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FROM: julie connoley <[removed]@dpls.lib.or.us>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 1:31 PM

We're preparing our Olympic Games display - of course we have history of the
Olympics, biographies of various participants, etc. I thought it would be
good to include some fiction - for those who may not choose to be glued to
their TV's!

Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
most appreciated!!

Thanks in advance - and of course I'll compile a list if we get lots of
suggestions

Julie

FROM: Kay Kelly <[removed]@acan.net>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 2:02 PM

How about "Dreams of Gold" by Maynard F. Thomson. According to flyleaf it
is "the story of a young skater with the courage to confront an Olympic
challenge and personal demons ..."


At 11:27 AM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>We're preparing our Olympic Games display - of course we have history of the
>Olympics, biographies of various participants, etc. I thought it would be
>good to include some fiction - for those who may not choose to be glued to
>their TV's!
>
>Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
>winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
>finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
>most appreciated!!
>
>Thanks in advance - and of course I'll compile a list if we get lots of
>suggestions
>
>Julie
>
>......................................................................
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Kay Kelly
Reference Librarian
Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
5025 Cottage Hill Road
Mobile, AL 36609
email [removed]@acan.net
voice-334-470-7772
fax-334-470-7711
http://www.mplonline.org

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 2:12 PM

At 11:27 AM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote:

>Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
>winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
>finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
>most appreciated!!
>

A recent novel on the *original* Olympics (e.g. ancient Greece) is Tom
Holt's OLYMPIAD, but I believe this has been published only in the UK.

Two sf novels dealing with future olympics: STADIUM BEYOND THE STARS
by Milton Lesser and ACHILLES' CHOICE by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes.
Former is old and scarce; latter fairly recent and common.

None, alas, deal with *winter* Olympics...

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Brenda O'Brien" <[removed]@SLS.LIB.IL.US>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 3:04 PM

Julie,

Great idea for a display! I've just found a few titles, 1 winter, 4 summer

Dreams of Gold, by Maynard Thomson. figure skating
More Than Gold, by Shirley Hailstock, gymnast
In Lane Three, Alex Archer, by Tessa Duder. Young Adult, swimming
Red Mercury, by Max Barclay. Trouble at the Atlanta (summer) games
Trial Run, by Dick Francis. Trouble brewing in Moscow, equestrian

Brenda O'Brien
Woodridge Public Library
[removed]@sls.lib.il.us

FROM: Therese Feicht <[removed]@4cty.org>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 3:25 PM

This is an older mystery title which I just read, enjoyed and fits the bill
- Emma Lathen's Going for the Gold - murder at the Lake Placid Olympics.

therese feicht


At 11:27 AM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>We're preparing our Olympic Games display - of course we have history of the
>Olympics, biographies of various participants, etc. I thought it would be
>good to include some fiction - for those who may not choose to be glued to
>their TV's!
>
>Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
>winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
>finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
>most appreciated!!
>
>Thanks in advance - and of course I'll compile a list if we get lots of
>suggestions
>
>Julie
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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therese feicht
four county library system
304 clubhouse road
vestal, ny 13850
607-723-8236, ex 303
607-723-1722 fax
[removed]@4cty.org

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 3:25 PM

Here are a couple:

Emma Lathen -- Going for the Gold (murder at Lake Placid, with series sleuth
John Putnam Thatcher)
Hugh Atkinson -- The Games
Maynard F. Thomson -- Dreams of Gold (figure skating)

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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Subject: Olympic Fiction


We're preparing our Olympic Games display - of course we have history of the
Olympics, biographies of various participants, etc. I thought it would be
good to include some fiction - for those who may not choose to be glued to
their TV's!

Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
most appreciated!!

Thanks in advance - and of course I'll compile a list if we get lots of
suggestions

Julie

FROM: Cindy McCormack <[removed]@mail.win.org>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 3:46 PM

Julie,
we just put up a display for the Olympics and would appreciate it if you
could share your list. We couldn't find any fiction! Any ideas you get
will be great. Thanks.

At 11:27 AM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>We're preparing our Olympic Games display - of course we have history of the
>Olympics, biographies of various participants, etc. I thought it would be
>good to include some fiction - for those who may not choose to be glued to
>their TV's!
>
>Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
>winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
>finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
>most appreciated!!
>
>Thanks in advance - and of course I'll compile a list if we get lots of
>suggestions
>
>Julie
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
Cindy McCormack
St. Charles City-County Library District
Corporate Parkway Branch
St. Charles, MO.

FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/15/02, 8:40 PM

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>Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
>winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
>finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
>most appreciated!!
>


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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/16/02, 1:10 AM

I know the original query preferred Winter Olympics, but Elizabeth Lowell set
Summer Games around the Summer Olympics of 1980. Of course - when she wrote
the book, she had no way of knowing that President Carter would forbid US
athletes from participating.

Also, even though I don't believe the setting is Olympic, your patrons might
enjoy the movie "Cutting Edge," set in the ice skating millieu. I love the
movie - saw it twice in the theatre when it came out.

About.com has a figure skating "bookstore" which I discovered by going to
their site, then searching on ice skating (fiction). The search directed me
to the bookstore, which has no fiction, but many bios of champion skaters,
books on technique, etc. I suspect that similar searches (Skiing, speed
skating, etc.) on that or other sites might yield similar results.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian/figure skating-phile

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 1/16/02, 10:23 AM

Julie,

Add Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District


> Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
> winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I
am
> finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would
be
> most appreciated!!

FROM: [removed]@carmel.lib.in.us (Lisa Dick)
REC'D: 1/16/02, 11:06 AM

We're trying a library-wide display theme called "Welcoming the World..."
Each department (YA, Children's, AV, Reference, Reader's Advisory) is doing
our own variation on the theme, based on what we have in our collection. I
tried to put a list together of winter sports in fiction and didn't have
enough for a month-long display. I'm combining the titles I found with
fiction in Utah (another relatively short list).

Here are the titles that I found for winter sports in fiction (hockey,
skiing, ice skating):

Alguire, Judith Iced
Churchill, Jill From Here to Paternity
Daheim, Mary Murder, My Suite
Davidson, Diane Mott Tough Cookie
Gaston, Bill Good Body
Gray, Muriel Trickster
Hamilton, Steve Winter of the Wolf Moon
Johnston, Wayne Divine Ryans
Kaye, M. M. Death in Kashmir
King, Tabitha Survivor
Land, Jon Hope Mountain
Landvik, Lorna Your Oasis on Flame Lake
LaSalle, Peter Hockey Sur Glace: Stories
Lathen, Emma Going for the Gold
Levenkron, Steven Luckiest Girl in the World
Lynch, Patrick Figure of Eight
Massey, Sujata Salaryman's Wife
Moyes, Patricia Dead Men Don't Ski
Paretsky, Sara Deadlock
Reiken, Frederick Lost Legends of New Jersey
Reiken, Frederick Odd Sea
Rice, Luanne Summer Light
Seidel, Kathleen Summer's End
Shaw, Irwin Top of the Hill
Steel, Danielle Ghost
Sullivan, Mark Fall Line
Thomson, Maynard Dreams of Gold
Whitney, Phyllis Snowfire

Thanks for the suggestions from those who have offered ideas. Some were
already on my list and some were added. Good luck to others doing similar
displays!

