Download or read book The Tennis Player who Laughed written by Jack Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tennis Player from Bermuda written by Fiona Hodgkin and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tennis Player from Bermuda, Fiona Hodgkin tells the story of her short but spectacular career as an amateur tennis player in the early 1960s. Fiona met Claire Kershaw, the number one woman tennis player and twice a Wimbledon champion. Claire was an imp. To get Fiona into the qualifying round for Wimbledon, Claire makes a comical, tongue-in-cheek offer to the mysterious Committee that runs the Championships at Wimbledon. Fiona and Claire quickly become best friends - as well as rivals on the brilliant green grass tennis courts of Wimbledon. Against the backdrop of the London social season, the tennis competition at Wimbledon, and the tennis fashions designed by the irrepressible Teddy Tingling, Fiona has two love affairs, one of which Fiona ends forever - or perhaps she doesn't.
Download or read book Vic Braden s Laugh and Win at Doubles written by Vic Braden and published by Back Bay. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A columnist for "Tennis" magazine shows both novices and experts how to improve all aspects of their doubles games, from choosing the right player to maneuvering around the court as a team, with the help of instructional photographs
Download or read book The Man Who Died Laughing written by David Handler and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the Edgar Award–winning series from “a novelist whose champagne-fizzy mysteries tickle the brain, heart, and funny bone in equal measure” (A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times–bestselling author). Stewart Hoag’s first novel made him the toast of New York. Everyone in Manhattan wanted to be his friend, and he traveled the cocktail circuit supported by Merilee, his wife, and Lulu, his basset hound. But when writer’s block sunk his second novel, his friends, money, and wife all disappeared. Only Lulu stuck by him. The only opportunity left is ghostwriting—an undignified profession that still beats dental school. His first client is Sonny Day, an aging comic who was the king of slapstick three decades ago. Since he and his partner had a falling out in the late 1950s, Day has grown embittered and poor, until the only thing left for him to do is write a memoir. Hoagy and Lulu fly to Hollywood expecting a few months of sunshine and easy living. Instead they find Day’s corpse, and a murder rap with Hoagy’s name on it.
Download or read book The Funny Side of Tennis written by Cal Samra and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tennis cartoons of 11 cartoonists, including Bil Keane, creator of "The Family Circus," and Charles M. Schulz, creator of "Peanuts," are featured in this volume--proof that vigorous exercise and humor are powerful weapons in the never-ending battle against obesity and depression.
Download or read book The Tennis Player A Dream Unfulfilled written by Dr. Arabinda Dutta and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: The whole universe is full of wonders filled with innumerable unexplained facts and truths. The present book is about an enthusiastic young man with handsome looks, the son of a high court senior judge who wanted to be in the world's top position in the field of Lawn Tennis. He was a right fit for the sport and proceeded forward on the path he had decided, filled with enthusiasm. But his aim was disturbed and diverted by a few members of his family. He lived in a joint family comprising of five brothers, two sisters and also the family of his two uncles. While being a research student at the university, he also gained skills in Lawn Tennis game. Unfortunately, he was mildly dragged in the world of open sex games by his two sisters. Slowly, he fell off the grid and felt disgusted. He could not rebuke his lovely sisters as he loved them too much. One day, he decides to get rid of this undesirable and unwanted feeling by taking his life; he chooses to ingest KCN, a deadly poisonous chemical. This is the tragic story of a rising tennis star who committed suicide. About the Author: The author, Arabinda Dutta hails from a middle-class family. His father was a medium-rank serviceman in Ordnance Factory, Katni. He spent his childhood in Katni; and after passing matriculation, Arabinda joined Government Science College where he graduated in Chemistry with a Masters degree in the merit category. Immediately after, he pursued research with a scholarship at CSIR and proceeded to get a Doctorate after three years. After that, he was lucky enough to get a scholarship to Princeton State University, USA. However, Arabinda's father insisted that he marries before going to the USA to which the author did not agree, thereby sabotaging his future at Princeton. Later, Arabinda joined Bihar Alloys Steel Limited and retired from there as Head of the Quality Control Department. Presently, he keeps himself engaged by writing books and sharing his knowledge. Arabinda, like the protagonist of the story, is a simple boy with average looks but very passionate about Lawn Tennis and Football. He also could not flourish in his sports interests as he remained focused on his research career.
Download or read book The Best Ever Book of Real Tennis Jokes written by Mark Young and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever heard a Catholic, Blond, Italian, Irish, Blond, Libyan, Mexican, Polish, Australian, Norwegian, or an Essex Girl, Newfie, Mother-in-Law, or joke aimed at a minority, this book of Real Tennis jokes is for you. In this not-so-original book, The Best Ever Book of Real Tennis Jokes; Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who, Mark Young takes a whole lot of tired, worn out jokes and makes them funny again. The book of Real Tennis jokes is so unoriginal, it's original. And, if you don't burst out laughing from at least one Real Tennis joke in this book, there's something wrong with you. This book has so many Real Tennis jokes, you won't know where to start. For example: Why do Real Tennis Players wear slip-on shoes? You need an IQ of at least 4 to tie a shoelace. *** A Real Tennis Player and his wife were sitting around the breakfast table one lazy Sunday morning. The Real Tennis Player turned to his wife and said: "When I die, I want you to sell all my stuff." "Why would you want me to do that?," asked his wife. "I figure that you'll eventually remarry, and I don't want some asshole using my stuff," replied the Real Tennis Player. The Real Tennis Players's spouse said: "What makes you think I'd marry another asshole?" *** Did you hear about the Real Tennis Player who wore two jackets when he painted his house? The instructions on the can said: "Put on two coats." *** Why do Real Tennis Players laugh three times when they hear a joke? Once when it is told, once when it is explained to them, and once when they understand it.
Download or read book Tending to Virginia written by Jill McCorkle and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Virginia Turner Ballard, know to her North Carolina relatives as Ginny Sue. It's also the story of her mother, her grandmother, her great aunts, her closest cousin--three generations of women who gather around Virginia to help her at the end of a hard pregnancy, to tend to her, to help her prepare for the fourth generation. This kind of family attendance, this kind of tending to, is Southern to the core, offering, as it does, the occasion for reviving and trading entwined family stories. Tending to Virginia is a novel of one family's most important stories--how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation--revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age. In her characterizations of these vivid women playing out their generational roles in the contemporary South, McCorkle presents us with a powerful insight--that the strongest family bonds are, for better or worse, as often created by what is held back as by what is spoken.
Download or read book The Scarlatti Inheritance written by Robert Ludlum and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her son, Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of Heinrich Kroeger. If Elizabeth cannot stop him, Ulster will give Hitler the most powerful instrument on earth. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Scarlatti Inheritance “[Robert Ludlum] has that sense of drama and pace that only the best storytellers have.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Gripping . . . Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority.”—Baltimore Sun “Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Drive and excitement from first page to last.”—Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather
Download or read book The Instinct of the Tennis Player written by Jean Moose and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a former professional tennis player, Chief inspector Hans Lucarelli had learned to follow his instinct to anticipate the game of his opponents. His capacity becomes relevant when two lovers are found dead in an abandoned car park in the forest on the outskirts of the German city of Freiburg. The double murder strongly resembles the doing of a famous, wanted serial killer. Something, however, does not quite seem to fit. Against all odds and the instructions of his superior Lucarelli investigates the history of the male victim, Henry Huth. It turns out that he held evidence for the involvement of the top management of a giant car firm into a huge fraud with Diesel emissions. Gradually, the inspector is opening doors that were intended to stay shut. "The instinct of the tennis player" is the second novel of the investigative crime series with Inspector Lucarelli, written by Jean Moose.
Download or read book The Laughing Clowns written by William McInnes and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a developer asks Peter to assess a prime piece of Queensland real estate ? the Pickersgill Peninsula Showgrounds ? he jumps at the chance. It will give him time out from having to be with the family he loves. And it will take him back to his childhood home; to his parents, his twin sister, Pearl, and his brother, Gary, the TV weatherman. Over these few days, he will come to realise that sometimes when you go back to where you came from you find out how much you actually have, and how much you could lose. He just has to make his mind up, and listen to the advice that?s given by, of all people ? the King of Hot Dogs. But will he? 'For a novel that has so few pretensions, this is a skilfully constructed story that manages to be insightful, understated and very funny simultaneously' - Sydney Morning Herald 'William McInnes is insightful, thoughtful and funny. He has a flair for fiction as much as memoirs and non-fiction, as The Laughing Clowns will attest' - The Daily Telegraph
Download or read book At Whom Are We Laughing written by Zenia Sacks DaSilva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is humor, that funny thing so varied in its colors and tones, so encompassing in its themes, so different from time to time and place to place? And when we poke fun, at whom are we really laughing? At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures is the selective product of a multi-national gathering of scholars sponsored by Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, to explore humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, Romania, the Iberian Peninsula and its diaspora. The volume contains thirty-one scholarly and interpretative papers on diverse aspects of their wit, provocative aspects that are, for the most part, little known to the general reader. Precisely because of its scope and diversity, its appeal should extend beyond academia into the libraries of the intellectually curious, be they English speakers or not, be they specialists in humanities, psychology, society and culture, or merely interested amateurs who frequent the many new humor societies and clubs that abound in the world of today.
