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1) THE COMPLETE BOOK OF PICKLEBALL: THE ULTIMATE TRAINING GUIDE FOR PASSIONATE PLAYERS OF ALL LEVELS
Author
Publisher
Avery, an impirint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Easy to learn and fun to play, pickleball is also a surprisingly athletic sport. In this user-friendly book, fitness superstars, the Brungardt brothers, focus their expertise on the needs of pickleball players of all levels, applying the same innovativetraining methods they've used with NBA MVPs, Cy Young Award-winners, and Olympic and tennis champions, to make picklers more athletic and injury-resistant. To safely reach your pickleball potential,...
Author
Publisher
Warner Records
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Dua Lipa's own self-discovery, this is an album that taps into the pure joy and happiness of having clarity in situations that once seemed impossible to face. It also features the singles Houdini and Training Season.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 12
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On another harrowing mission, survival training comes in handy when Ben Ripley is stranded in the wilderness with his nemesis, Murray Hill.
4) Dark rise
Author
Series
Dark rise (Pacat) volume 1
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Will is thrust into a world of magic, where he starts training for a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Examined Run provides an accessible treatment of what it might look like to use running as a laboratory for virtue development. This book engages many topics in the field of virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, emotions, and competition-and places them in conversation with training and racing in endurance sports. The Examined Run explores happiness and success, competition and character. It investigates whether certain definitions of success...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fin Tighe is clinging to respectability by his nail-bitten fingers. He may be the illegitimate son of an English earl, but he hasn't spoken to his father in a decade, and his engineer's salary is barely enough to support him and his cousin Aurelie. A dancer in the corps de ballet, Aurelie is at constant risk from groping, leering men who assume any dancer is a prostitute in training. And Fin's evenings spent in the clandestine gay community may be...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky"--
"WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION? "I never imagined I would make it to the Olympics, or be at this level, or write a book about this unlikely career that I've had. But I've really enjoyed the ride, this journey." Katie Ledecky is one of the best swimmers ever to compete. She has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. A three-time Olympian, a seven-time gold...
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