{"id":2610,"date":"2009-03-19T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2009-03-15T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T19:32:50","slug":"on-display-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/on-display-march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"On Display — March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you like basketball, then look for our March Madness display. <\/span>Not only do we have books about college basketball and the final four, but\u00a0 also about the pro teams and individual biographies. <\/span>There’s a new Rick Pitino title that should prove popular, Rebound Rules: The Art of Success 2.0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, but I also found a few other gems hidden in the stacks.<\/p>\n

I’d never envisioned the author of Prince of Tides<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and Beach Music<\/strong><\/em><\/a> as being particularly athletic, but My Losing Season<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Pat Conroy is his rendition of what happened on the court during his senior year of college at the Citadel.\u00a0 It reads more like a novel than a basketball book, and if you’ve liked his other works, you’ll like this, too.\u00a0 One unexpected tidbit is a reference to his father playing basketball at St. Ambrose, right here in Davenport, Iowa!<\/p>\n

Counting Coup<\/em><\/strong>: <\/a>A True Story of Honor and Basketball on the Little Big Horn,<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Larry Colton, also reads like fiction.\u00a0 This\u00a0 story\u00a0 is a journalist’s peek into the profound effect of girls’ basketball on an impoverished\u00a0 Crow Indian Reservation in Montana.\u00a0 Though he focuses on one especially talented player, Sharon LaForge, he also brings the reader along into the struggles of her family and her teammates as well.<\/p>\n

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