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She's smart, beautiful, and she doesn't need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life—big time. Now Myron's next move may be his last. . .
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty...
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When smart-mouthed Vanessa Lerner joins the high school basketball team Julie Parker coaches, Julie's ready for the challenge. What she's not ready for is Vanessa's new foster parent, Elle Cochrane--former University of Tennessee basketball star. While star-struck at first, soon Julie persuades Elle to step into the unfilled position of assistant coach for the year. Even though Elle has stayed out of the basketball world since an injury ended her...
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Language
English
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Description
Sugar Rodgers shares her story of overcoming tremendous adversity to become a WNBA all-star in this memoir for middle grade and teen readers.
"Growing up in dire poverty in Suffolk, Virginia, Sugar (born Ta'Shauna) Rodgers never imagined that she would become an all-star player in the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association). Both of her siblings were in and out of prison throughout much of her childhood and shootings in her neighborhood were...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching basketball at Pennsylvania State University - no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules, examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes, thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. In 2006, student athlete Jennifer Harris, in conjunction with the National Center for Lesbian Rights,...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the past and future of women's basketball and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray, Dawn Staley, Kate Starbird, and Sheryl Swoopes.
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar novel volume 5
Publisher
Mystery Guild
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
512 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fade away. A nice house--but blood-splattered. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he once competed against was bringing back memories, both of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played, and the woman they both loved. Now Myron must unravel the strange, violent ride of a sports hero gone wrong, but it means coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.
One false move. Myron is asked...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the big game, one of Kit's players tells a ghost...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life, basketball career, and daily routine of Tamika Whitmore, a player with the New York Liberty, a team in the Women's National Basketball Association.
Author
Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only sixteen when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Maya Moore's family met Jonathan through a prison ministry program in 1999 and over time developed a close bond with him. Maya met Jonathan in 2007, shortly before her freshman year at the University of Connecticut,...
11) The Mighty Macs
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early '70s, Cathy Rush became the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team had no gym or uniforms, and the school was in danger of being sold, Coach Rush steered her girls to their first national championship.
12) Maya Moore
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before she became one of the most famous basketball players on the planet, before she began speaking out for prison reform, Maya Moore was just a kid. In this chapter book biography by acclaimed author Andrew Maraniss, readers learn more about the life and work of Maya Moore--from growing up with a single mother in Jefferson City, Missouri, to her journey to becoming a star player at UConn and the WNBA, to her social justice fighting for prison reform...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
xv, 253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The professional basketball player and 2016 Olympic gold medalist shares her inspirational story of overcoming the challenges of competitive sports through balancing hard work and the support of family.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film is divided into the quarters of a basketball game and tells the story of Quincy and Monica. It traces their lives as they run parallel and run apart -- from childhood, to high school, to college -- concluding with Quincy and Monica as adults. Both play basketball and each dreams of playing on a professional level. For Quincy, it is easier and expected since he is the son of a professional ballplayer. Monica has it harder being both a woman...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play. All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the championship girls basketball team. Mercy seems destined for greatness, but the road out of town is riddled with obstacles. There is her grandmother, Evelia, a strict evangelical who has visions of an imminent Rapture and sees herself as the keeper of Mercy's virtue. There are the cryptic letters from...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dave Kindred is among the greatest living chroniclers of sports. He has covered dozens of Super Bowls, developed a personal relationship with Muhammad Ali, and traveled the country following some of the greatest stars and teams in all of sports. But as he looks back on his life, it's a girls' high school basketball team, the Lady Potters of Morton, Illinois, that stands apart from the rest. In this moving and intimate story, Kindred writes about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"How do you pick basketball's GOATs? Michael Jordan and LeBron James get a lot of GOAT nods. But is Steph Curry the greatest shooter? And what about all-time WNBA points leader Diana Taurasi? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about some of the legends of basketball and see if you agree that they're the greatest of all time"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.
19) The Hot Flashes
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the high school girls' state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Large Print edition.
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
509 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworkingyoung women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
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