Hill, Lawrence
Summary: Keita Ali is on the run. He is desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous black island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world. Keita signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, who provides Keita with a chance to run the Boston marathon in return for a huge cut of the winning purse. But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILParker, John L.
Summary: Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid with aspirations to be a great athlete. As he explores his primal surroundings, along the Loxahatchee River and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, he is befriended by Trapper Nelson, "the Tarzan of the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Parker 2015Parker, John L.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMills, Claudia.
Summary: "The third book in the Franklin School Friends series is a fast and funny story about sports, friendship, and sibling rivalries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILAdler, David A.
Summary: Mo Jackson and his friends practice passing the baton ahead of their track meet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ADLCatozzella, Giuseppe
Summary: Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-old Ali trains her, times her, and pushes her to achieve her goals. For both children, Samia's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATBenaron, Naomi
Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002