Lisa


At 11:27 AM 1/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>We're preparing our Olympic Games display - of course we have history of the
>Olympics, biographies of various participants, etc. I thought it would be
>good to include some fiction - for those who may not choose to be glued to
>their TV's!
>
>Any ideas on novels that deal with the Olympics (winter preferably) or a
>winter sport (training, participating, learning, etc) would be great. I am
>finding a lot of kids books but not any adult - so any suggestions would be
>most appreciated!!
>
>Thanks in advance - and of course I'll compile a list if we get lots of
>suggestions
>
>Julie
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
Lisa Dick
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Carmel Clay Public Library
55 - 4th Ave. SE
Carmel, IN 46032
(317) 814-3948
[removed]@carmel.lib.in.us

"Rosenberg's First Law of Reading: Never apologize for your reading tastes"

FROM: Lois Gordon <[removed]@sals.edu>
REC'D: 1/16/02, 12:54 PM

If you have access to NoveList there is a whole article on suggestions
for books that deal with Olympic Fiction. It covers various reading
levels from children to adults. Choose Feature Articles, What's Hot, The

Olympics in Fiction.

Lois Gordon
Mohawk Valley Library Association
858 Duanesburg Road
Schenectady, NY 12306

FROM: "Janice Doxtator" <[removed]@fibernetcc.com>
REC'D: 1/16/02, 8:23 PM

There is "Chariots of Fire," in both video and print format. Apparently the
book was written from the screenplay by W. J. Weatherby.
Another good film is "Personal Best," about women performing in Olympic
trials and forming a lesbian relationship.
Jan Doxtator
Stevens Point, WI

FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/24/02, 2:47 PM

Doing some searching of my own and came up with these titles:

Sacred Ice by Adam Joseph sounds different, here's the summary from Amazon:
A 1940's Oxford professor, and part-time intelligence operative, struggles
through London's chaotic streets in order to meet his operational
counterpart. A night of twists and turns ensues until a catastrophic climax.
After a temporal chapter change, an earth tremor rocks the opening
ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Utah, causing an avalanche and
disrupting the games, a search for survivors uncovers a gruesome discovery.

Kickland by Kevin Hayes: Novel about cross-country skiing and the Olympics.

Death Spiral: Murder at the Winter Olympics by Meredith Phillips (out of
print)

Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon-Minooka, Illinois

FROM: julie connoley <[removed]@dpls.lib.or.us>
REC'D: 1/26/02, 6:30 PM

Summer Olympic titles included as well....

Dead Men Don't Ski Patricia Moyes
Deadlock Sara Paretsky
Death in Kashmir M. M. Kaye
Death Spiral: Murder
at the Winter Olympics Meredith Phillips (out of print
Fall Line Mark Sullivan
Dreams of Gold Maynard Thomson
Figure of Eight Patrick Lynch
From Here to Paternity Jill Churchill
The Games Hugh Atkinson
Ghost Danielle Steel
Going for the Gold Emma Lathen
Good Body Bill Gaston
Hockey Sur Glace: Stories Peter LaSalle
Hope Mountain Jon Land
Iced Judith Alguire
In Lane Three, Alex Archer Tessa Duder. Young Adult
Divine Ryans Wayne Johnston
Kickland Kevin Hayes
Lost Legends of New Jersey Frederick Reiken
Luckiest Girl in the World Steven Levenkron
More Than Gold Shirley Hailstock
Murder, My Suite Mary Daheim
Murder on the Iditarod Trail Sue Henry

Odd Sea Frederick Reiken
Personal Best Adam Joseph
Rainbow Six Tom Clancy
Red Mercury Max Barclay
Sacred Ice
Salaryman's Wife Sujata Massey
Snowfire Phyllis Whitney
Summer's End Kathleen Seidel
Summer Games Elizabeth Lowell
Summer Light Luanne Rice
Survivor Tabitha King
Top of the Hill Irwin Shaw
Tough Cookie Diane Mott Davidson
Trial Run Dick Francis
Trickster Muriel Gray
Winter of the Wolf Moon Steve Hamilton
Your Oasis on Flame Lake Lorna Landvik

- future olympics -

STADIUM BEYOND THE STARS Milton Lesser
ACHILLES' CHOICE Larry Niven and Steve Barnes.

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