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Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country...
45) History
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea-to-Sea
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Provides young sports fans with a guide to Olympic history and the legends from ancient Greece to London 2012.
47) Munich
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Formats
Description
It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim,...
48) Katie Ledecky
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Meet Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky! Ledecky's life story is examined from her childhood in Maryland where she began swimming at age six, to three US Junior Championships. Learn about Ledecky's Olympic career in the London and Rio de Janeiro games throughout which she won five gold and one silver medals. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword
Pub. Date
2006
Description
For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler's Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival...
50) Ancient Greece
Author
Series
Description
Compares and contrasts how the wealthy and poor Greeks lived in ancient Greece.
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee has been killed. It's clear to Peter that this wasn't a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution....
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"1980: The Democratic People's Republic of Laos is proud to be competing in its first-ever Olympics. Of course, half the world is boycotting the Moscow Summer Olympic Games to protest Russia's recent invasion of Afghanistan, but that has made room for athletes from countries that are usually too small or underfunded to be competitive--countries like Laos. Ex-national coroner of Laos Dr. Siri Paiboun may be retired, but he and his wife, Madame Daeng,...
Author
Description
"In 1936, Adolf Hitler welcomed the world to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. Visitors from all over the globe came to see not only a magnificent sporting event, but also a showcase for the newly rebuilt Germany. ... But beneath the surface, the games of the eleventh Olympiad of the modern era came to act as a crucible for the dark political forces that were gathering to threaten the world."--Jacket [p. 2].
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Alladin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"It's time for the annual Olympic Games, and the four goddess girls are not happy! It's boys only--and the girls at MOA are not pleased. Led by Artemis, Athena, Persephone and Aphrodite, the ladies of Mount Olympus hatch a plan to get Zeus to open up the games to everyone. Will they succeed--or end up watching from the sidelines again?" -Publisher.
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