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At twenty-eight years old, I thought I’d finally landed it—the assignment to cover the Seattle Hawkeyes' rise to Stanley Cup glory. It should be my dream come true—a career-making opportunity that could land me the head sports journalist position at The Seattle Sunrise. But instead of being handed the story of a lifetime, I’m facing my biggest challenge yet: Coach Bexley Townsend.

It started as a one night stand, but now I’m stuck working with the man who broke my heart. James is the new hockey coach with bulging biceps and a bad boy attitude. The man I thought I would never see again after our one scorching hot night together. As the team’s manager, I now deal with his arrogance on a daily basis. Especially since he continues to grab me by the hand and pull me in for a touch from his lips. I should put a stop to it but when he wraps his protective arms around me I lose all control. Keeping our secret affair from members of the team is not going to be easy. On a ...

Mercy's story continues here. Find out what she's up to with her men! Full blurb coming soon.

Having left his tennis school, young jackal Rocky N'Guwe has to adjust to life on the professional tour, starting at the bottom. At least he's got the company of his mother and his boyfriend Marquize, and he can start earning enough money to bring his sister home from Africa. But between his mother insisting on coaching him and his boyfriend pulling him away from practice, Rocky's going to have to decide whether family and relationships are more important than the game he's given his life to--especially when he turns eighteen and adult problems pile onto that already-complicated life.

2024 Maxy Award for General Fiction Walking through doors open to a popular athlete, Jamie Williams wins hearts and basketball championships. Jamie's life, however, is far from trouble-free. Bullies, like Rick Cullin, quickly learn that picking on Jamie Williams, a young man with a powder keg temper, is not a wise decision. Growing up during a time of social change, Jamie wrestles with morality, religion, and being in love with two women. The Most Valuable Player in the 1968 Arkansas Overall Basketball Tournament, Jamie, a highly sought-after college prospect, plans to impress colleges and ...

My brain is hard-wired to hockey. To train hard, to win, to be the best. I don’t date, I basically live and breathe hockey and I plan everything. Until I find a newborn baby outside my apartment. It’s like something out of a movie, except she’s mine and this is my life. I panic, the only person I know who can help is my neighbor Andi. But in doing so, I risk inviting her into my life. So far she’s just been a friend, but I’m out of my depth and losing control. Now with each late night together, we feel like a family and I can see the lines blurring.

Bobbing and weaving across the ever-shifting canvas of a changing country, The Slip is an audacious, daring look at sex and race in America that builds to an unforgettable collision in the center of the ring.

The Call is an imaginative coming-of-age story that shares the field with historical figures from the game of baseball. It is a mixture of imagination and fact through the use of historical fiction, which transports listeners to another time and place, either real or imagined.

How far would you go to win your lifelong dream? When filmmaker Zoë Whipple agrees to shoot a documentary about a hockey team’s season, she doesn’t sign on for scandal, crime and murder. But she discovers that players, rabid to win the championship, don’t let morality or the law stand in the way of their ambitions. When a rookie dies from cardiac arrest, Zoë is saddened but not suspicious until another player, in the grip of ’roid rage, goes berserk on the ice and ends up in the hospital. Digging into the mess reveals illegal painkillers and steroid abuse among most of the team. ...

Twenty-four-year-old newspaperman Ray Sargent is a hardened cynic in the ways of the world: he’s lost his parents and brothers, served in the Marines in France, survived the deadly flu pandemic of 1918, and written up everything from labor strikes to gambling dens. And he has a way with women—or so he supposes. But he’s never met a woman like Marian Newhouse, the beautiful, brilliant reporter with a mysterious past who shows up in Toledo, Ohio, just as the Midwest’s “glass city” is getting ready to host the biggest sports event in the world—a heavyweight championship fight ...

The Man Who Inherited a Golf Course has sold over 30,000 hardback copies in the UK alone. This is the first time this novel has been available as an ebook and the first time it has been available outside the UK. Vernon Coleman is also the author of the bestseller Too Many Clubs and Not Enough Balls and the hugely successful bestselling Bilbury series. `As captain of my golf club I thought your book was a hoot.' - H.D. `An excellent and amusing story and I'm not even a golfer.' J.H. `Light hearted entertainment - very readable.' - Golf World `Thank you for providing me with hours of happy ...

