John Walters
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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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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
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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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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...
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During the Fourth World War, the entire Earth is engulfed in a torrent of fire, transforming the landscape and obliterating all life. Using terraforming, time travel, and other expediencies, human survivors from Moonbase and the outer colonies attempt to cope with their devastating loss, reconstruct the Earth's surface, and reorganize Earth sociologically to ensure lasting peace, while others plot to claim the pristine reconstituted planet for their...
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After his grown children move out, a divorced writer faces the prospect of living alone in a small apartment in Seattle. Instead, he buys a camper van, dubs it Good Fortune, and sets out on the road full time. As he journeys down the U.S. West Coast, he experiences ostracism, acceptance, harassment, and unexpected romantic encounters. In his youth, he spent years wandering around the world, and he begins to reconnect with his road roots, regaining...
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Content is being siphoned from libraries and replaced with half-truths and lies. Weather, time, and distances are distorting like images in a funhouse mirror. People are discovering the ability to morph into animals. At first it all seems idyllic and magical until a dark power begins to manifest itself, assert control, and demand obedience.
Ethan is a university student caught in the midst of a kaleidoscopic confusion he cannot understand. After...
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Long have the clandestine members of the Telepathic Guild assisted individuals, corporations, and governments by means of their unique skills. Guild Home functions as a headquarters and a refuge, and its strict regulations foster unity and discipline.In this linked series of stories, a guild member falls in love with an outsider and is faced with a life-changing decision; a group of young people rebel against the guild's stringent rules; a famous...
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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 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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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.
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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 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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In a shattered post-apocalyptic world, physical books have become invaluable. Somehow a wandering ex-mercenary and a dedicated librarian must save an entire library in an abandoned village on the shore of the Brahmaputra River in Northeast India from a mob of murderous marauding scavengers heading downriver.