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"TNT" - Troubled Nate Thomas. Dubbed so by the media because Nate's always getting into trouble. Talented, handsome, and halfway out the door, Nate Thomas is on his last chance with the Denver Broncos. No one will deny he's got skills - on the field and in the bedroom. However, his taste for the party lifestyle, his drinking, and his anger issues are putting his career in jeopardy.

"He shoots and he scores! Lightning Logan strikes again." That was me, Lightning Logan Jackson, because I was as fast as lightning on the ice. Playing for the NHL had been my dream since I was six years old, when my dad took me to my first hockey game. Hockey was my life. It consumed me. It was the one thing in life that I could commit to. Relationships were a no. Sex with beautiful women and no strings attached was a yes. I was a bachelor - happy and living the dream. Then the accident happened, and the doctors told me I'd never play hockey again.

Nine years ago, things were perfect. Lacey and Karson had found their happily ever after in each other... or so they thought. How do two people who were meant to be move on from that once-in-a-lifetime love?

Blessed with good looks and elite talent, Lincoln Ross is destined for greatness. He has all the tools to be the next Tiger but just can't get out of his own way. The lure of a beautiful girl and the taste of a cold drink is often too much temptation for the young man.

Firmare un contratto con una squadra sportiva è l'ultima cosa che un ragazzo in fuga dalla criminalità dovrebbe fare. Neil, però, è pronto a rischiare tutto, anche la propria vita, pur di giocare a Exy, uno sport che mescola elementi del lacrosse, giocato su un campo da calcio con tutta la cattiveria dell'hockey su ghiaccio. E quando gli arriva la proposta dei Foxes, non riesce a rifiutare. Sono squinternati, da anni ultimi in classifica, ma potrebbero rivelarsi proprio quello di cui Neil non sapeva di avere bisogno.

Davidù sale sul ring per la prima volta a nove anni. Cresciuto senza un padre - il Paladino, pugile fenomenale, morto poco prima della sua nascita - in una Palermo sporca, violenta e luminosa, sotto la protezione del gigantesco zio Umbertino e dell'enigmatico nonno Rosario, ci racconta cinquant'anni di storia, dalle bombe della seconda guerra mondiale a quelle di mafia del '92, accompagnato da una schiera di personaggi memorabili.

Best-selling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, as well as many of Mantle's friends, family members, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, 7, Mickey tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family. In this fictional portrait, Mantle, now in heaven, needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them.

In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love...

In this "smart, irreverent secret history" novel, a high-school senior investigates the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, where she discovers the rot at the heart of the institution—and the truth about her own past along the way (Stewart O'Nan). Frankie is a good...

The Raven King è il secondo audiolibro della acclamata serie All for the game: una trilogia di bestseller internazionali che, solo in Russia, il primo paese dove sono stati pubblicati, ha venduto oltre un milione di copie. Curato da Alessia Merlo e Rossella Pinto.

Twelve years ago Matthew "the Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was the number one NFL draft pick. But on the night of the draft, he plummeted from the pinnacle of esteem. Falsely accused...

"It's one hell of a sledgehammer to the chest when your baseball career comes to an end. It's like you finally realize that baseball never loved you back. All the sleepless nights, the hours spent at the gym trying to stay fit, the conditioning, the training, the mental preparation, the holidays missed, the birthdays passed, the memories you didn't get to make with your family...all for what? It's not like baseball lost any sleep over you."

In Steven Pressfield's richly imagined, vividly detailed story, golf legends Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen are joined by a local unsung opponent, the troubled war hero Rannulph Junah. Their match is thrilling competition, but the key to the outcome lies with caddie Bagger Vance, who carries the secret of the Authentic Swing.

Chicago Rebels goalie Erik gets his shot at love . . . but first he'll have to figure out what he did to offend the woman he's crushed on forever. Casey Higgins, assistant to the Chicago Rebels owner, has a smile for everyone who comes into the front office—everyone but goalie Erik Jorgenson. And he has no idea why. For the last year, she’s refused to give him a kind word, and finally, he’s had enough. At the Rebels holiday party he’ll uncover the root of their mysterious conflict and show this woman that goalkeepers do their best work . . . on their knees.

When Rebecca’s friend Abi convinces her to get away from it all at the fabulous Hawksley Manor hotel in York, it seems too good to be true. Pampering and relaxation are just what Rebecca needs to distract herself from the creeping suspicion that her husband is hiding something from her. She never imagined that by the end of the weekend she would have dined with celebrities or danced the night away in exclusive clubs.

A flunking Midwestern college student drops out and moves west to live the ski bum life. In the Colorado mountains he finds a group of like-minded, and sometimes degenerate, friends who show him that a ski town is the ideal place for young people to raise a middle finger to societal norms and do as they please.

It is a college story about baseball. The hero is a fine young fellow whom many fans will at once think they recognize as a popular player. He enters a big Eastern University from the far West and gets on the varsity team as an extra pitcher after many trying experiences.

Brayden Kendricks mag Gottes Geschenk an die Frauen der Western University sein, aber trotzdem will ich nichts mit dem dunkelhaarigen Footballspieler zu tun haben. Der Kerl ist ein aufmerksamkeitssüchtiger Du-weißt-schon-was, der die Bewunderung der weiblichen Fans in sich aufsaugt, als wäre es das, was er im Leben verdient, weil er heiß und talentiert ist.

Bastian Schweinsteiger, der Held des WM-Finales 2014 in Rio, ist auch der Held des neuen Romans von Martin Suter. Der Autor erzählt uns Wahres und fast Wahres aus dem Leben des Mannes, der alles erreicht hat, was man als Fußballer erreichen kann. Und der dennoch weiß, was Scheitern bedeutet, und die Schattenseiten des Erfolgs kennt. Die bewegende Story einer Weltkarriere. Und ein berührender Liebesroman.

From Lila Riley, the author of Mister Hockey, the third and final book in her sexy and addictive Hellions Angels series—the perfect grumpy/sunshine beach read! Practice makes perfect... Patrick “Patch” Donnelly has what it takes to be the best goalie in the NHL... if only he could learn to...