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1) The way back
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Years after walking away from a college basketball scholarship, an alcoholic man is asked to return to his former high school as a basketball coach.
2) Overcomer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Life changes overnight for coach John Harrison when his high school basketball team's state championship dreams are crushed under the weight of unexpected news. When the largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down and hundreds of families begin moving away, John must come to grips with the challenges facing his family and his team. John is frustrated and questioning his worth, until he crosses paths with a student struggling with her own...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The definitive biography of college basketball's all-time winningest coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that.
Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. There's a spirit that endures in Willow Creek, Montana. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering...
6) The miracle of St. Anthony: a season with coach Bob Hurley and basketball's most improbable dynasty
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Author
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...
8) The legends club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends—University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano—by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein
On March 18, 1980, the immensely powerful Duke basketball program announced the hiring of its new coach—the man who would resurrect...
On March 18, 1980, the immensely powerful Duke basketball program announced the hiring of its new coach—the man who would resurrect...
9) Grown ups 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lenny has decided to relocate his family back to the small town to have his kids grow up where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grownups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
11) Play for keeps
Author
Series
Love games (Maggie Wells) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tyrell Ransom, the new men's basketball coach, is ready to whip his team into shape and start winning some games. But when compromising photos of his soon-to-be-ex-wife with one of his players go viral, everything comes crashing down. With reporters thick on the ground, Ty and his team need some serious damage control--now. When public relations guru Millie Jenkins arrives in her leopard-print cape to save the day, things really heat up. Soon they're...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Picture Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
14) More than a game
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson's journey-from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year's L.A. Lakers world champion-and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen's journey as well, carrying the torch for the game of basketball through careers as star college player, CBA coach, and preeminent novelist of the game. It is also the story...
Author
Publisher
Sports Publishing
Language
English
Description
The Definitive Biography of a Coaching Legend.
Hanging high atop the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, is the name "Holzman" and the number "613." That is the total number of wins by former New York Knicks head coach Red Holzman, which is the most in franchise history. While he spent six years as a player and another six as an executive, he's most famous for his time at the helm of the Knickerbockers, where he led the team to their...
16) Coach Carter
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The story of a high school basketball coach who receives both criticism and praise after benching his entire team due to poor grades.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Coach Roy Williams is one of the most respected and successful basketball coaches in the nation, he has led the UNC team for the past 18 seasons, with 903 career wins, three national championships, led his team to five Final Fours, finished first in the ACC regular standings nine times, and won three ACC tournament championships.
And yet, Williams traveled an unlikely path. In “Hard Work”¸ he tells the story of his life, from his turbulent childhood...
20) The way back
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...