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A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring...
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Series
Beartown volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The long-awaited conclusion to the beloved New York Times bestselling and "engrossing" (People) Beartown series--which inspired an HBO series of the same name--follows the small hockey town's residents as they grapple with change, pain, hope, and redemption."--
Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. While the residents of Beartown struggle to overcome the past, great change is on the horizon. Someone is coming home...
6) The score
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Off-campus volume 3
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English
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Allie Hayes is in crisis mode. With graduation looming, she still doesn't have the first clue about what she's going to do after college. To make matters worse, she's nursing a broken heart thanks to the end of her longtime relationship. Wild rebound sex is definitely not the solution to her problems, but gorgeous hockey star Dean Di Laurentis is impossible to resist. Just once, though, because even if her future is uncertain, it sure as heck won't...
7) The goal
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Off-campus volume 4
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English
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College senior Sabrina James does not plan to get involved with hockey player John Tucker, but when their one night of passion turns into something more, both Sabrina and John must rethink their future plans.
8) The mistake
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Off-campus volume 2
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English
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He's a player in more ways than one ... College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final...
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Boxcar children volume 80
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English
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When a professional hockey player comes to Greenfield with plans to build an ice skating rink, the Alden children suspect that someone in town wants to stop the project.
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Maple Hills volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Enemies to Lovers Romance Trope
He Falls First Romance
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
Women's History Month: Strong FMC
He Falls First Romance
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
Women's History Month: Strong FMC
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"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means...
11) The deal
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Series
Off-campus volume 1
Publisher
Elle Kennedy Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"New York Times bestseller Elle Kennedy brings you the first in the sexy Off-Campus series that everyone is talking about. She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy... Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to get her crush's attention, she'll have to step out of her...
12) Icebreaker
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Mickey James III is following in his father's (and grandfather's) skates by playing hockey at Hartland University, but he is not enjoying the situation: for one thing he is seriously depressed, unsure of anything, even whether he can make it as a hockey player (or wants to); more troubling his rival, Jaysen Caulfield, is also on the team and seems to bitterly resent him--and Mickey actually finds Jaysen very attractive and does not know how to deal...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"Lilah isn't sure what hurt worse: the day Ethan left her to focus on his hockey career or the day he came back eight years later. He might think they can pick up just where they left off, but she's no longer that same girl and never wants to be again. Ethan wants his glory days back. And that includes having Lilah by his side. With her, he was magic. They were magic. All he has to do is make her see that. Just when Lilah might finally be ready to...
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother--and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and...
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HarperCollins Canada
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The incredible true story of the trailblazing men who risked everything to pass through the Iron Curtain and become NHL superstars, Breakaway is a thrilling look at the stories that changed hockey forever. From midnight meetings in secluded forests, to evading capture by military and police forces, this is the story of the brave players whose passion of the game trumped all.
Featuring exclusive interviews with the legends of the ice who put
...16) Check, please!
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Series
Check please! volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Y'all... I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It's nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack... You see the problem."-Page [2] of cover.
17) Checked
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Publisher
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.
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Bromance book club volume 4
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"With his passion for romance novels, it was only a matter of time before Vlad took up the pen to write the love story of a lifetime. Elena Konnikova has lived her entire adult life in the shadows. As the daughter of a Russian journalist who mysteriously disappeared, she escaped danger the only way she knew how: She married her childhood friend, Vladimir, and moved to the United States, where he is a professional hockey player in Nashville. Vlad,...
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North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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From Connor McDavid in Edmonton to Auston Matthews in Toronto, the hottest young hockey players are already tearing up the ice. With their amazing skill and unique playing styles, these stars are bringing new life to the sport and some of its most famous teams, and they're only just getting started. Hockey's New Wave gives readers a front-row seat to this transition from one generation to the next, with pages full of information about these players,...
20) Mystery, Alaska
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.