"It wasn't a team.It was a tent revival." So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships.Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and seasoned stars produced a standard of play that would change the game of women's basketball forever. The 1997-98 season started innocently enough.One Saturday in August, four young freshmen--Semeka Randall, Tamika Catchings, Ace Clement and Teresa...
"It wasn't a team.It was a tent revival." So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for...
In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton s father lures her from a New York job with "Time" magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the editor of his "Claybelle"" Standard-Times." Betsy brings along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and Yale graduate to whom she is constantly explaining Texas. Ted will run Ben Throckmorton s radio station, KVAT, where Booty and Them Others sing in rivalry with the better known WBAP Light Crust Doughboys. In Texas, it s the middle of the Depression and the Drought. And Prohibition is barely over, liquor still a controversy. Every city has...
In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton s father lures her from a New York job with "Time" magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the ...
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story
First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie--the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words.
For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to...
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story
"A word of warning to anyone who picks this book up: be prepared for a sleepless night, because you won't want to put it down until you get to the end," Michael Barton, WordPlay Publishing.
A stupid mistake ended Ian's marriage. Now he's trying to put it right. Sandra was a teenage mum. Now she's fighting to make a good life for her daughter. Maxine made an important decision behind her boyfriend's back. His reaction devastates all their lives...
Every mother tries to do her best for her child. But sometimes that 'best' creates a monster.
Bedsit Three is a tale of murder, mystery and...
"A word of warning to anyone who picks this book up: be prepared for a sleepless night, because you won't want to put it down until you get to the end...
