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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
Author
Series
Amish brides of Birch Creek volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having grown up in poverty, Seth Yoder refuses to be financially insecure again. His passion is woodcarving, but he's vowed to work on his father's successful farm, even though his heart is in his craft. Martha Detweiler is the only single woman in a community full of young men, and they're all competing for her favor...except Seth Yoder. Cevilla Schlabach, Birch Creek's resident matchmaker, convinces Seth to give the impression that he and Martha...
3) Zeroboxer
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (353 pages)
Language
English
Description
A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr 'the Raptor' Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his brandhelm-a personal marketing strategist. It isn't long before she's made Carr into a popular celebrity and stolen his heart along the way. As his fame grows, Carr becomes an inspirational hero...
Author
Series
Eastside Brewery novel volume 3
Publisher
[The Knight Agency]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fighter without a purpose. A crusader with nothing to lose. Can she trust him with her heart, or is he just another lost cause?"--
A fighter without a purpose. A crusader with nothing to lose. Can she trust him with her heart, or is he just another lost cause? Angel: By day, I do all the grunt work at my family's struggling LA brewery. By night, I blow off steam at an underground fight club. I never thought the pandemic would bring Deanna Delgado...
Author
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring. The working class family of Cameron Wolfe and his brother Ruben isn't having much luck these days. Their dad has just lost his job and is too proud to go on welfare. Their older brother has moved out of the house in disgust. Which leaves them open to suggestion...
7) Creed III
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.
8) The chief
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fight for his people. Sonny Bear, the Tomahawk Kid, has a championship left hook. But his boxing career's going nowhere, and he's ready to hang it up. Then his manager, tough ex-cop Alfred Brooks, and his "writer," college boy Martin Malcolm Witherspoon, scheme Sonny into a glitzy Las Vegas match. Suddenly he's everybody's darling and headed for Hollywood stardom. But fame isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Sonny needs to make the fight of his...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country."-- Front cover flap
10) Real steel
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
11) Hands
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 430L
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather, who is currently in prison. He takes up boxing, figuring if he learns how to build himself up, nobody can knock him down. Trev is a talented artist--and others are advising him to follow that path to the future, rather than fighting. When the boyfriend of one of his sisters becomes disrespectful and threatens Trev,...
12) Fist fight
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Rental ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the last day of high school, mild-mannered English teacher Andy Campbell tries to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration, and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. Then he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland, who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and it ends up becoming the very thing the school, and Campbell,...
13) The power of one
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Badger Bill needs rescuing. He's been kidnapped by two nasty sisters who are about to make him fight a boxing match against three even nastier dogs. The four most depressed llamas in the history of llamas need rescuing too. They are about to be turned into llama pies. But never fear--Uncle Shawn is here! He loves rescuing things. He has a rescuing plan, which involves dancing, and a mole, and an electric fence. What could possibly go wrong?" --
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In Paris, France, more than a hundred years ago, a small man named Lalouche is let go from his job as a mail carrier and discovers that he has great skill as a fighter.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
17) Knockout
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing, he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.
18) The brave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sonny's been an outsider all his life. He has never fit into either world: the Moscondagas on the Reservation see him as white; whites see him as Indian. So far, Sonny's managed to harness his anger -- what he calls "the monster" -- in the boxing ring. But Sonny wants out of the Res. He's headed for New York City, where nobody can tell him what to do. Sonny doesn't count on stepping into the middle of a drug war when he gets there -- or on tangling...
19) Grudge match
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Rental edition ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry 'Razor' Sharp and Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen are old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. On their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.
20) Paperboy
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English