| International Standard Book Number |
9780593801345 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593801342 hardcover
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| Other Classification Number |
796.3 GRI
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| Personal Name |
Griner, Brittney, Author.
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| Title Statement |
Coming home Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford. [Book] /
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
©2024.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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| Content Type |
sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
n rdamedia
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| Media Type |
rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
nc rdacarrier
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| Carrier Type |
rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney's world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly--until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America's forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes listeners inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney's journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family's support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love--the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself." -- Random House.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note |
20240611.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Griner, Brittney.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Griner, Brittney. fast
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| Subject |
National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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| Subject |
National Collegiate Athletic Association. fast
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| Subject |
Women's National Basketball Association.
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| Subject |
Women's National Basketball Association. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball players. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hostages Biography. Russia
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prisoners Biography. Russia
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hostages. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prisoners. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American basketball players Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American basketball players. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women basketball players Biography. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball players Biography. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women basketball players. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States. fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Russia. fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. rvmgf
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies. fast
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Burford, Michelle, author.
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