March 23, 2012
Courtside Culture Clash: Jim Yardley’s Brave Dragons
When Bob Weiss, a former NBA coach, was invited in 2008 to teach China’s worst professional basketball team how to play like Americans, he looked forward to a year spent abroad with his wife at a laid-back consultant position. What he actually got was a season spent as an on-and-off head coach, trying to lead a team that hadn’t seen a winning season in years, while navigating the mores and cultural idiosyncrasies of a nation on the rise.
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
