Most Popular Books by Kate Fagan

"Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she''s one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn''t really exist. She''s never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now. As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars. But the day before their grand adventure, a tragedy shattered their dreams and Cate has been on the run ever since, taking on different names and charting a new future. But after a shocking revelation, Cate understands that returning home is the only way she''ll be a whole person again."--Provided by publisher.

This "love story for the ages" from a # 1 New York Times bestselling author comes an unforgettable story about basketball and the enduring bonds between a father and daughter that "will heal relationships and hearts" (Glennon Doyle). u200b Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with him over the years, were a distant memory. When Chris Fagan was diagnosed with ALS, Kate decided that something had to change. Leaving a high-profile job at ESPN to be closer to her mother and father and take part in his care, Kate Fagan spent the last year of her father’s life determined to return to him the kind of joy they once shared on the court. All the Colors Came Out is Kate Fagan’s completely original reflection on the very specific bond that one father and daughter shared, forged in the love of a sport which over time came to mean so much more. Studded with unforgettable scenes of humor, pain and hope, Kate Fagan has written a book that plumbs the mysteries of the unique gifts fathers gives daughters, ones that resonate across time and circumstance.

The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something changed. Previously indefatigable Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy''s dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter. What Made Maddy Run began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy''s life. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also struggling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran''s life, and her struggle with depression, which also reveals the mounting pressures young people -- and college athletes in particular -- face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social media saturation.

“In vibrant color and style, Hoops Muses tells the vital stories that celebrate the history and tradition of our game.” —Sue Bird, WNBA legend Hoops Muses is an homage to WNBA and women''s basketball, bringing style and flair to all the details, moments, and people who have shaped the collective world of (women’s) hoops. Hoops Muses will take us through time – literally. We begin in the future, in 2072, on the night of the WNBA’s 75th Anniversary, as New York Liberty phenom Jacklyn Jones is paid a visit by one of basketball’s long-ago (wink, wink) greats. This unlikely duo then goes on a sweeping, roundtrip adventure through basketball history, starting at the very beginning: Springfield, 1891. As the years pass, they learn the roots of the game (think: the first-ever collegiate game between Stanford and Cal, where men scaled the walls for a peek inside, or, the legend of Chicago’s Club Store Co-Eds, the all-Black barnstorming squad of the 1930s). AND as the early 20th century morphs into modern times, they see the game grow, the milestones reached. On their journey, they learn about the teams and the women (along with a few men) who helped build the foundation on which The Future will be built: -Fort Shaw and the 1904 World Championship -Pat Summitt and the early years of the Lady Vols -Delta State, featuring Margaret Wade and Lusia Harris -Cheryl Miller and Hollywood’s USC Trojans -UConn-Tennessee and the “Sliding Doors” moment that sparked their rivalry Plus, they have front-row seats to a whole lot of quirky, blissful fandom, including … The Movies That Should Have Been WNBA Jam The Moments The Shots To be a (women’s) hooper is to be part of a long and proud tradition … but one not often celebrated in popular culture. Hoops Muses is here to change that.

It’s hard enough coming out, but playing basketball for a nationally ranked school and trying to figure out your sexual identity in the closeted and paranoid world of big-time college sports—that’s a challenge. Kate Fagan’s love for basketball and for her religious teammates at the University of Colorado was tested by the gut-wrenching realization that she could no longer ignore the feelings of otherness inside her. In trying to blend in, Kate had created a hilariously incongruous world for herself in Boulder. Her best friends were part of Colorado’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes, where they ran weekly Bible studies and attended an Evangelical Free Church. For nearly a year, Kate joined them and learned all she could about Christianity—even holding their hands as they prayed for others “living a sinful lifestyle.” Each time the issue of homosexuality arose, she felt as if a neon sign appeared over her head, with a giant arrow pointed downward. During these prayer sessions, she would often keep her eyes open, looking around the circle at the closed eyelids of her friends, listening to the earnestness of their words. Kate didn’t have a vocabulary for discussing who she really was and what she felt when she was younger; all she knew was that she had a secret. In The Reappearing Act, she brings the reader along for the ride as she slowly accepts her new reality and takes the first steps toward embracing her true self.

