Stilton, 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 STITevis, 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 TEVRooney, Sally
Summary: "An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOBible, 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 BIBMacomber, Debbie.
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 MacomMartin, Charles
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 MARDonoghue, 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: 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACDuBois, 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 DUBAshley, Maurice
Summary: Discover why the world's first Black Grandmaster Maurice Ashley thinks that chess is one of the best skills in life. Follow him on a journey from the Bronx to a world stage where he has taught thousands of young people the life philosophies of the game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing 2024