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Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition)

Author: H. G. Bissinger

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0306824221

Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize winner H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires -- and sometimes shatters -- the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. The inspiration for the hit television program and film of the same name, this anniversary edition features a new afterword by the author.

Friday Night Lights

Author: H. G. Bissinger

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0224076744

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Return once again to the enduring account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history.

Father's Day

Author: Buzz Bissinger

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0547816561

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The author recounts a father-son road trip during which he gained insight into the worldviews, challenges, and talents of his socially challenged savant son, Zach.

A Prayer for the City

Author: Buzz Bissinger

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1101969911

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, the heart-wrenching and hilarious true story of an American city on its knees and a man who will do anything to save it. A Prayer for the City is acclaimed journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader willing to go to any length for the sake of his city: take unions head on, personally lobby President Clinton to save 10,000 defense jobs, or wrestle Smiley the Pig on Hot Dog Day—all the while bearing in mind the eternal fickleness of constituents whose favor may hinge on a missed garbage pick-up or an overzealous meter maid. It is also the story of citizens in crisis: a woman fighting ceaselessly to give her great-grandchildren a better life, a father of six who may lose his job at the Navy Shipyard, and a policy analyst whose experiences as a crime victim tempt her to abandon her job and ideals. "Fascinating, humane" (The New Yorker) and alive with detail and insight, A Prayer for the City describes the rare combination of political courage and optimism that may be the only hope for America's urban centers.

Paper Lion

Author: George Plimpton

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0316284432

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The book that made a legend -- and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, featuring a foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, Paper Lion is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football -- or anything!"

LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World

Author: Editors of Life

Publisher: Time Inc. Books

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1618934716

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Here is a book that will surely spark a lively debate. Who are the hundred most influential religious and political leaders, artists, scientists, and adventurers of all time? How is it even possible to construct such a list? Now, the editors of LIFE comb history, compare notes and dive in. Find out who makes the cut: King Tut or Cleopatra? Thomas Jefferson or George Washington; The Rolling Stones or The Beatles; Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. This is a look at history told through its most charismatic and fascinating characters. It is also full of fun facts, tidbits, arguments and rarely seen pictures, and will appeal to curious minds, young and old alike.

Winning with Class

Author: Carl Casanova

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-06-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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The Ad-vantage of being your best! What John Wooden is to college basketball, Ad Rutschman is to college football. There have been many great coaches in sports but few as impactful on players' lives as coach Rutschman. He is the only coach in sports history to ever win a national championship in football (winner of three) and baseball at the college level; a state championship in both football and baseball at the high school level. A true-to-life story that will give you the keys to winning and living with class. "Coach Rutschman is one of the greatest, small-college coaches of all time." John Robinson - Hall of Fame Coach 1978 National Champion at USC

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Author: Michael Lewis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0393330478

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Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.

If You Meet A Veteran

Author: Greg Easley

Publisher: Liberty Hill Publishing

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9781631299483

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As a father of two wonderful, outgoing little girls, my wife and I made it a priority to encourage them to introduce themselves to veterans we saw in our community and thank them. This often took place at the grocery store, restaurants, sports stadiums, or church. Each time it happened I noticed two important things - my girls were filled with admiration and often star-struck by these humble veterans, and the veterans themselves were so moved by being sought out and thanked by some cute, patriotic little Americans. The idea behind this book came to me as I watched one of my girls walk over to a veteran at a local restaurant and the big grin it put on his face as she shook his hand. I felt inspired to write this book for adults to read to their children, hoping that it might spark some conversations about who veterans are and what makes them special. If this book gives one child some new heroes worth admiring, and one veteran a new reason to smile, my work on this book will have paid off. Greg Easley is a full-time high school history teacher born and raised in the small Texas town of Pampa. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife and daughters, writing and illustrating, traveling, and soaking up history wherever he finds it. He is a proud Christian, American, Texan, Aggie, and Gooner. If You Meet a Veteran is his first publication.

Shooting Stars

Author: LeBron James

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 059383044X

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The celebrated memoir from LeBron James - a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including his own "A book that will incredibly move and inspire you.” —Jay-Z "A heartwarming story of boys who became men, teammates who became brothers, players who became champions, wonderfully told through the maturing eyes of basketball's greatest star." — John Grisham Before LeBron James was an NBA superstar, he was just a kid from Akron, Ohio, who loved to play basketball on a team called the Shooting Stars. This is the story of how this motley group of ten-year-olds grew into a team and became men together - surviving the challenges of inner city America and enduring jealousy, hostility, exploitation, and the consequences of their own overconfidence in their quest to win a national championship. Shooting Stars is a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives.