Crowley County Combined Library

Willa returns to the small town of Lawton, Alabama, fighting for forgiveness from her family and refusing to let anyone get close to her, but when she reconnects with former childhood friends, now football stars, secrets come to life and Willa and her friends must face the truth about growing group and falling in love, even if it means losing one another forever.

"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time...

After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father figure for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand united as a team. In this uplifting underdog story, the Abilene Eagles will once again soar in an incredible comeback that will be forever...

"Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway is happy to work in his uncles auto repair shop and cruise through school without much effort. Hes a quarterback on his high schools undefeated football team, but he never plays. Why would he when T.T. Munroe-a walking, talking highlight reel-is around? That is, until T.Ts injured a week before the state championships. Now Zeb is starting. As he assumes the role of QB and team leader, the entire town is watching him....

"In the summer of 1942, the federal government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Eleven thousand of them landed on the outskirts of the Wild West town of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Heart Mountain Relocation Center would be their home for the next three years. They eked out a life, establishing Buddhist temples, digging...

"The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--

It's always been Stevie McCrae's goal to play running back at University of Texas-Austin. But because of his size, Stevie never gets recognition from recruiters. Despite gaudy numbers and state rushing records, his only scholarship offers have come from out-of-state Division Two schools. But if Stevie can lead his team to a state title, his dream of attending the University of Texas might be within reach. Austin is from Texas Fridays, an EPIC Press...

"In 'Heart of a student athlete,' Karl Mecklenburg--former All-Pro captain of the Denver Broncos-- offers young athletes and their families inspirational advice about how to dream, achieve, and overcome obstacles on their way to success. Mecklenburg's candid, anecdotal counsel will motivate student athletes to aim high, work hard, and meet challenges with strength and courage--including pressure to perform in the game, emphasis on sport over study,...

Based on a true story, a high school girls' volleyball team must pull together and compete after the sudden death of their star player.