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Amours Romans, nouvelles, etc Basketball players Fiction College athletes Fiction College students Fiction Dating (Social customs) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction North Carolina Fiction Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc Sportifs universitaires Romans, nouvelles, etc Étudiants Romans, nouvelles, etcHabash, Gabe
Summary: "In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABGrisham, John
Summary: In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. During the tournament, Samuel receives devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrace, Hannah
Summary: Academic superstar and fellow junior, Halle Jacobs, befriends Henry Turner when he accidentally crashes her book club and the pair work together to overcome their collegiate challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Reilly, Grace
Summary: "Nikolai: Hockey is my life, and I need to make this last season count. But when I'm forced to transfer to rival school McKee University for my senior year, I risk pissing off the captain, who happens to be the older brother of Isabelle Callahan: the gorgeous beam of sunshine I messed around with in secret this ummer. Rekindling our fling could risk her brother icing me off the team--not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRIGrisham, John
Summary: After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2021Reilly, Grace
Summary: Cooper. As a pro-bound college athlete with a good-time reputation, I usually have my pick of puck bunnies. But lately, I've been in a dry spell that feels more like a curse, and the stress is affecting my game--the one thing that can't happen if I'm going to keep building my case for a future in the NHL, starting with making team captain. Enter Penny Ryder. She's my coach's daughter, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "They call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen on the way to a national championship. Eight years after graduation, Annie Radford is not happy to be back at her alma mater in her old job with the Ardwyn Tigers' basketball team. Worse, her coworker from back in college, Ben Callahan, is still on the Tigers staff, and he's annoyingly wholesome, hot, and clinging to a grudge against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARReilly, Grace
Summary: "I should be focusing on my game--not on falling for my gorgeous, grumpy roommate...especially since she's already left me once. Sebastian. It's my final season to prove myself before the MLB draft. The last thing I need is a distraction--and especially not one as tantalizing as Mia di Angelo. She's the drop-dead gorgeous astrophysicist-in-training who ditched me the moment I wanted to take us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIReilly, Grace
Summary: "James - Football is my everything. I live, eat, breathe the sport. But when I transfer to McKee University to escape the distractions that nearly cost me my future in the NFL, I'm faced with another consequence: retake and pass the writing class I failed at my last college, or lose any chance I have at making it big. That's where fellow senior Beckett Wood -- gorgeous, stubborn, and just my...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIMargolin, Phillip
Summary: "The "master of heart-pounding suspense"--New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin--returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MARBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: Against the backdrop of a revolution in college sports paying athletes to play a family conflict emerges that is just as poignant and upsetting as any Saturday afternoon football rivalry. Eddie Williams, the father of three immensely talented football sons and one estranged daughter is found dead in a media trailer outside U of M stadium the day of the clash with Michigan State. That same day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press, LLC 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSobel, Corey
Summary: "Corey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOBPowers, Kim
Summary: "In his twenties, Ethan Holt won the decathlon at the Olympics and was jokingly nicknamed 'Hercules'; now, in his late thirties, he's returned to his ivy-covered alma mater to teach, and to raise his young daughter Skip as a single father. After a hushed-up scandal over his Olympics win and the death of his wife in a car accident five years ago, Ethan wants nothing more than to forget his past....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyrus Books/FW 2016