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2) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
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 a 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,...
3) Play dead
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her husband, Boston Celtics' star player David Baskin, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model-turned-entrepreneur Laura Ayars begins to suspect that David's death wasn't a simple accident and launches her own investigation.
Author
Language
English
Description
Aldridge James “AJ” Richardson is living the good life. He has a gorgeous town house in always-flavorful New Orleans, plenty of frequent-flier miles from jet-setting around the country on a whim, and an MBA–but he’s never had to work a regular job. He owes it all to his longtime lover, Dray Jones. Dray Jones the rich and famous NBA star. They fell in love in college when AJ was hired to tutor Dray, a freshman on the basketball...
6) Defender
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hoping that her basketball talents will help her escape living in a slum building where her father is the superintendent, Tyne discovers the body of a girl in an abandoned basement room and becomes suspicious that her father is leading a double life.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
10) The last witness
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pro basketball star Brady James has proposed, and Katie Fisher can't wait to start planning their life together. She's confident she'll make it down the aisle this time. But Katie finds herself bombarded with everyone's competing visions regarding her own special day-- and she's beginning to worry that her own ideas will get lost in the crossfire. Will she get her perfect day? Or will bridal shop chaos and overzealous friends and family make a mess...
13) Team seven
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teen basketball player's promising career threatens to be derailed by the drugs and violence in his seedy neighborhood"--
14) Fadeaway
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a high school basketball star goes missing overnight after thousands watched him secure the title for his team, his best friend, his conflicted ex-girlfriend, and his devastated younger brother search for clues that expose deeply hidden community secrets.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it "The Wonder"--much to Won's chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won's teammate and the captain. Covering it all is sportswriter Robert Sung, who writes about Won's stardom while grappling with his own...
16) His last name
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Five women try to balance success with the men in their lives, from Monique's affair with her son's NBA teammate to Zakiya trying to get rid of her husband's mistress in order to impress her church community with her perfect marriage.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Framed for murder and sentenced to life, college basketball star Nasir Lassiter is hopeless, forsaking everyone--including his pregnant girlfriend Ayana. Five bitter years pass in jail, then suddenly his name is cleared and he's a free man. Yet his absence, he soon learns, has caused much suffering. His mother has turned to drugs, and Ayana--raising their four-year-old daughter Brandy--cannot escape Alonzo, a cruel, jealous businessman. And when Brandy...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy 'Kamikaze' Kirkus is a basketball star, destined for a legendary future in the NBA. At the age of five, he can make nine shots in a row. By high school, he's got his own Sports Illustrated profile. To the citizens of Columbia City, it seems like he was born for the sport. But Jimmy soon confronts the 'Kirkus curse' when tragedies begin to emerge. Not even basketball can save him from his family's sorrow-filled past"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
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{u2019} 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{u2019}s virtue. There are the cryptic...
20) Ripcord
Author
Series
Billy Beckett novel volume 3
Publisher
Phoenix Flying
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Russell Mann is one of the brightest young talents in the National Basketball Association, and he's on the verge of signing a new contract worth $100 million or more. But people close to him keep turning up dead. Billy finds himself representing the troubled star, a young man he has shepherded from the tough streets of the Bronx to the bright lights of the NBA's Orlando Magic. Despite Billy's guidance, violence seems to stalk Russell at every turn,...
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