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Author: Scottie Pippen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1982165200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unflinching memoir from the six-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Hall of Famer, revealing how Scottie Pippen, the youngest of twelve, overcame two family tragedies and universal disregard by college scouts to become an essential component of the greatest basketball dynasty of the last fifty years.
Author: Sam Smith
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1938120531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The New York Times Bestseller, updated With a New Introduction This is the 20th anniversary of the explosive bestseller that changed the way the world viewed one of the greatest athletes in history, revealing for the first time Michael Jordan's relentless drive to win anything and everything, at any cost. NBA Hall of Fame columnist Sam Smith had unlimited access to the team and its players during their championship 1991-92 season, which he details in the new introduction, along with candid revelations about his sources, and the reaction from Michael, his teammates, the media, and the fans when the book blasted onto the bestseller lists in 1992 (where it stayed for three months). With more than a million copies in print, The Jordan Rules remains the ultimate inside look at one of the most legendary teams in sports history.
Author: Michael Leahy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1471108597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As one of the greatest, most celebrated athletes in history, Michael Jordan conquered professional basketball as no one before. Powered by a potent mix of charisma, near superhuman abilities and a ferocious drive to dominate the game, he achieved every award and accolade conceivable before retiring from the Chicago Bulls and taking an executive post with the Washington Wizards. But retirement didn't suit the man who was once king, and at the advanced age of thirty-eight Michael Jordan decided it was time to reclaim the court that was once his. WHEN NOTHING ELSE MATTERS is the definitive account of Jordan's equally spectacular and disastrous return to basketball. Having closely followed Jordan's final two seasons, Michael Leahy draws a fascinating portrait of an intensely complex man hampered by injuries and assaulted by younger players eager to usurp his throne. In this enthralling book Jordan emerges as an ambitious, at times deeply unattractive character with, unsurprisingly, a monstrous ego. WHEN NOTHING ELSE MATTERS is an absorbing portrait not only of one athlete's overriding ambition, but also of a society so in thrall to its sports stars that it is blind to all their faults.
Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0316050067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of the most revered events in American sports. Readers will also find dramatic stories from the officials and referees to the scouts and ticket-scalpers.
Author: Sarra Manning
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781510041035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two women separated by time, connected by fate ... 1943, King's Cross station: Rose arrives in London and swaps the drudgery of wartime for romance, glamour and jiving with GIs at Rainbow Corner, the famous dance hall in Piccadilly Circus. As the bombs drop, Rose loses her heart to a pilot, but never imagines that she has much more to lose. Present day, Las Vegas: A beautiful woman in a wedding dress walks into a seedy bar and asks the first man she sees to marry her. When Leo slips that ring onto Jane's finger it sets off a chain of events that brings her crashing into Rose's world. Two very different women. Two very different lives. With time running out, can Rose and Jane finally make peace with the secrets that have threatened to destroy them? The past and present collide in After the Last Dance, a beautiful story about the redemptive power of unexpected love.
Author: David Halberstam
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 1453286144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar— “The best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post). One of sport’s biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam’s trademark balance of impeccable research and fascinating storytelling, Jordan symbolizes the apex of the National Basketball Association’s coming of age. Long before multimillion-dollar signings and lucrative endorsements, NBA players worked in relative obscurity, with most games woefully unattended and rarely broadcast on television. Then came Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, Jordan’s two great predecessors, and the game’s status changed. The new era capitalized on Jordan’s talent, will power, and unrivaled competiveness. In Playing for Keeps, Halberstam is at his investigative best, delving into Jordan’s expansive world of teammates and coaches. The result is a gripping story of the athlete and media powerhouse who changed a game forever. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.
Author: Ann McLane Kuster
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781931807296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A positive approach to dealing with Alzheimer'ss, The Last Dance is a book of courage and inspiration. Susan McLane was a pioneer and public servant advocating for the families and environment of New Hampshire over her twenty-five years in the NH State Senate. The Last Dance tells the story of her struggles with Alzheimer'ss disease, interwoven with memories of a lifetime.
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1512457175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Rachel Deering has her eyes on her toes: she wants to become a world-class ballerina. As a 14-year-old, she is already one of the best dancers in the country. Just as she prepares for an audition for an opening with a prestigious dance troupe, Rachel starts having some very disturbing symptoms. After collapsing at school, she has many tests and her doctor tells her the news: She has diabetes. Now her world consists of blood tests, insulin shots, a controlled diet, and constant fear that she will have a reaction and end up unable to dance—or worse.
Author: Michael Jordan
Publisher: Collins Pub San Francisco
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780006382560
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Complete before his resignation from basketball, Jordan discusses his love of the game, his family, and his competitiveness
Author: Bill Simmons
Publisher: ESPN
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 0345520106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
