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Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story
Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story Author Interviews
Chris Washburn
Chris Washburn NONE "Ex-high school basketball star, Chris Washburn, shares his journey from NBA fame to losing everything due to a 14-year crack addiction in his upcoming memoir. His redemptive stor...
Kawai Strong Washburn
Kawai Strong Washburn 0000000500666563 Hawaiian-born author Kawai Strong Washburn is known for his work in McSweeney’s, Best American Nonrequired Reading and more. He's a 2015 Tin House and Bread Loa...
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era Donovan X. Ramsey 9780525511816 Nonfiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Finalist For The National Book Critics Circ...
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era Donovan X. Ramsey 9780525511809 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House “A poignant and compelling re-examination of a tragic era in Am...
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn 9781250787316 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books o...
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court Chris Paul and Michael Wilbon 9781250276711 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected m...
Christopher D. Burns
Christopher D. Burns NONE Christopher D. Burns, from Memphis, served in the US Navy as an electrician before becoming a QA analyst and basketball coach. He wrote his first book after an injury halted...
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s Jamel Shabazz 9781648230059 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the stre...
Boris Kodjoe discusses his new movie, Addicted (2014)
Boris Kodjoe discusses his new movie, Addicted (2014) Kam Williams Interview Boris Kodjoe The “Addicted” Interview From his big screen and television roles to his theater and entrepreneurial s...
By God’s Grace
By God’s Grace Chris Webber 9781645432777 Nonfiction Webber Publishing Group Webber Publishing Group From basketball legend Chris Webber comes By God’s Grace, the highly anticipated memoir by the pola...
The Sole Provider: Thirty Years of Nike Basketball
The Sole Provider: Thirty Years of Nike Basketball Robert “Scoop” Jackson 9781576871614 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Designed with Nike’s trademark visually striking graphics, Sole Pro...
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends)
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends) Seth Ferranti 9780980068740 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gor...
Chris Hayden
Chris Hayden NONE Chris Hayden, born 1950, is a renowned poet and editor. His work has featured in numerous magazines and e-zines, including Drumvoices, Black Thought, and Delmar. He is known for his...
Kansas Book Festival
Kansas Book Festival Washburn University Topeka Kansas The Kansas Book Festival, featuring Kansas-connected authors from across the country, will host a number of authors with ties to Washburn Univers...
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience Chris Young 9780316565288 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, senten...
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine 9780231177283 Fiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press J-Rod moves like a small battle tank ...
CJ’s New Basketball (These Kids of Mine)
CJ’s New Basketball (These Kids of Mine) Ivy Valentine Pate 9780996814027 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing CJ gets his very first basketball from Dad on Sunday, but can’t go to a rea...
Permission to Dream
Permission to Dream Chris Gardner 9780063031562 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your...
Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion
Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion Mitchell S. Jackson 9781648290923 Nonfiction Artisan HarperCollins Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion serves as both a visual feast and a critical explorat...
Gerry Wright
Gerry Wright NONE Gerry Wright is a former professional basketball player and author. After earning All-American honors in high school and playing basketball at the University of Southern California ...
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris)
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris) Felicia Pride 9781416937982 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris has a girlfriend! "You’re my Prince Charming," she says. And norm...
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Chris Gardner is a renowned author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, best known for his autobiography “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Quincy Troupe is a ce...
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani MULTIPLE Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani are renowned authors, recognized for their profound contributions to literature. Dawes, a poet and writer, merges cultural experiences...
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld 9781423178712 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his ol...
Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979
Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979 Thomas Aiello 9781621904632 Nonfiction Univ Tennessee Press Univ Tennessee Press In this book Thomas Aiello considers the speci...
Rashad Phillips
Rashad Phillips NONE Rashad Phillips is an American former professional basketball player and author. Born on May 5, 1978, in Detroit, Michigan, he played as a 5-foot 9-inch guard. Phillips had a not...
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges 0000000120255957 Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public...
Chris Young
Chris Young 0000000354841270 Chris Young is a consultant, author, and public speaker. Raised in Clarksville, Tennessee, he came of age in a community shaped by severe poverty, instability, and limit...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
Chris Abani and Percival Everett
Chris Abani and Percival Everett MULTIPLE Chris Abani and Percival Everett are renowned authors. Abani is known for exploring themes of politics and culture while Everett's works often tackle identit...
Chris Webber
Chris Webber 0000000031515227 Chris Webber was a five-time All-Star and a five-time All-NBA selection. In a career that spanned fifteen seasons, Webber is one of five NBA players to average at least ...
Chris Barton
Chris Barton 0000000082953972 Chris Barton, an award-winning, best-selling author, has written numerous children's books, drawing from a lifelong passion for storytelling. He grew up in Texas, nurtur...
Drop
Drop Mat Johnson 9781582341040 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing A new voice in American fiction recalling the work of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Drop is an irreverent and unforgettab...
