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- Carrie Soto is back [text (large print)] : a novel / by Reid, Taylor Jenkins,author.;
- "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 shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one of those victories. After all, her dad-a former champion tennis player himself-has trained her for this since the age of two, always emphasizing, "We don't stop for one second until you are the best." Which is why it is infuriating when Nicki Chan arrives on the scene six years later and ties Carrie with twenty Slams. Just like that, Carrie's championship record is slipping through her hands. And she can't let that happen. So at thirty-seven years old, Carrie Soto is coming out of retirement to defend her title. Even if the sports media says she's too old to be playing professionally. Even if her injured athlete's body doesn't move as fast as it once did. Even if it means trusting her father to coach her again after he betrayed her all those years ago. And even if the fans don't want the cold, heartless "Battle Axe" Carrie back. In spite of it all: Carrie. Is. Back. She will return for one final season to prove to the world that she is the all-time champion. Because if you know your destiny is to be the best, isn't it your right to keep fighting for it?"--
- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Sports fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; Competition (Psychology); Fathers and daughters; Women athletes; Women tennis players;
- Carrie Soto is back [sound recording] : a novel / by Reid, Taylor Jenkins,author.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
- Read by Stacy Gonzalez, Mary Carillo, Patrick Mcenroe, Rob Simmelkjaer, Brendan Wayne, Max Meyers, Reynaldo Piniella, Vidish Athavale, Tom Bromhead, Heath Miller, Julia Whelan, Sara Arrington."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 shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one of those victories. After all, her dad-a former champion tennis player himself-has trained her for this since the age of two, always emphasizing, "We don't stop for one second until you are the best." Which is why it is infuriating when Nicki Chan arrives on the scene six years later and ties Carrie with twenty Slams. Just like that, Carrie's championship record is slipping through her hands. And she can't let that happen. So at thirty-seven years old, Carrie Soto is coming out of retirement to defend her title. Even if the sports media says she's too old to be playing professionally. Even if her injured athlete's body doesn't move as fast as it once did. Even if it means trusting her father to coach her again after he betrayed her all those years ago. And even if the fans don't want the cold, heartless "Battle Axe" Carrie back. In spite of it all: Carrie. Is. Back. She will return for one final season to prove to the world that she is the all-time champion. Because if you know your destiny is to be the best, isn't it your right to keep fighting for it?"--
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Sports fiction.; Competition (Psychology); Fathers and daughters; Women athletes; Women tennis players;
- Champions [videorecording] / by Brooks, Paul,1959-film producer.; Farrelly, Bobby,1958-film director.; Fesser, Javier,1964-screenwriter.; Franti, Michael,1966-composer (expression); Garcés, Julie,editor of moving image work.; Harrelson, Woody,actor.; Hudson, Ernie,actor.; Marin, Cheech,actor.; Marqués, David,1972-screenwriter.; Miles, C. Kim,director of photography.; Niemeyer, Scott,film producer.; Olson, Kaitlin,actor.; Plager, Jeremy,film producer.; Rizzo, Mark,screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Fesser, Javier,1964-Campeones.; Focus Features,presenter,publisher.; Gold Circle Entertainment (Firm),presenter,production company.; Universal Studios, Inc.,film distributor.;
- Music by Michael Franti; edited by Julie Garcés; director of photography, C. Kim Miles.Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Ernie Hudson, Cheech Marin, Matt Cook.A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for crude/sexual references and strong language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Sports films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Basketball coaches; Basketball teams; Coach-athlete relationships; Coaching (Athletics); Developmentally disabled; Sports for people with disabilities; Teamwork (Sports);
- For private home use only.
- What makes Olga run? : the mystery of the 90-something track star, and what she can teach us about living longer, happier lives / by Grierson, Bruce,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Kotelko, Olga, 1919-; Kotelko, Olga, 1919-; Sports for older people; Track and field athletes;
- I am not a label : 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present / by Burnell, Cerrie.; Baldo, Lauren Mark.;
- Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present. These short biographies tell the stories of people who have faced unique challenges which have not stopped them from becoming trailblazers, innovators, advocates and makers. Each person is a leading figure in their field, be it sport, science, maths, art, breakdance or the world of pop. LSC
- Subjects: People with disabilities; Artists with disabilities; Athletes with disabilities; People with mental disabilities;
- Catch the fair one [videorecording] / by Chu, Tiffany,actor.; Henshall, Daniel,1983-actor.; Reis, Kali,actor.; Wladyka, Josef Kubota,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
- Kali Reis, Daniel Henshall, Tiffany Chu, Michael Drayer, Lisa Emery.Buffalo boxer Kaylee (Kali Reis, who co-wrote) retreated into a corner of drug dependency after the disappearance of her kid sister Weeta (Mainaku Borrero). Finding Weeta's picture in the online ad of a sex trafficking ring, she offers her services as a new worker to the creeps running the operation ... with the endgame of finding her sibling and then punching their way out. Intense effort also stars Kimberly Guerrero, Shelly Vincent, Kevin Dunn.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Crime films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Boxing; Crime; Indigenous peoples; Missing persons; Sisters; Women boxers; Indigenous athletes;
- For private home use only.
- Birth of The Endless Summer. by Yelland, Richard,film director.; Monkey Wrench Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Originally produced by Monkey Wrench Films in 2021.The never-been-told-before story of Dick Metz, whose vagabond adventures around the globe from 1958-1961 inspired one of the most beloved and watched documentaries of all-time, Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer. BIRTH OF THE ENDLESS SUMMER follows Metz's train-jumping, steamship-hopping tour, which led to his discovery of The Perfect Wave at Cape St. Francis in South Africa, setting the scene for the most iconic moment in surf film history. Dick's travels not only inspired his friend Bruce Brown and the making of the The Endless Summer, he also paved the way for modern surfing and surf culture. BIRTH OF THE ENDLESS SUMMER follows the 90-year old Metz to South Africa as he retraces the steps of his original adventure.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Physical education and training.; Documentary films.; Sports.; Action and adventure films.; South Africa.; Travel.; Biography.; Surfing.; Athletes.;
- Boxing Gym. by Wiseman, Frederick,film director.; Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Originally produced by Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) in 2010.The subject of this film is an Austin, Texas institution, Lord's Gym, which was founded over twenty years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the gym: men, women, children, doctors, lawyers, judges, business men and women, immigrants, professional boxers and people who want to become professional boxers alongside amateurs who love the sport and teenagers who are trying to develop strength and assertiveness. Ultimately, the gym is the perfect example of the American “melting pot” where people meet, talk, and train.“One of [Wiseman’s] most meditative films.” – Dennis Lim, The New York Times“A crowning accomplishment” – J. Hoberman, The Village VoiceMode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Physical education and training.; Documentary films.; Sports.; United States.; Boxing.; Athletes.; Cinéma vérité.;
- Tough broad : from boogie boarding to wing walking-how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age / by Paul, Caroline,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: from mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? 'Tough Broad' is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. 'Tough Broad' is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aging; Older women athletes.; Older women; Older women; Outdoor recreation for women.; Aging;
- Race with me! / by De Grasse, Andre,1994-; Budd, Robert,1976-; Osei Bonsu, Joseph,1983-;
- Join Canada's 2019 Athlete of the Year, Andre De Grasse, as he shares his story of being an underdog and how he motivates himself to face every challenge.LSC
- Subjects: De Grasse, Andre, 1994-; Runners (Sports); Olympic athletes;
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