After winning the youth basketball tournament and getting TV coverage, the All-Stars are riding high. Soon, a former basketball star approaches them asking to be their coach. The All-Stars are divided. Do they want to become a legitimate basketball team or keep things the same?
Spring has arrived and the Alton Heights All-Stars are ready to practice at the basketball court in their local park. Unfortunately, the city is planning to turn the park into a parking lot. Can the All-Stars convince the city that their park is necessary? They plan a neighborhood basketball game to try to change the minds of local officials.
It's the annual citywide youth basketball tournament. Youth teams from all over the city have come together to play on a real pro basketball court. The All-Stars quickly realize they're in over their heads. Other teams have real coaches, real uniforms, great sneakers, and real tournament experience. All the All-Stars have is talent and determination. The team has to make a decision: give up and go home, or play to win.
Cam, Tyler, and Markus are upset that their school cut the basketball team because of lack of funding. They decide to make their own. They don't have jerseys, a coach, or even a regular court to practice on. There's one more problem, they need at least two more people on the team to play. Can the team find two more players? Can they win their first game against the snooty prep school kids that keep stealing their court?
It's summertime, and that means it's time to play basketball! Tyler signs the All-Stars up for their first tournament at the local rec center. But he doesn't plan on the challenges that can come with summer. Cam and Brianna are in summer school, Jasmine has to go stay with her dad, and Markus has to mow laws all summer. Tyler is left alone to practice, and worries that the All-Stars are breaking up. Can the All-Stars find a way to deal with their summer schedules and still practice for the big game?
Sammy is the smallest kid on the basketball court. But ever since the first time his father held him up to dunk a ball, Sammy felt like he was meant to fly. When the other kids won't pick Sammy for their team, he uses that as motivation to practice his skills and get stronger. Each day, Sammy tries and tries again until one day, he becomes a neighborhood legend. Readers will learn about the important skills of setting goals and staying disciplined in this inspirational tale of the powers of determination.
Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. Divinely blessed, musically gifted, brave, and eloquent, David's famous slaying of Goliath also confirms that he is a redoubtable man of war. Yet, when his son Absalom rebels, David is dogged by the accusation than he will lose his kingdom because he is not merely a man of war, but a man of 'bloods' - guilty of shedding innocent blood. In this book, for the first time, this language of 'innocent blood' and 'bloodguilt' is traced throughout David's story in the books of Samuel and 1 Kings. The theme emerges initially in Saul's pursuit of David and resurfaces regularly as David rises and men like Nabal, Saul, Ishbosheth, and Abner fall. Innocent blood and bloodguilt also turn out to be central to David's reign. This is seen in a surprising way in David's killing of Uriah, but also in the subsequent deaths of his sons, Amnon and Absalom, his general, Amasa, and even in David's encounters with Shimei. The problem rears its head again when the innocent blood of the Gibeonites shed by Saul comes back to haunt David's kingdom. Finally, the problem reappears when Solomon succeeds David and orchestrates the executions of Joab and Shimei, and the exile of Abiathar. Attending carefully to the text and drawing extensively on previous biblical scholarship, David J. Shepherd suggests that innocent blood is not only a pre-eminent concern of David, and his story in Samuel and 1 Kings, but also shapes the entirety of David's history.
Hal David: His Magic Moments: There is Always Something There to Remind Me by Eunice David Eunice and Hal David’s love for each other was legendary. For the first time, Eunice recounts her exciting life as the wife of one of the world’s most renowned lyricists. Memorable anecdotes include how Hal came to write some of his most iconic songs, such as the Academy Award-winning “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “What the World Needs Now is Love,” “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” and “The Four Winds and the Seven Seas.” All set within the span of their world-wide travels and historic events, this novel covers their magical twenty-five years of marriage, which all began with a simple game of tennis.
When Davids world changes forever and his friend traps him, he doesnt know how to escape. Confused by the way his friend is acting and not knowing what to do, he plays their game in silence, day after day. Afraid he will lose his friend, David finds himself stuck in a dangerous and scary situation. And then one day he realizes how his sword can help.
