Tevis, Walter S.
Summary: Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TEVStilton, Geronimo
Summary: "Geronimo and friends have to get to the bottom of a crown jewel of a case! Checkmate, cheese-lovers, er, we mean chess-lovers. For once, all is quiet in New Mouse City, so Geronimo Stilton, Editor-in-Chief of The Rodents Gazette can report on an incredible chess match-up. On one side, Gary Goudov, world-renowned chess champion, and on the other side, a super chess-playing computer! But after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIGerber, Alyson
Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework, but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head, but sometimes she can't help herself. Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022Janowitz, Jessie
Summary: A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door. Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goes--or used to go when he plays chess. When he plays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JANZhao, Kyla
Summary: "When twelve-year-old chess player May Li wins an award for being the top female player at the state championship, the boys on her team question her skills, so May makes a bet with a teammate that she can earn the board-one spot at nationals and become team captain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: "Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARSummary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CADSummary: "After years in and out of mental institutions, Genesis is released into the care of his older brother Ariki, a street gang leader. When he volunteers to train a group of disadvantaged Maori children for the upcoming National Chess Championships, it puts him at odds with his brother over Ariki's son Mana, whose interest in the game threatens the teen's imminent initiation into his father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARBible, Michael
Summary: "Reverend Maloney isn't the world's greatest spiritual advisor. He drinks gin out of his coffee cup and has sex dreams about the Holy Ghost. His best friend Eli isn't perfect either, but he's a chess genius, so Maloney sees an opportunity in traveling around the country so Eli can win major chess tournament after chess tournament (while Maloney pockets Eli's winnings). Chased by a blind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIBHazelwood, Ali
Summary: When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAZCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAZHazelwood, Ali
Summary: In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, lifes moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallorys focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAZJanowitz, Jessie
Summary: A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goesor used to gowhen he plays chess. When he plays now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUEDonoghue, John
Summary: "A novel of the improbable friendship that arises between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chessplayer in Auschwitz SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale and he establishes a chess club, and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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Summary: Middle-aged French chambermaid Hélène suddenly finds she has a talent for chess and, much to her family's consternation, seeks out a reclusive American expat to teach her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF QUESummary: Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHEReilly, Matthew
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Reilly 2015Summary: This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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Summary: While catching up on all the Cedar Grove gossip, Teri Polgar senses that something is amiss with her new husband Bobby, a famous chess champion, when he begins acting strangely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MacomPonti, James
Summary: "After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PONCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Series PontiSummary: Set primarily at Timeless Acres Retirement Home, the film follows a documentary crew who develop an interest in one of its star resident's feisty chess master Helen "Nana" Lewis. With the help of her friends Jennifer, Francesca, Jack, Esther, Kitty, Gladys, and Lisa, Nana begins training for the State Chess Championship. She plans on dominating the competition, but her real plan involves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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2 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY NANDuBois, Jennifer
Summary: Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, whom she decides to visit in Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBGiles, Chrystal D.
Summary: Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GILMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Meet blissfully happy newlyweds Bobby and Teri Polger. He's an international chess champion, she's a salon stylist, and both will soon be confronted by deadly threats from a vindictive Russian rival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007