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Melting the Ice (A Play-by-Play Novel #7)
Par Jaci Burton. 2014
Romance gets too hot to handle in this Play-by-Play novel from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton.Everything&’s coming together…
for budding fashion designer Carolina Preston. Only months away from having her own line, she could use some publicity. That&’s when her brother suggests his best friend as a model—hockey player Drew Hogan.Carolina and Drew already have a history—a hot one, back in college. Unforgettable for Carolina, but for Drew, just another slap shot. This time, though, it&’s different. His perfect body would be for professional use only. This time, she could use him.Drew is all for it. He&’s looking forward to the exposure. Plus, it would give him a chance to prove to Carolina that he&’s changed. If only he could thaw her emotions, convince her to let down her guard and let him in just one more time...The Runner (The Tillerman Cycle #4)
Par Cynthia Voigt. 2005
You can run from something, or toward something—but can you do both at the same time? Book four in the…
Newbery-winning cycle from Cynthia Voigt.Bullet Tillerman runs. He runs to escape the criticism of his harsh, unforgiving father. He runs to numb the pain of his mother’s inability to express her love. He is the star of the school track team, but he isn’t a team man and doesn’t want to be. Bullet runs for himself.So Bullet doesn’t understand why he’s been asked to train a new team member, and he’s not looking forward to the task. But in coaching Tamer Shipp, Bullet learns some things about himself—who he is, and who he can perhaps become.Even the Score (It Takes Two #5)
Par Belle Payton. 2015
Alex makes an unpopular decision and Ava deals with an unwanted crush in the fifth book of the It Takes…
Two series!Sporty, shy Ava is finally starting to feel like the guys on the Ashland Middle School football team are accepting her as a player, despite the fact that she’s a girl. But then the star wide receiver, Owen, keeps missing his passes, and his teammates are blaming it on a crush—on Ava! When he awkwardly gives Ava a gift that’s way too expensive, she realizes they’re right. Can she find a way to let Owen down easy and still stay on the team’s good side?Meanwhile, class president Alex has to choose how to spend some student council funds. The football team is scheduled to get a new scoreboard, but the drama department desperately needs new sets and costumes. Alex decides it’s fair to give some money to the arts for a change, but the football fans of Ashland don’t necessarily think so…and it may take a natural disaster for Alex to prove she’s not a football-hater!Vision Quest
Par Terry Davis. 1979
From acclaimed author Terry Davis comes the cult classic, Vision Quest, which was called “the truest novel about growing up…
since The Catcher in the Rye” by New York Times bestselling author John Irving.Louden Swain is a high school wrestler who is working hard to cut his weight down. All he wants is to win his weight division in the state championships. But he’s distracted from his goals by the older girl with car trouble that is staying with his family for a while. He is quickly falling in love with her, but can Louden make a relationship work and reach his wrestling goals at the same time?Filled with integrity, honesty, and a sweetness that has made this coming-of-age story a cult classic, Vision Quest is a story that will be shared for generations to come.The Explorer
Par Katherine Rundell. 2017
From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must…
survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes.Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they&’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.The Comeback Season
Par Jennifer E. Smith. 2015
Baseball brings them together—but will his secret keep them apart? Find out in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel from Jennifer E.…
Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn’t thinking about what she should be doing. She’s not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it’s been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she’s finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this—the fifth anniversary of his death—it feels like there’s nowhere else in the world she should be.Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it’s on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: “Wait till next year.” Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?The Flip Side: A Novel
Par Shawn Johnson. 2016
From gold medalist and reality TV star Shawn Johnson comes an “absorbing portrait of a young athlete’s quest to achieve…
her Olympic dreams” (Kirkus Reviews) inspired by her own experiences as an elite teenage gymnast.Charlie Ryland has a secret.She may seem like your average high school sophomore—but she’s just really good at pretending.Because outside of school Charlie spends all her waking hours training to become one of the best gymnasts in the world. And it’s not easy flying under the radar when you’re aiming for Olympic gold…especially when an irresistible guy comes along and threatens to throw your whole world off balance.Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson writes a delightfully entertaining novel about chasing big dreams and falling in love, all while trying to keep it real.No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes.…
He knows Black Gold would be great if he was his rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish. And Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it will be time for the most important race in America. Do they really have what it takes to win?Black Gold’s inspirational story proves that the power of love and dedication can make any dream come true. Set against the thrilling and colorful world of Thoroughbred horses, Black Gold is the true story of a legendary horse and his determined young jockey.In the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where…
the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he&’s survived every time. After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father&’s secrets.Ben might not be able to handle a weapon (or a pair of skis), but he can make friends easy-peasy. That is, until his best friend from home drops in on the trip and jeopardizes the entire mission…Wild Card (Barber Game Time Bks.)