A Boy and His Mirror
A Boy and His Mirror Marchánt Davis 9780593110553 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Debut author and actor Marchánt Davis joins forces with the bestselling illustrator Keturah A....
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel Chris Abani 9780143124955 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winnin...
Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner 0000000040093476 Chris Gardner is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and single parent who overcame homelessness to become a best-selling author. His memoir, The Pursuit of Happyn...
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib 9780593448793 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the...
Chris Crowe
Chris Crowe 0000000035515435 Chris Crowe, Ph.D. was born in Danville, Illinois, and is the author of several acclaimed books, most notably Mississippi Trial, 1955, which received numerous honors, in...
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...
Chris Abani
Chris Abani 0000000083877772 Chris Abani, born in Nigeria in 1966, is a renowned author and educator who faced imprisonment for his literary work. After escaping to the US, he published eight books o...
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond Natasha Howard 9781636143507 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Amid the current firestorm of interest in women’s basketball, Natasha H...
Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka 000000008396928X Chris Raschka, born in 1959, is a renowned author, illustrator, and violist from Pennsylvania. Notable for his books “Hello, Goodbye Window,” and “A Ball for Daisy,” bo...
Chris Brunner
Chris Brunner 0000000459817277 Chris Brunner is a renowned author known for his compelling narratives and unique storytelling prowess. His works have significantly impacted the literary world. Chris ...
Chris Tomlinson
Chris Tomlinson NONE Chris Tomlinson, a seasoned reporter, has covered major global events from 50 countries and nine war zones. Based in Austin, he currently writes for The Houston Chronicle. Chris ...
Chris Stuck
Chris Stuck NONE Chris Stuck is a Portland-based freelance writer with an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University. He's a fiction fellow at several workshops, a Pushcart Prize winner, and has bee...
Malcolm Nance and Chris Sampson
Malcolm Nance and Chris Sampson MULTIPLE Malcolm Nance and Chris Sampson are renowned authors specializing in national security, intelligence analysis, and terrorism studies. Their work provides insi...
N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer
N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer MULTIPLE "N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer are prominent...
Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America
Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America Thomas Aiello 9781538147115 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield From its early days as a sport to build "muscular Christianity&...
From the Crack House to the White House: My Journey from Tragedy to Trauma to Triumph
From the Crack House to the White House: My Journey from Tragedy to Trauma to Triumph Tonja Myles 9798988455615 Nonfiction Tonja Myles Tonja Myles From the Crack House to the White House delves into t...
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City Phillip Hoose 9780374306120 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers "Hoose does a bri...
Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories!
Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories! Derrick Barnes 9781523505548 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing From superstar author Derrick Barnes, here is a middle-grade celebrati...
Love & Basketball
Love & Basketball Michael Dequina http://aalbc.com/reviews/images/love.jpg Film Review Reviewed by Michael Dequina Love & Basketball (2000) Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps Director: G...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 0000000081090255 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor in 1947, is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. A 7-foot-2 Hall of Famer, he dominat...
Baby Dunks-A-Lot The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing
Baby Dunks-A-Lot The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple 9781419771477 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams NBA champion Jayson Tatum’s all-star Baby Dunks-a-Lot i...
We Are Family
We Are Family Lebron James 9780062971098 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Kids have big dreams. And when those dreams are on the line, how far are they willing to go to achieve them?When Jayden and...
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training Chris Lamb 9780803229563 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press In the spring of 1946, following the...
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Onaje X. O. Woodbine NONE Onaje X.O. Woodbine, Ph.D. holder from Boston University, is a philosophy and religious studies teacher at Phillips Academy. Author of 'Black Gods of the Asphalt', he is als...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781586480493 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor ...
#MAKINGBELIEVERS
#MAKINGBELIEVERS Greg_Thomas 9781968403621 Nonfiction Red Rock Book Writers Red Rock Book Writers In this prodigious 2023–2024 season, Plano East completes the trifecta for Plano ISD, as the boys’...
Luxe 2: A LaLa Land Addiction
Luxe 2: A LaLa Land Addiction Ashley Antoinette 9781250066985 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Bleu is addicted…addicted to the luxe life and it has led her down a road of self-destru...
Slam Kicks: Basketball Sneakers That Changed the Game
Slam Kicks: Basketball Sneakers That Changed the Game Ben Osborne 9780789344458 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications With seventeen years of expertise as th...
Ramblers: Loyola Chicago 1963 — The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball
Ramblers: Loyola Chicago 1963 — The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball Michael Lenehan 9781572841406 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing Today basketball is played above the rim...
Addicted: A Novel
Addicted: A Novel Zane 9781476748047 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Before there was E.L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted. Once described as “the hottest paperback in ...
Addicted: A Novel
Addicted: A Novel Zane 9780743442848 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Before there was E.L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted. Once described as “the hottest paperback in ...
The Face: Cartography of the Void
The Face: Cartography of the Void Chris Abani 9781632060433 Fiction Restless Books Restless Books A profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir by acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani ...