Max Vernon is at a crossroads. After years of playing basketball, he has started trading the courts of Philadelphia for its streets. He tries holding onto his basketball dream but is soon faced with a series of life-changing decisions. Should he run the streets and make money with Raul and Theo? Or should he keep playing basketball even though he feels like a failure? What Max doesn''t realize is how much these decisions will affect everything—and everyone—around him.

Depois de anos fugindo do passado, a reclusa Cate Kay, uma das maiores escritoras da sua geração, decide finalmente revelar ao mundo sua verdadeira identidade. Um romance de amadurecimento único, As três vidas de Cate Kay, da autora best-seller do New York Times, Kate Fagan, explora a individualidade da memória de um livro eletrizante. Cate Kay sabe como contar uma boa história. Uma das maiores autoras dos Estados Unidos, ela escreveu uma trilogia que se tornou um best-seller e cuja adaptação para o cinema foi um sucesso estrondoso. Porém, ela nunca concedeu uma única entrevista à imprensa e sua verdadeira identidade sempre foi um grande segredo, pelo menos até agora. Isso tudo porque Cate Kay, na verdade, não existe. Anne Marie cresceu em uma pequena cidade no interior de Nova York e compartilhava um grande sonho com sua melhor amiga: ser estrela de cinema. Mas o universo tinha outros planos para ela. Aos 18 anos, um acontecimento marcante mudou o curso de sua vida para sempre — e a única coisa que ela conseguiu fazer foi fugir. Em uma cidade diferente, ela só enxergou uma saída: criar uma nova identidade, Cass Ford. Anos depois, em Nova York, tornou-se um grande sucesso sob o pseudônimo Cate Kay. Nesse tempo todo, porém, ela nunca deixou de correr, temendo que, se ficasse parada, o segredo obscuro que guardava pudesse finalmente alcançá-la. Depois de mais de dez anos longe, só a verdade pode levá-la para casa. E agora, Cate — ou melhor, Anne Marie — está pronta para finalmente contar ao mundo sua história. "Kate Fagan estreia na ficção com a eletrizante história dos segredos de uma autora best-seller. Kate fascina com sua protagonista enigmática e metamorfa, e a trama bem construída manterá os leitores sentados na pontinha da cadeira. É sensacional." ― Publishers Weekly "Um livro arrebatador. Grandes sonhos, amores e reviravoltas inesperadas." — Reese Witherspoon

NADIE SABE QUIÉN ES CATE KAY. NADIE, EXCEPTO UNA MUJER. Anne Marie sueña con triunfar en Hollywood. Junto a Amanda, su persona favorita en el mundo, planean dejar atrás su pequeño pueblo olvidado para perseguir una vida llena de brillo y glamour. Cass Ford está huyendo y no solo de su pasado. Un terrible accidente la ha impulsado a dejar todo atrás y empezar una nueva vida. A todo, excepto a la culpa y a los fantasmas de aquellos a quienes ha traicionado. Cate Kay está en la cima del mundo. Es la escritora del momento, su serie de libros es un éxito rotundo y las adaptaciones cinematográficas rompen récords de taquilla. Sin embargo, su identidad es un secreto inviolable, desconocido incluso para las más altas esferas del mundo artístico. SOLO UNA DE ESTAS TRES MUJERES EXISTE. ¿Cuáles son los límites de la ambición? ¿De qué serías capaz para alcanzar la gloria? Cuando el pasado golpee la misteriosa puerta de Cate Kay, revelando grandes secretos impronunciables, la autora se verá obligada a abrazar el poder de su propia historia, romper por fin su coraza... Y contarle al mundo la verdad sobre el icono. Sobre la leyenda. SOBRE CATE KAY.