Par Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Paul Mantell. 2009
From NFL superstars Tiki and Ronde Barber, a story of teamwork and determination—in the classroom as well as on the…
field.The eighth-grade season couldn’t be going better for the Barbers’ team, the Hidden Valley Egales. Everything is off to a strong start—until one of the key players on the team is benched for academic probation. Without good grades there is no playing time. No exceptions. Ever. Will the team’s hopes for the season be demolished, or can they find a way to help their teammate get his grades up? Fortunately for the Barber brothers, it turns out that the team that plays together can study together too.Rash
Par Pete Hautman. 2006
Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body…
piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and the United Safer States of America (USSA) has become a nation obsessed with safety. For Bo Marsten, a teenager who grew up in the USSA, it's all good. He knows the harsh laws were created to protect the people. But when Bo's temper flares out of control and he's sentenced to three years of manual labor, he's not so down with the law anymore. Bo's forced to live and work in a factory in the Canadian tundra. The warden running the place is totally out of his mind, and cares little for his inmates' safety. Bo will have to decide what's worse: a society that locks people up for road rage, or a prison where the wrong move could make you polar bear food.The Night Ride
Par J. Anderson Coats. 2021
The Black Stallion meets Tamora Pierce in this adventure-filled middle grade novel about a young stable girl who discovers a…
secret that endangers her beloved horse and threatens her future.Sonnia loves horses more than anything. She works at her family&’s struggling pony ride business but dreams of the beautiful steeds in the royal stables, especially Ricochet, who she&’s been slowly saving money to buy—even though she knows people from her impoverished neighborhood are rarely so lucky.Then Ricochet is moved to the racetrack across town, and Sonnia lands a job there. Now, she can see Ricochet every day and earn enough money to buy him in no time—all while helping her family with her new wages! She even joins the junior racing cadre to train to become a jockey. But then she uncovers their secret pastime: competing in the Night Ride, a dangerous and highly illegal race in the darkest hours before dawn. Every race puts the horses at risk.Sonnia wants to protect the horses she&’s grown to care for, but she&’s only a kid from the poor side of town—considered expendable, just like the horses. If she just keeps her head down, soon she can buy Ricochet and get him out of there—and keep supporting her family. But would she be able to live with herself?The Evil Lives! (Fear Street Cheerleaders)
Par R. L. Stine. 2014
Everyone at Shadyside High remembers when Corky Corcoran destroyed the evil spirit that attacked the cheerleaders. No one expected the…
evil to come back. No one knew that there was only one way to defeat it forever. No one knew that the answer lay hidden in Sarah Fear’s grave.Megan's Island
Par Willo Davis Roberts. 2016
From critically acclaimed author Willo Davis Roberts comes an Edgar Award–winning classic mystery about a twelve-year-old girl on the run…
with her family.Pack up and leave? Tonight? When Megan has just one week of school left before summer vacation? Something doesn’t seem right.Megan is used to moving. After all, she’s moved a dozen times in her twelve years. But this time, something is different. They’re leaving in the middle of the night, and Megan doesn’t even have a chance to say good-bye to her best friend. What’s worse, Megan can tell her mother is frightened. It’s almost as if they’re running away from something. But from what?The Execution: A Jeremy Fisk Novel (Jeremy Fisk Novels #2)
Par Dick Wolf. 2014
NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk—introduced in Law & Order creator Dick Wolf’s New York Times bestselling debut The Intercept—must stop an…
assassin in the pay of a shadowy cartel in The Execution, a tense thriller that superbly blends suspense, politics, intrigue and high-flying action in the tradition of Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, and Robert Crais.Ten days after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a carving of a Hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it: it is the signature of an assassin called Chuparosa. Garza has been pursuing the killer for years, yet knows little about him, except that he’s heading to New York—with the rest of the world.It’s United Nations Week in Manhattan and Jeremy Fisk can’t let grief over a devastating loss keep him from safeguarding his city. Complicating matters is the startling news of a mass murder in nearby Rockaway—and the arrival of a disturbingly beautiful and assertive Mexican cop.To have a chance at finding Chuparosa, these uneasy allies must learn to work together and fast. As they soon discover, there’s more to this threat than meets the eye—and that justice is not always blind.Shakedown: A Novel (Mayberry and Garrett #2)
Par Newt Gingrich, Pete Earley. 2000
