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Everyone loves an underdog. That’s why we’re drawn to sports movies—there’s something special about the magic depicted in Remember The Titans, Miracle, or even something silly like The Waterboy. But good sports books, and we mean good ones, go even deeper.
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The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first--and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship,...
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A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
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Season in Pinecraft volume 2
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English
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Sheltered yet adventurous, Betsy Detweiler is on a mission to get out of Kentucky and experience new things in life. What better place to start than with her friends in Pinecraft, Florida? When she walks onto the Snow Bird Golf Course to sign up for lessons, August Troyer is mesmerized. She's like no one he's ever met before, and as the only child of missionary parents, he's met a lot of people. Each intends to enjoy life to the fullest. They soon...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Playing golf on Christmas Day, Travis McKinley, 50, has a Zen-like vision and suddenly he is playing like a pro, which is a godsend because he has just been fired from his job, writing jingles for McDonald's and needs money. His golfing career zooms, but his marriage hits the skids. Still, it all turns out well in the end.
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Million dollar series (Dan Gutman) volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First Hyperion Paperbacks edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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For as long as he can remember, Malcolm has never felt like he was good enough. Not for his parents, who have always seemed at odds with each other, with Malcolm caught in between. And especially not for his dad, whose competitive drive and love for sports Malcolm has never shared. That is, until Malcolm discovers miniature golf, the one sport he actually enjoys. Maybe it's the way in which every hole is a puzzle to be solved. Or the whimsy of the...
8) Hooked
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English
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Invited to become her varsity golf team's only female member, Fredericka Oday pursues a dream of earning a scholarship, only to be challenged by golden boy Ryan Berenger, who resents Fred for replacing his best friend on the team.
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Golf series (Dan Jenkins) volume 2
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
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243 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Dan Jenkins, sports novelist and writer for Golf Digest, continues the story of Bobby Joe Grooves in Slim and None. The aging pro-golfer is now 44, and he just has to win a major this time around. Since the days when golfing was done with a shepherd's crook, only seven men have won a major after the age of 44. Bobby Joe figures his chances are slim and none.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
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224 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Iconic humorist Dan Jenkins brings his matchless sense of hilarity to this riotous send-up of professional golf. Forty-something sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody wants the gorgeous superstar disqualified for good.
11) Fairway phenom
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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Malik wants to play golf, but he has to face obstacles including ridicule from his friends.
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Captain Awesome volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When Eugene goes mini-golfing for Meredith Mooney's birthday party, he realizes he's actually an excellent mini-golfer! But Meredith realizes this too, and she starts to cheat so that she'll win. Will Eugene reveal her cheating ways?"--
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
22 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Level 1, reading with help. Curious about numbers--Cover.
Curious George is playing miniature golf for the first time. He learns that numbers can mean different things, depending on where they are used. In this case, he learns that in golf, the biggest score is not the best. Includes two pages of activities, including how to make your own mini mini golf course.
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English
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"A brilliantly funny writer-perhaps the most consistently funny the English language has yet produced." - The Times (London)
It was a morning when all nature shouted, "Fore!" Thus begins this hilarious anthology of P. G. Wodehouse's collection of nine short golf stories. Originally published in magazines between 1921 and 1926, the tales lead readers on an amusing nine-hole course of courtship, friendship, and business relationships. The narrator,...
17) Galaxy golf
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"When Marvin the Martian takes a swing at golf, his trusty dog tags along as his caddy. Can K-9 keep Marvin out of the rough and help the Martian hit a hole in one?"--
18) Planeta
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edicion.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
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"La aparic̤in en un campo de golf del càdver desangrado de una mujer pone en jaque al Grupo de Homicidios de Sevilla: a la ̕vctima le han cercenado los pies. La inspectora Camino Vargas tend̀r que cancelar las vacaciones previstas con Paco Arenas, su antiguo mentor y amor secreto con quien por fin convive, para ponerse a investigar en medio de una ciudad en alerta ̀mxima por las condiciones clìmticas y devastada por unas lluvias torrenciales...
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