Shooting Stars

“When I first saw LeBron James play as a professional, it was his selflessness that dazzled me the most. After reading Shooting Stars, I now
understand why. It is a book of five boys coming together to learn the true meaning of teamwork and togetherness, loyalty and love, through highs and lows and thick and thin. It is a book filled with excitement and unforgettable characters. It is a book that will incredibly move and inspire you.” --Jay-Z.

“In the Olympics, LeBron was a star, a leader, and the ultimate teammate. He helped our team become a Family. Reading Shooting Stars taught me how he became that kind of a teammate, developing the selflessness and loyalty that define who he is. What an amazing story.”-- Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University head basketball coach

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Friday Night Lights

The basis for the acclaimed move Friday Night Lights (2004) and the current NBC television series Friday Night Lights.

Used as a text at hundreds of high schools and colleges around the country.

"Friday Night Lights has just about everything you could ask for...atmosphere, excitement and sheer gladiatorial spectacle...a cast of characters so rich that even a novelist (or a screenwriter) couldn't improve on it."--New York Times.

"Superb and disturbing....More than a sports book, it's a search for the America of ordinary people."--Newsday.

"Excellent and apparently immortal."--Boston Globe

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3 Nights in August

14 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List.

A "Best Book of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and Rocky Mountain News.

"Superb...a fascinating look inside the managing of a professional baseball team." --John Grisham, The New York Times Book Review.

"A first-rate account of a battle of titans...A real treat for scholarly baseball fans, and a better management book than most on the business shelves."--Kirkus Review, Starred Review.

"The best baseball book I've read in a decade."--Rocky Mountain News

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A Prayer for the City

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year.

Finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award.

"A full-scale portrait of a struggling American metropolis that brings to mind such classics of urban reportage and analysis as J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground and Nicholas Lemann's The Promised Land."--New York Times Book Review.

"An extraordinary book, an insider's account of the daily workings of a big-city administration."--New York Review of Books.

"A fascinating, humane portrait of the ills of urban America."--The New Yorker

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