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41) Brush of wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
42) Cobb
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Baseball legend Ty Cobb asks sportswriter Al Stump to write his biography. Cobb lives down his reputation as an extremely difficult person. While driving across country to a banquet at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cobb tells Stump about his life but his gun wielding, drinking and drug use get them into many scrapes along the way. Stump writes both the version Cobb dictates to him and the version he himself sees, but he only publishes Cobb's version....
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised, nationwide competition called 'Million Dollar Arm' where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
Series
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Just uttering the word "wedding" makes Jodi Carlyle break out into a cold sweat. So a year after she'd been dumped at the altar, and two days after turning the big 3-0, she decides to break some rules--by dressing to the nines, hiring a limo, and crashing a swanky wedding...where she catches the eye of the Dallas Gunslingers' new star hitter Jake Coronnado. He's hot. He's sexy. He sticks by her side all evening. He's the perfect fling. After a wild...
47) Slow Moe
Publisher
Rekab Sudskany, L.C
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An akward teenage boy's dream comes true when he finds a mysterious pair of glasses that turns him into the greatest baseball player his town has ever seen. He quickly learns that winning doesn't mean anything if you can't be proud of how you play the game.
49) Parker Field
Author
Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When his mother's boyfriend is severely wounded by a shooter, reporter Willie Black's investigation uncovers players from the 1964 Richmond Virginians are being targeted.
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rickey Hill is the small-town son of a traveling pastor. With natural athletic talent, grit, and raw determination, Rickey defiantly overcomes his physical disabilities and father's overbearing commands to never play baseball to fulfill his dream of playing in the major leagues, and ultimately transform his connection with his father."--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What's a 16-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it's 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barn-storming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who'd look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women's team that competes against town teams...
52) Triple score
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Knowing the score ... Prima ballerina Noelle Nelson needs to recover from her injury and return to the stage. She won't consider failure?or be distracted by baseball's resident bad boy, Jace Monroe. His tattoos, wicked smile and deliciously athletic body might drive her crazy, but a media frenzy is the last thing this good girl needs. Jace is sick with fear that his own injury will never heal, but he's not about to let anyone notice, especially...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old Henry Rowengartner is passionate about baseball but he's a terrible player. His chances of joining the team appear doomed when he breaks his arm, but when the cast is removed his arm is better than ever. So good, in fact, that it's better than any arm in major league baseball. Soon Henry, and his fast ball, are hired by the Chicago Cubs, a team that desperately needs a new arm.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
"A successful but unhappy baseball player finds companionship in the pet walrus he adopts but is soon faced with the great challenge of balancing his responsibilities and maintaining the costly upkeep of his new friend"--
55) The phenom
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Hopper was a child, he has dreamed of becoming a major-league pitcher. Relentlessly pushed and punished by his abusive father, he's on the verge of becoming one of the game's most promising players when he unexpectedly breaks down on the mound. Now Hopper's only hope for a future lies with an unorthodox sports therapist who urges him to piece together the past and confront the man who is both bully and family.
Author
Series
Bromance volume club
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When his wife asks for a divorce, Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.--...
57) Angels walking
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Language
English
Description
When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler's one true love Sami Dawson has moved on. A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player, and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes.
59) How do you know
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
60) Field of dreams
Language
English
Description
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Annie, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.