Ski Bum
A flunking Midwestern college student drops out and moves west to live the ski bum life. In the Colorado mountains he finds a group of like-minded, and sometimes degenerate, friends who show him that a ski town is the ideal place for young people to raise a middle finger to societal norms and do as they please. It's a spontaneous party life of hot tub poaching, illicit sledding, and living scrappy and poor in a place where rich people vacation. It's a life he quickly comes to love, but as winter turns to spring, the path forward isn't clear. A classic coming-of-age story, Colin Clancy's debut novel is a profoundly charming depiction of skiing, mountain culture, and the beauty of human connection with the natural world. Find more at colinclancy.net.
Game As They Make ’Em
Eustace Cockrell was a pioneer television writer who contributed to many of the early western shows including Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke. He also wrote for such high-profile television programs as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Naked City.Prior to his Hollywood career Cockrell was a prolific writer of short stories. Over a 25-year period beginning in 1932, his works appeared regularly in pulp fiction magazines including Blue Book and Argosy and in "slicks" like Collier's and Saturday Evening Post.While Cockrell's short stories covered a broad range of fiction categories - detective, adventure, romance and even science fiction - he was primarily a writer of sports stories. Game As They Make 'Em is a collection of 22 sports tales written between 1934 and 1950. Featured are a variety of settings including football, baseball, wrestling, tennis, golf and horse racing. (Cockrell's boxing stories are contained in Vol. III of his collected works, Refugee Smith and Other Stories of the Ring, published by Mission Point Press in 2022.)
Two Hearts, One Goal
Winning the Game on the Field -- and in the Heart When two unlikely hearts meet on the playing field, they find a season of surprises, passions, and maybe even love. Marianne Everette had never expected to be thrust into the role of team mom for her son's youth soccer team. Desperate to help her seven-year-old son, who was having difficulty adjusting to his new school and getting into trouble, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. Neither did Tony Romero, the team's reluctant coach. His family volunteered him for the position. He could have refused, but his competitive nature kicked in, and now he's determined to do what it takes to win, no matter the cost. Can two reluctant hearts learn to trust and work together in order to create a winning season? Two Hearts, One Goal is a sweet and clean romantic story about learning to trust, finding strength, and winning in both the game of soccer and the game of life.
Inside the Back Porch
A mid-major university with a struggling football program hits the jackpot when it attracts one of the top high school quarterbacks in the country, Todd Stevens. But the athletic bubble surrounding Todd begins to dissolve as injuries take a toll on his body and mind and he contemplates the future he wants with his beloved Diane King, a serious student and elite swimmer who sees all too clearly the inequities in college sports. Diane's willingness to speak out brings her in conflict with the athletic director of the university and leads to an altercation that will reverberate across the university and impact the lives of everyone touched by it, including the university president.Athletic programs are often touted as the "front porch" of universities. In this gripping tale, Dan Howard portrays the blossoming relationship between two athletes as they negotiate the dark realities and outsized influence of college sports on an American university campus. Against the backdrop of the risks accepted by individuals and institutions to achieve excellence in the realm of college sports, a more universal story about vulnerability, uncertainty, and the power of love unfolds.
The Gaffer
It's January 1989. Neighbours rules the screens, Madchester bosses the airwaves, Lineker, Barnes, Gazza and Co are lording it on the football field, and there's a fresh wave of optimism breezing through the nation. Not everyone's happy though.Thomas Bamford, known disparagingly to all as Tam Bam, is an angry man. He may have pride in his hometown on the Isle of Guff - situated 30 miles off Cornwall - but he hates everyone on it. And the feeling's mutual as he's spent most of his 47 years gorging on pasties and Lucozade (he's a good twelve stone overweight) while cursing and whinging about his never-ending ailments.The only thing Tam lives for is Guff Rovers, his local fourth division football team. Though you'd be hard-pushed to call him a fan. Despite never missing a game, his brutal and unrepentant abuse from the sidelines makes him a menace to the struggling side and a nightmare to anyone sitting near him. And don't get him started on Cockney manager Gary Pullman and silver-spooned owner Gus Pinkle as he really, really hates them. Tam's miserable existence flips when he discovers his AWOL father struck it rich in the Middle East before kicking the bucket and has left him 瞿5million. After trying to buy Manchester United (he claims to be a childhood penpal of Alex Ferguson), Tam settles for a majority share in Guff Rovers, installing himself as the gaffer.Tam, though, is dangerously out of his depth, sacking the entire team and buying in a hodgepodge of journeymen including a cleaner, a kebab van owner, a caber toss champion, and half of Swindon Town's reserves. The club quickly spirals out of control teetering towards their first relegation into non-league football in their 99-year history and financial ruin as Tam Bam learns there's more to football management - and life itself - than he ever realised.
Gloves
Gloves is a story of a boy who turns from a common Farmworker to becoming a Drug lord by entering the deadliest 48 acres of America and eventually climbing the ladders to become a World Heavyweight Champion but through not so acceptable means.
Four Months, Three Words
He's the guy every girl wants...Jace Dawson is less than a year away from accomplishing everything he's spent the past decade striving for. Not only has playing professional football been the dream since he was a kid, the financial incentive isn't one he could walk away from even if he wanted to. That is, until a chance collision has the unexpected outcome of making Jace realize he might want something more than the goal he's spent most of his life pursuing. Might want someone more....she's the girl he can never have.For Vivienne Rhodes, the opportunity to attend Lincoln University represents what she's always craved more than anything: normalcy. One semester is all she has before returning to a future that's set in stone. Her mere presence on campus is only made possible by an elaborate arrangement. The essential component of it is that no one can know her real identity. Falling for the star quarterback is most definitely not part of the plan. But it will all be fine, just as long as she keeps those feelings to herself. Because that unchangeable future? Can't include Jace Dawson.
Home Game
Atlanta Braves minor league pitcher, Brett Davies, has much to contemplate at the young age of 25. Coming back from a torn rotator cuff that slows his dream of major league stardom, he has completed his first post-injury season with their farm team in Greenville, South Carolina. But his success as their top relief pitcher does not lead to a call up to Atlanta at the end of the Greenville season. Did the Braves executives think his repaired shoulder wasn't good enough for major league competition? He needed answers and would go to Atlanta to meet with their general manager to find them. But Brett has more on his mind than baseball. Raised by a single mom, he had never been allowed to meet his father. Brett never knew why. His mother just told him, "It's not possible." And at age 25, Brett wonders if he will ever find the right girl to spend the rest of his life with. No current girlfriend, with none on the horizon, had both Brett (and his mother) concerned. But things were about to rapidly change. The following season Brett finds himself assigned to the Braves minor league team in Rome, Georgia as a player coach. A series of random events brings new people and new challenges into Brett's life. Would they also lead him to the answers he needed to find his way home?
Rabbit
...A young golfer on the autism spectrum does time for murder.Charles "Chunk" Dawson's Asperger's syndrome has always set him apart. People often patronize or belittle him-or even misinterpret his affect for arrogance or aloofness. Since his meteoric rise as a teenage golf phenom, he's mostly been able to hide his condition. "I certainly didn't want the truth to ever come out. I wanted them to fear, not pity me. I also wanted to retain the power of a secret, like the philanderer, or boozer, or embezzler who draws strength from the excitement of the initial impunity." Even when he went on trial for killing a man, Chunk kept his Asperger's hidden from the court, convinced he would be acquitted regardless. He was wrong, and he's now serving a five-to-seven-year sentence at the Western Missouri Diagnostic and Correction Center. As Chunk bides his time until his release, he ruminates on how his life came to unfold the way it did: his adoption by a wealthy but dysfunctional couple in San Diego County; his aptitude for golf, fostered by his sage, arthritic trainer-turned-caddie, Jim Wellington; and the confrontation that led to the death of one of Chunk's opponents. Is Chunk the greatest redemption story in sports waiting to happen, or is he about to reenter a world with which he is-and has always been-completely incompatible? Anderson's prose is sharp and insightful, capturing Chunk's elegant philosophizing: "I am a professional golfer but will readily admit that I am an amateur human being." More than the plot, it's Chunk and his understated yet gripping storytelling style that keep the reader invested... Fans of golf will especially enjoy this offbeat tale, but at its heart, Chunk's story is one of alienation that should appeal to loners and malcontents of all stripes-Kirkus Reviews
Serenading Heartbreak
My first love was my brother's best friend.A lead singer in their band.A picture of rugged perfection.And a drunk soul mate who couldn't commit. My second love was an arrogant baseball player.A player in every sense of the word.A smooth-talking, reliable best friend.And a chance at something beautiful and true. The problem with having a first and second love?That would be loving them at the same time. My story isn't some sexy triangle. It's exquisite agony.Fate gave me two men to love, but none of us knew which one I could keep. A spicy and extremely angsty standalone romance.
