*No Momma’s Boy, Author: Dominic Carter
TV anchor Dominic Carter recounts his story of abuse at the hands of his mother.
*The Blind Side, Author: Michael Lewis
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football. What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich Evangelical Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt.