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I’ve made a lot of dumb mistakes but none dumber than losing her. Senior year. I should be partying and living it up with my friends before graduation, but one more mistake and I’m off the team. Enter Chloe. She comes into my life at a low point, but she becomes the bright spot I reach for every day. She’s the kind of girl who makes a guy want to be a better man. And for a while, I even start to believe I’ve changed enough to deserve her. I’ve got my eye on the future, and I’m letting my past stay where it belongs.

While working on his wrestling documentary The Young and the Wrestlers, David Farrell had an idea for a story about a professional wrestler named Hunter. Instead of writing it himself (like all writers do), he decided to pay anonymous ghostwriters on the internet to cobble together the tale.

He’s cocky, he’s arrogant, he’s entitled to his big ego. He an international footballer and a multimillionaire. Carlos Garcia’s a huge success on and off the pitch, and he’s got it all. Joining a new football club, he wants his teammates to like him, especially the one man who sets his pulse racing. As the quietest guy on the football team, Harry Carter avoids attention. He’s so scared of people finding out he’s gay that he’s made sure there are just clothes in his closet.

When college football star Graham Lawson is given one last Hail Mary chance to pull up his GPA or lose his spot on the team, he turns to the sweet but shy bookworm from his hometown - the girl who saved his ass back in high school. Skyler Sutton is beyond stunned when her longtime crush asks her to come stay with him for the entire summer. She’s even more surprised when Graham’s two incredibly hot, fun-loving roommates decide to educate her with a lifetime of firsts she’ll never forget. Charlie and Tyson show Skyler friendship, compassion, and love that knows no limits.

Whatever happened to Dan Gelber - the divorced screenwriter who journeyed to Nepal in his seventies, only to plunge to his death off of Mt. Everest? And just who is Jay Reynolds, the mysterious 20-year-old tennis prodigy who appears out of nowhere to battle Rafael Nadal at the French Open and Roger Federer at Wimbledon and become the new hope of American tennis, possibly "the greatest of all time". Roger L. Simon answers these questions and more in The Goat, his first stand-alone novel in years.

Louisa Ferncliff is a fixer. She fixes horses with scrambled eggs for brains and counsels lost souls on the backstretch of the racetrack. But her own life is a mess of impulsive decisions. Now, as she limps towards retirement with a quirky horse and an unethical protégé, she gets a surprising second chance at happiness. The action takes place in the authentic setting of the backstretch at Colonial Downs racetrack.

Erick Moreno da Silva, protagonista desta divertida obra de ficção, leva uma vida que muitos garotos já sonharam em ter: jogador de futebol aclamado pela crítica, não só foi eleito o melhor goleiro da era moderna, como, junto à seleção brasileira, venceu a Copa do Mundo de 1998, de 2006 e - por que não? - até de 2014!

The Dalton family moves to the mining town of Rupland, where baseball is that of a religion. The surrounding counties help make up the storied summer league, where the best baseball in the country is played. In Rupland, little boys dream of donning the orange and black of their idols, the Rupland Hawks. Jack the leader, Johnny the rebel, and Joe the student, are sons of a tormented Vietnam veteran who pushes them towards a better future. Together they battle through Rupland's and their own hardships of death, decline, and war that tears them apart.

Scott Taylor has the perfect life. He gets to fulfill his dream playing professional hockey, has a loving family, and a tight group of friends. But the one thing missing in his life is a partner to come home to. He knows exactly who he wants to fill that position - the only woman he has ever loved. The one who got away, who constantly consumes his every thought. What it would take to get her to just say yes to a second chance?

Meet the men of the Connecticut Kings football team. Share their anguish and their triumphs as they strive for success in the game of football and the game of love. American football romance. This is a compilation of the first chapters of all nine books in the football romance series, First & Ten.

In sports, everybody loves redemption stories, the underdog who no one believes in but through sheer hard work wins it all. But no one tells the stories of the players who work hard and don’t make it. In pro football, 53 guys get on the roster. Ten make it to the practice squad. And then there’s the 64th Man - that’s Billy Logan (Cena), who seems to always be one spot from glory.

Tim was the quarterback of his high school team, but now he faces a larger challenge. He’s eager to follow in the footsteps of his brother and play football for Indiana University, but can he even get off the bench? Before the season begins, Tim makes a terrible mistake that threatens his reputation, his relationship with his boyfriend, and even his ability to play on the team. Tim’s first year at IU could be his last, but he is determined to succeed.

Sometimes starting over means trying out assault and battery, especially when the object of violence is a cheating husband caught in the act. Restraining orders aside, safety comes in numbers and having certain…standards. For Jessamine chaos and capitulation are facts of life. Giving up dreams to service her husband’s ambitions and enabling the same blind submission in her own daughter end abruptly, leaving her rootless, homeless, and destitute.

My only goal is to heal from this concussion and get back on the ice - until Nina Callaghan shows up at my door asking for hockey lessons. She’s my best friend’s kid sister, which puts her in the hands-off zone...But little Nina is all grown up now, and wants something from me, and I sure as hell want something back. Now it's game on, and I'm pulling out all the plays...when one sweet taste becomes a game changer, I fear it could uncover everything I spent years hiding, and destroy Nina right along with it.

Trinity Clarkson is poor and white, but she’s definitely not trash. The 17-year-old blonde surfer has been fighting against the hateful, malicious stereotype since birth. She knows it’s not a crime being born without money, yet everyone in town treats her like garbage. She knows it’s not illegal being broke, but try telling that to the good folks of White Gold County. They’d just laugh in her face.

I knew exactly what I wanted out of my senior year. A full ride to Northwestern University. The title of American high school journalist of the year. And a kiss, not just any kiss, but one from the boy I've been in love with since the sixth grade. By October, my plan was fully in motion with liplock by Christmas imminent. Imminent, that was, until Andie Mercantile moved to Marlowe Junction, swooping both my beat and my man.

Bucket list item number one for Frank and his oldest friend, Stan, was the TT Races. They did it, and loved it so much, that now they’re heading back for item number two on the list - TT Races yet again! The fledgeling race team they’d cobbled together on their first outing - despite moments of definite glory - didn’t exactly thrive. But, despite this, they’ve once again secured the trusty services of Dave and Monty - the two most out of shape, yet passionate and dedicated, racers in the paddock - and they’re optimistically eyeing a top 10 finish.

TJ. Falling for Kamara Day. On a college campus gone cray. The seniors caught in the culture war crossfire. TJ himself on fire. Burning in five different directions like he’s all of One Direction. Big brother to Kyd. Fraternity VP. Intern in NYC. Rappin to Drag’s beats. And. That f***ing demon he can’t defeat. The one pushing him to the ledge. At Jersey’s northeastern edge. Hoboken. The kid about to jump. No jokin.

The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first - and some would say still the best - novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material - the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era - and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work.

Histoire de formation et motivation qui accompagne le lecteur par la main à la recherche des dépassements de ses peurs et de l’achèvement de ses rêves. Le livre raconte l’histoire, sous la forme d’un récit de sport et motivation, d’un garçon pauvre des favelas du Brésil qui doit faire face à un défi: échapper de son monde de pauvreté et laideur et devenir un homme et un champion dans la vie et dans le sport. Il sera aidé par deux entraîneurs particuliers....