Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bookstore-café owner Krissy Hancock is stepping out from behind the counter to take part in the first annual Pine Hills, Ohio, marathon. But with a killer close by, she may soon be running for her life . . . It's a brutally hot day in Pine Hills, and Krissy Hancock would love to be sitting in a shady spot and sipping her favorite iced coffee. Instead, she's lacing up her sneakers for a marathon--and swiftly regretting it. Especially when she finds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Leo Coughlin's life is increasingly stressful because his autistic older brother Caleb's behavior is becoming more bizarre and even violent, and their parents' marriage is falling apart--but Leo finds an escape in long distance running, and in two new friends: Curtis, himself a potential state champion who teaches him the strategy of running, and Mary, his would-be girlfriend.
Author
Series
Once a runner novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid...
Author
Language
English
Description
Like all sisters, Molly and Robin Snow share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. In the prime of their lives, their careers are flourishing when Molly receives the shocking news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, and the prognosis is grim. At the hospital, the Snow family is informed that Robin may never regain consciousness again. As the family struggles to cope, the complex nature of the sisters' relationship...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and--even more important--on his writing.--From publisher description
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Edgar Hill is thirty-five, overweight, an underperforming husband and reluctant father. After a catastrophic asteroid strike, Edgar and his family find refuge in an Edinburgh army barracks. Returning from a salvage run, Edgar finds his family gone, taken to the south coast for evacuation by an international task force. Edgar must race across the 550 miles of wasteland to find the people he loves before he loses them forever.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the author's experiences with the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, whose techniques allow them to run long distances with ease, and describes his training for a fifty-mile race with the tribe and a number of ultramarathoners.
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In his narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
From the Publisher: He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog"...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book is an in-depth guide for training young runners of all abilities. It shares with the athletes and their coaches not only what it takes to become a top runner but also how to maintain a positive attitude, how to non-intrusively integrate training into their daily lives, and how to truly enjoy the act of running."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller Eat and Run is "the inspiring story of an inspired man. Scott Jurek's phenomenal success as an ultra-marathoner demonstrates that meat and other animal foods are not necessary for optimum health, strength, and endurance."—Andrew Weil, #1 New York Times bestelling author of Spontaneous Happiness
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force — and darling — in the grueling and growing...
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force — and darling — in the grueling and growing...
17) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An elite marathoner describes the year she spent running over 3,500 miles in nine different countries, living with host families and exploring diverse running communities and cultures all over the globe,"--NoveList.
19) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters Stella and Ellie Steckler are both determined to win a scholarship and escape their stifling small town, but their plans are upset when a new girl joins the cross country team and then disappears.
Cross-country running is Stella Steckler's life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she has friends, goes to parties, has a life off the course. Their lives are upended when...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request