Two Harvard undergraduates must decide how to juggle their travails in Cambridge with the increased tensions in Europe. As they endure the horrors of the Western Front, William clings to the hope that he may somehow find answers about his past.

A tumba abierta, significa asumiendo todos los riesgos sin medir consecuencias. Esa es la filosofía de Alicia, Braider y Emi, cuyas vidas van a verse influenciadas por el asesinato de una prostituta. Cuando Alicia y Braider son contratados por un equipo ciclista profesional, el patrocinado por el padre de Emi, creerán que su sueño se ha cumplido. No obstante, se irán dando cuenta de que a veces los sueños se convierten en pesadillas, viéndose arrastrados a un mundo plagado de delitos en el que todos tienen secretos que no quieren desvelar.

From Booklist Marti Solis is an accomplished physical therapist who works wonders with severely injured patients, but Jim Wellman is a macho football star who can't seem to get past her cute looks and smart mouth. He's always flirting, and his recovery is hampered by complications from the poor care he received after the injury--by both the team doctor and the hospital where he spent the past eight months. His career in football is over, but Marti is determined to get him walking again. Jim, however, is his own worst enemy, making injudicious comments to the press and trying to talk Marti ...

Before the Super Bowl…There Was High School Football’s State Championships The first Super Bowl was played January 15, 1967. Long before that first iconic game between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, and long after the next will be played, state championships were, and are, the Super Bowl of high school football. It would be better to have died at birth than quit football in Sisco Flats, Texas. To desert Warrior football would be unthinkable, but to keep company with a woman who works in a local bar would shred every page of the moral code that ruled Sisco Flats. In ...

Seit dem Tod ihres Verlobten ist Lily das erste Mal wieder in Paris, der Stadt, in der er ums Leben kam. Hier lernt sie den Komponisten Yves kennen, der an einem Stück über eine russische Tänzerin arbeitet. Yves ist fasziniert von der verletzlichen Lily und hofft auf Inspiration – schließlich war sie einmal selbst eine gefeierte Ballerina. Zunächst weigert sich Lily, nach dem Tod ihres Verlobten hat sie nie wieder getanzt. Als sie jedoch eine ungeahnte Verbindung zu der russischen Primaballerina entdeckt, wird ihr bewusst, dass man die Leidenschaft seines Lebens nicht einfach aufgeben kann.

It is the summer of 1952 and three men—well, one man and two boys—are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War-era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.

Preparing for Pressure was written to provide solutions for the vast majority of tennis athletes that are able to thrive on the practice court only to wilt under game-day pressure. Navy Seals say “We don’t rise to the occasion...we fall to the level of our training.” In tournament pressure the same holds true. Competitive tennis is a game of “keep away” not a game of “catch.” Players would be wise to practice in the manner they’re expected to perform versus simply hitting. This book assists athletes, coaches, and parents in assembling the software tools and the customized ...

This fictional story is a snap shot in time. Donald Sutton was a pioneer women’s basketball coach. Basketball had just stopped restricting women from playing only one half of the court. As you will see, due to the relative scarcity of college women’s basketball teams (pre-Title IX), you will see small schools and large schools in the same conference. Due to limited travel budgets often times the conferences were established along state lines. As the pages unfold of the challenges that women’s sports still face today, his message was so clear: Passion and commitment is not measured by ...

The Village Cricket Tour has sold over 45,000 hardback copies in the UK alone and has become a classic. `I enjoyed it immensely. He has written a book that will entertain, amuse and warm the cockles of tired old hearts.' - Peter Tinniswood, Punch `If anyone ever manages to bottle the essence of village cricket he will quickly scale the dizzy heights of personal fortune. In the meantime we read and write about it in the pursuit of understanding. Seminal reading should now embrace Vernon Coleman's latest offering, a whimsical piece about the peregrinations of a village team on its summer tour...