Rookie’s Regret
Lioness. That's the first word that comes to mind when I see the brilliant redhead selling cupcakes at the hockey arena. With the soul of an artist and the spirit of a nomad, Bea Turner is gorgeous, quirky, and refreshing. She's also my teammate's little sister. As the Tennessee Thunderbolts' Rookie, I should steer clear. I'm here to play hockey and provide much-needed financial security for my family. To do that, I need to avoid distractions. Bea doesn't just distract me; she flips my world upside down. One bad joke has me pursuing her. One date and I crave more. Calling her mine? Well, now I'm dreaming of a future. The life of a hockey player - trades, travel, uncertainty - isn't for the heart of a creative. Bea desires adventure and possibility, not early morning skates and strict exercise regimens. When I'm thrust into a situation at odds with Bea's dream career, I know I can't hold her back. If we're meant to be, we'll make it work. But what if we're not? What if my greatest regret is letting my lioness go?
Grandad Supersub
Bert's grandad was the oldest professional footballer in the world. But he'd never won the cup.So when the chance to play at Trembly Stadium finally comes along, surely this will be his moment.But things are never that simple, are they?This first book by brothers Rob and Matt James evokes the wonder that every football-loving boy and girl has about the beautiful game, and the excitement of having a sporting hero in the family.Join young Bert and his family as they head down Trembly Way with the superstar footballers who are his grandad's team mates.Just watch out for that crunching handshake.
The Fantasy Player
This is a story about the future of football. A new star emerges in a game that attracts, and demands, ever greater extremes of wealth, fame, and physical prowess. Ardro Holst, in his pursuit of glory, has to work out what is real and what is false, in sport, in life, and in love, in a new world in which the virtual has become almost indistinguishable from the real. He finds himself apparently abandoned by the people who have admired him, supported him, controlled him, and exploited him. Can Ardro rediscover who, and what, he is and work out on whom he can depend in his darkest hour? This is a story about the future of football - and the future of love...
Winner and Still Champion
"WINNER AND STILL CHAMPION" is Rusty Kearney's third novel and is set in a section of Rockaway Beach, NY known as "Irishtown". Mr. Kearney was a promising boxer in his early teens but a serious accident ended his dreams of hopefully competing in the Golden Gloves. He still works out on a heavy bag and a speed bag and also lifts weights. He's also a black belt in Aikido - Japanese Martial arts and loves to read books about boxing. He also enjoys watching classic fights; Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, etc. Rusty is divorced and living in Breezy Point, NY.
The Cup
A blizzard, a game, and a magical night! DP Hardwick takes us on a journey through the ups and downs of a game and childhood experiences. Follow the bizarre antics of a road hockey game in frigid Canada in the early 70's when sports were still in the hands of the kids. Meet each lovable character as they navigate their lives and play in game 7 of the Stanley Cup final...under a street light in front of their homes. The Cup is a touching, nostalgic story of friendship, teamwork and unlikely heroes. As Hardwick learned from his father and first coach, it's not really about a game, it's about life.
Turkeys Not Bees
Will the nanny state and the media industry in future restrict all types of individual performance? Chance struggles on a capitalist employment treadmill that denies him freedom to take risks. He starts a PhD in science and psychology. His girlfriend Megan is a pole vault champion in training for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane. With his help, she uses philosophies of De Beauvoir, Nietzsche, Heidegger's phenomenology and Mihaly's flow, to take personal responsibility for her training. Overreach by the nanny state threatens her use of flow. 'Levellers' want all ability levels to succeed in competitions. Philosopher Debord's 'spectacle' has performers' appearances profiting media and investors. Which will succeed: human turkey-like individualism or bee-like collectivism? When Chance and Megan catch Covid, they oppose the collectivists' mandatory vaccinations with non-violent civil disobedience. Will they succeed? This is speculative fiction satirizing athletics, rugby and ballet, exposing dark forces shaping western democratic societies, revealing how individual freedom can be saved. REVIEWS OF MARTIN KNOX'S PREVIOUS BOOKS ANIMAL FARM 2 (2021) Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite. Review Rating: 5 Stars Fans of Animal Farm by George Orwell will adore Martin Knox's Animal Farm 2, a fable with strong hints of political satire set on a farm on tropical Caruba, an island in the grip of the Social Republic.This is a cleverly plotted story with interesting characters, and readers will relate to the animals that behave like humans; the anthropomorphism is brilliantly executed. Readers will encounter animals such as pigs (Lords Napoleon, Natalia), cattle (Tosser, Earl, Henry, Arnold), sheep (Sharon, Trudy, Sophie, and others), goats, llamas, horses, donkeys, mules, and more. Animal Farm 2 is open to several interpretations with political manipulation, abuse of power, superpower interests, and those who bear the brunt of political manoeuvring. It is a fable, but it is the same story that we see being played out too often in the political world. The novel features relevant and deftly written political themes, a debate on climate change, and the effects of totalitarianism. The characters are elaborately written and readers can see in them a portrait of what politicians do. The satire is biting, ingenious, and written in a context that readers can relate to. Martin Knox's satirical novel is a work of great imagination.
