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All Time Faves: Fairway Fiction
Score a hole in one with any of these books involving the game of golf.
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Hole in One Aird, Catherine 2005-08 - Minotaur Books 9780312342296 Check our catalog Berebury golf course, in the fictional county of Calleshire, is an unlikely setting for a murder. Set in a pleasant landscape and boasting a splendid view of the market town of Berebury, the golf course is more suited to fun and frolics than murder and mayhem. …More |
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The Swinger Bamberger, Michael Author Shipnuck, Alan 2012-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781451657562 Check our catalog A wickedly funny roman a clef of the PGA tour, this is "an entertaining, revealing, thought-provoking, and cautionary tale" ("The New York Times") from two of today's most highly regarded sportswriters. …More |
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Final Round Bernhardt, William 2003-03 - Ballantine Books 9780345449634 Check our catalog PGAUs "bad boy" Conner Cross arrives in Augusta for the annual Masters tournament. But tragedy soon strikes when Conner's lifelong friend, golf pro John McCree, is murdered. A macabre murder spree that mars the Masters begins, which turns Conner into an amateur sleuth. …More |
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Loopy: A Novel of Golf and Ireland Binchy, Dan 2006-03 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312352011 Check our catalog "From hunt balls to whiskey stills, Binchy takes Luke and the reader to the heart of Erin in this warm and amusing mixture. Lots of wit, characters, and charm here."…More |
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Murder in the Rough: A Sarah Deane Mystery Borthwick, J. S. 2003-08 - St. Martin's Minotaur 9780312984533 Check our catalog When police find the body of an 18-year-old on Ocean Tide's golf course, recently unemployed Ph.D. Sarah Deane vows not to let it sidetrack her from an agenda of rest and relaxation. But after she discovers a second murder victim, her curiosity--and protective impulse toward a child who may have seen too much--overpower her better judgment and she sets out to uncover the truth. …More |
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Mulligan Girl Boschee, Rebecca L. 2010-01 - Avalon Books 9780803499928 Check our catalog Making a snappy hole-in-one romantic comedy debut, Boschee tracks the mischief a little white lie creates for an Arizona single when she falls in love with a sexy golf instructor. …More |
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When Light Breaks Henry, Patti Callahan 2006-05 - New American Library 9780451218346 Check our catalog Garnering comparisons to Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy, Patti Callahan Henry has woven her lyrical Southern voice throughout the Lowcountry landscape. Now, as two women from opposite sides of the same sea meet, a tale unfolds that will draw readers into the heart's remembrances-and the tender awakenings of first love. …More |
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Flatbellies: It's Not about Golf. It's about Life. Hollingsworth, Alan 2003-04 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393324204 Check our catalog Set in a small Oklahoma town in the emotional mid-1960s, "Flatbellies" is about the seemingly unreachable goal of a high school golf team to win the state championship. Most of all, however, it is a story about friends as they learn to deal with love, loss, triumph, tragedy, growing up, and growing old. …More |
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Final Fore Isleib, Roberta 2006-03 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425208960 Check our catalog Cassie is steeling her nerves for the U.S. Women's Open when a rival is poisoned. And strange emails and messages prove to Cassie that competition can truly be murder. Original. …More |
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The Green McAllister, Troon 1999-04 - Doubleday Books 9780385494595 Check our catalog "Missing Links" meets "The Hustler" in a hilarious fictional send-up of the most pressure-packed golf tournament in the world--the Ryder Cup--featuring an amateur hustler who slyly pinches every dollar he can out of the world's most celebrated golfers. …More |
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The Back Nine Mott, Billy 2008-03 - Vintage Books USA 9780307277862 Check our catalog Charlie McLeod was a golf prodigy. His father taught him the game and then injury took it away. Twenty-five years after his last swing, McLeod is finally back on the course, working as a caddy in San Francisco. …More |
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Miracle on the 17th Green Patterson, James 2010-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316092104 Check our catalog One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself playing like a pro. He is soon catapulted into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. And while his wife, his children, and a live television audience watch, a miracle takes place that changes Travis, and his family, forever. …More |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life Pressfield, Steven 1996-06 - Harper Perennial 9780380727513 Check our catalog In 1931 Savannah, a mesmerizing 36-hole match is taking place, in which two legends face off against a troubled former war hero. The key to the outcome lies with Bagger Vance, a caddie who carries the secret of the Authentic Swing. His mysterious powers guide the play and leave a lasting imprint on everyone around him--and on someone 60 years in the future. …More |
| Missing Links Reilly, Rick 1997-05 - Anchor Books 9780385488860 Check our catalog "Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to the municipal course lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major thorn in their collective sides. …More |
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Shanks for Nothing Reilly, Rick 2007-05 - Broadway Books 9780767906647 Check our catalog In this madcap sequel to Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel "Missing Links," little has changed at the Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club, possibly the worst course in the world. But on one disaster of a day, RStickS Hart's world does a ten-car-pile-up. …More |
















