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Author
Series
Bolitar volume 5
Language
English
Description
Follows hot-headed sports agent Myron Bolitar as he tries to protect a star of the women's professional league, an attractive athlete whose troubled past may claim both their lives.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
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, hardworking young 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...
3) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
