"In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women's movement,...

Traces the life of the young woman who entered professional tennis at age thirteen and won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics.

Describes the lives of the two African-American sisters who stunned the professional tennis world with their rapid rise to the top.

They survived raw Minnesota winters, and facilities that got them mocked, almost boycotted. Yet despite having almost no funds to operate their program, the Southwest State University women's tennis team overcame those obstacles and more to not merely survive but thrive from the years 1979-1992. This new book by longtime award-winning Minnesota newspaper journalist Dana Yost captures the experiences of the SSU team in that era-a team of winners with...

Perfect man: Holly is determined to find the ideal man for her single mom. With no flesh-and-blood options in sight, she creates an imaginary secret admirer based on a charming real-life restaurant owner. Head over heels: An art restorer sharing an East Side apartment with four successful models feels unglamorous until Mr. Right walks into her life, but she has reason to believe that he might be guilty of murder. Wimbledon: An aging male tennis star...