Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Eighteen true stories of unique events in basketball include accounts of the Rio Grande College team, the Harlem Globetrotters, Wilt Chamberlain and other high scorers, and fancy shooters.

Strange but True Basketball Stories

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Stories for the Thinking Fan

A marvelously diverse and literate collection of baseball stories--including works by Robert Coover, W.P. Kinsella, and Jay Neugeboren--that use the boy's game played by grown men as a vehicle for exploring virtually every aspect of the human condition.

Baseball and the Game of Life

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Wisconsin

More to the Xtreme

James P. Moore

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

2008 Edition

Written by Americans from wide-ranging faith traditions, the selections presented here form an authentic and inspiring portrait of the country's deep and rich spirituality, and provide access to the innermost thoughts of their authors.

The Treasury of American Prayers

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Tedy Bruschi

Michael Holley

Massachusetts

My Stroke, My Recovery, and My Return to the NFL

"Tedy gives you something to believe in. Whether we're winning or losing, he holds his head high, and he knows himself and handles himself so well, others can't help but follow him. The way he practices and plays forces you to become a better teammate; the way he demands hustle and toughness forces you to become a better leader; and the way he carries himself inspires you to become a better person. This made his return to playing on October 30 against Buffalo all the more electrifying. The stadium was louder that night than the nights we had raised our Super Bowl banners. Our captain, our leader, our inspiration was back on the field doing what he loved to do. Tedy had spent months rehabbing, had countless doctor visits, and had undergone hundreds of tests trying to play again. Just eight months after our victory in Super Bowl XXXIX, here we were celebrating a much bigger victory on our home field. Sure it was great to win the game, but that night we were celebrating Tedy's return as he showed us teammates, fans, family, and friends what it takes to become victorious in life. "You might be coming to this book as a fan of Tedy's football skills and, don't get me wrong, gaining the insights of one of the best defenders in Patriots history is worth the price of admission, but that's just part of the story. There are a lot of reasons to look up to him, and I promise you will finish this book with an admiration for him on a much deeper level." --Tom Brady (from the Foreword)

Never Give Up

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Jason Reynolds

Book 2 in a series for kids about high school track & field. I also have books 3 & 4 available on my bookshelf. I have another copy of this one for sale in hardcover.

New York

The sequel to National Book Award Finalist Ghost and a New York Times bestseller A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasons—to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to ever since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. She runs from the reason WHY she’s not able to live with her “real” mom any more: her mom has The Sugar, and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her mom’s legs will one day take her away forever. And so Patty’s also running for her mom, who can’t. But can you ever really run away from any of this? As the stress builds, it’s building up a pretty bad attitude as well. Coach won’t tolerate bad attitude. No day, no way. And now he wants Patty to run relay…where you have to depend on other people? How’s she going to do THAT?

Patina

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Some yellowing but still in great reading condition!

Missouri

Penny Farrell, captain and third baseman of the Hawks softball team, tries to uncover the reason for the strange behavior of two teammates who have also suddenly turned into super athletes.

Supercharged Infield

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Kate Schatz

California

Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world. In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl tell fresh, engaging, and inspiring tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing well researched and riveting biographies with powerful and expressive cut-paper portraits. Featuring an array of diverse figures from Hatshepsut (the great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) and Malala Yousafzi (the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) to Poly Styrene (legendary teenage punk and lead singer of X-Ray Spex) and Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica), this progressive and visually arresting book is a compelling addition to women's history.

Rad Women Worldwide

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Love of Baseball Ltd.

I have other books about track & field available on my bookshelf!

How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

This award-winning true story of Black Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio and eventually went on to win three gold medals, is illustrated by Caldecott medal-winning artist David Diaz.



Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single Olympiad. This dramatic and inspiring true story is illustrated in bold watercolor and acrylic paintings.

 

Wilma Unlimited

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Lance Armstrong

Sally Jenkins

Alabama

My Journey Back to Life

The world-champion cyclist recounts his diagnosis with cancer, the grueling treatments during which he was given a less than twenty percent chance for survival, his surprising victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and the birth of his son. 125,000 first printing.

It's Not about the Bike

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Louisiana

Jeff Benedict

Ex-library. Catalog markers. Light shelf wear on jacket. Subtle. Pages in great shape with sparse traffic. Crisp and clean. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods comes the definitive biography of basketball superstar LeBron James, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews. LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined— the truth is vastly more interesting than that. What makes LeBron’s story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands. LeBron tells the full, riveting saga of how a child adrift found the will to become a titan. Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBron’s epic origin story, showing the gradual rise of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of teenage friends and adult mentors, accelerated into a speeding comet during high school. Today LeBron produces Hollywood films and television shows, has a social media presence that includes more than one hundred million followers, engages in political activism, takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy. He went from a lost boy in Akron to a beloved hero who uses his fortune to educate underprivileged children and lift up needy families—and brought home Cleveland’s first NBA championship. But LeBron is more than just the origin story of a GOAT or a recap of his multi-championship, multi-MVP, gold medal–decorated career on the court. Benedict delves into LeBron’s relationship with fame and power: how he has cultivated it, harnessed it, suffered from it, and leveraged it. In these pages, we go behind the scenes of LeBron’s grappling with his seismic celebrity, from appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a high school junior to The Decision, which briefly turned the nation against him. We also watch his evolution from a player who avoided politics and was widely criticized for not joining his teammates in protesting China’s role in the Darfur genocide to becoming an athlete who partnered with President Obama; campaigned for Hillary Clinton; became an advocate against gun violence, racism, and voter suppression; and openly clashed with President Trump, empowering other athletes to speak out against social injustice. To capture LeBron’s extraordinary life, Benedict conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were involved with LeBron at different stages of his life. He also obtained thousands of pages of primary source documents and mined hundreds of hours of video footage. Destined to be the authoritative account of LeBron’s life, LeBron is a gripping, inspiring, and unprecedented portrait of one of the world’s most captivating figures.

