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Hibbert, Talia Maddox, Jake Oseman, Alice Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo) Williams, TonyWilliams, Tony
Summary: A comprehensive guide to rugby, packed with action photos of great players. The authors, experts with international experience as players and coaches, describe the many tactical and skill aspects of the game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.333 WILHibbert, Talia
Summary: "Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits - someone who knows the score and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC HIB1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIB
Summary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009Maddox, Jake
Summary: "When Robinson learns about wheelchair rugby during Super Sports Saturday, he can't wait to try it. But then his family moves to Alabama to help take care of his grandma after she gets hurt. Robinson's in luck, though. His dad tells him about an organization called the Shore that has a wheelchair rugby team."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADSummary: A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MURSmith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo)
Summary: Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIOseman, Alice
Summary: Nick and Charlie are in love. But what happens next?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 HEASummary: On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, then vanished into thin air. Sixteen of the 45 passenger resurfaced, 72 days after their plane crashed. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to tell their story in their own words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSmith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo)
Summary: Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has triedto resist, including change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMISummary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008