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1) Check & mate
Author
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
3) Chess
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher Publications
Publication Date
2022
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Get to know the major players on the chessboard and find out the different moves they make to try and capture the King. See how a game of chess unfolds from Opening to Endgame and pick up some top tips and strategies along the way. Meet the world's greatest chess players--including Abhimanyu Mishra, Magnus Carlsen, and Judit Polgár--and discover how you, too, can become a master of the game!"-- Publisher's website
6) Intermezzo
Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Russia's Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world's geopolitical unrest"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Windmill Books
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Learning to play chess is almost a life skill. Many people play it and even more reference its strategy in all kinds of conversations. It's a great game for young people to become familiar with-and even learn to love! This book gives a thorough, but simple, overview of the basic rules and moves of chess. From how to use each piece to some popular strategies, the game play outlined helps new players head right to the chess board after reading!"--Amazon.com...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
261 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Learn chess from International Master and YouTube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in this refreshing and fun guide for beginner and intermediate players.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.
15) The partisan
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they're about to compete in the deadliest game ever played. Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless Lithuanian resistance fighter who is hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world. Men who are also on the radar of...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door. Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goes--or used to go when he plays chess. When he plays now, all he can think about is how bad it will be if he...
18) Perpetual check
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Zeke and Randy participate in an important chess tournament, playing against each other while also trying to deal with their father's intensely competetive tendencies.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"-- Provided by publisher.









