Buzz Bissinger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Buzz Bissinger's twins were born three minutes, and a world, apart. Gerry is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has spent his life attending special schools. He'll never drive a car, or kiss a girl, or live by himself. He is a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling knack for navigation, and a reflexive honesty that can make...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"In THE SECRETS OF MY LIFE, Caitlyn reflects on the inner conflict she experienced growing up in an era of rigidly defined gender identities, and the cruel irony of being hailed by an entire nation as the ultimate symbol of manhood. She recounts her Olympic triumph, her rise to fame, and relates how her sense of frustration and shame grew with the passing years and the lengths to which she had to go to conceal her true self. Caitlyn in turn uncovers...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Shooting Stars is the inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero, revealing how LeBron James and his childhood friends become the #1 high school team in the country, launching James's breathtaking career"--
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine 'The new republic'. He was also a freelance writer featured in 'Rolling Stone', 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'George'. By the mid 1990's, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in its tracks.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place in Odessa, a socially and racially divided and economically troubled oil town in the western part of Texas, where high school football is the thing that brings all the people together. Follows Coach Gary Gaines and the Permian High School Panthers through the 1988 season as they work hard to extend Permian's winning record. Shows the players struggling with typical adolescent issues and the lack of future opportunities in their town as...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 955 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.