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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

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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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Million Dollar Shot 

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Texas

Georgia

Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.

What Happened to Goodbye

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#hardcover #nonfiction #Basketball #Aspire#Kwame #Illustrated   169 pages

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!

What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives?

Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule contains wisdom from inspiring athletes and role models such as Nelson Mandela, Serena Williams, LeBron James, Carli Lloyd, Steph Curry, and Michelle Obama. Kwame Alexander also shares his own stories of overcoming obstacles and winning games in this motivational and inspirational book for readers of any age and for anyone needing a little bit of encouragement.

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar.

The Playbook

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New Jersey

You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights, and Finley is left to take care of his disabled grandfather alone. He's always dreamed of getting out someday, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay.

Russ has just moved to the neighborhood, and the life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won't pick up a basketball, but answers only to the name Boy21--taken from his former jersey number.

As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, a unique friendship may turn out to be the answer they both need.

Autographed Boy21

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

The NBA According to the Sports Guy

An opinionated tour of the past, present, and future of pro basketball, written by ESPN's "Sports Guy" columnist, shares insights on everything from major NBA events and underrated players to how Hall of Famers should be selected.

The Book of Basketball

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The Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball, 1991

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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

The Boy Who Became King

The Boy Who Became King is the inspiring true story of NBA superstar LeBron James. This Fully illustrated picture book biography tells the story of a young boy and his loving, single mother and their struggle to make it on their own. With the help of a coach and his family, LeBron is introduced to the game of basketball. Against all odds, "the kid from Akron" not only makes it to the NBA but becomes a basketball legend who now helps others who are struggling like he and his mother once were. Children's/Kids Picture Book Biography K-6 Be sure to check out the new release: NFL All Stars 2017: Coloring and Activity Book for Adults and Kids featuring 30+ of today's hottest stars including Ezekiel Elliott, Tom Brady, Julio Jones, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson and so many more!

LeBron James: the Children's Book

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#nonfiction  #economics #hardcover #basketball #womanscoach #Patsummitt #ladyvols #Tennesseebasketballcoach #signedpatsummitt #signedbook #womansbasketball

Tennessee

The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do

The highly successful head coach of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team offers a motivational program for success based on twelve principles that can be applied to any situation

Reach for the Summit

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#nonfiction #biography #paperback #vintage #sports #basketball #nba

Wilt Chamberlain

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date basketball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes world-wide. This book features year-round basketball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other basketball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximise your training and improve your performance. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilise its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too! This brand new edition also includes over 50 four week bonus training programs.

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball

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New York

My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench

An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong.
 
In 2006, Mark Titus arrived on Ohio State's campus as a former high school basketball player who aspired to be an orthopedic surgeon. Somehow, he was added to the elite Buckeye basketball team, given a scholarship, and played alongside seven future NBA players on his way to setting the record for most individual career wins in Ohio State history. Think that's impressive? In four years, he scored a grand total of nine--yes, nine--points.

This book will give readers an uncensored and uproarious look inside an elite NCAA basketball program from Titus's unique perspective. In his four years at the end of the bench, Mark founded his wildly popular blog Club Trillion, became a hero to all guys picked last, and even got scouted by the Harlem Globetrotters. Mark Titus is not your average basketball star. This is a wild and completely true story of the most unlikely career in college basketball. A must-read for all fans of March Madness and college sports!

Don't Put Me in, Coach

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#paperback #basketball #2018 #stats #NBA #scholastic 

Facts and Stats 

Basketball Superstars 2018 

#YA #sports #lupica #feelgood #basketball

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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#Paperback #basketball #art #dream Art to Color Featuring LeBron James and knowledge of his basketball career

Virginia

Colorful Fantasies with the King of Basketball

Crush-worthy art to color! Enjoy a brush with royalty with Crush and Color: LeBron James, a coloring book of daydreams with basketball's shining star.

Discover sweet and spicy fantasy scenarios of LeBron in his element through more than 35 completely unique, lifelike drawings. Light your creativity on fire with the regal presence, heartwarming generosity, and limitless charm of LeBron on each and every page. Fall in love with his sense of adventure as the ocean waves roll in, get lost in infinite bliss as you gaze up at the stars, and be mesmerized by his excellence with every clap of chalk dust. Get to know LeBron better through pages of crushable knowledge about his life, interests, and career. Exhilaration can be yours in this captivating book of fantasies with a smoldering king in Crush and Color: LeBron James.

- Let LeBron be your MVP in this illustrated collection of reveries
- Find out what makes LeBron so exciting with biographical information about his life and work
- Perforated pages make it easy to display the object of your romance or bromance
- Find passion, excitement, and pure power in 35 hand-drawn masterpieces

Crush and Color: Lebron James

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North Carolina

Follows two talented basketball players from inner-city Chicago as they attempt to turn high school stardom into college scholarships, pro careers, and an escape from the ghetto

Hoop Dreams

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Set of 2. Great condition other than some small cover issues. Will bundle. 

Mike Lupica Basketball Book Set

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Michigan

Accustomed to the foster care babies and toddlers that briefly stay in his home, Jarrett initially feels threatened by a foster boy, Kevon, who is his age and whose story leads to an unexpected bond. A first middle-grade novel by the award-winning author of Tyrell. Simultaneous eBook.

Kinda Like Brothers

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The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

Sam Smith's seminal, New York Times bestselling "eye-opener" (The San Diego Union-Tribune) on Michael Jordan and the 1990-1991 Chicago Bulls team--perfect for fans of ESPN's hit documentary series The Last Dance.

This is the book that changed the way the world viewed Michael Jordan, while delivering nonstop excitement, tension, and thrills.

The Jordan Rules chronicles the season that changed everything for Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. After losing in the playoffs to the "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons for three consecutive years, the Bulls finally broke through and swept the Pistons in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals, on the way to their first NBA championship.

Celebrated sportswriter Sam Smith was there for the entire ride. He reveals a candid and provocative picture of Michael Jordan during the season in which his legacy began to be defined, and seeks to figure out what drove him. The Jordan Rules covers everything from his stormy relationships with his coaches and teammates and power struggles with management--including verbal attacks on general manager Jerry Krause and tantrums against coach Phil Jackson--to Jordan's obsessions with becoming the leading scorer, and his refusal to pass the ball in the crucial minutes of big games. Jordan's teammates also tell their side of the story, from Scottie Pippen, to Horace Grant, to Bill Cartwright. And Phil Jackson--the former flower child who blossomed into one of the NBA's top motivators and finally found a way to coax Jordan and the Bulls to their first title--is studied up close.

"Smith takes us into the locker room, aboard the team plane and team bus, and seats us on the bench during games. Sometimes, books reflecting on a team's success don't reach the personal level with the people who made it happen: The Jordan Rules does" (Associated Press).

Discover the team behind the man, and the man behind the living legend, in this intense, fascinating inside story of the incomparable Michael Jordan.

The Jordan Rules

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Developing True Strength on and Off the Court

A popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player reveals the successful work ethic he learned under Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, tracing his career while imparting the importance of his mentors' respective definitions of toughness to explain how they can be applied effectively to athletic and personal goals. 50,000 first printing.

Toughness

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#hardcover #basketball #rivalry #sports #duke #NorthCarolina

A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry

An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina's and Duke's basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the South

The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders, even good against evil. In North Carolina, where both schools reside, it is a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals--of choosing teams in life--a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessities of hatred.

As the season unfolds, Blythe, the former longtime literary editor of Esquire and a lifelong Tarheels fan, will immerse himself in the lives of the two teams, eavesdropping on practice sessions, hanging with players, observing the arcane rituals of fans, and struggling to establish some basic human kinship with Duke's players and proponents. With access to the coaches, the stars, and the bit players, it is both a chronicle of personal obsession and a record of social history.

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever

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A Memoir

**The Instant National Bestseller**

The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors.

Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors' fifth Finals appearance in five years, his game has never been stronger. 

Off the court, Iguodala has earned respect, too--for his successful tech investments, his philanthropy, and increasingly for his contributions to the conversation about race in America. It is no surprise, then, that in his first book, Andre, with his cowriter Carvell Wallace, has pushed himself to go further than he ever has before about his life, not only as an athlete but about what makes him who he is at his core.

The Sixth Man traces Andre's journey from childhood in his Illinois hometown to his Bay Area home court today. Basketball has always been there. But this is the story, too, of his experience of the conflict and racial tension always at hand in a professional league made up largely of African American men; of whether and why the athlete owes the total sacrifice of his body; of the relationship between competition and brotherhood among the players of one of history's most glorious championship teams. And of what motivates an athlete to keep striving for more once they've already achieved the highest level of play they could have dreamed. 

On drive, on leadership, on pain, on accomplishment, on the shame of being given a role, and the glory of taking a role on: This is a powerful memoir of life and basketball that reveals new depths to the superstar athlete, and offers tremendous insight into most urgent stories being told in American society today.

John Grisham

Sooley

Dan Gutman

The Million Dollar Shot

John Grisham

Sooley

Sarah Dessen

What Happened to Goodbye

Kwame Alexander

The Playbook

Matthew Quick

Autographed Boy21

Bill Simmons; Malcolm Gladwell (Foreword by)

The Book of Basketball

Zander Hollander (Editor)

The Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball, 1991

Matthew Quick

Boy21

Anthony Curcio

LeBron James: the Children's Book

Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins

Reach for the Summit

George Sullivan

Wilt Chamberlain

Robert Price

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball

Mark Titus

Don't Put Me in, Coach

Clive Gifford

Basketball Superstars 2018

Mike Lupica

Travel Team

Maurizio Campidelli

Crush and Color: Lebron James

Paul R. Walker

Hoop Dreams

Mike Lupica

Mike Lupica Basketball Book Set

Coe Booth

Kinda Like Brothers

Sam Smith

The Jordan Rules

Jay Bilas

Toughness

Will Blythe

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever

Andre Iguodala; Carvell Wallace

The Sixth Man