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1) Live wire
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When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime--from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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"The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always been a good girl. She excelled at tennis early, coached by her father, a former player himself, and soon became one of the top juniors in the world. When she leaves UCLA--and breaks...
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Fifth Avenue rebels volume 1
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With their marriages to others looming, Maddie Webster, who is engaged to a duke, and her best friend Harrison Archer, who is engaged to an heiress, wonder if their fate in inescapable or if love will set them free.
5) 40 love
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A weekend tennis party becomes study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.
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Can a down-on-her-luck princess really have it all?
A whisper away from thirty, gorgeous Tess Hamilton has been the tennis world’s top titleholder and celebrity since she won her first championship at fifteen. Now the headline-making party girl is getting her first taste of mortality–thanks to new teenage phenom Gabrielle Fontaine. But it’s Gaby’s cool, calm, and all-too-collected brother and manager, Max, who really has...
A whisper away from thirty, gorgeous Tess Hamilton has been the tennis world’s top titleholder and celebrity since she won her first championship at fifteen. Now the headline-making party girl is getting her first taste of mortality–thanks to new teenage phenom Gabrielle Fontaine. But it’s Gaby’s cool, calm, and all-too-collected brother and manager, Max, who really has...
7) Choke
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"A standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series... Murder is not a spectator sport. Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion—first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West's Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman—the enticing Clare Carras, married...
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In Opposites attract, a woman still wants a man in her life after years apart. In Partners, two rival reporters fall in love with each other.
Partners: Laurel and Matthew are competitive journalists, caught in a web of sexual attraction where Matthew must try to solve the mystery that haunts Heritage Oak and protect Laurel from the forces that threaten her life.
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The story of a teenage tennis star in a small town in northern California. She is Rosie, 13, and she has problems. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband, Rosie's tennis partner is experimenting with sex and Rosie is attracted to a middle-aged man.
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Booker Prize Longlist 2023
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OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
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After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
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River rain volume 4
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Decades ago, tennis superstar Tom Pierce and "It Girl" Mika Stowe met at a party. Mika fell in love. Tom was already in love with his wife. As badly as Tom wanted Mika as a friend, Mika knew it would hurt too much to be attracted to this amazing man and never be able to have him. They parted ways for what they thought would be forever, only to reconnect just once, when unspeakable tragedy darkens Mika's life. Years later, the impossible happens. A...
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"Paul Essinger is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and the mother of their two-year-old son, Cal. Together they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But summer storms are blowing through Manhattan, and Paul's parents have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open. Over the course of the weekend, several generations of domestic tension are brought...
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"A novel that looks at marriage, sibling rivalry, and the lies we tell others and ourselves"--
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. The Delany family love one another dearly--it's just sometimes they want to murder one another...If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was...
14) Need you now
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Cloud Bay volume 1
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"Caleb White knows what he wants out of life--and being a star tennis player is not it. After speaking to the press about his plans to retire, Caleb decides that a trip to quaint, beautiful Cloud Bay for its legendary music festival is exactly what he needs. There will be time to figure out what to do with his life without a racket in his hand soon enough. Until then, Caleb is content to be stuck on an island with CloudFest's gorgeous director Faith...
15) Gra singli
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Rozgoryczona Charlotte "Charlie" Silver, wschodząca gwiazda amerykańskiego tenisa, po druzgocącej porażce na Wimbledonie i doznaniu poważnej kontuzji, postanawia zmienić swoją długoletnią trenerkę. Gdy ku zaskoczeniu wszystkich podpisuje kontrakt z Toddem Feltnerem, legendą męskiego tenisa i wyjątkowo wymagającym trenerem, nikt nie ma wątpliwości, że właśnie zawarła pakt z diabłem. Nowy coach zamierza pozbyć się łatki grzecznej...
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"Korean edition of [Apples Never Fall] by Liane Moriarty. 2021 Washington Post Best Books of the Year. From Liane Moriarty, the number one New York Times best-selling author of [Big Little Lies] and [Nine Perfect Strangers], comes [Apples Never Fall], a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. Korean edition translated by Kim So Jeong."--
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Rodzina Delaneyów na pierwszy rzut oka jest idealna. Joy i Stan wychowali czwórkę wspaniałych dzieci. Przez lata prowadzili jedną z najsłynniejszych szkół tenisowych w Australii. I choć młodość mają już za sobą, wciąż jest między nimi chemia, a gdy grają w debla, są niepokonani . Takiej miłości można tylko pozazdrościć. Dlaczego więc Joy pewnego dnia po prostu... znika? Czwórka rodzeństwa - Amy, Logan, Troy i Brooke - próbuje...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts hits the court in this novel of two tennis stars looking for a rematch.
Ty Starbuck was the sport's wild child, while Asher Wolfe played with an icy precision. Now, after years apart, Asher once again finds herself losing control over Ty...
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Ty Starbuck was the sport's wild child, while Asher Wolfe played with an icy precision. Now, after years apart, Asher once again finds herself losing control over Ty...
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
19) McNeil's match
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Determined to regain her self-confidence and make a comeback on the tennis circuit after her divorce, Lynne Thurston finds an ally in a handsome businessman who urges her to follow her dreams, but her ex-husband has other ideas.
20) Mike
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"Floyd is a teenage tennis prodigy. Since he was little, all he's ever known is the routine of training, of matches, of working hard to rise to the top. But something strange is happening. Floyd is being followed by a boy whom no one else can see. And Mike will go to all lengths to make himself heard. Floyd will discover that finding out what Mike wants will changes the course of his entire life. A thought-provoking journey of self-discovery. Mike...