About the Book This book is an inside view and a passenger=seat to a ride through the life of a young man, rollin’ through a life of sex, drugs, violence and money in one of the coolest cities in the nation..., How he treated, trained and managed his women, and what bonded them to him. It explores the relationships between other players in the game, and the street culture that made very rich men of some, and brought death and destruction to others. This book is Real – it’s Raw, and it may change the way you see the world. About the Author Super Dave was born and raised in the south side of the cold streets of Chicago – an area called the Jeffry Manor – where pimpin’ was a common aspiration for a young man with the skills, heart and necessary equipment and temperament. He was a player before it was called pimpin’. David could have become anything he wanted to, given the opportunity, but opportunity was in very short supply where he came up. This is the true account of Super Dave – the Rise of a young King of the Streets in Chicago.
David Barker takes a unique approach in this exploration of the psalms of David. Each chapter begins with a creative retelling of the biblical narrative, setting the scene for the psalm arising out of that experience. Having grounded the psalm in the "story," Barker then goes into a verse-by-verse exposition of the psalm, and provides some explanatory notes and a statement of the key message of the psalm. At the end of each psalm exposition, Barker asks three basic questions: What do we learn about God? What do we learn about ourselves as the people of God? and What do we learn about the world? Answering these questions helps us to understand how David's experience shaped his theocentric and biblical worldview. David's theology of God is of One who is sovereign in every situation and reigns as King. All of life is lived in the presence of God, and life and the act of worship, are an interactive dynamic of despair and hope, failure and success, sin and forgiveness (with consequences). David faced all of these, and his psalms reveal how his understanding of God grew and was enriched through these experiences. It is hoped this practical look at David's psalms will deepen your understanding of God and the transforming work accomplished on the cross by his Son, Jesus Christ.
The musings and wisdom of a personal journey.From the Publisher:David A Britner, a man that many affectionately call “my guru,” shares his favorite stories and experiences in easy to understand writings that effectively open the doorway to metaphysical concepts and ideas that anyone can understand.
Remember David is a simple story that reminds us that God is bigger than any problem we may face in our life. Especially now, facing the pandemic and taking all the precautions can be a little scary to young children, but God is bigger than COVID-19. Just as God helped David face the lions and the bears, God also prepared him to face Goliath. If we put our faith and trust in God, He will help us defeat this pandemic and prepare us for whatever "giant" may come our way.
Here is a gospel-like story about the life of Jesus as seen through the eyes of an old, wise man who often understood the meanings and mysteries of Jesus when others did not. From the years immediately before Christ's birth to the days following his Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost, this eye-witness account will leave the reader with a deeper appreciation of Jesus' life, his ministry, and his lasting contribution to the world. This is a must read book that you will return to over and over again as you learn more about and fall more deeply in love with Jesus while also admiring David, the Elder Apostle.
David Beach's first collection of prose sonnets, Abandoned Novel, won the $65,000 IIML Prize in Modern Letters for emerging writers. He is now a retired mail sorter. This next book features prominently two urban locations not often juxtaposed, Troy and Te Aro. A chapter-by-chapter sonnet translation of The Iliad, and a sequence set in the Wellington inner city suburb, play off each other in a work where the line between the real and the imagined becomes as blurred as the poetry/prose divide.
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics is a recently updated and revised text which is perfect for either introductory courses in an undergraduate engineering curriculum or for a beginning graduate course. Continuum Mechanics studies the response of materials to different loading conditions. The concept of tensors is introduced through the idea of linear transformation in a self-contained chapter, and the interrelation of direct notation, indicial notation, and matrix operations is clearly presented. A wide range of idealized materials are considered through simple static and dynamic problems, and the book contains an abundance of illustrative examples of problems, many with solutions. Serves as either a introductory undergraduate course or a beginning graduate course textbook. Includes many problems with illustrations and answers.
This book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press and politicians was focused on a series of mysterious deaths in south-eastern Nigeria attributed to the 'man-leopard society'. These murder mysteries, reported as the 'biggest, strangest murder hunt in the world', were not just forensic but also related to the broad historical impact of commercial, Christian and colonial aid relations on Annang society.
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