Author: Brian Broome
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358439108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Author: Brian Broome
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358439108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358439108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life
Author: Dre Baldwin
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1260121399
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Your game plan for career success—from International Basketball Pro Dre BaldwinNo one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded—making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world—and in these pages, he shares all his secrets.Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or “DreAllDay,” as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It’s based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative—and it’s proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business—and everything is a business.Baldwin’s personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You’ll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1260121399
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Your game plan for career success—from International Basketball Pro Dre BaldwinNo one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded—making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world—and in these pages, he shares all his secrets.Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or “DreAllDay,” as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It’s based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative—and it’s proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business—and everything is a business.Baldwin’s personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You’ll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.
I Promise
Author: LeBron James
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063017342
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! An Instant Indie Bestseller! *An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A B&N Best Book of the Year* A great gift for tiny go-getters and big dreamers, including for back to school! NBA champion and superstar LeBron James pens a slam-dunk picture book inspired by his foundation’s I PROMISE program that motivates children everywhere to always #StriveForGreatness. Just a kid from Akron, Ohio, who is dedicated to uplifting youth everywhere, LeBron James knows the key to a better future is to excel in school, do your best, and keep your family close. I Promise is a lively and inspiring picture book that reminds us that tomorrow’s success starts with the promises we make to ourselves and our community today. Featuring James’s upbeat, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations perfectly crafted for a diverse audience by #1 New York Times bestselling and Geisel Honor winning artist Nina Mata, this book has the power to inspire all children and families to be their best. Perfect for shared reading in and out of the classroom, I Promise is also a great gift for graduation, birthdays, and other occasions. Plus check out the audiobook, read by LeBron James's mother and I Promise School supporter Gloria James!
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063017342
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! An Instant Indie Bestseller! *An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A B&N Best Book of the Year* A great gift for tiny go-getters and big dreamers, including for back to school! NBA champion and superstar LeBron James pens a slam-dunk picture book inspired by his foundation’s I PROMISE program that motivates children everywhere to always #StriveForGreatness. Just a kid from Akron, Ohio, who is dedicated to uplifting youth everywhere, LeBron James knows the key to a better future is to excel in school, do your best, and keep your family close. I Promise is a lively and inspiring picture book that reminds us that tomorrow’s success starts with the promises we make to ourselves and our community today. Featuring James’s upbeat, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations perfectly crafted for a diverse audience by #1 New York Times bestselling and Geisel Honor winning artist Nina Mata, this book has the power to inspire all children and families to be their best. Perfect for shared reading in and out of the classroom, I Promise is also a great gift for graduation, birthdays, and other occasions. Plus check out the audiobook, read by LeBron James's mother and I Promise School supporter Gloria James!
The Book of Basketball
Author: Bill Simmons
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345520106
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, 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. 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.
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345520106
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, 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. 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.
Kid's Box American English Level 2 Teacher's Edition
Author: Melanie Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521177774
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. The Teacher's Edition contains comprehensive notes, as well as extra activities and classroom ideas to inspire both teachers and students. Level 2 completes the Starters cycle.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521177774
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. The Teacher's Edition contains comprehensive notes, as well as extra activities and classroom ideas to inspire both teachers and students. Level 2 completes the Starters cycle.
