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A compelling, heartwarming story of a group of college students determined to accomplish the impossible. -- Denver Post A multilayered history and a compelling story...about their time and place. -- New York Journal of Books A thrilling, cinematic story...[of] bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend. -- Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author Allows us to sit in the stands and watch a forgotten era when times were tough, odds were long, and underdogs rose to the occasion. -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune I can't wait for the movie. -- Oklahoman Narrator Virginia Wolf's modulated performance lets this exciting sports story almost tell itself. Her approach works since there's action aplenty in this audiobook...Wolf's understated style seems fitting for this dramatic true tale of braving the hardships of the era. The story is also a kind of social history of women's sports. This audiobook puts the listener virtually in the players' sneakers as these talented farm girls will their way to victory. -- AudioFile

"""A compelling, heartwarming story of a group of college students determined to accomplish the impossible."" -- ""Denver Post"" ""A multilayered history and a compelling story...about their time and place."" -- ""New York Journal of Books"" ""A thrilling, cinematic story...[of] bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend."" -- ""Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author"" ""Allows us to sit in the stands and watch a forgotten era when times were tough, odds were long, and underdogs rose to the occasion."" -- ""Minneapolis Star-Tribune"" ""I can't wait for the movie."" -- ""Oklahoman"" ""Narrator Virginia Wolf's modulated performance lets this exciting sports story almost tell itself. Her approach works since there's action aplenty in this audiobook...Wolf's understated style seems fitting for this dramatic true tale of braving the hardships of the era. The story is also a kind of social history of women's sports. This audiobook puts the listener virtually in the players' sneakers as these talented farm girls will their way to victory."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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Virginia Wolf is a Connecticut-based actress, radio personality, and audiobook narrator. In addition to appearing on stage throughout the state, she hosts a weekly radio show on arts and entertainment and is founder of Herstory Theater. Lydia Ellen Reeder is the grandniece of Sam Babb, the extraordinary basketball coach featured in Dust Bowl Girls. She spent over two years conducting research for the book and also wrote and narrated a short film about the Cardinal basketball team, currently on view at the Oklahoma Historical Society website: youtu.be/fokmbnWmp50. As a former associate editor at Whole Life Times in Los Angeles and Delicious Magazine in Boulder, Colorado, she has worked for many years as a copywriter and editor on behalf of corporate and organizational clients and most recently developed e-learning for a national nursing association.

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