The White Chariot
Ron Rogers is the best jockey in the Dallas County, thanks to his riding partner, Anvil, and together they broke the record for the fastest horse in any dressage contest. Anvil is a five-time consecutive horse racing champion, a pedigree achieved effortlessly. Awarded the highest honours by the Dallas and the Samaritan of England racing associations for spectacular performances on the track, Anvil quickly became the favourite of betting companies across the United States.After winning one of the most spectacular races for the season Anvil suffered unexpected cardiac failure and died immediately despite relentless efforts by paramedics to revive her. The emotional loss affected Ron's ability to continue riding as he struggled with bouts of situational depression and had to quit horse racing for good.Watching from the heavens, Anvil couldn't hold back as her racing partner suffers. When friends and relatives thought Ron's debacle couldn't get any weirder his late horse, Anvil, enrolled him in the national horse racing championship in the dream world. Anvil told Ron that she decided to come back because Ron couldn't move on after her demise. She promised to help Ron win the national horse racing championship which was not possible in the physical world due to premature death.The White Chariot by Boniface Ossai is a thought provoking, inspiring and suspenseful book which captures the raving beauty of the horse racing sport in the county of Dallas and the mysterious bond between a jockey and her racing partner. This horse-man covenant goes well beyond the traditional century-old bond between the horse and its rider in a manner that leaves fans quite fascinated.
The Art of Baseball
Malachi, Elizajane, Noah, and Elias had had the best Saturday ever playing baseball on a magic diamond with the game's greatest. Of course they wanted to go back, but on a weekday? Noah had a better idea-they would practice. If they wanted to hold their own with the other players, they would have to get better quickly. "Coach" Malachi takes them through all kinds of drills to improve strength, accuracy, and mental awareness. On Saturday, the kids would be as ready as they would ever be to face their stiff competition. How would the game turn out? During practice, the kids learn the value of hard work and dedication, as well as an appreciation for our National Pastime. And they are certainly rewarded for it on the magic diamond.
Late Life
Cleveland, Ohio. 2007. Cooper Madison, now fully recovered from Tommy John surgery, has rediscovered his passion for baseball and is once again regarded as the best pitcher in the game. His fastball has developed what experts refer to as having "late life", making him more dominant against opposing hitters than at any point in his career. Coop's love for girlfriend Cara Knox has never been stronger, but an unexpected tragedy threatens to rip them apart just as his baseball career is getting back on track. Torn between accomplishing his goals on the mound and being there for Cara, Coop soon realizes that every decision in life has consequences, especially when choosing between the two things he loves most. Perhaps nobody can relate more to Coop's dilemma than Cara's oldest brother, Detective Jason Knox. In the wake of making national headlines as the cop who helped solve the Edgewater Park Killer case, the veteran detective is forced to make a choice of his own when a grizzly discovery halfway across the country jeopardizes to reveal that the EPK saga is anything but solved.
