Swinging from My Heels

Swinging from My Heels
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781608190881
ISBN-13 : 1608190889
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Swinging from My Heels by : Christina Kim

An account of the 2009 season by the colorful golf champion and member of the U.S. Solheim Cup team shares her personal ups and downs while touring, describes her relationships with teammates and reveals the political and sexual factors that are affecting the game today.

Swinging from My Heels

Swinging from My Heels
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 203
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781608193158
ISBN-13 : 1608193152
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Swinging from My Heels by : Christina Kim

Christina Kim is the brashest, bawdiest, funniest player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. Golf fans know her for her colorful wardrobe, even more colorful on-course antics, and an explosive game. But in this rollicking account of the 2009 season, Kim invites readers deep into her life, providing an intimate diary of a young woman's struggles on and off the golf course, and revealing the glory and heartbreak of life on the tour. Once known as a prodigy who shot a 62 in her first LPGA event some six years ago, Kim has newly rededicated herself to realizing her potential, and she takes readers between the ropes for all the action, including her nail-biting near misses at two major championships. She also goes inside the team room at the Solheim Cup, revealing the hijinks and late-night gab sessions that bonded the victorious U.S. team. Along the way we get intimate portraits of her close friends on tour, including tour leaders such as Michelle Wie, Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer, Morgan Pressel, and Natalie Gulbis. In this courageous telling, no topic is out-of-bounds, as Kim dishes about the LPGA's sexual mores, the culture clash of an American-based tour increasingly dominated by Koreans, the tumultuous economic forces squeezing the players, and her own battles with body image and her traditional upbringing. Winsome and good-natured, but never afraid of a laugh line or choice profanity, Christina Kim provides a must-read for anyone who loves golf or has wondered about the inner self of a professional athlete.

Golf My Way

Golf My Way
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 561
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416595960
ISBN-13 : 1416595961
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Golf My Way by : Jack Nicklaus

Learn the Golden Bear’s secrets in the classic that took the golf world by storm and sold more than two million copies worldwide. Finally, Jack Nicklaus, golf’s leading master, definitively covers the whole of his game through a lifetime of greatness. Golf My Way presents an all-inclusive, A-to-Z explanation of how this greatest of champions thinks about and plays the game. This book includes: New introduction, endpiece, and illustrations Brand-new chapters discussing the changes in Nicklaus’s outlook and techniques Reflections on the differences in tournament golf today compared with when Nicklaus joined the PGA tour in 1962 Advice on the mental elements of improved playing that are not directly related to ball-striking or shot-making

My wife and I

My wife and I
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : RUTGERS:39030010420208
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis My wife and I by : Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe

Such a Life

Such a Life
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780803240131
ISBN-13 : 0803240139
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Such a Life by : Lee Martin

Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, “I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, ‘Can you get rid of it?’” From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life. Whether recounting the observations of a solemn child, understood only much later, or exploring the intricacies of neighborhood politics at middle age, Martin offers us a richly detailed, highly personal view that effortlessly expands to illuminate our world. At a tender age Martin moved to a new level of complexity, of negotiating silences and sadness, when his father lost both of his hands in a farming accident. His stories of youth (from a first kiss to a first hangover) and his reflections on age (as a vegan recalling the farm food of his childhood or as a writer contemplating the manual labor of his father and grandfather) bear witness to the observant child he was and the insightful and irresistible storyteller he’s become. His meditations on family form a highly evocative portrait of the relationships at the heart of our lives.

Open

Open
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 402
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307592804
ISBN-13 : 0307592804
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Open by : Andre Agassi

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. • "Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.” —Time “Honest in a way that such books seldom are.” —The New York Times Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career.

Shaedes of Gray

Shaedes of Gray
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Publisher : NYLA
Total Pages : 323
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781641970273
ISBN-13 : 1641970278
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Shaedes of Gray by : Amanda Bonilla

"It is always a pleasure to discover an excellent new author and series, and Bonilla qualifies on both counts. The debut of her Shaede Assassin series features a tough yet compelling heroine. Full of fascinating characters, high stakes intrigue, and fast-paced action, it's a truly exhilarating adventure! Do not miss out!”—Romantic Times (top pick 4-1/2 stars) Darian exists in a realm of darkness. Made and abandoned over a century ago, she is a Shaede, virtually immortal and able to blend with the shadows once the sun sets. An assassin, she spends her nights meting out death for the highest bidder. She’s alone in the world, the last of her kind—or so she thinks. When her infatuated employer, Tyler, sends her out on a routine hit, Darian discovers her mark is not only another Shaede, but Alexander Peck, King of the Shaede Nation. Her not-so-chance meeting with Alexander takes her deep into the realm of who—and what—she really is. Only when she puts her life in his hands does the supernatural world unfold around her, revealing that she is not as alone as she once thought. But once she crosses into their dark realm to face the truth, new dangers are uncovered. As her role in awakening an ancient evil is revealed, she must face who she was, who she is, and what she could become... “One of my favorite new series . . . [and] one of my new favorite heroines of 2011.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers

Next Step

Next Step
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Publisher : Freshwater Bay Press
Total Pages : 248
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1740084411
ISBN-13 : 9781740084413
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Next Step by : Sol Wisher

Kathmandu in the monsoon season; a city gripped by political unrest; a place for lovers to part; a getaway toEastern mysticism. Adrift, buffeted by turmoil in the streets and the loss of his Israeli lover, Sol Wisher fallsin with the wandering Parisian, Jean-Luc, at a Buddhist retreat and joins him on a strange, hallucinogenic journey to the "otherside". Fleeing from the holy city of Varanasi, Sol heads north to Delhi in search of his first love, Tamar, but there, in a plague-threatened corner of the vast metropolis, the final, nightmare phase of Sols yearning for illumination begins. A poignant tale of youthful misadventure.

Moon Fever

Moon Fever
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Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages : 377
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781635556049
ISBN-13 : 163555604X
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Moon Fever by : Ileandra Young

Danika Karson, recently promoted team leader within the Supernatural Prohibition, Extermination, and Arrest Regiment (SPEAR), is tasked with containing a new pack of werewolves who have entered Angbec and staked their claim with violence and brutality. Their ferocious rampage not only endangers humans but falsely implicates Wensleydale Gordan, dear friend and alpha of the smaller, more vulnerable Dire Wolf pack. With such powerful adversaries, Danika must again enlist the help of Rayne: girlfriend, fellow agent, and powerful vampire. Unfortunately, Rayne has more personal matters on her mind. The full moon approaches, and with it, supernatural compulsions that threaten to consume Rayne and Danika in a wave of passion and blood. Wolves fight for supremacy, Rayne struggles for control, and Danika wants nothing more than to save them all. But when the full moon rises, can she win against the moon fever?