04919cam a2200901 4500 859016666 TxAuBib 20230619120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982112813 1982112816 B09R2J1DXF Amazon 9c298faa-c8ca-4df5-a536-632b7e7aff0a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8759440 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Backman, Fredrik. The Winners [Libby] : A Novel. Atria Books, 2022. new york times bestseller. small town. book club. Swedish. winners. Sweden. neighbors. Tom Hanks. reading group. Hockey. Friday night lights. domestic fiction. funny books. locker room. underdogs. books about friendship. youth sports. holiday gifts. Books that make you cry. gifts for men. gifts for women. heartwarming books. sports story. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. holiday gift ideas. sally rooney. good book club books. bookclub books. Us Against You. target book club. bookseller favorite. book club selection. Mare of Easttown. grumpy old men. A Man Called Otto. #1 bestselling author of a man called ove. anxious people new book. author of anxious people. beartown 3. beartown hbo. best books about hockey. hbo show fredrik backman. last beartown book. moving novels. new backman novel. new beartown. tom hanks a man called otto. tom hanks new movie. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4648kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>A breathtaking new novel from the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Anxious People</i> and <i>A Man Called Ove</i>, <i>The Winners</i> returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes.</b><br /> Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change.<br /> <br /> Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake.<br /> <br /> Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams.<br /> <br /> Maya's parents, Peter and Kira, are caught up in an investigation of the hockey club's murky finances, and Amat—once the star of the Beartown team—has lost his way after an injury and a failed attempt to get drafted into the NHL. Simmering tensions between the two towns turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. All the while, a fourteen-year-old boy grows increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister's death. He has a pistol and a plan that will leave Beartown with a loss that is almost more that it can stand.<br /> <br /> As it beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, this emotion-packed novel asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-06-19 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9c298faa-c8ca-4df5-a536-632b7e7aff0a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9c298faa-c8ca-4df5-a536-632b7e7aff0a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9c298faa-c8ca-4df5-a536-632b7e7aff0a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXTLL