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English
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"With the perspective of time and success--Ron as a filmmaker, producer, and Hollywood A-lister, Clint as a busy character actor--the Howard brothers delve deep into an upbringing that seemed normal to them yet was anything but. Their Midwestern parents, Rance and Jean, moved to California to pursue their own showbiz dreams. But it was their young sons who found steady employment as actors. Rance put aside his ego and ambition to become Ron and Clint's...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the Baseball Hall of Fame honorees, tracing how the Acerra family of New Jersey formed their own semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and became the longest-running all-brother team in history.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber, who worked hard to overcome obstacles and became National Football League stars, one as running back for the New York Giants, the other as cornerback for the Tampa Bay Bucs.
10) Go long!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Coach Spangler leaves at the start of their second year of junior high school, thirteen-year-old twins Tiki and Ronde wonder if his replacement, history teacher Mr. Wheeler, can coach the Eagles to another winning football season.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Nora Titone offers a provocative look into the life of John Wilkes Booth and reveals how a fierce sibling rivalry with his brother Edwin contributed to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Here, Titone takes listeners beyond the conspiracy to murder Lincoln and examines how bitter tension within the Booth family, instead of the Civil War, is perhaps the main driving force behind John Wilkes Booth's actions.
13) We were brothers
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Series
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English
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"Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men. Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community where they slept in the same bedroom and were poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older,...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey through the lives of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the Academy Award-winning songwriting team that defined family musical entertainment with unforgettable songs like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, from Mary Poppins; I Wanna Be Like You, from The Jungle Book; and the most translated song ever written, It's a Small World (After All). Explore the deep and longstanding rift that has kept the brothers personally estranged throughout...
Author
Publisher
Sports Illustrated Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 173 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Jenny Long is the mother of Conner, 9, and Cayden Long, 7, who have competed in triathlons together as Team Long Brothers since 2011. Connor saw it a way for him to connect with Cayden, who suffers from Spastic Cerebral Palsy and they have competed in more than 14 triathlons, including two IronKids Triathlons. In 2012, the brothers were awarded the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) Hero Among Us Award.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To football fans, Aaron Hernandez was a superstar. He helped the Gators win the national title in 2008. He was drafted by the New England Patriots, and in his second season with the team, he and Rob Gronkowski set records for combined touchdowns and yardage. In 2012, along with Tom Brady, they led New England to Super Bowl XLVI. But Aaron's NFL career ended as quickly as it began. On June 26, 2013, he was arrested at his home, charged with the murder...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, An Imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrated, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At age thirty, Kyle Boelte finds himself living in San Francisco, where the summer fog blows inland off the ocean and the landscape changes moment to moment. Amidst this ever-changing sea of fog, Boelte struggles to remember his brother Kris, who committed suicide in the family's Denver home when Boelte was just thirteen. In this impressive debut, Boelte sets up a dual narrative: one investigates San Francisco's climate to explain the science behind...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"More words have been written about Muhammad Ali than almost anyone else. He was, without doubt, the world's most-loved sportsman. At the height of his celebrity he was the most famous person in the world. And yet, until now, the one voice missing belonged to the man who knew him best--his only sibling, and best friend, Rahaman Ali. No one was closer to Ali than Rahaman. Born Cassius and Rudolph Arnett Clay, the two brothers grew up together, lived...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.
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