LeBron

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Book 4 in a series for kids about track and field. Books 2 & 3 are also available on my bookshelf!

Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds. Lu was born to be cocaptain of the Defenders. Well, actually, he was born albino, but that’s got nothing to do with being a track star. Lu has swagger, plus the talent to back it up, and with all that—not to mention the gold chains and diamond earrings—no one’s gonna outshine him. Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu’s way—literally and not-so-literally—and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means. Expect the unexpected in this final event in Jason Reynold’s award-winning and bestselling Track series.

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Book 3 in a series of books for kids about high school track and field. I also have this book in paperback. I have books 2 & 4 available on my bookshelf!

Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics. They all have a lot of lose, but they all have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Sunny is the main character in this novel, the third of four books in Jason Reynold’s electrifying middle grade series. Sunny is just that—sunny. Always ready with a goofy smile and something nice to say, Sunny is the chillest dude on the Defenders team. But Sunny’s life hasn’t always been sun beamy-bright. You see, Sunny is a murderer. Or at least he thinks of himself that way. His mother died giving birth to him, and based on how Sunny’s dad treats him—ignoring him, making Sunny call him Darryl, never “Dad”—it’s no wonder Sunny thinks he’s to blame. It seems the only thing Sunny can do right in his dad’s eyes is win first place ribbons running the mile, just like his mom did. But Sunny doesn’t like running, never has. So he stops. Right in the middle of a race. With his relationship with his dad now worse than ever, the last thing Sunny wants to do is leave the other newbies—his only friends—behind. But you can’t be on a track team and not run. So Coach asks Sunny what he wants to do. Sunny’s answer? Dance. Yes, dance. But you also can’t be on a track team and dance. Then, in a stroke of genius only Jason Reynolds can conceive, Sunny discovers a track event that encompasses the hard hits of hip-hop, the precision of ballet, and the showmanship of dance as a whole: the discus throw. As Sunny practices the discus, learning when to let go at just the right time, he’ll let go of everything that’s been eating him up inside, perhaps just in time.

Sunny

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

A Literary Anthology 

Baseball A Literary Anthology

Tom Farrey

Georgia

The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children

In this fascinating journey into a culture gone haywire, an Emmy-award winning reporter examines what's right and what's wrong with the fevered pursuit of excellence in youth sports.

Game On

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Book 2 in a series for kids about high school track & field. I also have books 3 & 4 available on my bookshelf. I have another copy of this one for sale that is paperback.

"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--

Ron Berman

Future Stars of America is an inspirational non-fiction book about young people who are chasing down their sports dreams. Ron Berman writes nine amazing stories about real kids who are doing great things in sports all across America. He asks the reader: What do a basketball-playing beekeeper and a thirteen-year-old golf champion have in common? And what do they both have in common with you? The answer is simple: You are all Future Stars of America! The nine stories in this book are about kids who are chasing down their sports dreams. Have you ever imagined yourself kicking the winning goal, or being the MVP? The kids in this book have done just that. They're starring on football fields and baseball diamonds all over the country. But there's more to their stories than sports. They all believe they are going to be stars--in something. So, what are you waiting for? Get out there and be a star!"

Future Stars of America

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Linda Aksomitis

Science is the secret weapon of sport stars, it helps them win when it really matters. Athletes use science to make their bodies work better, move faster, and keep going for longer. Find out how the latest sports equipment and training plans can make the difference between winning and losing.

Sports Champions

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Arizona

Step-by-step instructions on how to draw a variety of athletes from a number of action perspectives.

Athletes

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Kurt Taylor

How 12 World-Class Athletes Overcame Challenges and Rose to the Top

Are you looking for the perfect book for the young sports fan in your life? Are you hoping to find a book that can both engage your child as well as teach them valuable life lessons? This book is the compromise you've been looking for with life stories of some of the most famous athletes of all time. We discuss all of the challenges they faced in life and how those obstacles made them stronger and the person they became. We cover every sport from football, baseball and basketball to gymnastics and surfing. This book will engage every young sports fan as they learn about their favorite current stars as well as some of the most influential athletes of the past. Inspirational Sports Stories for Young Readers is the perfect gift for the sports-obsessed child in your life. This book features the following: - 12 inspirational sports stories of your favorite athletes - Quotes from each of the athletes on what their struggles meant to them personally - New information that largely goes untold when talking about each athlete - Remarkable illustrations of each athlete throughout the chapters. This book celebrates the history of sports by highlighting not only some of the greatest athletes of all time but also the struggles that made them who they are today. It focuses less on the accomplishments of the athletes on the field or the court, but the journey to their success and how that can inspire your child in the classroom and in life. We leave no sport untouched as we drift between popular sports like basketball and football into the more unheralded sports like track and field and boxing. If nothing else, your child will have a greater appreciation for the history of sports and learn about some new icons of their day. For every parent, this book gives you the opportunity to teach life lessons to your child in a new light. You can use this book as the background for larger life talks about perseverance and commitment. You can use these athletes as examples of people who beat the odds to become the famous athletes they became.

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