Song for Night: A Novella
Song for Night: A Novella Chris Abani 9781933354316 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing...
Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days
Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days Rainie Howard 9781734015508 Nonfiction Howard Global Enterprise Howard Global Enterprise The obsession of a to...
Zane
Zane 0000000116815915 AALBC’s All-Time Bestselling Author Zane, a New York Times Bestselling Author, is known for several popular titles including “Addicted”, and “The Sex Chronicles.” Her works...
Tasha Smith (2015) on her role in Addicted
Tasha Smith (2015) on her role in Addicted Kam Williams Interview Tasha Smith • January 2015 Interview • Her Role on the Film Addicted, TV Projects and More Tasha Smith is a multifaceted act...
Sanctificum
Sanctificum Chris Abani 9781556593161 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Abani … explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination … [he] enters the wou...
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir D. Watkins 9781455588633 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Pea...
Arlington R. Callies
Arlington R. Callies NONE Arlington R. Callies, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is an author, experienced AAU Basketball and Track coach, and real estate broker. He has written a book about AA...
Open Letter to Chris Brown
Open Letter to Chris Brown Kevin Powell Article Open Letter to Chris Brown by Kevin Powell March 23rd, 2011 Dear Chris: I really did not want to write this open letter, and would have prefe...
That Beautiful Mind
That Beautiful Mind Tami Charles with Chris Charles 9781546116387 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and her son, Chris Charles, comes a soaring an...
Becoming Abigail
Becoming Abigail Chris Abani 9781888451948 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of los...
Chris Smalls
Chris Smalls NONE Chris Smalls is the co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and the labor activist who helped make history by leading the first successful unionization of an Amazon warehouse in the U...
America: The Farewell Tour
America: The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 9781501152672 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly…pro...
Unspeakable
Unspeakable Chris Hedges 9781510712737 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against)...
The Virgin Of Flames
The Virgin Of Flames Chris Abani 9780143038771 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City o...
Chris L. Terry
Chris L. Terry NONE Chris L. Terry was born in 1979 to an African American father and an Irish American mother. He has an MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and a creative writing M...
Pipe Dream: A Novel (Strivers Row)
Pipe Dream: A Novel (Strivers Row) Solomon Jones 9780375756603 Fiction Villard Villard The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squin...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? Chris Barton 9781481465618 Nonfiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, ...
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617754517 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the cont...
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be Chris Gardner and Mim E. Rivas 9780061537110 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Gardner is encouraging us all to ...
Hands Washing Water
Hands Washing Water Chris Abani 9781556592478 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength...
Tami Charles with Chris Charles
Tami Charles with Chris Charles MULTIPLE Tami Charles and her son, Chris Charles
Top Five
Top Five Kam Williams Top-Five-Movie-Poster.jpg Film Review Top Five In Theaters: Dec 12, 2014 Wide R (for strong sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language throughout and some drug use) Run...
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf 0000000115018412 Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, born Chris Jackson, is a renowned ex-NBA star and current BIG3 league player. Known for his record-breaking performance at LSU and in the NBA, ...
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens Kam Williams Book Review “I was raised in poverty, surrounded by drug dealers, gangs and community violence. My mother was addicted to crack cocai...
Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street
Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street Wil Haygood 9781524731861 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the author of the best-selling The Butler—an emotional, inspiring story of two teams fr...
Jesse Byrd
Jesse Byrd NONE Jesse Byrd, Jr., an award-winning author and former Google project worker, used his basketball skills to fund his education at UC Santa Barbara. Known for his debut novel, King Pengui...
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir Chris Abani 9781617755231 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book c...
Crack, Rap and Murder: The Cocaine Dreams of Alpo and Rich Porter Hip-Hop Folklore from the Streets of Harlem (STREET LEGENDS) (Volume 6)
Crack, Rap and Murder: The Cocaine Dreams of Alpo and Rich Porter Hip-Hop Folklore from the Streets of Harlem (STREET LEGENDS) (Volume 6) Seth Ferranti 9780988976030 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publica...
No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball!
No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball! Doug and Jackie Christie 9780979482700 Nonfiction Infinite Love Publishing Infinite Love Publishing Doug Christie is a world-class profession...
Baby Dunks-a-Lot
Baby Dunks-a-Lot Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple 9781419771460 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams NBA champion Jayson Tatum makes his picture book debut with a hilarious story about a baby who b...
Basketball Jones
Basketball Jones E. Lynn Harris 9780767926270 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House E. Lynn Harris has wowed and seduced more than three million readers with the wicked drama and undeniable heart in his ...
The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale
The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale Charly Palmer 9780374313289 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Have you ever heard of Gravity? No, not gravity, the centrifugal force ...
The Wizenard Series: Training Camp
The Wizenard Series: Training Camp Wesley King and Created by Kobe Bryant 9781949520019 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Debuted at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller list. From the mind of...