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"Every kid in America would love to work as a batboy for major league baseball, on the bench for an NBA team, or on the sidelines for an NFL team. Only one kid in America got to work in the dugout and inside the locker room for the Milwaukee Brewers, sit on the bench with the 1971 world champion Milwaukee Bucks, and work for the Green Bay Packers who won the first two Super Bowls. Pat McBride describes escaping from a dysfunctional home and finding...
3702) Un tiro perfecto
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Layla's hard work pays off when she moves from a substitute to starting player and captain of the basketball team, but her best friend and teammate Danika causes trouble.
3703) Waiting for spring: 13
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Waiting for Spring volume 13
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"Towa and Mitsuki are finally a couple, but Mitsuki feels like she needs to step up her game to make his heart race. She goes to the ever-composed Kyōsuke for help, and he suggests a surprise birthday party for Towa. However, when she brings her boyfriend to the party venue, she finds an even bigger surprise waiting for them both!"--Provided by publisher.
3704) Waiting for spring: 12
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Waiting for Spring volume 12
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"Mitsuki has officially confessed to Towa that she likes him, but Seiryo has officially lost to Hōjō... Which means the Seiryo basketball team is still banned from dating! Mitsuki says she'll wait for Towa until he's finished playing high school basketball, but Towa isn't as patient. Is there any way he can get around this vexing rule? Meanwhile, Ryūji makes his own plans to pursue his crush, too!"--Provided by publisher.
3706) Kevin Garnett
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Profiles the power forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves, discussing his childhood in South Carolina and high school years in Chicago, his decision to skip college, and his success with the Timberwolves.
3709) Big crow
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By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota's best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native American state champions. By age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. Thirty years after her tragic death, SuAnne's pride in her people continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to save their language and reclaim their culture.
3710) Benji
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In 1984, 17-year-old Benjamin "Benji" Wilson was a symbol of everything promising about Chicago: a sweet-natured youngster from the city's fabled South Side, and America's top high school basketball prospect. Then, in November of his senior year, his life was abruptly and tragically cut short, sending ripples of horror through the city and the country.
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Ukrainian
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"Salli podobayetʹsya hraty v basketbol! Vona mozhe vesty m'yach, kydaty yoho u basketbolʹne kilʹtse ta robyty peredachi... dopoky na niy yiyi shchaslyvi shkarpetky. Ale odnoho dnya yiyi shkarpetky bezslidno znykly. I yak zhe yiy zdobuty peremohu u vazhlyviy hri, koly na niy prosti, zvychayni shkarpetky?"--
"Sally loves to play basketball! She can dribble and shoot and pass... as long as she is wearing her lucky socks. But one day, her lucky socks...
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Overcomer: High school basketball coach John Harrison receives unfortunate news that will change his life. The largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down, forcing many families to leave in search of other job opportunities. John and his family are faced with an uncertain future, and his dreams of winning the state basketball championship are in jeopardy. He agrees to coach the cross-country team where he meets a runner who is on her journey...
3718) Private luau
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Kimani romance volume Dec11, 264
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Honolulu image consultant Raquel Deneuve prides herself on her ability to make any bad-rap celebrity look good. But when she's hired by NBA hotshot Keanu Bailey, she finds herself falling for the man. Will Keanu turn Raquel into a one-man woman?
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"This is more than a basketball player's biography. It is constructed with the same substance of the great classic novels. Pistol tells the story of the boy transformed by the dream of his father and the price that his family ends up paying for this dream. In this poignant history, Mark Kriegel captures the passionate saga of an American family: ascension, ruins, and redemption."--Amazon.com
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