Star on the Rise
Liam Osborne had a dream- to play professional football for Clifton Rangers.Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for...In the second book in the series, Liam Osborne finds himself thrust into the limelight as his beloved Clifton Rangers make their return to the topflight.With a small squad and a scheming chairman, former player and current manager Harry Welch knows how difficult it's going to be to stay there. Its 1991 and with the riches of the Premier League on the horizon he knows they can't afford to be relegated.It's a lot of pressure for a nineteen-year-old in his third season as a professional footballer. Follow Liam as he battles to come to terms with his newfound fame while dealing with all the insecurities that come with being a teenage star.Inspired by his experiences as a professional footballer is this latest novel from Anthony Potts. It is a chance to go behind the scenes in the brutal world of professional sports.Other books by Anthony PottsRead the first book in the Liam Osborne series- Eye on the Ball
The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah is a fictional novel detailing the demise and eventual collapse of Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and all college sports circa 2029. Everyone has their own opinions as to the causes but follow as sports writer Ron Mills details each collapse in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Demise. This is followed by a series of newspaper articles by ninety year old former sportscaster the cantankerous Floyd Beal who has his own opinions of what not only happened to sports in America but the demise of the country itself. While the collapse of the sports was discouraging follow along as attorney Shaun O'Leary fights to bring sports back to America with his own innovative ideas. Can one man make a difference? Its up to O'Leary, but is it too late? The book is filled with actual sports stories and history to compliment the fictional characters. Jeffery Coffey is a husband, father, and grandfather. He is the author of Coming Back: Matthew 6:34 a motivational inspirational book. Coming Back has been read all over the world and received notations from a U.S. Air Force Major in Afghanistan. It reached Barnes and Noble Top 100 in 2010 and was reviewed by ESPN for a possible movie. Jeffery has a background in sports and has coached and played at every level from youth to professional. This background led him to realize that every decade there seemed to be less interest in sports at every level from youth sports to professional leagues and even his own interest waned. This is his first fictional work. This three year project involved hours of research into the history of each sport leading to the fiction aspects of the book that detail the collapse of sports in America.
The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah is a fictional novel detailing the demise and eventual collapse of Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and all college sports circa 2029. Everyone has their own opinions as to the causes but follow as sports writer Ron Mills details each collapse in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Demise. This is followed by a series of newspaper articles by ninety year old former sportscaster the cantankerous Floyd Beal who has his own opinions of what not only happened to sports in America but the demise of the country itself. While the collapse of the sports was discouraging follow along as attorney Shaun O'Leary fights to bring sports back to America with his own innovative ideas. Can one man make a difference? Its up to O'Leary, but is it too late? The book is filled with actual sports stories and history to compliment the fictional characters. Jeffery Coffey is a husband, father, and grandfather. He is the author of Coming Back: Matthew 6:34 a motivational inspirational book. Coming Back has been read all over the world and received notations from a U.S. Air Force Major in Afghanistan. It reached Barnes and Noble Top 100 in 2010 and was reviewed by ESPN for a possible movie. Jeffery has a background in sports and has coached and played at every level from youth to professional. This background led him to realize that every decade there seemed to be less interest in sports at every level from youth sports to professional leagues and even his own interest waned. This is his first fictional work. This three year project involved hours of research into the history of each sport leading to the fiction aspects of the book that detail the collapse of sports in America.
A Ticket for a Seamstitch
This is the third novel narrated by Henry Wiggen, a six-foot three-inch, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Henry, who began as a rookie in The Southpaw and developed into a pro in Bang the Drum Slowly, is a mature veteran in A Ticket for a Seamstitch. A seamstress from "somewhere out West" writes to Henry, her hero, that she will be in New York to watch the Mammoths play on the Fourth of July. When she arrives in New York, both the married Henry and his pal, the very unmarried Thurston "Piney" Woods, are at a loss as to what to do with their visitor. The two men finally do the decent thing: they take the seamstress to the automat for dinner. In so doing, they both learn some things worth knowing, although the distraction undoubtedly affects their performance in the big game. In the essay "Easy Does It Not" Mark Harris describes the origins of this wonderfully comic novel.
What a Footballer!
"Daniel Malka began with nothing. He earned everything by blood, sweat and tears. He won many championships for his club and for the national team. However, unexpected misfortune ruined his life." What a Footballer tells the story of a poor boy named Daniel Malka who got the opportunity to represent a football club and moved from extreme poverty to great riches. With an enriched lifestyle of money, fame, luxurious rides, and everything he desired, Daniel lived his life to the fullest, albeit carelessly.Before long, he lost everything his career gave him, his fame, money, connections, and even his health, through lavish spending and careless associations. He ruined his life with luxury expenses, false companions, and mixing with the wrong girls. He quickly returned to his old life of pain and hunger, unfulfilled hopes and aspirations, mockery and disappointment.Money and fame are two of the most powerful assets that a human can possess. They either bring out our best or our worst, depending on how we handle them. Daniel handled money and fame the wrong way. He grew up in hardships, and his relationship with survival was harsh. So he saw careless spending and associating with the wrong crowd as his way to run from poverty. Oh, how wrong he was!He has now learned his lessons. All he wants is his wealth back as he promises to start a new life and live wisely if given a second chance. The question is will he get a second chance? Will he get back all he lost? Will Daniel start a new life if he regains his wealth and never lose his money all over again? Has he truly learned his lessons?Packed with life lessons, this book tells a story that many of us can relate to. It tells a 'behind the scenes' story of how people (like us) handle fame, wealth, pains, challenges, and struggles of everyday life. Is there a chance for redemption?Will Daniel and several others rise again?Get this Book Today to Find Out!From the same author of The Rise and Fall of a Poor man, ranked #1 in its genre on Amazon in 2017.
A Thing or Two About the Game
Brad is smart, idealistic, and unemployed, with a lifelong history of coming up short. When he stumbles into an arrangement to coach the Marlins, a softball team of eleven- and twelve-year-old girls, he sets out to accomplish something. But accomplish what? Girls' little league softball, he's told, is not about winning. Brad would just as soon win, but just teaching, he quickly realizes, will be hard enough. So Brad sets out to teach. To coax, cajole, and bribe his girls to run the bases aggressively, throw to the cutoffs, cover bases. The season progresses. Through ups and downs, through tears and small triumphs, the Marlins improve. Brad comes to understand and care about his players. But as the playoffs approach, Brad becomes increasingly aware . . . of rival coaches bending rules; of parents jockeying to advance their ambitions for their daughters; of convoluted off-field politics. Brad struggles to keep his focus on what matters. For it's all so familiar. The twisted, conflicting agendas that have troubled his paths through life and career: Here they are, once again, penetrating even this small world of girls' softball. This story about softball is also a story about people searching for meaning; it's about sorting through the tangles, and learning a thing or two about a game.
Not Just a Nightwatchman
Vandana Kumari Jena is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service. She writes novels, short stories and poems. Her short stories have been published in over twenty anthologies. Her works include two novels-The Dance of Death (2008) andClueless (2019); three collections of short stories-The Incubation Chamber (2014), The Future is Mine (2015) and One Rotten Apple and Other Stories (2018); and a collection of middles-In the Middle (2015). She lives in Mumbai.
Players Break Rules
His hockey coach's daughter is off-limits... The first time I met Preston Parker I slammed face-first into his wet, chiseled abs. In the men's locker room, of all places. As if that wasn't embarrassing enough, Mr. MVP gave me one of his killer smirks, right before dropping his towel in front of me. Just to prove a point. That no woman can resist him. Not even me. Now, he keeps finding ways to see me, touch me.And I find myself wanting to break my dad's rules about his players. Rules I never break for a reason. Because falling for a player like Parker... was never part of the plan.
Players Love Hard
To keep her, he needs to step up his game... After a bad breakup, I'm not looking for another relationship.I'd rather drown my sorrows in beer, hockey, and video games. And that's how I end up kissing my only female friend. Shannon is the perfect escape from my past. But after a few drinks, one hot kiss leads to another, and before I know it, I'm breaking my no-dating rules. Shannon is smart and determined, a sexy baker who gives me a sweet tooth. But when my past crashes into our future, we need more than chemistry to stay together.
Players Keep Score
He'll do anything to win her heart... Everyone on campus knows Drake Donovan for all the wrong reasons.Women think I'm a player, a womanizer, but I'm neither of those things. Years ago, I created a fake persona to hide my secret...And the girl who hates my guts knows the truth. I would do anything for a second with Taylor.But she doesn't think a player like me is capable of love. We start as friends, but to get the benefits, there's one catch...I have to make her fall in love with me. And I'm up for the challenge.
Players Break Hearts
She's the girl he walked away from...And now, she's the one he can't forget. After getting suspended from playing hockey, I've hit rock bottom and failing another class. Out of luck and options, I hire a tutor. But I never expected the person behind the screen name to be my ex-hookup. Samantha still hates my guts for giving her the "Tucker Kane treatment" in the past. She wants nothing to do with me and makes me work for every second I spend with her. But as we get closer, a mysterious blogger wreaking havoc on campus turns her sights on me, threatening our future.
