meets on a recruiting trip to Kansas?the basketball buddy who may have stepped over the line with recruiting rules, the coach who has questionable reputation and the pressure from family to sign with his parent's alma Mater. Family traditions and relationships are at stake. If you?ve ever found yourself caught between a rock and a hard place, if you e...
|  | Stranded
Publication Date: April 14, 2009Rachel Michaels is at the top of her profession, but she's grown tired of trading barbs with her co-host/ex-husband on their popular morning radio talk show. Eager to stretch her wings, she takes a second job as the color commentator for Denver's new professional women's soccer team. Along with her new job comes an exciting assignment, travel to Venezuela to profile the team's sizzling star recruit, Miranda Gutierrez. But Rachel begins to long for a little of her old routine when her boss forces her to extend her stay to accompany team big-wig, Nora Butler, an...
|  | I'll Tell You One Thing: The Untold Truth About Texas, America & College Football, With Pictures to Prove It
...
|  | Racing Can Be Murder: Speed City Indiana Chapter of Sisters in Crime
Publication Date: October 1, 2007Racing Can Be Murder is a collection of nineteen stories written by some of today's best mystery writers. It revolves around the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race and the festivities that take place in Indianapolis each merry month of May. ...
|  | The Dick Francis Complete Treasury of Great Racing Stories
Publication Date: March 2004From his extensive experience as a Steeplechase rider, he and John Welcome—a fellow best-selling writer—have gathered 28 of the most classic horse racing stories around. The authors range from Arthur Conan Doyle and Beryl Markham to John Taintor Foote and Francis himself. Damon Runyon’s “Pick the Winner” introduces us to the unforgettable, ironically named Hot Horse Herbie and his ever-loving fiancée, Miss Cutie Singleton. In her “Pullinstown,” Molly Keane brilliantly evokes racing among the Anglo-Irish gentry....
|  | Scooter
Release Date: August 23, 2005A powerfully moving new novel from Mick Foley, filled with the same heart and imagination that made Tietam Brown so distinctive (“It makes you laugh so hard sometimes it makes you cry” —Chicago Tribune).The time is 1969. Scooter Riley is a regular kid growing up in the Bronx, on Shakespeare Avenue, just north of Yankee Stadium.His father, Patrick Riley, is a New York City cop; his beat is Harlem, streets that are getting rougher by the day in the wake of the assassinations of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy.Riley’s Spartan code of ethics and un...
|  | Gimme an O
Release Date: January 30, 2007When L.A. sex therapist Dr. Lecia Calhoun writes a self-help book called "The Big O", there's no doubt what she's talking about! But even though she's now a nationally known sex expert, "Dr. Love" has to admit to herself that it's been a long time...Star quarterback Anthony "T" Beals clearly knows what O stands for! After all, he got caught with a working girl - on film! When he appears on a late-night talk show with Lecia, who tells him he's got issues and his wife should dump him, T really lets loose on the air - then comes up with a hare-brained plan to solve...
|  | Baseball Anthology
...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
請先 登入 以發表留言。