Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434291561
Brandon's junior high school basketball team is struggling to make the playoffs, and Brandon is starting to feel that his bad luck is dragging them down--and when their bus breaks down on the way to the big game, Brandon has to turn luck into opportunity.
Author : Bill Simmons
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345520106
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
Author : Michael J. Mauboussin
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1422184234
In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.
Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496549457
Jake's jump shot is as good as money in the bank, but when he heads to the foul line... clank If Jake doesn't find a way to solve his free throw woes, his coach will have no choice but to put him on the pine. Will Jake nail it, or will he fail it?
Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Jake Maddox Jv
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781496563385
High interest, low reading level books for reluctant readers with compelling, easy-to-follow text and satisfying endings that show character growth and the spirit and sportsmanship of playing sports.
Author : John Coy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545229960
John Coy turns to the high-stakes world of high school basketball in this fast-paced YA novel--now in paperback with new cover art! Sophomore Liam Bergstrom just joined the varsity basketball team. His teammates made varsity because they're good. Liam's here because he's tall and Coach needs a guy who can grab rebounds. It's the chance Liam's been waiting for, but already he's playing catch-up. The other guys know what Coach expects, and they're willing to do things Coach's way, no matter what. So when Liam questions the team's practice of praying together before games, he's suddenly the odd man out. Now Liam has to find the guts to stand up for what he believes in--and take his game to a whole new level.
Author : Howard Axelrod
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807075477
Into the Wild meets Walden—a lyrical memoir for nature lovers and for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to disconnect from our hyper-connected culture and seek more meaningful connections After losing vision in one eye and becoming estranged from his family and friends, a young man spent two years searching for identity in self-imposed solitude in the backwoods of northern Vermont, where he embarked on a project of stripping away facades and all social ties--and learned to face himself. On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy’s finger hooked behind Axelrod’s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find a more lasting sense of meaning away from society’s pressures and rush. Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library Journal
Author : Tom Wood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101616725
Tom Wood, whose writing “crackles like the early work of Robert Ludlum” (Booklist) returns with a white-knuckle read—and an anti-hero assassin who sets a new standard for delivering brutal, no-holds-barred action… HE GOES BY ONE NAME. HE HAS NO PAST. HIS FUTURE IS MURDER. Victor's been out of commission for six months—but as dangerous as ever and still at the top of his game. A former assassin-for-hire now locked in uneasy alliance with a CIA special unit, Victor is in Berlin preparing for what was supposed to be a simple assignment: taking out the scout of a notorious crime lord. But life—and death—is full of surprises. As Victor tracks his target, he realizes that he's not the only assassin with a special interest in his prey. And if Victor is going to do his job, he has to stop someone else from doing theirs. Includes a preview of Tom Wood’s The Enemy
Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434296377
Mason dominates short races in the pool, but his endurance is not up to speed. Can Mason learn to swim the distance?
Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434296369
Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