The Black and White Apple Orchard Affair
Author: Ken Kenthomas
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 9781477266021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This true, sensually graphic love story took place in 1959 in an Apple Orchard located in a town known as Glen Cove on Long Island, New York. A beautiful, white, Italian, young lady by the name of Nichi fell in love with an African American high school basketball star by the name of Cap. Her sexual obsession with him was so overwhelming, she walked three miles from her home to where he lived in the Orchard on Easter Sunday and unconditionally gave herself to him. Both were virgins, so the sex was so explosive they did not notice Caps best friend watching. After they were finished and dressed, Cap went for just a few minutes to the edge of the Orchard to check for a clear passage for her to leave. Within that short period of time, best friend Larry physically beat and violently raped her. The girls parents called the police, and Cap was arrested and charged with violently raping this young lady. Cap took the blame completely by not implicating his friend. They threw him in jail for not only the violent rape but also for the fact the girl was only a young teenage High School student. Even though Cap suffered emotionally, he and this girl could not stop seeing each other and having sex repeatedly right up to the trial date. During those days, the towns white folks and the police did not like black people. The town wanted to string Cap up by his neck and castrate him. Glen Cove became a racial, ticking time bomb.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 9781477266021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This true, sensually graphic love story took place in 1959 in an Apple Orchard located in a town known as Glen Cove on Long Island, New York. A beautiful, white, Italian, young lady by the name of Nichi fell in love with an African American high school basketball star by the name of Cap. Her sexual obsession with him was so overwhelming, she walked three miles from her home to where he lived in the Orchard on Easter Sunday and unconditionally gave herself to him. Both were virgins, so the sex was so explosive they did not notice Caps best friend watching. After they were finished and dressed, Cap went for just a few minutes to the edge of the Orchard to check for a clear passage for her to leave. Within that short period of time, best friend Larry physically beat and violently raped her. The girls parents called the police, and Cap was arrested and charged with violently raping this young lady. Cap took the blame completely by not implicating his friend. They threw him in jail for not only the violent rape but also for the fact the girl was only a young teenage High School student. Even though Cap suffered emotionally, he and this girl could not stop seeing each other and having sex repeatedly right up to the trial date. During those days, the towns white folks and the police did not like black people. The town wanted to string Cap up by his neck and castrate him. Glen Cove became a racial, ticking time bomb.
Not One of Us
Author: John Lorenz Portugal
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469151170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
“He was my best friend...he was my teacher... he was so quiet...” These thoughts raced across Fayt Roxas’s high school friends’ minds when they realize what he really is. For those that barely knew him, they are amazed. Those who thought they were close to him were shocked to their core. With Fayt’s secret out, all his friends have the same questi on in mind: can he sti ll be trusted? But with their lives threatened by an unknown force, he may be their only hope to survive.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469151170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
“He was my best friend...he was my teacher... he was so quiet...” These thoughts raced across Fayt Roxas’s high school friends’ minds when they realize what he really is. For those that barely knew him, they are amazed. Those who thought they were close to him were shocked to their core. With Fayt’s secret out, all his friends have the same questi on in mind: can he sti ll be trusted? But with their lives threatened by an unknown force, he may be their only hope to survive.
Our Fractured Wholeness
Author: Diana Ventura
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621892085
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Born with cerebral palsy, Diana Ventura has known brokenness her entire life. Through telling her story, she shares what it means to live with and overcome brokenness of all kinds. As she reflects on her own experience and that of others, Diana offers understanding and insight. There is a mystical path through the landscape of suffering, she says, and those who travel it can find God and healing even in the midst of pain and sadness. Readers who join her on this journey of prayer and faith will be better equipped to meet the everyday challenges of living with brokenness with hope, dignity, and true love.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621892085
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Born with cerebral palsy, Diana Ventura has known brokenness her entire life. Through telling her story, she shares what it means to live with and overcome brokenness of all kinds. As she reflects on her own experience and that of others, Diana offers understanding and insight. There is a mystical path through the landscape of suffering, she says, and those who travel it can find God and healing even in the midst of pain and sadness. Readers who join her on this journey of prayer and faith will be better equipped to meet the everyday challenges of living with brokenness with hope, dignity, and true love.
Play Basketball Like a Pro
Author: Nate LeBoutillier
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429648260
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"Provides instructional tips on how to improve one's basketball skills, including quotes and advice from professional coaches and athletes"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429648260
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"Provides instructional tips on how to improve one's basketball skills, including quotes and advice from professional coaches and athletes"--Provided by publisher.
Stay a Little Longer
Author: Dawn Lanuza
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524854174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Elan wasn’t supposed to meet Caty. She lived halfway around the world, and he barely left Manila. Yet here he was, giving her a ride to the airport. Convinced that they would never have to see each other again after that day, Elan and Caty started to bond over truths, dares, stolen kisses, and games in hotel rooms and bars. With brief encounters that turned them from acquaintances to friends — tipping to the point of lovers, always — will Elan and Caty keep settling for a day, or will someone finally dare to stay long enough to discover: Is this love?
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524854174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Elan wasn’t supposed to meet Caty. She lived halfway around the world, and he barely left Manila. Yet here he was, giving her a ride to the airport. Convinced that they would never have to see each other again after that day, Elan and Caty started to bond over truths, dares, stolen kisses, and games in hotel rooms and bars. With brief encounters that turned them from acquaintances to friends — tipping to the point of lovers, always — will Elan and Caty keep settling for a day, or will someone finally dare to stay long enough to discover: Is this love?