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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets
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The Basketball Diaries

By Jim Carroll ,

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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
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Boom Town

By Sam Anderson ,

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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
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I Came as a Shadow

By John Thompson , Jesse Washington ,

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The Breaks of the Game
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The Breaks of the Game

By David Halberstam ,

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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

By Jacqueline Briggs Martin , Eric-Shabazz Larkin (illustrator) ,

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They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers
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They Cleared the Lane

By Ron Thomas ,

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A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
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A Season on the Brink

By John Feinstein ,

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Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
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Loose Balls

By Terry Pluto ,

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Getting Undressed: From Paralysis to Purpose
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Getting Undressed

By David Cooks , Eric Wolffersdorff ,

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The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty
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The Miracle of St. Anthony

By Adrian Wojnarowski ,

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Be Holding: A Poem
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Be Holding

By Ross Gay ,

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Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
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Here in Harlem

By Walter Dean Myers ,

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Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation
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Change

By Jeffrey A Kottler ,

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Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
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Let Me Play

By Karen Blumenthal ,

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Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
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Leading with the Heart

By Mike Krzyzewski , Donald T. Phillips ,

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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle

By Madeleine Blais ,

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Heaven Is a Playground
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Heaven Is a Playground

By Rick Telander ,

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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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A Sense of Where You Are

By John McPhee ,

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Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man
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Second Wind

By William F. Russell ,

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The Sphas: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team
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The Sphas

By Doug Stark ,

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One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season
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One Small Town, One Crazy Coach

By Mike Roos ,

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Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
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Pistol

By Mark Kriegel ,

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Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Giant Steps

By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Peter Knobler ,

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Raped Black Male: A Memoir
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Raped Black Male

By Kenneth Rogers Jr. ,

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Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American-Jewish Experience
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Ellis Island to Ebbets Field

By Peter Levine ,

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To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry
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To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever

By Will Blythe ,

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Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd
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Moonfixer

By Earl Lloyd , Sean Kirst ,

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The NBA In Black And White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach
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The NBA In Black And White

By Ray Scott , Charley Rosen ,

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Breaking Barriers: A History of Integration in Professional Basketball
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Breaking Barriers

By Douglas Stark ,

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Life on the Run
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Life on the Run

By Bill Bradley ,

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Lebron
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Lebron

By Jeff Benedict ,

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Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team
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Inaugural Ballers

By Andrew Maraniss ,

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Shattering The Glass: The Remarkable History Of Women's Basketball
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Shattering The Glass

By Pamela Grundy , Susan Shackelford ,

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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
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The Black Fives

By Claude Johnson ,

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Free Play: A Decade of Writings on Youth Sports
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Free Play

By Brian McCormick ,

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Michael Jordan: The Life
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Michael Jordan

By Roland Lazenby ,

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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
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Showtime

By Jeff Pearlman ,

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Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated
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Basketball (and Other Things)

By Shea Serrano , Arturo Torres (illustrator) ,

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When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
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When the Garden Was Eden

By Harvey Araton ,

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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
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The Book of Basketball

By Bill Simmons ,

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Heaven Is a Playground: A Journey into the Sweet World of Street Basketball
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Heaven Is a Playground

By Rick Telander ,

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