Mad Lyfe of an NBA Wife
Author: Sherri Patterson
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11-21
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ISBN-13: 9780983346371
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Mad Lyfe of an NBA Wife
Author: Sherri Patterson
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780983346388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough many years of domestic violence and emotional torture at the hands of her NBA husband, Sherri Patterson made it. Through unimaginable pain and suffering, she made it with God's Grace. In her memoir, Mad Lyfe of an NBA Wife, Sherri Patterson will take you on the journey of her life as a teenage girl growing up in the heart of Miami. It appeared that Sherri had escaped the hood and was living the glamorous life of an NBA wife, but Mad Lyfe reveals her unspoken reality. With God's grace and guidance, Sherri left the so-called glamorous life behind and transformed into a woman of passion and purpose. Mad Lyfe will make you stand and applaud her courage, will and tenacity to start over and embrace her God-given path! Mad Lyfe reveals the former existence of a powerless young woman's journey to hell and her fierce rise to redemption!
West by West
Author: Jonathan Coleman
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2011-10-19
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0316194204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day. Now, for the first time, the legendary Jerry West tells his story-from his tough childhood in West Virginia, to his unbelievable college success at West Virginia University, his 40-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and his relationships with NBA legends like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant. Unsparing in its self-assessment and honesty, West by West is far more than a sports memoir: it is a profound confession and a magnificent inspiration.
I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
Author: Charles Barkley
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2003-10-14
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0812966287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Barkley has never been shy about expressing his opinions. Michael Jordan once said that we all want to say the things that Barkley says, but we don’t dare. But even die-hard followers of the all-time NBA great, the star of TNT’s Inside the NBA and CNN’s TalkBack Live, will be astonished by just how candid and provocative he is in this book—and just how big his ambitions are. Though he addresses weighty issues with a light touch and prefers to stir people to think by making them laugh, there’s nothing Charles Barkley shies away from here—not race, not class, not big money, not scandal, not politics, not personalities, nothing. “Early on,” says Washington Post columnist and ESPN talk show host Michael Wilbon in his Introduction, “Barkley made his peace with mixing it up, and decided the consequences were very much worth it to him. And that makes him as radically different in these modern celebrity times as a 6-foot-4-inch power forward.” If there’s one thing Charles Barkley knows, it’s the crying need for honest, open discussion in this country—the more uncomfortable the subject, the more necessary the dialogue. And if the discussion leader can be as wise, irreverent, (occasionally) profane and (consistently) funny as Charles Barkley, so much the better. Many people are going to be shocked and scandalized by I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It, but many more will stand up and cheer. Like Molly Ivins or Bill O’Reilly, Charles Barkley is utterly his own thinker, and everything he says comes from deep reflection. One way or another, if more blood hasn’t reached your brain by the time you’ve finished this book, maybe you’ve been embalmed.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0316219304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
Crazy Age
Author: Jane Miller
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 0748117865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since I have inhabited old age, I have looked and listened, mostly in vain, for news of what it is like for others who inhabit it too. Naturally, I'm interested in its well-known depredations, the physical and mental ones that people in their forties and fifties so publicly dread. And who would not delight in the theatrical props of old age - the pills and sticks, the shrieking hearing aids and the tricks for countering the loss of names and threads and glasses. But that's not all. I have a fond hope that in old age there may be new kinds of time and of pleasure, perhaps even new kinds of vitality, and that, though we forget and muddle and fail to hear things, there may be moments when we truly understand what's going on for the first time. But then I've always been a late developer.' Deeply thoughtful, wry and resilient, this fascinating and absorbing book about growing older is a life-enhancing look at what all of us - if we are lucky - can aspire to.
Heaven Is a Playground
Author: Rick Telander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1613216165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regular’s apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of better lives were often fanatically attached to the transcendent game itself. Telander introduces us to Fly Williams, a playground legend with incredible leaping ability and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to keep him earthbound. Another standout was Albert King, a fifteen-year-old phenom whose shy, quiet demeanor masked an otherworldly talent that eventually took him to the NBA. This edition also includes Telander’s perspectives on the arrival of an NBA team in Brooklyn. Heaven Is a Playground is one of a kind—a funny, sad, ultimately inspiring book about Americans and the roots of the sport that they love.
The Wonder Garden
Author: Lauren Acampora
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780802123558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of interconnected short stories, the residents of Old Cranbury, Connecticut face unseen battles and creeping truths, dreaming the massive dreams that each person holds close-- and that hold them close to each other.
Inner Circle
Author: Evelyn Lozada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-06-11
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1936399466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInner Circle reveals everything athletes' wives are forced to deal with - complete with the lying, cheating, scandals, manipulation, paparazzi and gossip. Not one of these high society wives is prepared for how addictive their elite lifestyles can be, and most all of them stoop to deception to preserve their social status. Eve encourages the wives to band together and becomes the mastermind behind the drastic measures these women are willing to take to maintain their celebrity, until she herself comes face to face with a reality that shakes her to the core.
Living on Paper
Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 069118092X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice—her life in her own words. Living on Paper—the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters—gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great mind at work—struggling with philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti, and Raymond Queneau, philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa Foot, and mathematician Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's emotional hunger, her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable, and her irreverence and sharp sense of humor. We also learn how her private life fed into the plots and characters of her novels, despite her claims that they were not drawn from reality. Direct and intimate, these letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person, making for an extraordinary reading experience.