Players Always Win
They say you never forget your first kiss with a hot hockey player... When my sorority sisters gave me a checklist to complete, I never expected the last item to say Kiss a Hot Jock. I'm new to campus, clueless about sports at Strick U. And then I see him in the Quad-Trent Kane. With his muscular arms, confident strut, and killer smirks, I know he's the right man for the job. The blond Adonis has the body of an athlete and the face of a model. But one kiss is not enough for Trent. He shows up at my sorority house, frat parties, even the carnival kissing booth. On the mend from a breakup, I'm not looking for another relationship... but this sexy hockey player never turns down a challenge.
Only One Forever (Only One Series 8)
From The Something So Series and the This Is series comes Only One Forever.DylanMy dreams came true when I was adopted at ten.I was the best on the ice. Living the life of what every kid dreams of.We've been best friends since then. Even when she was the annoying little sister following us around.I would do anything for her.It is another family vacation; except this time it feels different. Everything feels different.AlexAll my memories have Dylan in them. From the first time I fell off my bike, to the time I got my heartbroken for the first time.He's always been my protector, but it's time to let the dream of being his go.One last family trip, one last goodbye.Except fate steps in and has other plans.At the end of the day, you only get one forever.
Return Passage
A musician seeks inspiration on the open sea and finds it in the most unexpected way. Myles and Rose are twins. Despite the success of their musical duet, they can't manage to break out. Myles knows they're missing something if only he could pin it down. Vonda's attempts to restart her life keep sinking beneath the waves. She needs to chart a new course. A chance meeting on Maui and a leisurely five-week sailboat ride to Victoria, Canada changes the future for all three of them.
We Should Have Kept the Dog
In the backwater flatlands of a small southern Indiana town on a storied, old nine-hole golf course hard on the banks of the Ohio River a 15-year-old boy enjoys the summer of 1961 playing golf and learning about life. For this young man, the summer starts in June as a contestant in an adult 36-hole tournament in southern Illinois, a tournament that he leads after the first hole. The summer ends in August in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 18th hole of his first match in his first men's match play tournament. It tells of the events that made up his summer and the last summer of the grand old golf course and its culture.
Solo Crossing
When a man loses everything, that is when the possibilities begin.Ron had it all: the career, the big house, the sailing hobby, the great girlfriend. He always looked ahead, never behind. Never had to. Until the day it all went away.Left with nothing but his boat and a childhood dream of circumnavigating the globe, he set sail, looking for the future.When a storm lashes him during his first crossing, he finally looks at what he left behind.Come sail the seas in this opener to M. L. Buchman's latest short story series.
The Wildcards
In the era of major sponsors and all time Grand-Slam Champions, can a couple of Aussie wildcard teenagers really make a breakthrough in the world of tennis?Melbourne brothers, Tim and Jack Anderson, find themselves living on their grandparent's farm in rural Victoria. The city boys, resentful at being sent away while their father undergoes extensive medical treatment, are also angry at having to start at a new high school in the small community of Winjarra. Yet, despite their reservations, they find new friends and possible romance. A chance introduction to tennis surprises them when they discover an aptitude and untapped skills.Their obsession with the game leads to dreams of a tennis future, but they are late starters in a game where some prodigies have been playing since kindergarten. How much are the brothers prepared to sacrifice? Will they ever manage to close the gap on those who have been playing for years? For despite all their natural talent and flair, the big question that haunts them is a simple one. Are they good enough?The Wildcards - In a world of close calls and tight margins, can the brothers' talent, desire and passion make them winners on and off the court?
Diamonds Are Trumps
Lovers of America's greatest game once again have the chance to spend time in the compassionate, funny, and oh-so-humane presence of author Marty Slattery with this new publication of his novel Diamonds Are Trumps. Through his character Bill Mahoney, Slattery shares his personal knowledge of the game (he pitched in the minor leagues) and his consuming passion for its players. With bone chips in his elbow that make his arm hurt all the way up to his ear, and scars on his middle-aged soul, Mahoney is something of a wounded knight errant. But when the umpire yells "Play ball!" Bill rises to dance to baseball's perpetual melody. Emotionally hollow and growing more passive with each birthday, Bill is skidding through his life, aching from lost loves and unfulfilled hopes. But the Dream is not done with him yet, and gradually, Bill understands the gifts the game can give him. In this 2008 publication of Diamonds Are Trumps-with a new introduction by Dr. James P. Elliott-author Marty Slattery gives his readers the gift of a funny, poignant, and lyrical novel about baseball as it's played in the minor leagues and life as it's played beyond the dugout.
