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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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Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
Spanish
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"Cuando Carrie se retira del tenis, es la mejor jugadora que el mundo ha visto jamás. Ha batido todos los récords y ha conseguido veinte títulos de Grand Slam. Y si le preguntas, se merece cada uno de ellos. Lo ha sacrificado casi todo para convertirse en la mejor, con su padre como entrenador. Pero seis años después de retirarse, Carrie se encuentra en las gradas del US Open de 1994, viendo cómo una tenista británica brutal e impresionante...
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English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--
5. Clean Point
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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A spicy enemies-to-lovers romance about a disgraced tennis player who partners with her father's rival for a chance at redemption-perfect for fans of Carrie Soto Is Back and Icebreaker. Former tennis prodigy Scottie Sinclair is a cheat. Or at least, that's what the world thinks. After all, who would believe she was secretly drugged by her own father before winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon? The tabloids have called "Game, Set, Match"...
6. Metaxysm
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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"I shouldn't have brought Metaxysm outside the lab. Even looking at it now, I know something strange has happened with it." Abby is an underground inventor in the suburbs of a mid-size city where what you know doesn't carry as much weight as who you know. Struggling in her new role at Soto Labs, she tries time and again to create a gadget that will earn her acclaim within the scientific community and, more importantly, among her peers. Her colleague,...
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Publisher:
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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In Mindfulness for Bipolar Disorder, psychiatrist and neuroscientist William R. Marchand provides an innovative, breakthrough program based in neuroscience and mindfulness practices to help you find relief from your bipolar symptoms. If you have bipolar disorder, you may experience feelings of mania or high energy, followed by periods of depression and sadness. These unusual shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels can make it extremely difficult...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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If you have bipolar disorder, you may experience feelings of mania or high energy, followed by periods of depression and sadness. These unusual shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels can make it extremely difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks-and ultimately reach your goals. Finding balance may be a daily struggle, even if you are on medication or in therapy. So, what else can you do to start feeling better? Mindfulness-the act of present moment...