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Vendor: Erin Finnegan
Luchador
A young exico wrestler in Mexico City's professional lucha libra circuit charts a course to balance ambition, sexuality, and loyalty to find the future that may have be destined for him since childhood-a story about finding yourself from behind a mask.Author: Erin FinneganISBN-10: 1941530974ISBN-13:...- $16.99
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Vendor: Sara Jaffe
Dryland
It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for Julie Winter, 15, the news is noise. In Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mara Jacobs
Against The Spread: Anna Dawson #2
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs comes Book 2 in the Anna Dawson mystery series. My name is Anna Dawson, and I'm back. Unfortunately, so is JoJo.When the loan shark enforcer who beat me up years ago is found...- $11.99
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Vendor: Harold Keith
Brief Garland: The True Story of Coach Jim Keith
This book is about the six-player game in Oklahoma, because it was the only basketball for girls at that time. This is a story about girls' basketball and its climb to respectability with other sports that were being played - before the transition to...- $19.95
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Vendor: Hunter Davies
Body Charge
'Sharpish in dialogue, slick in characterization . . . made with sympathy and imagination.' - Times Literary Supplement 'A very lively and entertaining novel.' - Sunday Times 'Flows along at an entertaining speed.' - Guardian 'Honest and unusual.' - Spectator 'A fast-moving romp.' -...- $18.99
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Vendor: Tim Wendel
Habana Libre
The distance between Cuba and the United States: tantalizingly close yet worlds apart. When a beautiful showgirl married to Cuba's most famous baseball player escapes to the sea, only a boy and a boat and a belief in the "American Dream" keep her afloat....- $14.95
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Vendor: John Coyne
The Caddie Who Won The Masters
Bobby Jones always hoped that someday an amateur would win the Masters. In this novel, bestselling author John Coyne-The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan and The Caddie Who Played With Hickory-tells the story of Tim Alexander, an amateur from the public links courses in...- $13.50
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Vendor: James Carmody
The Giant Killer
New York City, 1905. A terrorist organization extorts money from local business owners and threatens bombings for non-compliance. Into this mess steps Detective Joseph Petrosino, NYPD. Uncovering a complicated plot, piece-by-piece, clues lead the detective to the New York Giants baseball team, led by...- $14.95
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Vendor: James Waddington
Bad to the Bone
'Waddington employs a cheerful surrealism to convey the superhuman status of his cyclists and the designer violence of his killer. The encounters with death are funny rather than frightening and the narrator is omnipotent, stylish and amused. Waddington's descriptions of racing, and they are...- $13.99
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Vendor: Bert Wagendorp
Ventoux
"Wagendorp's book manages to be funny, shrewd, and moving, with a complex structure that never feels cumbersome, and a finale so intense that you want to read it very slowly, almost one word at a time." --The Guardian"A wonderful blend of humor, suspense, and...- $16.99
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Vendor: Gary Lee Martinson
Allerton and Axtell: The Rush
It is 1879--four years after a great fire ravages Independence, Iowa--when a well-dressed creamery businessman shows up in the small town, looking for a horse to buy. When Charles W. Williams meets young orphaned horse groom, Gilbert Fenny, the two find a kinship in...- $42.99
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Vendor: Peter Golenbock
7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
In Peter Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, Mickey Mantle tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero.Author: Peter GolenbockISBN-10: 1493013955ISBN-13: 9781493013951Publisher: Lyons PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2015Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d- $17.95
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Vendor: James F. Jr. Murphy
The Green Box
77-year-old Bill Sullivan, on a whim, drove through Newton, Mass. and stopped at Boyd Park to visit the Green Box. It was there, while WWII raged in Europe and the Pacific, that Sully and his friends waited eagerly for the park instructor to open...- $14.95
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Vendor: Victoria Denault
One More Shot
They say you only get one shot at making your dreams come true. Jordan is determined to take two. Drafted by the NHL at eighteen, Jordan Garrison was headed for fame, and there was only one person he wanted to share it with-Jessie Caplan....- $21.99
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The Final Move
Hockey legend Devin Garrison thought he blew his shot. But his relationship with Callie Caplan just went into overtime. Sexy, rich, and one of the biggest stars in the NHL, Devin Garrison has always been the one who had it all. That is until...- $21.99
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Vendor: Victoria Denault
Making a Play
He'll do whatever it takes to win--on and off the ice. Luc Richard is the hottest player in the NHL--and it has nothing to do with hockey. His racy relationship with his supermodel ex set the tabloids on fire but nearly put his career...- $21.99
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Vendor: Louisa Hall
Carriage House
