Author Pat Blaskower is your personal coach, guiding and encouraging you and your partner to play winning tennis by showing you how to:- choose a compatible partner - determine your jobs on the court - learn poaching skills - communicate with each other and opposing teams - maintain mental toughness - use various formations and strategies - pick your shots intelligently - decide where to play: tournaments or leagues - and much, much more!The book also includes detailed court diagrams that show you how to execute offense, defense, and tactical plays; checklists that summarize the most important points of each chapter; and on-court drills to help you improve and refine your skills. The Art of Doubles is loaded with practical, proven tennis strategies that you can put to work immediately to see improvements in your own doubles game!

    Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.Only he isn’t sure he wants to.After all, life hasn’t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend’s suicide last year.Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it…or let the world—and his pain—be destroyed forever.

    She's not going down without a fight!If you like fast-paced crime novels, and female characters who are strong, funny, and real, then you're going to love Kay Riley, a Chicago cop wrongly accused and on the run for her life.Being a cop was never something that Riley was very good at. But now, as she must become a vigilante to clear her name, she finds new reserves of strength and courage, all with a healthy dose of sarcasm.With her name and photo splashed across the nightly news, Riley should leave the city ASAP. Instead, she decides to stay undercover and track down the real killer.But somebody knows that Riley is still in the game, and soon the police are the least of her worries as a sexy assassin starts closing in.Can she become the hero the city needs without getting herself killed? Probably not...

    Mulani's uncle taught everyone under his roof to get it how you live and by any means necessary. Mulani and her cousins took that to heart pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into the streets. Along with her cousins, and best friend Asim Patrick, the game wasn't ready for what they had to offer. Especially not the beautiful, tomboyish, and deadly Mulani. A force to be reckoned with while carrying a no nonsense type attitude, ran off every man that even tried to get close to Mulani, but it didn't matter, because all she ever wanted was Asim. Asim is everything a boss should be. His street status is undeniable and at the young age of 21, he's well on his way to having everything a man his age could ever want. The Respect, the riches...but there was only one thing missing...Mulani. When tragedy brings them together, giving Mulani what she's always wanted, she feels like the streets now has their king and queen and Asim couldn't help but feel the same. But one mistake is all it took for Asim to walk away from Mulani and into the arms of another woman and even down the path of matrimony. After the hurt that Asim has caused, Mulani goes harder than ever unwilling to love again. When a problem arises, Mulani's motivation and undeniable dedication to get it handled is what leads her to meet the sexy Maddox aka Dox from the Bronx. Dox is a boss in his own right and wants to give Mulani all the love that she deserves. The time and attention Dox puts in is enough to break down Mulani's walls. She's ready to give in and ready to move on finally, but someone isn’t going to allow that to happen…Asim. There can only be one king in the streets and in Mulani’s heart, but who will it be? The fight to the crown will be nothing nice. Who will be the one Mulani choose to show her that love A Dopegirl Needs Love Too.

    Hennessy now knows about his child that’s been here for four years now. How does a man who just spent five years in prison take news like that? How can his baby mother be the same woman that sent him away to prison in the first place? Hazel is now a part of Hennessy’s life and he doesn’t know the first thing to do with a child. What about Santana? It’s not a good feeling to see the love of your life have an offspring with a woman that you’ve despised for years. Hennessy and Santana have that kind of love that everybody craves for because their level of history makes their union so special. We thought that the perfect relationship was when you started off as friends but that might not always be true because it’s looking like Santana and Hennessy just can’t seem to get it right.

    Great Freedom, whereby you are not bound by the life you live in.The writings of Truth that guides you to the life of wisdom, cleanses your mind and leads you to the true and eternal world.

    A lethal operative for Israeli intelligence.Many wanted her eliminated. Spoofing her own death was the only way to survive, but it didn't work out like she planned.The past doesn't give up its secrets easily.The tranquil island's beauty was shattered in an instant. The attack forced her hand, and now she must make a decision. Will she stay dead, or return to a world that wants to kill her?A gritty, unflinching roller-coaster of high-stakes twists and shocking turns, JET features a new breed of protagonist that breaks the mold.If you're a fan of Bourne, Baldacci, and Brown, you'll delight in Jet's breakneck pace and no-prisoners approach to storytelling.

    

    She is determined to hold things together for herself more so then for her children. What will happen when she loses everything. Who will the girls have to depend on besides each other. Ronnie learns a shocking truth from her mother and is given a decision to make. Will she make the right or wrong decision and at what cause. Find out the answers when reading this ghetto twisted tale.

    Three page-turning action thrillers from Stephen Leather: THE CHINAMAN, THE DOUBLE TAP and THE LONG SHOT.

    (Dissociative Identity Disorder) can hinder the value of life for all if affects. These disorders know no age, gender or race boundaries so anyone can be affected by them! Bianca Fulton found that out the hard way at a very young age. As she grew older her manic episodes and multiple personalities led to various obstacles in her life. This is her story... her misery, her turmoil, and her pain. This is the story of how what was supposed to be a tragic ending turned into a beautifully, devious beginning for Bianca Fulton. This is a complex story that shows how she felt like a captive in her own mind...trapped until she found the calming chaos she needed.... this is MANIC!

    Or so she thought. She has her own money, her own crib, and she has overcome things that most people couldn’t. Even with all of that she can’t seem to get her boyfriend, Derek, to act right. Her final straw is him cheating on her for the umpteenth time and she’s done and lets him out of her life. It’s time for a change and her and her best friend, Ryanne, are going to make it happen. Cato is THAT nigga. The nigga that every woman wants and every nigga envies. He is used to getting what he wants and he doesn’t expect that to change anytime soon. Not even after serving time in jail. He comes into contact with Karma once and just has to have her. The only thing is...she’s not like most women. She challenges him to make her feel special and be his one and only. The two are being tugged at by their crazy exes and the people in their friends' lives. Will the two wind up together? Or will their past keep them from happiness?

    A band of swordsmen on a failed mission. The forbidden love of Zheng He, the great Chinese Admiral. A young daughter forming a strange bond with her deceased father’s cat. Presenting ten stories in his fifth collection, O Thiam Chin plumbs the joy and despair, hopes and fears of men and women caught up by their past and confounded by lost loves. Taut, dark and visceral, these stories reveal, once again, the mysteries that lie in the heart of man.

    Bilel is the French right-hand man of the most dangerous militant in the world, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Caliph of Islamic State. He offers Mélodie a way to fill the boredom in her young life: he cares about her, offers beautiful things, spiritual purpose and, in less an idyllic life. Bilel’s seduction is honey-tongued and forceful – and all Mélodie must do is join him and ISIS in their Syrian jihad. Every day he gives more detail, telling her how he drives a jeep filled with guns and bottles of the chocolate milk he loves for hundreds of miles on murderous missions of execution. Every night he lures, seduces and manipulates this vulnerable young woman.A riveting page-turner In the Skin of a Jihadist is a shocking inquiry into how technology is spreading radicalism, the lure of ISIS propaganda, and the factors that motivate young people – including many British teenagers – to join extremist wars in Syria and elsewhere.