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1) Check & mate
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2023.
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
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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 golf clubs told only part of the story behind a rivalry that forged an unlikely friendship. Readers travel back to the links of yesteryear as they discover how a fateful 1967 exhibition match led to the Turnberry 'Duel in the Sun,' as well as the friendship that golfing greats Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus later shared. 256pp., 150K, Auth res: Charlotte, NC
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