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Series
Friday Night Lights volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Series
Friday Night Lights volume 3
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, only one night matters: Friday night. Eric Taylor is the head football coach for the Dillon High School Panthers, the town's pride and joy. Still stressing that the football players win. The town is counting that the team gives them victories. The close-knit residents face new challenges and uncertainties as they deal with the day-by-day pressures of life in transition.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Takes place in Odessa, a socially and racially divided and economically troubled oil town in the western part of Texas, where high school football is the thing that brings all the people together. Follows Coach Gary Gaines and the Permian High School Panthers through the 1988 season as they work hard to extend Permian's winning record. Shows the players struggling with typical adolescent issues and the lack of future opportunities in their town as...
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest TV dramas of all time continues with 13 gripping fourth season episodes of the critically acclaimed series. Small-town life in Dillon has changed irrevocably with the dramatic split of the school district. Coach Taylor finds himself fighting for the respect of the East Dillon Lions, while his wife Tami faces her own battles as Principal of the Dillon High Panthers. Across town, it's a season for change as graduating students face...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
For four years, the residents and students of Dillon, Texas, have faced difficult choices on and off the field with courage, passion and perseverance. Now the time has come to find closure for problems of the past, while pursuing new possibilities that will lead many beyond Dillon city limits.
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Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Untold History of Television provides a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have both defined and changed the pop culture landscape. Honest, compelling and full of heart, Friday Night Lights brought small-town Texas football into the lives of television viewers across North America. From book to movie to the small screen, Friday Night Lights struggled against the odds to survive on television, finally doing...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Talk to any of the millions of devoted Friday Night Lights fans and they'll tell you: it's not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the show's portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothing--and everything--to do with touchdowns.--
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English
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No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation on the Nevada-Oregon border.
Eight-man football helps give the coaches and...
15) Cascade: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Niagara Falls of Craig Davidson's imagination--known as "Cataract City"--the superb stories of Cascade shine a shimmering light on this slightly seedy, slightly magical, slightly haunted place. The seven gems in this collection each illuminate familial relationships in a singular way: A mother and her infant son fight to survive a car crash in a remote wintry landscape outside of town. Fraternal twins at a juvenile detention center reach...
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