John Walters
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You can't see all the games that you love, either live or on TV. But you can read about them and see them afterward thanks to journalists who cover sports. Writers and reporters take you into the locker rooms and on to the practice fields, as well as make sure you know the latest action from the games themselves. Talented photographers use high-tech gear and years of experience to capture memorable images. Sports journalism is a rapidly changing field;...
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Millions of people follow college football with great passion, enjoying beloved traditions and exciting game action. For many players, however, college football is more than just fight songs and school spiritits a big step on the road to pro football. The truth is that only a select few make that transition, however. How is that situation affecting how college football is played and run? What changes are coming that will balance the scales? Or is...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Who's Number 1? It's every sports fan's biggest question. In Top 10 Olympic Champions, readers get a chance to meet gold-medal superstars and more--then it's up to them to decide who tops the list. Stats, stories, and facts help each reader have their own opinion. The book features record-breaking stars from yesterday and today." --
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Falling leaves, lettermens sweaters, and cheerleaders. Thats still high school football in many places. However, in many others, it has turned into a much, much bigger deal. Students and parents see the sport as a springboard to a scholarship or even a pro career. Specialization in coaching, increases in budgets, and more pressure to win have changed the game. New emphasis on player safety is also playing a big role. A veteran sports journalists looks...
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A woman doomed to fall endlessly backwards in time unexpectedly finds an unusual and enigmatic romance. An elderly homeless man's debit card becomes a magical fountain of money. As predatory aquatic aliens invade the Earth, a formerly disabled young woman obtains the power to fight back. A terminal cancer patient discovers a dark fantasy world where he embarks upon a quest towards a tantalizing yet ephemeral goal.In these fast-paced but subtly-wrought...
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It is the late 1960s... In this sequel to "The One Thousand" a team composed of humans and benevolent aliens hunt for murderous, alien-possessed convicts with enhanced powers who have escaped from prison. They discover that this fellowship of psychopaths is preparing an elaborate party for hippies and other street people in a remote mansion built to simulate a Medieval castle, and that they are planning to slaughter everyone who attends. Now the seven...
8) Time Zone
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In a world whose inhabitants routinely visit famous historical events, two jaded road-weary tourists take a holiday in an isolated retrograde enclave where time travel is forbidden.
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In the near future, as societies continue to erode and the gap between rich and poor widens, inexpensive college camps spring up around the country as an alternative form of higher education. At one such camp, a partially dysfunctional veteran and a woman alienated from her family meet and attempt to make sense out of the rapidly changing world.
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An estranged married couple remains in virtual worlds compiled from past memories while they await new younger bodies. Their adult children must cope with tense surrealistic visits with each of their parents as well as protestors that resent the resources spent on keeping older people alive.
An official investigating a gruesome suicide journeys to a castle in a remote valley on a far planet where a sexually profligate cult ritually imbibes a fungus...
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In these two related tales, a young artist being pursued by her abusive stepfather and a middle-aged man fleeing a terrifying incident from his past are recruited to join a society of people linked together by telepathy, which exists completely outside the awareness of the present world system.
13) Memory Shack
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While captive with his mother and sister and a trainload of other passengers traveling towards an ominous destination, a boy enters an interior fantasy that seems every bit as genuine as his present dire circumstances. Which is imagined and which is real? Can he help his family escape their fate by journeying with them into the alternate landscape of his dreams?
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It is the early 1970s. Their hunt for a group of alien-possessed psychopaths intent on igniting a rampage of mass murder leads the Team of Seven, composed of counterculture humans and benevolent aliens, to a prison in Turkey, war-ravaged Vietnam, a luxurious nuclear fallout shelter, and finally to direct confrontation with their enemies.
Book Four of The One Thousand Series
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An investigator journeys to a castle in a remote valley on a frontier planet to determine the motivation for a gruesome suicide. When he arrives, he encounters a sexually profligate cult focused on a local fungus with hallucinogenic properties. As he learns more about the alien psychedelic and its devoted users, he discovers a sinister threat to his sanity and his life.
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A dying detective's final assignment, to solve the mystery of a series of kidnappings of infants from maternity wards of hospitals, becomes complicated when he discovers that aliens are abducting the babies to use as vehicles for their non-corporeal colonists.An elderly warrior faces ignominious torture and death as a sacrificial scapegoat offering to prevent total warfare.Invisible aliens infiltrate human society as innocuous researchers, students,...
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An old man accosts a middle-aged vacationer on a remote South Pacific island and leads him to a luxurious mansion on top of a hill. Once there, he reveals that it was owned by the writer who was the inspiration for Jack London's masterpiece Martin Eden. London's novel ends tragically, but according to the old man, the real Martin Eden lived on and had many further adventures.
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After a rebellion aboard a starship sent to colonize a new world is put down, the rebels are rendered immobile around an orbiting satellite. However, while the starship officers and crew oversee the initial stages of the nascent outpost, the rebels use virtual reality technology to invade their communications and initiate a propaganda campaign designed to turn the colonists against their erstwhile leaders.
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Mexico has conquered much of the territory that once belonged to the United States. Americans are confused and disoriented. A lone, dying Native American searches for his people, a race of people that no one else believes ever existed. If he doesn't find them soon it will be too late.