Books by Frank Shapiro

The Basketball Novels includes three stories - written over the course of 30 years - in which the sport of basketball plays a significant role. All first-person accounts, Even The Losers tracks the journey of a high school senior as he navigates life in a group home, academics in a special education class of "losers," and his relationship with an old teacher who sees his potential; Animal Behavior follows a psychologically-damaged struggling artist coming to terms with his mistakes and himself, and his twisted (and yet beautiful) relationship with a female counselor; and The Winners is an autobiographical story of a therapist working to understand his own life as he helps others do the same and strives to emerge victorious in a basketball tournament against unbeatable foes.

Journey Into Your Future! BE GREAT will take you there.You'll venture through the fields of…PsychologyPhilosophyEconomicsFitness & Nutritionand many others!The minds of…Bruce SpringsteenJohn F. KennedySteve JobsThomas Edisonand many others!Businesses like…IN N OutZappos7-ElevenCraigslistand many others!Ideas like…Self-ActualizationThe Giant WithinAha! MomentsPeaks and Valleysand many others!BE GREAT takes you through 3 tasks in 10 stepsStep 1. Develop a Success MentalityTrain your mind - think the way successful people thinkStep 2. Practice the Fundamentals of LivingSharpen your behavior - act like successful people actStep 3. Journey Into The FutureFocus your ambition - set a course for your lifeTasks 1 and 2 emerge from your engagement with the first 9 steps of BE GREAT:• Step 1: Set a Framework For Your Ambition• Step 2: Develop Your Self-Talk• Step 3: Build Your Understanding• Step 4: Learn From the Greats• Step 5: Practice the Fundamentals• Step 6: Observe Greatness in Action• Step 7: Go to the Source• Step 8: Deepen Your Understanding• Step 9: Use SupportsThe final step - Step 10: Create A Personal Plan - results in a specific, directional, goal-driven plan of action to guide your future. By creating such a plan, you streamline your growth process and vault beyond others who will spend years "figuring it out" and then more years "figuring out how to do it." You will have already done all that!BE GREAT...Ideal for high school students beginning to look at their transition into the Real World.Ideal for schools and school districts.Ideal for juveniles in detention facilities.A book like no other.