A profile of the town of Odessa, Texas, and its high school football team--the Panthers, the high school team with the best winning record in Texas history--chronicles its dramatic 1988 season and focuses on the bitter struggle between sports and education

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

Politics & Social Sciences

Bissinger, Buzz

Bissinger, H.G.

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

"Buzz Bissinger's&nbsp;Friday Night&nbsp;Lights&nbsp;is&nbsp;an American classic. With&nbsp;The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too&nbsp;is destined to become a classic. I devoured it." --&nbsp;John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of&nbsp;Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity.&nbsp;&nbsp;As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps.&nbsp;Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of Okinawa--their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the trash-talking between the 4th&nbsp;and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl."&nbsp; Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl"&nbsp;would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.&nbsp;&nbsp; Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.&nbsp;

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harper

Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation "Buzz Bissinger's&nbsp;Friday Night&nbsp;Lights&nbsp;is&nbsp;an American classic. With&nbsp;The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too&nbsp;is destined to become a classic. I devoured it." --&nbsp;John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of&nbsp;Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity.&nbsp;&nbsp;As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps.&nbsp;Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of Okinawa--their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the trash-talking between the 4th&nbsp;and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl."&nbsp; Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl"&nbsp;would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.&nbsp;&nbsp; Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.&nbsp;

Harper-perennial

"Buzz Bissinger's&nbsp;Friday Night&nbsp;Lights&nbsp;is&nbsp;an American classic. With&nbsp;The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too&nbsp;is destined to become a classic. I devoured it." --&nbsp;John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of&nbsp;Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity.&nbsp;&nbsp;As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps.&nbsp;Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of Okinawa--their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the trash-talking between the 4th&nbsp;and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl."&nbsp; Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl"&nbsp;would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.&nbsp;&nbsp; Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.&nbsp;

Harper Large Print

The DREAM TEAM was a bunch of kids from Akron, Ohio-LeBron James and his best friends-who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a bond which would carry them through thick and thin (a lot of thin) and, at last, to the brink of a national championship. They were a motley group who faced challenges all too typical of inner-city America. LeBron grew up without a father and had moved with his mother more than a dozen times by the age of 10. Willie McGee, the quiet one, had left both his parents behind in Chicago to be raised by his older brother in Akron. Dru Joyce was outspoken, and his dad, who was ever-present, would end up coaching all five of the boys in high school. Sian Cotton, who also played football, was the happy-go-lucky enforcer, while Romeo Travis was unhappy, bitter, even surly, until he finally opened himself up to the bond his team mates offered. In the summer after seventh grade, the DREAM TEAM tasted glory when they qualified for a national championship tournament in Memphis. But they lost their focus, and had to go home early. They promised each other they would stay together and do whatever it took to win a national title. They had no idea how hard it would be to pursue that promise. In the years that followed, they would endure jealousy, hostility, exploitation, resentment from the black community (because they went to a "white" high school), and the consequence of their own over-confidence. Not least, they would all have to wrestle with LeBron's outsize success, which brought too much attention and even a whiff of scandal their way. But together these five boys became men as they sought a national championship.

LeBron's Dream Team: How Four Friends and I Brought a Championship Home

Sports & Outdoors

James, LeBron

Biographies

Penguin??Books

A leading NBA star and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights present the story of James's inner-city Ohio youth basketball team on which players overcame challenging hardships to qualify for a national championship while learning key lessons about teamwork. Simultaneous.

Shooting Stars

Penguin Audio

Buzz Bissinger’s twins were born three minutes—and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach 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 him both socially awkward and surprisingly wise. One summer, striving to understand the twenty-four-year-old son who remains, in many ways, a mystery, Buzz convinces Zach to join him on a cross-country road trip. As father and son drive from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, revisiting all the places they have lived together, Buzz learns to see the world through Zach’s eyes. Father's Day is a powerful account of this journey, and a universal tale of the bond between parents and children. “Grade: A . . . Gorgeous.” — Entertainment Weekly “Blunt, tender, sometimes harrowing, and always affecting, Father’s Day is a triumph.” — Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief

Father's Day: Across America with an Unusual Dad and His Extraordinary Son

Community & Culture

A remarkable memoir from the best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.Buzz Bissinger€™s twins were born three minutes€”and a world€”apart. Gerry, the older one, 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 him both socially awkward and surprisingly wise.Buzz realized that while he had always been an attentive father, he didn€™t really understand what it was like to be Zach. So one summer night Buzz and Zach hit the road to revisit all the places they have lived together during Zach€™s twenty-four years. Zach revels in his memories, and Buzz hopes this journey into their sha

Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son

Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Buzz Bissinger selects the very best writing on a vast variety of competitive endeavors, from baseball to weightlifting, skating to demolition derby. Herein today's foremost journalists -- among them Gary Smith, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill Plaschke, and Rebecca Mead -- throw revealing light on a pantheon of stars: Shaquille O'Neal, Bobby Fischer, Mike Tyson, the San Diego Chicken, and more.

The Best American Sports Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)

Stout, Glenn

Mariner Books

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Nights Lights chronicles a three-game series between baseball rivals Cardinals and Cubs, focusing particular attention on the stars of the game, Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa, Mark Prior, and Scott Rolen. 100,000 first printing.

Three Nights In August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager

Baseball

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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Books by Bissinger, Buzz

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

LeBron's Dream Team: How Four Friends and I Brought a Championship Home

Shooting Stars

Father's Day: Across America with an Unusual Dad and His Extraordinary Son

Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son

The Best American Sports Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)

Three Nights In August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager