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1) Sooley
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Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
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Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Sleuth and sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates death threats against Brenda Slaughter, star player for a New York basketball team. Suspects include gangsters who are starting a competing women's league.
4) Night shift
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
College student Kendall Holiday, who spends her Fridays working the graveyard shift in the library, loses herself in the pages of her favorite love stories until the school's star basketball player turns up, giving her a chance at real-life romance.
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Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 13
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When new team members are being kidnapped and threatened, Frank and Joe join the basketball team at the request of their principal to uncover the culprits.
8) Chasing Red
Author
Series
Chasing Red volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
He had everythingwealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until one chance encounter changed everything. The moment Caleb Lockhart spotted the mysterious woman in her siren red dress, he couldn't tear his eyes away. For the first time in his life, he wanted something. Something he knew he could never have. The unforgettable stranger he dubs RED.
9) The chance
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Language
English
Description
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
10) Fadeaway
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a high school basketball star goes missing overnight after thousands watched him secure the title for his team, his best friend, his conflicted ex-girlfriend, and his devastated younger brother search for clues that expose deeply hidden community secrets.
11) Hook shot
Author
Series
Hoops (Kennedy Ryan) volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Divorced dad Kenan Ross has devoted his life to his daughter and playing basketball, until he encounters Lotus DuPree, an energetic spitfire who hides a lifetime of hurting.
Author
Series
Hoops (Kennedy Ryan) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A forbidden love set in the explosive world of the NBA. Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl? You don't. My fairy tale is upside down. A happily never after story. I kissed the prince and her turned into a fraud. I was a fool and his love was fool's gold. Now there's a new player in the game, August West. One of the NBA's brightest stars. Fine. Forbidden. He wants me and I want him. But my past, my fraudulent prince, just...
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English
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"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
15) Time out
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In his small Georgia town, Barclay Elliot is basically a legend. Here basketball is all that matters, and no one has a bigger spotlight than Barclay. Until he decides to use the biggest pep rally in the town's history to come out to his school. And things change. Quickly.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kelsey James always played by the rules and look where it got her - dumped and half-drunk in a poofy white dress, her Christmas wedding ruined. Then her best friend talks her into going on her "honeymoon" anyway, daring her to a "Christmas of Yes." It's about time she lets loose a little, so Kelsey agrees to say "yes" to fun, to romance, and to adventure! And adventure leads her right smack into the arms of sexy Noah MacGregor. Noah's never one...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When smart-mouthed Vanessa Lerner joins the high school basketball team Julie Parker coaches, Julie's ready for the challenge. What she's not ready for is Vanessa's new foster parent, Elle Cochrane--former University of Tennessee basketball star. While star-struck at first, soon Julie persuades Elle to step into the unfilled position of assistant coach for the year. Even though Elle has stayed out of the basketball world since an injury ended her...
18) Play dead
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Language
English
Formats
Description
When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jordan's days as the star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed ... Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her ... until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams--or will it just come between Jordan and her best friends on the basketball...
20) Boost
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
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