As the Summer Olympics unfold, you too can compete in an illustrious contest of mettle: CLP’s Read-a-Palooza Book Bowl. Each Pittsburgh neighborhood reads and record books for their CLP branch team. The location with the highest number of books wins bragging rights and everlasting glory, just like the professionals.
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Summary: Xavier “Scarecrow” Wallace, an MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Confronted by a year-long suspension and a battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), he’s offered a last-minute high-profile comeback fight.
eFormats available: This title is also available for checkout in eAudio on Hoopla.
Summary: From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist–a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.
eFormats available: None.
Summary: Lona Steelrose wants to be a professional wrestler, but she’s living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a wrestling obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandest and most dangerous pro wrestling tournament of all time.
eFormats available: This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, and as an eBook on Hoopla.
Summary: Imagine if “April Ludgate from Parks and Recreation decided to write a sun-drenched novel about feminism, friendship, and archeology.” –Booklist
eFormats available: This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla, and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Summary: When Ren, hiking through the backcountry on his day off, encounters a tall man with a dog and a gun chasing a small black bear up a hill, his hackles are raised. But what begins as an investigation into the background of a local poacher soon opens into something far murkier.
eFormats available: This title is also available for checkout in eAudio on Libby.
Summary: The gripping true stories of pioneering trans and intersex athletes and their experiences training and competing in an Olympics held in Nazi Germany.
eFormats available: None.
Summary: An old and powerful Kentucky dynasty endeavors to breed the next superhorse, the next Secretariat. Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, and the violence of the Forges’ history and desires are brought starkly into view.
eFormats available: This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, in eAudio on Libby, and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Summary: Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance, from vaudeville to the Olympic arena.
eFormats available: None.
Summary: Ike Tucker, desperately searching for his sister Ellen who has disappeared, finds himself attracted to the same tough trio of surfers who appear to be responsible for his sister’s disappearance
eFormats available: None.
Summary: In Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals–even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers.
eFormats available: This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, and in eAudio on Libby.