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Jump shot

2014
When Tiki and Ronde make the junior high school basketball team, they see that they each have their own skills and the most important skill is teamwork.

End zone

2014
Co-captains Tiki and Ronde Barber lead their junior high teammates to the Virginia state football championship.

You'll grow out of it

"YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss" ("Miss sounds like you weigh ninety-nine pounds"). Raw, relatable, and consistently hilarious, YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT is a one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice"--.

Blood sport

Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the quest to end baseball's steroid era
On January 29th, 2013, an expos? by Miami New Times reporter Tim Elfrink set the sports world on fire. Elfrink revealed that a Miami clinic, Biogenesis, had been supplying illegal performance enhancing drugs ? PEDs ? to many of the nation?s top baseball stars. One name stood out among all the others: Alex Rodriguez, the highest-earning player in the game. Over the next year and more the story would unravel with incredible details about tanning salon robberies, coded text messages, and furtive steroid injections in the men?s room. Both news-breaking sports journalism and wild South Florida noir, Blood Sport is simultaneously a revelatory record of the steroid and PED era?s continuing evolution and a call to arms for how to end it ? this time, for good.

Six degrees? of David Ortiz

connecting baseball stars
2015
"One of the best hitters in pro baseball today is David Ortiz. Who was once teammates with Torii Hunter with the Twins. Who was once teammates with Mike Trout with the Angels. Who was the All-Star teammate of Derek Jeter. Who won American League Rookie of the Year as a shortstop, as did Cal Ripken of the Orioles. Who broke the consecutive games played record of Lou Gehrig. Who was a Yankees teammate of the most famous home run hitter of all time, Babe Ruth. It seems the stars of today are more closely connected to each other and to the pioneers of the game than you might think"--From the publisher's web site.

Dare to disappoint

growing up in Turkey
Personal identity and national politics combine in this memoir of the author's struggle to find herself in a rapidly changing Turkey of the 1980s and '90s.

Reasons to stay alive

Best selling author Matt Haig shares his battle with depression and offers inspiration by showing readers the hope that can be found on the other side of depression.

Wild Card

2012
Through the course of a difficult season, Ronde learns that his coach is right about football being a mental game, as he tries to fill in as kicker while he and his identical twin, Tiki, help Adam improve his grades.

Girls like us

fighting for a world where girls are not for sale : a memoir
2012
Rachel Lloyd discusses how she managed to escape the commercial sex industry and how she has managed to help other women do the same. Lloyd also spotlights the creation of her own nonprofit organization devoted to this purpose and shares the stories of the women and girls she has helped.

Making my pitch

a woman's baseball odyssey
Ila Jane Borders, despite formidable obstacles, became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men's collegiate game.

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