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Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
27162) Winning (Rated PG)
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
27163) Make a trade, Charlie Brown!
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Springtime means it's baseball season, and Charlie Brown wants this to be the year his team finally wins a game! Charlie Brown's only option is to make some trades to improve his team. He calls Peppermint Patty to make a deal, but she tells him there's only one player on his team she wants, "he funny-looking little kid with the big nose." Snoopy! Peppermint Patty offers Charlie Brown five good players for Snoopy. But will Charlie Brown trade his beloved...
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, was born with a variety of medical problems. Determined to receive a good education, he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. There, the only other Indian is the...
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Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding operation. Then Andrew "Roo" Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. While on his honeymoon, Roo learned that Wallace was about to be put down. Roo and his wife franticly fought to keep Wallace alive until they could return home
...27167) Snoopy: Cowabunga!
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Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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A collection of Peanuts classics focused around Snoopy's adventures to master sports intended for humans. Includes flip-book animation.
27168) From the listening hills
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Newly gathered in book form, and just in time for Father's Day, here is a fantistically entertaining collection of short stories from Louis L'Amour--the master of great American storytelling. Fast-paced plotting, larger-than-life action, and vivid detail combine in the best L'Amour tradition, resulting in this wonderful collection: a dozen potent shots of storytelling magic. Highlights include"Anything for a Pal, "the first L'Amour short story ever...
27169) The young pitcher
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Walter J. Black
Pub. Date
[1939]
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English
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Ken Ward goes to college for two reasons: to get an education and to play baseball. But while suffering a freshman hazing, he punches a student who turns out to be the varsity baseball captain.
27170) Seabiscuit
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
27171) Field of dreams (Rated PG)
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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A Iowa farmer hears a voice that instructs him to plow down his crops and construct a baseball field. After doing so, the field is inhabited by spirits of dead baseball players. All-new digitally remastered and includes many new bonus features.
27172) Trouble with the curve
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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickey, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
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The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility...
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Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Barbie: The Barbies are perfect beings in a perfect place until stereotypical Barbie's owner in the real world is depressed. Weird Barbie suggests she go to the real world and correct the problem. Ken tags along and discovers that men are the leaders there, and he brings back patriarchy to Barbieland. Now no one is happy and the mess must be sorted.
Babylon: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple...
27175) Pelé: birth of a legend
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Pele. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of Baurú, Brazil, so poor that he couldn't afford a real soccer ball.
27176) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
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Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Coach Eric Taylor is the newest hire at a small town high school in Dillon, Texas. After a series of events leading to his release, Taylor is forced to build a football team from the ground up at the rival high school. His wife Tami, high school principal, faces scrutiny of her own as she takes constant blame from angry parents. But even through the hardships at work, challenges at home with teen daughter Julie, and endless drama, only one thing matters:...
27178) Knute Rockne, All American
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
�2006.
Language
English
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"I've decided to take up coaching as my life work," Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men.
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
©2018
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English
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"This lively, hands-on guide to meditation, mindfulness, and yoga is a perfect introduction for tweens and teens. Don't just do something, be here. The key to happiness is being able to find comfort in this moment, here and now. When you are completely present and not distracted by regrets, worries, and plans, even for a little while, you begin to feel more confident and can deal more easily with everything you experience. This is mindfulness: paying...
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Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
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