Mayberry and Garrett, introduced in the national bestseller Collusion, are caught in the middle of a deadly crisis with a pending…
nuclear bomb attack and little help from the government that sidelined them both.When an exiled Iranian scientist is assassinated in Washington, DC, the former FBI counterintelligence agent and ex-SEAL are pulled back into the world of clandestine ops—and the fate of the entire East Coast is at stake. Joining ranks with a heralded Mossad agent, Mayberry and Garrett pursue a skilled international killer hired to murder a legendary Israeli spymaster. Their pursuit draws them into an international conspiracy led by a power-hungry Russian oligarch intent on destroying Washington, DC, and the Navy’s most important Atlantic base. The oligarch plots to unleash a nuclear onslaught first devised by the KGB but shelved by Kremlin leaders during the Cold War. On top of this, Iran’s sudden offer to help the United States raises suspicions about its possible role in a global shakedown. With too many enemies emerging and too little time, the two Americans are forced to operate outside official channels to stay ahead of naive US politicians and foreign enemies out to entangle their efforts in red tape. Operating in an international tinderbox, Mayberry and Garrett must decipher which players are allies and which are posers—in time to thwart a cataclysmic nuclear attack on US soil and prevent an international incident that could ignite a third world war. And they must keep themselves alive.Collusion: A Novel (Mayberry and Garrett #1)
Par Newt Gingrich, Pete Earley. 2019
Now a National Bestseller!What if the Russians really are colluding with Americans...on the left?#1 New York Times bestselling author Newt…
Gingrich makes his return to political fiction with this rollicking tale of high-stakes international intrigue—the first book in a new, contemporary series, filled with adventure, betrayal, and politics—that captures the tensions and divides of America and the world today.Valerie Mayberry is the FBI’s counterintelligence expert on domestic terrorism.Brett Garrett is a dishonorably discharged ex-Navy SEAL, now a gun for hire, working as a security contractor in Eastern Europe. When a high ranking Kremlin official must be smuggled out of Russia, Mayberry and Garrett are thrown together to exfiltrate him and preempt a deadly poisonous strike.As these unlikely partners work to protect their human asset, their mission is threatened by domestic politics: leftist protests, congressional infighting, and a culture riven by hatred. Collusion raises many of the most significant issues facing America in real life today. How big a threat is Russia? Are American leftist activists susceptible to influence from abroad? How far will our enemies go to disrupt our politics and weaken the nation? Can we trust the media to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys? Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley have entertained and educated readers with three previous works. From its explosive opening through several twists and turns to its heart-stopping end, Collusion is their most timely and powerful novel yet.You Are Next (Karin Schaeffer Ser. #1)
Par Katia Lief. 2010
You Are Next, Katia Lief’s riveting debut thriller for Avon Books, is the taut, roller coaster tale of a serial…
killer’s surviving victim—and her determination to turn from hunted to hunter. Katia Lief is destined to be a superstar of romantic suspense, right up there with Lisa Gardner, Alex Kava, and Wendy Corsi Staub, and You Are Next is a bravura display of her extraordinary ability to cause a reader’s pulse to race and blood to chill at the same time.Secret Missions: A Novel
Par Michael Gannon. 1994
The author of Operation Drumbeat turns his hand to fiction in this World War II espionage thriller about a Nazi…
agent who slips into Florida searching for vital information about the capabilities of U.S. fighters and bombers.The Reykjavik Assignment: A Yael Azoulay Novel (Yael Azoulay Series #3)
Par Adam LeBor. 2016
Adam LeBor, author of critically acclaimed thrillers The Geneva Option and The Washington Stratagem, delivers the final book of this…
trilogy featuring United Nations covert negotiator Yael Azoulay.“[A] series of thought-provoking geopolitical thrillers…. LeBor succeeds in making us care about his two-fisted protagonist and her all-too-human vulnerability.”—Wall Street JournalYael Azoulay, covert negotiator for the UN Secretary General, has made a powerful enemy in Clarence Clairborne, head of Washington, D.C. lobbying and security firm the Prometheus Group. He’s fixated on revenge—and Yael knows it. She’s definitely being followed, but Clairborne’s operatives are not the only ones tracking her every move. Unexpected visitors from her past have arrived, determined to make her confront the secrets she’s been hiding.Driven by exceptional plotting and electrifying prose, The Reykjavik Assignment follows Yael as she fights the pull of her old life while brokering the triumph of her career: A summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between the United States and Iran. But when events in Reykjavik take a terrifying turn, the only thing that Yael cares about is preventing a desperate man from taking desperate measures to avenge his own past.