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1) Headshot
Author
Publisher
Daunt Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight. This is a...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About KevinAllergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she?s hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees.�As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.Which should be good for...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
RICHARD LLOYD PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES From the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an extraordinary novel about Britain, sport and our collective past. February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the young Manchester United team, 'the Busby Babes', and the journalists who followed them. Twenty-one of the passengers died instantly, four were left fighting for their lives while six more...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Being a dancer at New York?s most elite ballet school isn?t easy. Everyone wants to be the prima ballerina, and sometimes you have to play dirty. With the competition growing fiercer with every performance and harmless pranks growing ever darker, Bette, June and Gigi find themselves battling it out to stay at the top. And it?s only a matter of time before one small spark ignites? and even the best get burned?.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 'There's something about Carrie I will take forward with me in my life and be a little better for. This book comes out in a few short weeks and you should preorder it. It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minute with the hole it left in my chest . . . just order it'...
6) Centaur
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Coping with your own death, when you are not yet dead, is a strange thing ... A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became one of the most brilliant jockeys of his generation before his world came crashing down at the final hurdle of a race at Haydock Park. His skull shattered in 12 places, he was believed to be dead, the last rites were read and the Racing Post published his obituary....
Author
Series
Funny Kid volume 5
Publisher
ABC Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
'Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen. Only now he's been forced to join the local ice-hockey team, and there's nothing funny about slipping over and getting a frozen bum. Or is there? Max is the funny kid ... and this time he's skating on thin ice! Epic fails, a wrestling rhinoceros called Roxanne, fake news, locker rooms filled with popcorn and the dreaded return of Mr Armstrong are just some of the things in store...
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