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41) My forever home
Author
Series
Rescue me (Debbie Burns) volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vet school drop-out Tess Grasso dreams of having her own pet therapy business, but she meets one obstacle after another. There's no denying she has a way with animals, so in the meantime she puts her skills to use at a local no-kill shelter. Between helping her furry companions and a budding relationship with fellow dog lover Mason Redding, Tess begins to find fresh confidence. What Tess doesn't know is that Mason is recovering from an accident, hoping...
Author
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
Off the field, baseball star Cory Brand is spiraling out of control. One moment... one mistake... changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the local Little League team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can't escape... and the love he left behind. Cory embarks on a journey of faith, transformation and redemption...
Author
Publisher
Urano World
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La familia de Georgette Castle regenta la mejor empresa de reformas de la ciudad, pero ella prefiere ganarse la vida como animadora de fiestas infantiles. Es la pequeña de la familia y quizás por eso nadie la toma en serio, pero está decidida a que eso cambie: quiere impulsar su negocio, renovar a fondo su armario, salir más... y dejar de suspirar por Travis Ford."--
"Georgette Castle's family runs the best renovation company in the city, but...
Author
Publisher
W by Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you've got to leave your heart on the field. Gretchen Harper has always been practical. Dependable, solid, predictable. She's never taken risks, and she's especially never bought coffee for gorgeous professional athletes in airports. That is, until she meets her favorite baseball player on the worst day of his career. Being sent to the minor league is just the first of Joshua Malvern's many worries--he's got an injury that won't heal and...
45) Steal away home
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of those loves ruined him. Now he's counting on the other to save him. Baseball always came easy for Owen Cross. His innate talents were honed beneath the stiff hand of a father who wanted nothing more than for his son to succeed where he had failed. The girl was a little more complicated. Owen loved Micky Dullahan from the first time they met, on a lonely hill overlooking the depressed...
46) Hometown hero
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Andrew "Ace" Braddock is a player in every sense of the word. The center fielder for the Austin Lone Stars, he's also been at the center of numerous sports scandals involving beer, bars, and baseball bunnies. But when he takes the fall for a teammate, Ace wakes up in the hospital, injured and in serious trouble. He's sent to lie low and recover at his family ranch in Silverlake, Texas, where he's saddled with his worst nightmare: his high school...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Gene Ionescu, a gay trans man in his third year in the minors with the Beaverton Beavers, is a solid shortstop, but he's no one's idea of a major league prospect. He's just happy to be here, though, getting underpaid six months of the year to play the sport he's loved since childhood -- a game that favors underdogs and optimists. He likes to keep his hopes in the day, inning by inning and game by game. But his plans go awry when Luis Estrada -- Gene's...
50) Magic time
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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