Last Shot
It was love at first sight. The instant Victoria Newhouse took my hand, I was a goner. I wanted her with every fiber of my being.Except she was the daughter of the team's owner and I wasn't allowed to want her.Her father made that very clear, and if I wanted to keep my contract with the Minnesota Raiders professional hockey team, then I'd do whatever he said.Fast forward nine years: Victoria now sees me as merely the grumpy Russian. I play well. I keep my head down. I make sure to stay out of trouble. Still, trouble seems to find me.Fate throws me and Tori together again and again. It's getting too hard to keep my hands off of her, to stop myself from kissing her senseless.Especially when she starts to kiss me back.The sparks are still there, but with threats of the past coming back to haunt us, I know I need to keep my distance, for her sake and for my kids. I know a guy like me isn't allowed to have what he wants. And yet I don't want to be the strong and silent type anymore. I want Tori today, tomorrow, and always.This might be my last shot at redemption. And I'm willing to risk it all for love.Last Shot is Book 3 in the Minnesota Raiders series.
Scoring the Keeper’s Sister
Fernando Fuerte is a total player. In every sense of the word. He's star forward for the Sharks, the pro soccer team where I handle PR. And I don't care if Mr. Match says he's my soulmate. I don't date players.But when my brother tells me there's no way Fuerte would ever go out with me anyway? All bets are off. I'll score him just to prove a point. Because if there's one thing I hate more than players? It's losing.The problem is, the closer I get to Fuerte, the closer I get to losing my heart.The Setup: When my boyfriend, Andrew-the-hand-model, dumped me, my twin brother suggested I try San Diego's hottest dating app, Mr. Match.I figured I couldn't do worse than a guy who wore gloves all the time. (And I do mean ALL the time.)But when the site matched me with my biggest PR nightmare and nemesis, Fernando "the Fire" Fuerte, a guy who has more dates than a calendar, I knew Mr. Match was probably high. Fuerte's tabloid shenanigans turned my stomach and regularly challenged my ability to keep the Sharks organization looking respectable.My brother Trace--Fuerte's best friend and keeper for the Sharks--laughed at me when I told him who I'd been matched with. He laughed. I might take myself a little bit seriously, but I won't be laughed at.Fernando Fuerte will go out with me if I decide that's what I want. And when Trace makes me a bet that I can't get him to ask me out? A bet that involves very fancy cheese?It's on.The problem is that the closer I get to Fuerte, the more I start to see that he's actually a good guy. And the closer I get to becoming just another girl in his long line of dates.If I fall for him, can I win more than just the ridiculous cheese bet I made with my brother? Can I actually win Fuerte's love?Scoring with the Keeper's Sister is a hilariously fun romantic comedy featuring an annoyingly hot pro soccer player, a gloriously silly goalie as his best friend, a bet about Wensleydale cheese, and the matchmaking site everyone is talking about. It's part of a lighthearted and fun series, but it stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.
Heronk
Meet the unlikeliest of heroes: Gustav, a wooden goose decoy.His story begins after his creation at the hands of an old German craftsman in 1930's Illinois. Over the course of the next half century, he is pulled along by the current of rivers, pushed by the energy of providence and influenced by the power of the human spirit.Through many travels and unexpected travails, his story offers a unique and insightful glimpse into the world of the waterfowler. Who would think that glass eyes, glued into a wooden head, could see the world so clearly?This is the large print edition of Heronk, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Heronk
Meet the unlikeliest of heroes: Gustav, a wooden goose decoy.His story begins after his creation at the hands of an old German craftsman in 1930's Illinois. Over the course of the next half century, he is pulled along by the current of rivers, pushed by the energy of providence and influenced by the power of the human spirit.Through many travels and unexpected travails, his story offers a unique and insightful glimpse into the world of the waterfowler. Who would think that glass eyes, glued into a wooden head, could see the world so clearly?
Heronk
Meet the unlikeliest of heroes: Gustav, a wooden goose decoy.His story begins after his creation at the hands of an old German craftsman in 1930's Illinois. Over the course of the next half century, he is pulled along by the current of rivers, pushed by the energy of providence and influenced by the power of the human spirit.Through many travels and unexpected travails, his story offers a unique and insightful glimpse into the world of the waterfowler. Who would think that glass eyes, glued into a wooden head, could see the world so clearly?
