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Ein Mann, eine Schicksal, eine Chance, zur Legende zu werden. Das 17-jährige Basketballtalent Samuel Sooleyman stammt aus dem Südsudan, einem vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenen Land. Eines Tages erhält er die Chance seines Lebens: Mit einem nationalen Jugendteam darf er in die USA reisen und an einem Showturnier teilnehmen. Talentscouts werden auf ihn aufmerksam, doch dann erhält er schreckliche Nachrichten von daheim. Sein Dorf wurde überfallen, seine Familie ist auf der Flucht. Nur wenn er den Erfolg in Amerika erzwingt, kann er sie retten.

Timing. Hockey careers are made or broken on it, and mine has taken an exceptionally broken road. I’m not a star. I’m a grinder, I work hard, and I’m finally at the point I can put the past behind me and get the fat, long-term contract I deserve. But my agent - the man who stuck by me through every crash and burn - has had a heart attack. I need another agent now, or my one chance for the good money will slip through my fingers.

Ein Mann, eine Schicksal, eine Chance, zur Legende zu werden. Das 17-jährige Basketballtalent Samuel Sooleyman stammt aus dem Südsudan, einem vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenen Land. Eines Tages erhält er die Chance seines Lebens: Mit einem nationalen Jugendteam darf er in die USA reisen und an einem Showturnier teilnehmen. Talentscouts werden auf ihn aufmerksam, doch dann erhält er schreckliche Nachrichten von daheim. Sein Dorf wurde überfallen, seine Familie ist auf der Flucht. Nur wenn er den Erfolg in Amerika erzwingt, kann er sie retten.

Vorkriegszeit im ländlichen Bayern: Während die Industrialisierung im Inntal Einzug hält, stemmt ein Bauernbub aus Kolbermoor jeden Tag Mehlsäcke im Dachkammerl über der Sägemühle des Großvaters. Josef Straßberger hat ein Ziel - der stärkste Mann der Welt zu werden. Und weder seine Herkunft noch die Einberufung ins '1. Bayerische Fußartillerie-Regiment' können ihn aufhalten. Er überlebt den Ersten Weltkrieg. Verwundet, aber nicht gebrochen geht er in die große Stadt zu den Gewichthebern des TSV 1860 München.

From being Champion of Champions to one of the world's top cricket commentators to Team India's head coach, Ravi Shastri has an incomparable perspective when it comes to the game of cricket. In Stargazing: The Players in My Life, the legendary all-rounder looks back at the extraordinary talent...

The objective of the defending fielding team is to stop the opposing team’s players from scoring the runs, and also to stop the runners' advance around the bases during the game. A run is scored when a runner legally proceeds around the bases in order and manages to touch the “home plate”. The home plate is where the player began as a batter. The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.

She started playing football as a child in the suburbs of Sydney, became a W-League player and - moving on to the future - is a leading player in the Matildas that plays in the 2023 Women's World Cup on home soil in Australia. Along her football journey, she discovers what and who are important to her in life.

Story about two young, aspiring tennis players who use their skills to defend their neighborhood against the destructive alligator-throwing frenzy-samurais....

Ryan: I’m done with dating. Happily-ever-after isn’t in the cards for me, so I’m officially taking myself off the market. Hockey is my mecca. The arena my temple. The ice the altar I worship at. Then...I met her. Strip me naked and run me over with a Zamboni - she’s the textbook definition of a bad love match. Amara Miller, beyond beautiful and effortlessly drawing me into her orbit and making it impossible to resist her. AmaraIt should have been a simple cross-country move. Instead, it sent me crashing - quite literally - into the captain of Coach’s new hockey team.

Kaden: My teammates think she's married. I think it's more than that. Other than her name, I don't know anything about her, but I can't get enough of her. She's my obsession, my world, my everything. If only she would let me in, tell me why she's terrified, why she stays in the shadows, why she can't be seen in public. Then, as quickly as she came into my life, she disappears.

A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation. Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he...

As a professional hockey player, people think I live a charmed life. On the surface, I do. But they don’t know the horrors of my childhood, or the real reason that I have custody of my 17-year-old sister, Janelle. And that’s exactly the way I like it. They may think I’m a prick because I don’t like to share, but that’s fine. They don’t know me, and they don’t need to.

In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it's an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn't care less about soccer. His twin brother Luca, a rising soccer star, died tragically in a motorcycle accident, and their mother, unable to cope with her grief, drowned herself on the anniversary of Luca's death.

From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the...

An exhilarating new novel from the New York Times-bestselling authors. Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since...

International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a triumphant historical novel, Paths of Glory. Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man—George Mallory. Born in 1886, he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century...

A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who...

The time: 1931. The place: the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept Atlantic shore. The event: a once-in-a-lifetime 36-hole match...in which the stakes are higher than anyone imagined. In Steven Pressfield's richly imagined, vividly detailed story, golf legends Bobby Jones and...

Tim O’Connor is paid to be violent. He plays for the El Paso Storm in the West Texas Hockey League. People call him Oak. He’s been an enforcer for longer than his hip or shoulder or back have been able to hold together. He is a broken machine of gristle and rage. And he has been away from home for too long. He’s called back to Boston by his mother’s death. There he confronts a life he failed to live, a daughter he doesn’t know, and a body that is quickly breaking down.

A jockey is found dead under mysterious circumstances and a perlious investigation ensues. Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest—which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race...