Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

Superstar Shaquille O’Neal launches a fun, family-friendly early chapter book series that will be a slam dunk for readers everywhere!

Little Shaq

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#fiction #paperback #juvenilefiction #youngadult #ya #sports #basketball

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

What would you give to be your school's superstar? After reading Dr. Faustus, Joe considers the merits of selling his soul to the devil. Suddenly, he finds himself changing from a lousy basketball player and a C student to the star athlete he always dreamed he could be. Even though he isn't sure if he actually made a deal with the devil, he can't help but enjoy the benefits that come with his newfound abilities. But is achieving his dreams worth what he may have given up? In this coming of age sports novel, Joe learns the power of belief and that the only goals worth attaining are the ones that you earn -- on your own.

On the Devil's Court

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

An Official Fan's Guide

This book covers every aspect of the fast paced showtime extravaganza of the NBA.

NBA Basketball

#nonfiction #paperback #ya    #inspiration #youth #basketball 

Pennsylvania

In this sequel to "Travel Team", thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.

Summer Ball

#paperback #childrens #readaloud #lebron #basketball #promise #growthmindset #sel #goals #lifelessons

I Promise

MG graphic novel focused on a main character who loves basketball but only plays in the fifth quarter where the game doesn’t count. You watch her grow both on the court and at home. Nice family subplot. Highly recommend to all ages of readers, especially those who played the sport in their youth. #graphicnovels #middlegrade #basketball #underdog

New York

Lori Block and her best friend Sophia are dedicated to their Fourth-Grade basketball team, despite being relegated to “the 5th quarter,” an extra period before the “real” game starts, where the not-so-good kids play, and the points don’t count. That doesn’t matter to Lori though, because Basketball is a place where working hard and getting better gives her hints of self-confidence. At school, she is awkward and unsure, and at home Lori’s parents are consumed by her mother’s bid for local government. With athletic promise and a dogged determination to keep improving, Lori pursues her passion while navigating awkward social dynamics, her own expectations and her first overnight away from home. Can she find her confidence in school, at home, and on the court?

The Fifth Quarter

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#paperback #nonfiction #wnba #basketball #michellesmith #basketball #womensbasketball

New Jersey

Stars of the WNBA

Profiles some the hottest stars of women's professional basketball, such as Ticha Penicheiro and Teresa Weatherspoon

She's Got Game

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#paperback #basketball #juvenilefiction #mikelupica #youngadultfiction #fiction 

Indiana

Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.

Fast Break

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Slight wear around the edges. Pages crisp and clean. SKU: 21323012 #basketball #coaching

A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

"A tour de force of reporting" (The Washington Post) from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist that examines the often-corrupt machine producing America's basketball stars

"Indispensable."--The Wall Street Journal
"Often heart-breaking, always riveting."--The New York Times Book Review
"Tremendous."--The Plain Dealer

Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting* Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports

Using eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story's deepest truths, journalist George Dohrmann reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation. At the book's heart are the personal stories of two compelling figures: Joe Keller, an ambitious coach with a master plan to find and promote "the next LeBron," and Demetrius Walker, a fatherless latchkey kid who falls under Keller's sway and struggles to live up to unrealistic expectations. 
 
Complete with a new "where-are-they-now" epilogue by the author, Play Their Hearts Out is a thoroughly compelling narrative exposing the gritty reality that lies beneath so many dreams of fame and glory.
 
One of GQ'S 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century * One of the Best Books of the Year: Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews

This edition includes an exclusive conversation between George Dohrmann and bestselling author Seth Davis.



Play Their Hearts Out

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#hardcover #inauguralballers #andrewmaraniss #basketball #womensbasketball #olympics #nonficition

Georgia

The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team

From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women's Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women's basketball on the map. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown.

A League of Their Own meets Miracle in the inspirational true story of the first US Women's Olympic Basketball team and their unlikely rise to the top.
 
Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels.
 
Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76 Olympics, the American team included a roster of players who would go on to become some of the most legendary figures in the history of basketball. From Pat Head, Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers, Lusia Harris, coach Billie Moore, and beyond--these women took on the world and proved everyone wrong.  
 
Packed with black-and-white photos and thoroughly researched details about the beginnings of US women's basketball, Inaugural Ballers is the fascinating story of the women who paved the way for girls everywhere.

Inaugural Ballers

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Read about the most thrilling moments on the court from the past season.In this book, you'll have a front row seat for some of the greatest and electrifying baskets from the past NBA season. Learn how some of the NBA's premier players were able to perform and deliver under pressure.

