Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
10 best books like Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska (Michael D'Orso): Roll, Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing, Checked, Color of the Sea, Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn, Shooting Stars, The Necessary Beggar, Over and Under, The Oxford Project, The Floor of the Sky
When Lauren (but call him “Ren,” pretty please) Hall sees birds falling from the sky, he knows something is wrong. But just as he’s starting to worry, he realizes that the birds are plummeting toward the ground on purpose.
Turns out they’re Birmingham Roller Pigeons, and his new neighbor...
Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
| Author | Jim Yardley |
| ISBN | 0307272214 |
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 1481446614 |
Hockey is Conor’s life. His whole life. He’ll say it himself, he’s a hockey beast. It’s his dad’s whole life too—and Conor is sure that’s why his stepmom, Jenny, left. There are very few things Conor and his dad love more than the game, and one of those things is their Doberman, Sinbad. When...
| Author | John Hamamura |
| ISBN | 0312340737 |
Growing up in a time between wars, Sam Hamada finds that the culture of his native Japan is never far from his heart. Sam is rapidly learning the code of the samurai in the late 1930s on the lush Hawaiian Islands, where he is slowly coming into his own as a son and a man.
But after Sam strikes out for...
| Author | Larry Colton |
| ISBN | 0446677558 |
In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by "counting coup" -- touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of...
COUNTING COUP
In this extraordinary work of journalism, Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow...
From the ultimate team—basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August—a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including James’s own
The Shooting Stars were...
Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty. But it is also a land of swift and severe justice. Young Darroti has been accused of the murder of a highborn woman who had chosen the life of a Mendicant, a holy beggar whose blessing brings forgiveness. Now his entire family must share his...
| Author | Todd Tucker |
| ISBN | 0312379900 |
In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two fourteen-year-old boys---best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots with their Springfield M-6 Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are blissfully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding the Borden Casket Company. The fact that...
| Author | Peter Feldstein |
| ISBN | 1599620480 |
In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). He converted an abandoned storefront on Main Street into a makeshift studio and posted fliers inviting people to stop by. At first they trickled in slowly, but in the end, nearly all...
| Author | Pamela Carter Joern |
| ISBN | 0803276311 |
In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land—and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky, Toby Jenkins, an aging widow, is on the verge of losing her family's ranch when her granddaughter Lila—a...
| Author | Don Haskins |
| ISBN | 1401307914 |
Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer's movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western Miners
In 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that...
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
| Author | Karen Blumenthal |
| ISBN | 0689859570 |
Can girls play softball? Can girls be school crossing guards? Can girls play basketball or ice hockey or soccer? Can girls become lawyers or doctors or engineers?
Of course they can...
today. But just a few decades ago, opportunities for girls were far more limited, not because they weren't...
Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul
| Author | Bill Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0312134916 |
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall River, Massachusetts, is a once-prosperous industrial center haunted by its history, the Durfee High School basketball team begins its annual...
The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
| Author | Neil Swidey |
| ISBN | 1586484699 |
Jack O'Brien, the impossibly demanding basketball coach at Charlestown High School in Boston, has led his team to five state championship titles in six years. Less talked about is O'Brien's other winning record: Nearly every one of the players who stuck with his program--poor kids growing up in high-crime...
Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness
| Author | Keith O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1250000335 |
"A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account… Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals—and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story." —Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book Review
The Cardinals...
| Author | Rick Telander |
| ISBN | 0803294530 |
In 1974 Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn’s Foster Park. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players’ lives, and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything...
The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
| Author | Pete Axthelm |
| ISBN | 0803259344 |
Axthelm was a columnist who covered sports in the Big Apple during the prime of the Knicks’ great teams in the late 60’s/early 70’s. This book is a documentary look at the team that captured the NBA championship at the end of the 1969-1970 season. Axthelm spends individual chapters describing...
Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four
| Author | John Feinstein |
| ISBN | 0316014257 |
This was neither
John Feinstein's
best work, nor the best writing on the world of college hoops. However, though I'm terribly behind on reviewing bigger and better books, with less than two weeks left before this year's
Last Dance,
I wanted to give this a whirl before the window of relevance closes.
...
| Author | Bill Bradley |
| ISBN | 0679762086 |
Almost two decades after its original publication and more than fifteen years after its author retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, Bill Bradley's account of twenty days in a pro basketball season remains a classic in the literature of sports, unparalleled in its candor...
When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball
| Author | Seth Davis |
| ISBN | 0805088105 |
The dramatic story of how two legendary players burst on the scene in an NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball
Thirty years ago, college basketball was not the sport we know today. Few games were televised nationally and the NCAA tournament had just expanded from thirty-two to...
Hang Time: Days And Dreams With Michael Jordan
| Author | Bob Greene |
| ISBN | 0312951930 |
Bob Greene shows us a side of Michael Jordan that doesn't make the sports page...the inside.
Journalist and bestselling author Bob Greene stepped into Michael Jordan's world just as Jordan was reaching the apex of his talent and his fame. With Greene, Jordan let down his guard.
In...
Underbelly Hoops: Adventures in the CBA - A.K.A. The Crazy Basketball Association
A top college basketball player for Oregon State and Purdue and a native of Indiana who believed he could one day play in the NBA, Carson Cunningham came close. Well – sort of close. He ended up in the minor leagues of professional basketball instead, in the storied and now defunct CBA, a league that has...
Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson
| Author | Larry Platt |
| ISBN | 0060097744 |
Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Allen Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture -- without compromise. Defiantly tattooed, with his hair in cornrows, the six-foot Philadelphia 76ers point guard is one of the most recognizable and controversial...
