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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...
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A "poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything ... Fredrik Backman knows that we are forever shaped by the places we call home, and ... explores what can happen when we carry the heavy weight of other people's dreams on our shoulders"--
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
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Professional hockey enforcers - popularly known as "goons" - finally get their due in this rollicking look at the players who have perfected the art of making mayhem. Whether they are called upon to duke it out with a fellow troublemaker or intimidate an opponent's top scorer, these are the men who get the crowds to their feet, the sports radio shows buzzing, and the TV Audience spilling their beers in excitement.Old timers like Joe Hall and Red Horner...
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"It takes truly special athletes to be superstars, whether they're catching touchdowns, scoring goals, or slamming home acrobatic dunks. The Sport Superstars series takes a look at some of these legendary athletes, their origin stories, and how they have influenced their sport."--Page 4 of cover
7) Slap shot
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The coach of the Chiefs, a struggling minor-league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition. --
8) Field hockey
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64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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Introduces the sport of field hockey and provides information on how to prevent and treat the most common injuries.
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xii, 339 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"The legacy of the greatest hockey series ever played, fifty years later, with stories from the players that shed new light on those incredible games and the era. "Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot. Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot. Right in front ... they score! Henderson has scored for Canada!" These immortal words, spoken to hockey fans around the world by the legendary broadcaster Foster Hewitt, capture...
11) How hockey works
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
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Provides a wide variety of information about hockey, explaining how the game works, discussing ice, skates, the puck, gear, techniques and skills, rules and regulations, and other topics, and featuring legends of the sport from hockey professionals.
12) Beginning hockey
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80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
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An introduction to the sport of ice hockey, including its history, equipment, techniques, and terminology.
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xv, 400 pages ; 24 cm
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For the first time, Gretzky discusses candidly what the game looks like to him and introduces us to the people who inspired and motivated him: mentors, teammates, rivals, the famous and the lesser known. Weaving together lives and moments from an extraordinary career, he reflects on the players who inflamed his imagination when he was a kid, the way he himself figured in the dreams of so many who came after; takes us onto the ice and into the dressing...
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"The author of the Canada Reads-nominated The Bone Cage tackles the ups and downs of amateur hockey, from a mother's point of view. Over 570,000 people are registered in Hockey Canada and over 600,000 in Hockey USA. It's a national obsession. But what does that really mean when your child wants to play on a team? As a former varsity athlete and university instructor teaching sport literature, novelist Angie Abdou is no stranger to sport obsession,...
17) Hockey in action
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Introduces the techniques, equipment, rules, and safety requirements of hockey.
18) The Mighty Ducks
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1 Blu-Ray videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A brash young attorney gets sentenced to community service -- coaching a losing hockey team from the wrong side of the tracks.
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Campus diaries volume 1
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491 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine-a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his...
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