Championship Teams

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#hardcover #vintage #sports #leadership #memoir #nonfiction #basketball #biography #nba

A Life Plan for Team Players

"Not only is Pat Riley one of pro basketball's winningest coaches, but his speeches before hundreds of corporations, from ARCO to AT&T to Toyota, have earned him the title of "America's Greatest Motivational Speaker."" "The Winner Within is his formula for success. It is a book about winning, leadership, mastery, change, and personal growth, based on understanding and controlling the shifting dynamics of a team - any team, whether it is a small company or a giant corporation, a family, a city, or a group of athletes." "How does a struggling team form a covenant to work together instead of separately? How does a successful team battle complacency? How does any team overcome the thunderbolts that strike out of the blue?" "Drawing upon the great teachers and his own experiences in and out of sports, interweaving them with dozens of parallels and stories from business and society, Riley shows how to ride the cycles of team change, balance role players and stars, build solid foundations, break through self-imposed barriers, create change within continuity, and nurture cooperation within competition." ""All of my contacts and experiences have proved to me, over and over again, that the complex inner rhythms of teamwork - flows of ambition, power, cooperation, and emotion - are the keys to making dreams come true," says Riley, and in The Winner Within, he provides the tools, insights, and plan of action to help master those rhythms. It is a book of universal power and scope - a new classic of the literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Winner Within

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#hardcover #nonfiction #basketball #biography #autobiography #sports #leadership #leader

In Pursuit of Perfection

Controversial, confrontational, and driven, Coach Geno Auriemma is a force to be reckoned with -- and the most accomplished male coach in women's basketball today.


In his relentless quest for excellence at the University of Connecticut, he has led the Huskies to five national championships. Yet his soul never rests. For Auriemma, life affords only the briefest moments of happiness -- a good round of golf, forty minutes of great basketball, a day at the beach with his family, a nice glass of wine -- while disaster is seemingly always waiting to strike. It's a fatalistic philosophy, a remnant of his hardscrabble early years, but it's an outlook that has driven him to unparalleled success.

In this deeply personal memoir, Geno Auriemma reveals for the first time the man behind the legend. He talks candidly about his coaching style, famed for being one of the most demanding in all the sports world. He spills the beans about his stormy dealings with other coaches such as his archrival, Pat Summitt, of the University of Tennessee. And with warmth and a genuine love for his champions, he writes openly about Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Nykesha Sales, Rebecca Lobo, Swin Cash, and all of his other UConn stars who have gone on to stellar WNBA careers. You get a courtside seat to all of the action -- including an epilogue on the 2004-05 season, as well as interviews with the team's most celebrated players.


A rare look inside the soul of a true competitor, GENO is the story of how one passionate man overcame his own fears to achieve an extraordinary record of success.

Geno

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#sports #nonfiction #hardcover #recreation #basketball #coachk #leadership 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Coach K's Keywords for Success

A collection of essays by the long-time head coach of the Duke University basketball team presents his personal philosophy on winning, losing, and sportsmanship, as well as motivational lessons that can be applied to the personal and professional arena, including doing the right thing, leadership, accountability, and responsibility.

Beyond Basketball

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Growing up on and off the Court

The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that made him feel socially awkward. But with a talent for basketball, and an unmatched team of supporters, Lew Alcindor was able to transform and to become Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

From a childhood made difficult by racism and prejudice to a record-smashing career on the basketball court as an adult, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's life was packed with ""coaches"" who taught him right from wrong and led him on the path to greatness. His parents, coaches Jack Donahue and John Wooden, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, and many others played important roles in Abdul-Jabbar's life and sparked him to become an activist for social change and advancement. The inspiration from those around him, and his drive to find his own path in life, are highlighted in this personal and awe-inspiring journey.

Written especially for young readers, Becoming Kareem chronicles how Kareem Abdul-Jabbar become the icon and legend he is today, both on and off the court.

Becoming Kareem

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#hardcover #johngrisham #fiction #historicalfiction #adventurestories #basketball #success #adult 

A Novel

THIS TIME, JOHN GRISHAM TAKES YOU TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF COURT. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quick­ness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game, though, needs work, and the American coaches are less than impressed. During the tournament, Samuel receives dev­astating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ran­sacked his village. His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp. Samuel desperately wants to go home, but it's just not possible. Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholar­ship. Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season. There is plenty of more mature talent and he isn't immediately needed. But Samuel has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game, shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym, and soon he's dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team los­ing and suffering injury after injury, Sooley, as he is nicknamed, is called off the bench. And the legend begins. But how far can Sooley take his team? And will success allow him to save his family? Gripping and moving, Sooley showcases John Grisham's unparalleled storytelling powers in a whole new light. This is Grisham at the top of his game.

Sooley

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#hardcover #basketball #DerekFisher

The Three Time NBA Champion and starting point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers shares his Christian faith and inspirational values for success and happiness. Since his inaugural season with the NBA in 1996, Derek Fisher has had a dramatic impact on the great success of the Lakers. Playing alongside legendary players like Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and Lamar Odom, Fisher has held his position at point guard, participating in some of the most dramatic post-season games and moments in recent memory.

In 2007 Derek Fisher and his wife Candace's lives were upturned by news that their eleven-month-old daughter, Tatum, had been diagnosed with a degenerative and rare form of eye cancer called retinoblastoma. Although his team, the Utah Jazz, was in the midst of a heated playoff series, Fisher immediately put his family first to be with his daughter at the time of her required emergency surgery and chemotherapy. Nominated the best moment in the 2007 ESPY Awards, Derek was able to make a dramatic late entrance and performance in the fourth quarter of game 2 to help the Jazz to an emotional victory. Following the season, Fisher asked the Jazz to release him of his contract so he could devote his energies to fighting his daughter's retinoblastoma without knowing if he would ever play basketball again. Fisher officially rejoined the Lakers, resuming his role as point guard, and provided a veteran influence alongside Kobe Bryant to a relatively young Lakers squad. In his compelling new book, Fisher shares the Christian values that have guided him on the court and off. With anecdotes from his personal and professional life, Fisher offers lessons learned along the way. Drawing on the power of faith, he shows how anyone can play for a successful team: whether that team is family, community, or just happens to be one in the NBA.


Arkansas

Life, Lessons, and Basketball

Pro basketball player Fisher reflects on his three NBA championships, the challenges he has overcome, and the values and priorities that got him there.

Character Driven

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After he is cut from his travel basketball team, the very same team that his father once led to national prominence, twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.

Travel Team

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Life Lessons from Papa, on and off the Court

By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith, tragedy, and life's most important lessons.

The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel "Papa" Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the assault. His funeral filled the largest church in the county, which held over one thousand people. He was sixty-one years old.

The day after burying his grandfather, Chris was coping the best way he knew how: by playing basketball for his high school team. After pouring in shot after shot, his last attempt was an airball purposely flung out of bounds from the foul line before Chris exited the game. The next day, local news headlines declared that he fell six points shy of the statewide single game high school scoring record. But he accomplished exactly what he set out to do: scoring sixty-one points, one for each year of life lived by his grandfather.

In Sixty-One, Chris opens up about life beyond basketball and the role his grandfather played in molding him into the man and father he is today. He'll speak about the foundation of faith and family he built his life upon, what it means to be a positive light within your community and beyond, and the importance of setting the proper example for future generations. Most importantly, Chris will talk about his home, Winston-Salem, and the close-knit family and village that raised him to become one of the most respected leaders in all of sports.

Sixty-One -ARC

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Missouri

The Leftovers Book 6

Improving their basketball skills after a few practices, the Rangers become distracted by their love for Freeze Tag, which adds a very unusual and comic twist to their game. Original.

Get Jammed

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#hardcover #kansasuniversity #ku #basketball #sports #christmas #threelittlepigs #jayhawks

One of these books is signed by the author Chris Meggs

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

2 books

KU Jayhawks bundle

#basketball #college #Indiana #tragedy #hope #comeback #WeWillRise #1977 #NCAA #sports #CollegeBasketball #paperback #ARC 

A True Story Of Tragedy & Resurrection in the American Heartland

We Will Rise-ARC 

Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.

Boy21

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#business #nonfiction #paperback #economics #patriley #team #leadership #bookofthemonthclub #sports #basketball 

Shaquille O'Neal; Theodore Taylor (Illustrator)

Little Shaq

Carl Deuker

On the Devil's Court

Mark Vancil

NBA Basketball

Mike Lupica

Summer Ball

LeBron James

I Promise

Michael Dawson

The Fifth Quarter

Michelle Smith

She's Got Game

Mike Lupica

Fast Break

George Dohrmann

Play Their Hearts Out

Andrew Maraniss

Inaugural Ballers

John Hareas

Championship Teams

Pat Riley

The Winner Within

Diana Taurasi (Other); Geno Auriemma; Jackie MacMullan

Geno

Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola

Beyond Basketball

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Raymond Obstfeld

Becoming Kareem

John Grisham

Sooley

Derek Fisher; Gary Brozek (As told to)

Character Driven

Mike Lupica

Travel Team

Chris Paul; Michael Wilbon (As told to)

Sixty-One -ARC

Tristan Howard

Get Jammed

Kansas Jayhawks

KU Jayhawks bundle

Steve Beaven

We Will Rise-ARC

Matthew Quick

Boy21

Pat Riley

The winner within