The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, Paperback - Darcy Frey

Reducere. It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that for many young men it represents their only ho...

Reducere. June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patro...

Reducere. Learn the Secrets and Skills of Stephen Curry Are you inspired by sports heroes? Do you aspire to the grit and determination of professional athlet...

Basketball 2.0 delves into the rise of 3x3 from the streets to the Olympics. For decades, three-on-three was a popular form of pickup basketball, b...

Han and Chewbacca team up with charming rogue Lando Calrissian in a decade-spanning novel drawing on the events both of the new Han Solo film and t...

Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the thirty-year-old would rather spend ...

Reducere. Captains of the City Streets is another trip into the world of the legendary Cat Club of Greenwich Village. Two adventurous young cats--Sinbad and ...

A celebration of books and everything that makes us human' Katie Marsh, author of My Everything You can tell a lot about a person from the library ...

Why do NBA players only have 24 seconds to score a basket? What's the geometry behind making the perfect shot? Become a basketball pro and learn al...

An experiential mosaic. Myriad impressions of buildings, windows, streets and people are captured in the watercolor paintings of Alex Price. This c...

Making a city that works for children creates a city that better serves all of its residents across ages and abilities. Yet we have created unsafe ...

Reducere. Paradise is a garden...but heaven is a city. From the acclaimed author of "Take This Bread" and" Jesus Freak" comes a powerful new account of ventu...

Reducere. Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Association’s contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New ...

Reducere. Author Michael De Feo is a teacher and artist who achieved a certain amount of fame when his work was featured in the Art of Rebellion, the world's...

You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrowLibrary assistant June knows a lot about the regulars at Chalcot Library, yet t...

Reducere. Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protest...

Reducere. The beloved author of Ms. Bixby's Last Day and Posted returns with a humorous and heartwarming story of family, friendship, and miniature golf. For...

Reducere. A TRUE STORY OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN A NORTHERN INNER RING SUBURB...A WINNING BASKETBALL TEAM THAT REFLECTED THIS CHANGE...AND MANY LONG-TIME FANS...

Reducere. For two years following the death of her beloved husband, Eugenia, the Dowager Duchess of Kendal has grieved and kept to herself. Her cousin is hos...

DescriptionThe very best recipes from the Thai city obsessed with food and brimming with vibrant flavors. This beautiful book features seventy reci...

Reducere. Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nev...

Reducere. Denied the woman of his dreams by his father's meddling, Calder Stafford, has spent the last decade proving himself to be self-sufficient, austere,...

DescriptionMiss Lucinda Parnell is out of money. A dismal failure at the Marriage Mart, she'd just as soon leave Society far behind. Desperate to e...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Gene WojciechowskiNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 22Cover type: Paperback...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Hoosier hysteria is synonymous with Indiana's crazy love affair with basketball. For some, it harkens back to the final four teams that met as a re...

DescriptionAvailable for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison,...

Consists of eight essays, which begin with a canoe trip down the River Dee in 2002 and the author's epic round of the Munros in the company of his ...

From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Phillip HooseThe true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas ChildersOn April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the Eu...

Reducere. Includes a bonus excerpt from Bob Greene's forthcoming Late Edition: A Love Story There is something absolutely magical about Bob Greene's voice.--...

Reducere. Like millions who love college basketball, John Feinstein was first drawn to the game because of its intensity, speed and intelligence. Like many o...

Reducere. "A bowl of my Mama's gumbo and a little wine will solve any problem you've got, " said every single Gumbeaux Sistah ever.Five Southern women wage a...

Reducere. DescriptionHector Vega's story is a must-read because hope is found within its pages - a hope that is persistent even when there seems to be no way...

After moving to New York City to become a Broadway actress, Stefanie O'Connell faced one of two inevitabilities when faced with unemployment--spira...

Reducere. How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with i...

Reducere. In the mid-1980s when hip-hop and the crack era were jumping off street dudes like Alpo and Rich Porter were the icons in Harlem. Everyone was watc...

This cult classic of Italian literature is witty, romantic, tragic and endlessly quotable. It is the first novel by this award-winning author to be...

Reducere. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to ...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Reducere. The Last Camelot: US Navy's "Secret City"By: J.C. MartinIn the 1940's, the U.S. Military acquired over a million acres of California desert for the...