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1. Long shot
Publisher:
Lionsgate
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
2. Long shot
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Lexile measure:
910L
Language:
English
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A point guard for his school basketball team, Pedro decides to run for class president, but his running mate, Ned, who happens to be the most popular boy in school and Pedro's teammate, does not appreciate the competition.
3. Long shot
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Series:
Hoops volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A forbidden love story set in the explosive world of the NBA . . . Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl? You don't. My fairy tale is upside down. A happily never after. I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud. I was a fool, and his love-fool's gold. Now there's a new player in the game, August West. One of the NBA's brightest stars. Fine. Forbidden. He wants me. I want him. But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won't let me...
4. Long shot
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In this New York Times bestselling autobiography, baseball legend Mike Piazza takes readers into his exceptional and storied career-from the rumors and controversies to his proudest achievements. In this remarkably candid autobiography, superstar Mike Piazza takes readers inside his life and career to show what it takes to make it to the major leagues and to stay on top. Piazza was drafted in the sixty-second round of the 1988 MLB draft, a courtesy...
6. Long Shot
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Publisher:
Energion Publications
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The chance of playing on any Division 1 college basketball team ... 1.3%. The chance of playing at your dream school ... practically 0%. It was a long shot to say the least. The road to Chapel Hill would begin early in Leah's young life and be comprised of mountain-tops and valleys and sunshines and storms. The journey was one of the highest of highs and lowest of lows. It would be a path that tested, challenged and grew her faith. The path to dreams...
7. Long Shot
Author:
Publisher:
Kat Mizera
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Welcome to Fort L where the days are hot and the Knights are hotter.Jace:I never expected to make it up to the big leagues. But now that I'm here, I'm never going back down. I will out-work, out-train, outdo every other guy on the Knights if that's what it takes. Not even a shark attack will get in my way… but the sexy surfer chick who rescues me just might.Tawny:Losing my soulmate taught me that life is short. And I'm going to spend the rest of...
8. Long Shot
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Publisher:
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date:
2002
Language:
English
Description:
When Nick and Kia arrive for try-outs for the basketball team they played on the previous year, they are surprised to meet their new coach. Coach Barkley is a former college star known for his fierce desire to win. Though the coach has been away from the game for many years, his competitive instincts are as strong as ever and his aggressive coaching techniques are a new experience for these kids. Suddenly making the rep team no longer seems the sure...
9. Long Shot
Author:
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
In 2002, at age nineteen, Azad was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, he deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum, became a citizen, and learned English. But in 2014, having returned to the Middle East as a social worker in the wake of the Syrian civil war, Azad found he would have to pick up a weapon once again. After twenty-one days...
10. Long Shot
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Kyle Swanson Sniper volume 9
Publisher:
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago. The defector proves to be an Edward Snowden-type gold mine of amazing secrets about the When, Where and How of President Vladimir Pushkin's next grab for lost Soviet territory. But Swanson, now a special contractor with the CIA, soon begins to believe that it...
Author:
Publisher:
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 580L
Language:
English
Description:
Although he is shorter than most of his classmates and everyone discourages him from trying out for the basketball team, eight-year-old Chris just works harder than everyone else so his size will not matter.
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Series:
Kyle Swanson sniper novel volume 9
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
"A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago. The defector proves to be an Edward Snowden-type gold mine of amazing secrets about the When, Where and How of President Vladimir Pushkin's next grab for lost Soviet territory. But Swanson, now a special contractor with the CIA, soon begins to believe that it...
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Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
"A gripping narrative by an Iran-born Kurdish journalist who joined the ranks of the Kurdish army as a sniper in the fight against ISIS. In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, Azad deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum, became a citizen, and learned English....
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Combine Seabiscuit with Manic-throw in a touch of HBO's "Temple Grandin"-and you get Long Shot, a truly remarkable memoir by Sylvia Harris. A single mother of three, Harris was crippled by bipolar depression, until she discovered the miraculous healing and calming effect of horses-a revelation that ultimately enabled her to manage her illness, conquer the sexism of her field, and triumph as a champion jockey in the male-dominated world of horse racing....
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Publisher:
Running Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
Description:
A New Town, a New School, a New Team-Can Laurie Emerge a Winner? When eleven-year-old Laurie Bird Preston learns her dad has accepted a job in another town, she's disappointed and angry. Not only will Laurie be leaving her best friend, Christy, and her position on the middle school basketball team, but she'll also have to make new friends in a new school and play for a new basketball team. To complicate matters, her dad's the new girls' basketball...
18. Long Shots
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Publisher:
Triumph Books
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
31 years after the Perfect Game - Villanova's shocking national championship upset over Georgetown - Nova struck again with the Perfect Shot, taking down North Carolina in one of the most thrilling finishes in sports history. The shot and second national title in school history were the culmination of 15 years of Coach Jay Wright painstakingly building the unheralded program, through ups and downs, heartbreak and triumph. In Long Shots: Jay Wright,...