Has Sports In It

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Updated July 14, 2025
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The cactus league
Nemens, Emily
Ebook
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Lit Hub. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed...
Carrie Soto is back : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam" (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Desperation reef
Parker, T. Jefferson
Paper Book
In this high-stakes thriller by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, ("A marvel...hits the high-water mark for crime fiction every time out." --Gregg Hurwitz), a big wave surfer and her sons compete in the same contest...
Don't skip out on me : a novel
Vlautin, Willy
Ebook
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's...
Far from normal
Wallace, Becky
Ebook
From Stealing Home author Becky Wallace comes a Devil Wears Prada-inspired YA romance, in which "normal girl" Maddie must repair the image of Major League Soccer's bad boy to ace her internship. A perfect read for fans of Morgan Matson and Miranda Kenneally. ...
Rez ball
Graves, Byron
Paper Book
This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school...
Running the rift : a novel
Benaron, Naomi
Ebook
Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it&rsquo...
Shoeless Joe
Kinsella, W. P.
Ebook
Ray Kinsella is sitting quietly on the back porch of his Iowa farm one evening when he hears the ghostly voice of a baseball announcer who says to him, "If you build it, he will come." Needing no further explanation, Kinsella immediately sees in his mind's eye a baseball field that he is being...
Spiral
Khabra, Bal
Ebook
AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER He's on edge while she's en pointe in this fake-dating sports romance from the author of the smash hit Collide. Elias Westbrook, a newly drafted hockey player for the Toronto Thunder, is facing...
The sportswriter
Ford, Richard
Ebook
In this "powerful" blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life...
Think twice
Coben, Harlan
Paper Book
A man presumed dead is suddenly wanted for murder in this thriller of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracies that threaten to cover up the truth.   Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball...

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