By Chad Harbach
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 26, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.

By Harlan Coben
Series Myron Bolitar Novels

When veteran golfer Jack Coldren, staging a comeback at the U.S. Open, is found dead in a sand trap, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates, digging through twenty years of secrets to find a killer who is closer to him than he imagined.

By Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2018. 1:30 PM.

In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.

By John Grisham
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher (From the Publisher).”

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long–standing record at the 1994 US Open.

By Kwame Alexander

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

By Ron Irwin

Working-class Rob receives a rowing scholarship to the Fenton School, where the team captain's brutal urge to win leads to tragedy.

By Jerry Amernic

Follows the coming-of-age of a young man who makes a special connection with his grandfather at the end of the latter’s life, a period marked by the grandfather’s hero-worship of Babe Ruth and memories about one of the athlete’s early home runs.

By Chris Cleave
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.

By Kathleen West
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Twenty years after she failed to make the final roster on her hockey team that went for Olympic gold, Leigh returns to her Minnesota home town so that her daughter, a hockey prodigy, can have the chance she missed.

By Harlan Coben
Series Myron Bolitar Novels

When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client’s past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.

By Jaimy Gordon
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“National Book Award-finalist Gordon's new novel begins and ends at a backwoods race track in early-1970s West Virginia, where horse trainer Tommy Hansel dreams up a scam (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Victoria Patterson

The Canadian women's track and field team meets many challenges at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the first games in which women were allowed to compete in track and field.

By John Grisham
Recommended By Rosemary Moran, Senior Library Clerk

Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language,and romance.

By Walter Dean Myers

A love of basketball isn’t necessary to enjoy this gritty, feelingly told tale, but it would certainly help. Myers uses contemporary urban black phrasing to relay his narrator’s view of the mean streets of Harlem, as well as describe some heart–thumping hoop action in a novel that, like most good sports stories, is about more than just sports.

By Pete Hamill

Michael Devlin, an 11–year–old Irish American, meets Rabbi Hirsch, recently arrived from Europe, and in return for teaching the rabbi about baseball and English, the rabbi teaches Michael Yiddish and tells him about Prague, until an Irish gang becomes violent in its anti–Semitism.

By Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series

When the small community of Beartown learns their amateur ice hockey team may be disbanded, the tensions mount, but a surprising new coach offers a chance at a comeback.