Ein literarischer Pageturner zwischen New York und Hollywood Cate Kay ist ein Phänomen: Ihre Romantrilogie wurde zum internationalen Bestseller und gefeierten Hollywood-Film. Doch ihre wahre Identität ist ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis. Was niemand ahnt: Hinter Cate verbirgt sich Cass Ford, und hinter Cass verbirgt sich Annie, ein Mädchen aus der Kleinstadt mit einem tragischen Geheimnis. Jetzt, in ihrer Villa in den Hollywood Hills, schreibt sie ihre Memoiren. Zum ersten Mal erzählt sie, was damals wirklich geschah - und setzt damit nicht nur ihre Anonymität, sondern auch ihre Existenz aufs Spiel. Ein fesselnder Roman über Identität, Freundschaft und die Macht von Geschichten - emotional, überraschen und mitreißend bis zur letzten Seite.

Kate Fagan’sThe Long Momentis a gorgeous and brilliant book, a work of complex sensuousness and deep intelligence. Fagan brings to her work the microcosmically precise insights of a geologist or biologist, but the writings are informed also by a strong sense of social history. Each poem, even each page, is a specific site for study, for sentience, and for politics. Observations from everyday life move into sharp focus alongside formal meditations on the act of perception itself. Fagan’s compressed lyricism takes stock of the material world, exploring relations between living bodies and things while allowing each to remain distinct and mobile. Poems are lineated to suit the specific pressures and drifts of Fagan’s thinking, with issues of sonic and technical control remaining central throughout. The book’s ‘Anti-landscape’ sequence gathers several key preoccupations of late twentieth-century Australian poetry and inverts them to offer a new, politically astute mode of geographical address. Overheard fragments from contemporary media sit alongside intimate findings in ‘The waste of tongues,’ creating a narrative that is both calmly persuasive and critically telling. The long moment of this book’s details is beautiful; inThe Long Momentthe site at which they collect has become astoundingly meaningful.

The poems in First Light are both playful and intensely personal, combining an interest in language and the sound of words, with a sensual engagement with the world and the experiences of family life. Some poems are created by ''sampling'' from other writers; others test the tipping point between poetry and prose in small narrative ''prayers'', or stage a dialogue in love letters. Above all, this is a collection which explores the musicality of language, offering an important contribution to the technical range of Australian poetry, and its lyric possibilities.

Poetry. A collection of work by innovative Australian poets whose work shares an interest in "a primary art of transformation in language" (from the introduction). All contributors traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area in April 2016 to participate in a four-day meeting with similarly-committed U.S.-based poets. The title of the event is also that of the anthology, which its editors intend as an extension and prolongation of the April gathering. ACTIVE AESTHETICS brings news across the Pacific and across the equator of Australia''s current radical poetry and poetics. As is true of new poetry in the US, much of the work here reflects the complexity and urgency of political thinking within the aesthetic sphere. Contributors: Pam Brown, a.j. carruthers, Bonny Cassidy, Stuart Cooke, Ali Cobby, Chris Edwards, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Toby Fitch, elena gomez, Matthew Hall, Natalie Harkin, Marty Hiatt, Fiona Hile, Jill Jones, Nick Keys, Sam Langer, Kate Lilley, Astrid Lorange, Kent MacCarter, Philip Mead, Peter Minter, Ella O''Keefe, Luke Patterson, Gig Ryan, Amanda Stewart, John Tranter, Ann Vickery, Corey Wakeling, Jessica Wilkinson, R D Wood, and Ouyang Yu.

"Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she''s one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn''t really exist. She''s never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now. As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars. But the day before their grand adventure, a tragedy shattered their dreams and Cate has been on the run ever since, taking on different names and charting a new future. But after a shocking revelation, Cate understands that returning home is the only way she''ll be a whole person again"--

"Deena Jackson''s world has come crashing down. Just before her senior year of high school, her father is diagnosed with cancer. Deena has always been a shy, quiet girl, unnoticed by her high school classmates. But something changes as she watches her dad struggle. She puts on a pair of snickers her dad had gotten her the year before and she goes outside to run. Then, aided by her dad''s belief in her, Deena sets out to make the high school cross-country team. What she doesn''t know is how difficult, and how inspiring, her journey of self-discovery will become."--Back cover.