A "splendid" (The Boston Globe) debut novel about the complex bonds of three sisters and their Philadelphia family's legacy, by the author of Reproduction. For more than thirty years, William Adair's faith in life was based on two indisputable principles: the exceptional good looks...- $19.99
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Vendor: Michael Bamberger
The Swinger
A sports hero seeks a comeback in this wildly funny and ultimately redemptive novel. His name, as we all know, is Herbert X. "Tree" Tremont, and he's the richest and most celebrated athlete of our time--a multicultural golfing icon with fifty-three Tour wins, thirteen...- $19.99
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Vendor: The Urban Griot
College Boy
After hard-fought battles to include African Americans as qualified students within the white American educational system, the opportunity for higher learning still remains a struggle. This is Troy Potter's story. He is an African American young man from inner-city Philadelphia. He grew up with...- $23.99
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Vendor: Jeremy Padilla
The Golden Dream
Author: Jeremy PadillaISBN-10: 1450030238ISBN-13: 9781450030236Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2010Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d- $15.99
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Vendor: Blaine R. Smith
The Learning Season
A young high school football player's father, a US Army Apache helicopter pilot, has been listed as presumed KIA in Iraq. The young man, John Douglas, is crushed with heartache. His father had always been there, taking him fishing and camping, coaching him, and...- $15.95
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Vendor: Proz Prosper
Closer to the Sun
BILLY INFANTE IS AN ANGRY AND TROUBLED YOUNG MAN WHO SEES LIFE THROUGH A DARK LENS. BORN IN A BLUE-COLLAR NEIGHBORHOOD, HE, AS MANY BEFORE HIM, TURNS TO BOXING AS A WAY OUT. HIS VIEW OF LIFE, COLORED BY THE PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOOD OF PORT...- $22.95
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Vendor: Jacquelyn Eubanks
The Last Time: A Last Summer Novel
It's out of the frying pan and into the fire... It's 1955, and Charlotte "Charley" Mason has just moved to New York, leaving behind her hometown in Georgia, her group of baseball-playing best friends, and her boyfriend, Frankie. Things in her perfect new town...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mark Reinsmoen
J-Hawk Nation
The early 1960s was a time of innocence and a time of promise as America was holding its breath, preparing itself for major changes that began emerging throughout the country. J-Hawk Nation paints a portrait of those magical years in a small rural Iowa...- $22.95
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Vendor: Stephen Frey
Forced Out
Now in mass market from the New York Times bestselling author--a mesmerizing thriller where life and death are played out against the backdrop of America's favorite pastime. Forced to retire from his job as a scout for the Yankees, Jack Barrett is just getting...- $28.99
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Vendor: Gregory Wilkin
The Rabbit's Suffering Changes: Based on the True Story of Bunny Austin, the Last British Man-Until Murray-To Play in the Finals of Wimbledon
What does a father owe a son and a son a father? How can a marriage survive adultery? Is pacifism feasible? Is fame any good? How much does winning matter? How do you shake a Soviet agent who's trying to ruin you and your...- $25.95
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Vendor: Paul O'Brien
A Shoot: Blood Red Turns Dollar Green, Volume 2
Danno Garland has it made. After years of planning, backstabbing, and shady handshakes, he controls the world heavyweight champion and just about everywhere he can wrestle. Danno's outmaneuvered the other New York bosses, and he's the first in pro wrestling history to expand beyond...- $14.99
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Vendor: Rob Fisher
The Wichita Kid: A Caddie's Story
2015 Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion HonoreeThe Wichita Kid is a coming-of-age novel about golf, friendship, and family. It centers on a fatherless 12 year-old boy named Kevin, who has just moved from Kansas to the "big city" of Cleveland, Ohio, and who suffers from anxieties...- $11.99
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Vendor: Michele G. Miller
All That Remains
New relationships. New dreams. Same feelings. Welcome to college Jules and West. Fear, guilt, and jealousy rear their ugly heads as Jules and West strive to figure out what they want now that they've emerged from the wreckage of the storm.A year has passed...- $9.99
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Vendor: Kate Meader
So Over You
Three estranged sisters struggle to sustain their late father's failing hockey franchise in Kate Meader's sizzling Chicago Rebels series. In this second entry, middle sister Isobel is at a crossroads in her personal and professional lives. But both are about to get a significant...- $9.99
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Vendor: Mark Di Ionno
Gods of Wood and Stone
Two men from disparate worlds search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood in this "rough, tough, and thoughtful" (Phil Mushnick, New York Post) debut from Pulitzer Prize finalist and front-page...- $17.00
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Vendor: Joe Mungo Reed
We Begin Our Ascent
"Exceptional...fast and smart, funny and sad, this is an outstanding sports novel, and Joe Mungo Reed is an author to watch" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse,...- $16.00
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Vendor: Dan Jenkins
"You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There!"
For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world. You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There is a collection...- $16.99
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Vendor: Michele G. Miller
Out of Ruins
Tensions rise and enemies are made as Jules and West's story continues. "Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what...- $9.99
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Vendor: Joseph Wallace
Diamond Ruby
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her family safe in the vast, swirling world of 1920s New York City. She's got street smarts, boundless determination, and one unusual skill: the ability to...- $28.99
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Vendor: Fredrik Backman
Us Against You
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching...- $37.99
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Vendor: Alan Blackwell
The Summer of '79: A Pool Odyssey
Jesse Quantrell, is abandoned as a child by his backwoods, dysfunctional family. He's left to spend his formative years with the vets at the local VFW in Blackstone, West Virginia. Here, he learns the game of pool from one of the vets, who, was...- $15.95
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Vendor: Rictor Vonroguer
Thunderstruck
Set in now a day time, Thunderstruck is a unique look at what would happen if 41 of the best military athletes came together as one team in the college football. It's a ficticious look at that and much more. It's about our gallant...- $19.95
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Vendor: Charles Loomis
Motocross Mike
Mike Porter is an excellent Motocross racer. He works after school for Bill Maslak in a Honda cycle shop that is owned jointly by Bill and Mike's mother. Bill is his sponsor, mechanic and mentor since Mike's father's death in a tragic motorcycle racing...- $12.95
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Vendor: Spencer Stephens
Church of Golf: A Novel About Second Chances
Donald Gibson had it all. And then he screwed the pooch. Donald and his fabulous blond hair found fame and success too easy and too early. He starred as a football player for the University of Maryland and brought his alma mater its first...- $13.82
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Vendor: Ty Strange
On Sundays We Go Long
Bound by running talent, five upwardly mobile, thirtysomething men juggle relationships, careers, heartaches, and technology's pervasive reach, all the while training and racing together, pursuing cross-country club championship bragging rights.Gregarious loner Dillon Percy literally runs away with his dog, Miles, from a messy divorce...- $26.95
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Toonamint of Champions & Why Golf Is So Exciting!, the Stairway Press Collected Edition
Why Golf is so Exciting! Ever had some dumb hick up and tell you about his round of golf-hole by dang hole? Ever been knocked on your skull real hard by a school bus? The numbing effect is exactly the same. But in Why...- $19.95
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Vendor: Kate Christie
Training Ground: Book One of Girls of Summer
Sometimes a chance meeting can change everything. At fifteen, Jamie Maxwell's main goals in life are to make the United States youth national soccer pool, move past the Incident-That-Shall-Not-Be- Named, and maybe-someday-kiss a girl. When she meets Emma Blakeley at a tournament in Southern...- $12.95
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Vendor: Rob Roberge
Drive
DRIVE is the one of the great basketball novels of all time, a dark, funny, compassionate story from a writer who has been called "the laureate of any marginalized demographic, a professor of the articulately disenfranchised." It'll draw you into what it means to...- $12.99
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Vendor: Walter G. Meyer
Rounding Third
Rob Wardell is a seventeen-year old who feels like he doesn't quite fit in anywhere--not at home, not at school and not on the baseball field. The small, shy boy stays on the high school baseball team only to please his father since he...- $15.99
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Vendor: Penelope Dyan
Surfer Girl
Summer wants to figure out what the legacy of her life will be. Summer's mother is a writer and is leaving behind her writing for Summer, because this is her legacy for her; and Summer wants a legacy of her own because she is...- $11.95
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Vendor: Denis Dauphinee
The River Home
Author: Denis DauphineeISBN-10: 0945980752ISBN-13: 9780945980759Publisher: North Country PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2013Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d- $16.95
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Vendor: James Hawking
Strikeout, a Novel: Baseball, Broadway and the Brotherhood in the 19th Century
John Ward-pitcher turned shortstop, author, lawyer and president of the first union for professional athletes-was married to the glamorous Helen Dauvray, a child star who re-invented herself on the Paris stage and as a leading lady and a wealthy producer on Broadway. On Albert...- $26.95
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Vendor: Robert E. Howard
Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard
It is impossible to ignore the sheer number of boxing stories that Robert E. Howard wrote. Serious or funny, spooky or adventurous, these stories represent a fierce creative outburst that would pave the way later for his western hero, Breckenridge Elkins. In these stories...- $19.95
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Havana Heat
A former star hurler for John McGraw's brawling Giants, Luther "Dummy" Taylor was also one of Major League Baseball's first deaf players. Havana Heat follows Taylor's life and fortunes when, after a strong season in the bushes in 1911, he comes to believe that...- $19.95
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Fiction Sports Books
Fiction sports books encompass a wide range of literature that combines the thrilling world of sports with imaginative storytelling. These collections are a treasure trove for sports enthusiasts and fiction lovers alike, offering a unique blend of athleticism, competition, and human drama. One of the primary characteristics of fiction sports books is their ability to transport readers into the heart of various sporting events, whether it's a high-stakes football game, an intense basketball match, or an adrenaline-fueled race. Authors skillfully weave together the physicality, strategy, and emotion of sports, creating narratives that captivate readers and keep them on the edge of their seats.
These books delve into the lives of athletes, coaches, and fans, exploring the triumphs and challenges they face both on and off the field. Through vivid character development, authors offer glimpses into the mental and emotional journey of these individuals, highlighting the personal sacrifices they make, the relationships they form, and the lessons they learn along the way. Fiction sports books also often examine broader themes beyond the game itself. They touch on topics such as teamwork, perseverance, determination, and overcoming obstacles. These stories celebrate the human spirit's resilience, inspiring readers to dream big, embrace their passions, and push their personal boundaries.
Moreover, fiction sports books appeal to a wide audience, attracting sports enthusiasts seeking an escape into fictional worlds as well as readers who are drawn to compelling narratives and character-driven stories. This makes them an excellent choice for both avid fans of a particular sport and those who simply appreciate well-crafted storytelling.
Whether you're a diehard sports fanatic or someone looking to explore new genres, fiction sports books provide an avenue to experience the thrill, passion, and intensity of sports through the power of literature. So, dive into these collections, step onto the field, and discover the captivating blend of fiction and sports that awaits.
Popular Fiction Sports Books
Fiction sports books have captivated readers for decades with stories of triumph, struggle, and the joy of competition. From tales of professional athletes striving for greatness to narratives of underdogs overcoming obstacles, these books offer a unique blend of athleticism and human drama that appeals to a wide audience. There are several popular books in this genre that have garnered critical acclaim and captured the hearts of readers worldwide.
1. "Friday Night Lights"
2. "The Natural"
3. "Underworld"
4. "The Art of Fielding"
5. "Seabiscuit"
6. "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game"
These popular fiction sports books showcase the power of storytelling and offer readers a captivating escape into the world of sports. Whether you're a sports fan or simply appreciate a well-crafted narrative, these books are sure to entertain, inspire, and leave a lasting impression.
Popular Sports Fiction Books AUTHORS
The world of sports captures the hearts and minds of millions of people around the globe. From the exhilarating moments on the field or court to the behind-the-scenes drama, the world of sports is a never-ending source of inspiration. For those who love both sports and literature, fiction sports books offer a unique and captivating reading experience.
Many authors have taken on the challenge of bringing the world of sports alive through their words, creating stories that resonate with readers of all ages. These popular authors have mastered the art of capturing the thrill, passion, and dedication that define the world of athletics. Let's delve into the world of fiction sports books and explore some of the most well-known authors in this genre.
1. John Grisham
2. Harlan Coben
3. Tim Green
4. Mike Lupica
5. Carl Deuker
These are just a few of the many popular authors of fiction sports books who have left an indelible mark on the genre. Whether it's exploring the world of professional sports or capturing the spirit of youth athletics, their books offer readers an escape into the thrilling world of sports, filled with passion, adversity, and triumph.
The fiction sports books collection at White Rain Book House is truly a hidden gem for those who appreciate the thrill and drama that sports bring, combined with the imaginative storytelling of fiction. Whether you are a die-hard sports fan or simply someone who enjoys a good narrative, this collection promises to captivate and entertain you.