John Walters
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Falling leaves, lettermens sweaters, and cheerleaders. Thats still high school football in many places. However, in many others, it has turned into a much, much bigger deal. Students and parents see the sport as a springboard to a scholarship or even a pro career. Specialization in coaching, increases in budgets, and more pressure to win have changed the game. New emphasis on player safety is also playing a big role. A veteran sports journalists looks...
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Millions of people follow college football with great passion, enjoying beloved traditions and exciting game action. For many players, however, college football is more than just fight songs and school spiritits a big step on the road to pro football. The truth is that only a select few make that transition, however. How is that situation affecting how college football is played and run? What changes are coming that will balance the scales? Or is...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
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You can't see all the games that you love, either live or on TV. But you can read about them and see them afterward thanks to journalists who cover sports. Writers and reporters take you into the locker rooms and on to the practice fields, as well as make sure you know the latest action from the games themselves. Talented photographers use high-tech gear and years of experience to capture memorable images. Sports journalism is a rapidly changing field;...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Who's Number 1? It's every sports fan's biggest question. In Top 10 Olympic Champions, readers get a chance to meet gold-medal superstars and more--then it's up to them to decide who tops the list. Stats, stories, and facts help each reader have their own opinion. The book features record-breaking stars from yesterday and today." --
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It is the late 1960s... In this sequel to "The One Thousand" a team composed of humans and benevolent aliens hunt for murderous, alien-possessed convicts with enhanced powers who have escaped from prison. They discover that this fellowship of psychopaths is preparing an elaborate party for hippies and other street people in a remote mansion built to simulate a Medieval castle, and that they are planning to slaughter everyone who attends. Now the seven...
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A woman doomed to fall endlessly backwards in time unexpectedly finds an unusual and enigmatic romance. An elderly homeless man's debit card becomes a magical fountain of money. As predatory aquatic aliens invade the Earth, a formerly disabled young woman obtains the power to fight back. A terminal cancer patient discovers a dark fantasy world where he embarks upon a quest towards a tantalizing yet ephemeral goal.In these fast-paced but subtly-wrought...
9) Rainfall
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Escaping a death sentence on a starship, three refugees come across a stone city that has been mysteriously abandoned. With a torrential rainstorm fast approaching, they become aware of a horrific menace lurking in tunnels beneath the city streets.
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Leon Wolf, an elite quarterback on a Super Bowl-bound football team, suddenly discovers that he has telepathic ability. At first, it merely seems an advantage in the game, as he can read the minds of his opponents and teammates and anticipate their moves. However, he is then approached by a representative of the mysterious Telepathic Guild and presented with a life-changing proposition.
11) Tim Duncan
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Tim Duncan towers head-and-shoulders above the NBA--in more ways than one. Find out how this three-time NBA champion almost didn't even make it to the gym! They are the heroes, the winners, the champions. They are the people whose exploits thrill and inspire us all. They are the World's Greatest Athletes, and this series celebrates their lives and accomplishments. Written by top national sportswriters, the volumes in this series feature outstanding...
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In a shattered post-apocalyptic world, physical books have become invaluable. Somehow a wandering ex-mercenary and a dedicated librarian must save an entire library in an abandoned village on the shore of the Brahmaputra River in Northeast India from a mob of murderous marauding scavengers heading downriver.
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After a famous fantasy writer is murdered in his castle-like mansion, two unlikely investigators discover a pattern of similar murders suggesting a serial killer. They begin to research the killings, starting with the most recent and working backwards into the past. Danger mounts as they uncover the backgrounds of the victims and the truth begins to resemble the fantasy writer's most bizarre and horrific fiction.
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While taking an experimental hallucinogen that turns extreme pain into vivid illusions, a terminal cancer patient discovers a dark group fantasy whose price of admission is pain. A team of unlikely gamers join him in a quest to discover the tantalizing secret at the end of the road.
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A woman agrees to take part in a research program that will propel her backwards in time on a one-way, never-ending journey. On one of her pauses during her tumble into the past, she meets someone who seems to know her, and they initiate an unusual and enigmatic romance.
17) Highwayman
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On a primitive frontier planet, a woman's companions are killed by a monstrous creature while traversing an isolated canyon on horseback. Teamed only with a near-feral orphan child, she determines to kill the monster so it won't endanger future travelers.
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Four science fiction thrillers in one volume
The One Thousand: Book 1
It is the late 1960s...
What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers? So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities, which he intends to share around with the other inmates before unleashing hell on Earth in the form of a murderous rampage. Only William Stafford, a Vietnam War veteran unjustly convicted of killing a girlfriend, can stop him. But, to do...
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A recently divorced woman joins a virtual community in search of social acceptance and companionship. After fashioning a new identity for herself, she sets off to explore the meticulously created landscapes of this new world, unaware that the beautiful environments are rife with human predators.
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During the Fourth World War, the entire Earth is engulfed in a torrent of fire, transforming the landscape and obliterating all life. Using terraforming, time travel, and other expediencies, human survivors from Moonbase and the outer colonies attempt to cope with their devastating loss, reconstruct the Earth's surface, and reorganize Earth sociologically to ensure lasting peace, while others plot to claim the pristine reconstituted planet for their...