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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...
2) Chasing Red
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Series
Chasing Red novels volume 1
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English
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He had everything wealth, 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.
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Mars Bahr mysteries volume 3
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English
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Heiress Terri Jackman was brutally murdered, and everyone-including Minneapolis Homicide detective "Mars" Bahr-believes that her abusive husband, basketball star Tayron "T-Jack" Jackman, did it. But he has an unshakeable alibi...
T-Jack was with Terri's parents and lawyer signing divorce papers when the killing took place. Now, to add insult to injury, he's pocketing a $100 million settlement-the price Terri's desperate parents paid to get her out...
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"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...
5) Long shot
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Series
Hoops (Kennedy Ryan) volume 1
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English
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"Iris DuPree meets August West in a sports bar during her last semester of college. It's the conversation of a lifetime and sends sparks flying in every direction. The connection is undeniable...but the timing is all wrong. August is poised for the NBA draft, and Iris belongs to another man--basketball's "golden boy" and August's long-time rival. The two go their separate ways, but they often recall that electric night and what could have been. While...
6) The chance
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.
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English
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"Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he's determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason's new home in Hope's Crossing is her best work yet, and she won't let her...
8) Play dead
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English
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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.
10) Lights out
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Series
Kate Green volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Former Olympic athlete and sports reporter Kate Green isn't sure how much more tumultuous her life can get. She's been put on temporary leave from her job, then NBA superstar Kurt Robbins is killed and the prime suspect in his murder is none other than his wife...and Kate's best friend.
11) Black and white
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
12) Night shift
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Publisher
W by Wattpad
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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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Chase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he has come home. His friends are right there waiting for him. And so are his enemies. Then the murder of a boy, a high school basketball star just like Chase, rocks the small town. When another death is discovered -- one that also shares unsettling connections to him -- law enforcement's attention...
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Series
Zeke Archer Basketball trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Green Buffalo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this sequel to THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT BASKETBALL, a few months have passed since Zeke Archer saved basketball from extinction after the 7th Dimension--the otherworldly entity that brought the game to Earth in 1891--tried to take it away for good. Now Zeke is settling into life after high school, leading his team and running the point at Jefferson Community College. And there, on his home court, is where this strange tale begins ... Tragedy strikes...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but who is the punchline? When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it "The Wonder"-much to Won's chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who...
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