Download or read book Golf Tennis Murder written by William J. Palmer and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the weekly 9 holes of the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golf Association) Nick Jones, a.k.a Sherlock to his golf partners, finds a well-dressed potential client waiting for him. Nicknamed “The Suit” by one of the friends, the client came to Sherlock in his search for a low rent private investigator. When Sherlock takes the job of surveilling the client’s young tennis star mistress, the gorgeous Sasha, he is drawn into the corrupt, sexually active, flexible, and ultimately murderous world of the Los Angeles ultra-rich.
Download or read book Sometimes I forgot to laugh written by Peter Roebuck and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known to a generation of Australian cricket fans as the incisive, and sometimes controversial, cricketing voice of the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC radio, Peter Roebuck's own career spanned 25 of the most exhilarating years of world cricket. From the heyday of the Somerset cricket club to the controversy of the World Series and ten happy years with Devon, Roebuck played alongside some of the true greats of the world game. Viv Richards, Joel Garner, Ian Botham, Martin Crowe and a young Steve Waugh were all team-mates. Considered by some the best cricketer to have never played for England', he did in fact captain an English team which travelled to Holland. Their emphatic victory in the second Test was completely overshadowed by their shock defeat in the opening game! A dedicated coach and mentor to young enthusiasts, Roebuck first came across some of Australia's current crop of cricket superstars as brash young novices at the Academy - Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting and a portly young man with the most dangerous spinning finger in the world, one Shane Warne. In Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh, Peter Roebuck gives his readers an insight into the hitherto very private life of a complex and sometimes troubled man, but one always sustained by his abiding passion for the game of cricket.
Download or read book Ray Martin s Favourites written by Ray Martin and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Ray Martin is one Australia's most loved personalities. It seems he's been everywhere and met everybody, for 60 Minutes and a range of top-rating ABC and Channel 9 shows. So, who are his favourites? And what was Audrey Hepburn or Prince Charles or Madonna really like? That's what people always ask Ray and that's why he's written this book. Ray Martin's Favourites bring together the most remarkable of these interviews, offering an intriguing insight into some truly extraordinary celebrities—Dustin Hoffman talking about sex, Jane Fonda talking about God, some poetry from Ronnie Biggs the Great Train Robber and some wisdom from Patrick Dodson, the father of reconciliation. Here, too, are the last interviews with Sir Donald Bradman, Fred Hollows and Kerry Packer. The comedy brilliance of Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Peter Cook. The studio body-language when Bob Hawke and Paul Keating came together for the first and only time. And much more. Revealing, perceptive and inspiring, Ray Martin's Favourites is compulsive reading. Enjoy the journey.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Download or read book Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal written by Sebastián Fest and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2004, two names have dominated men’s tennis: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Each player is legendary in his own right. The Spanish Nadal is the winner of sixteen Grand Slam titles, including five consecutive French Open singles titles from 2010-2014, and is the only player ever to win a Grand Slam for ten straight years. Federer, from Switzerland, has spent over three hundred weeks of his career ranked as the number-one player in the world and has won twenty Grand Slam titles and two Olympic medals. But neither player’s career would have been nearly as successful without the decade-long rivalry that pushed them to rise to the peak of tennis excellence. Nadal and Federer have met thirty-eight times over the course of their careers, and have shared the distinction of being ranked the two best players in the world for an astounding six years in a row from 2005-2009. In Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, international sports journalist Sebastian Fest uses information gleaned from his numerous interviews with both players over the last decade to narrate the rivalry, and its impact not only on the players, but on the sport itself. Documenting their respective wins and losses, hopes and disappointments, and relationships with their rivals, Fest formulates a unique biography of two of the greatest players of tennis. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
