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Horace Hopper is ashamed of his half-Paiute, half-Irish heritage. He's spent most of his life on a Nevada sheep ranch after the Reeses took him in. They've treated him like a son, intending to leave the ranch in his hands. Determined to prove his worth as a championship boxer, Horaces changes the way he eats, trains, and thinks. Reinventing himself as Hector Hildago, a scrappy Mexican boxer, he heads to Tucson and begins training and entering fights....
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House of Winslow volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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Following the generations of one American family from Plymouth Rock through America in the 1890s, this series has captured an enthralling slice of early American history. In Book 12, New York City prizefighter Barney Winslow is framed for armed robbery and sent to prison. When the truth is revealed, a hardened Barney makes many mistakes before finally giving his life over to Christ.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.
4) Blood sport
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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HL 650L
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English
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sisters death."--
5) The will
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Magdalene volume 01
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Early in her life, Josephine Malone learned the hard way that there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother, Lydia Malone. Out of necessity, unconsciously and very successfully, Josephine donned a disguise to keep all others at bay. She led a globetrotting lifestyle on the fringes of the fashion and music elite, but she kept herself distant. While Josephine was trotting the globe, retired boxer Jake Spear was living in the same...
6) Simon says
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Fueled by rage and betrayal, ex-fighter Simon Evans re-enters the ring, determined to take out his anger on his opponents, until the father who walked out on him and his mom years ago wants to be part of his life, sending a P.I. named Dakota, who is a total knockout, to do his dirty work.
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Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly. It was a girl who attracted him. But Sparrow Roberts, a fight manager, used this romantic lure only to attract Harry into his own sphere because he knew that Camden had a truly devastating punch. Yet, fighting wasn't what Harry really wanted, nor was he fascinated by any of the blandishments of civilization. He did not want to be a champion boxer and drifted into a life of drunkenness and crime,...
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Set in the 1850s in London, England, this story, told through the interwoven voices of several narrators, relates the adventures of a troubled but charismatic prize-fighting evangelist whose career finally takes him to British Columbia and the greatest match of his life when he challenges the Devil to a battle in the ring.
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Real (Katy Evans) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Brooke and Remy's relationship is tested when he tries to claim back the Underground championship"--
11) Below the belt
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First to fight volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!
There's more than one way to win in the debut of the First to Fight series...
Athletic trainer Marianne Cook is ready to do whatever it takes to turn the men of the Marine Corps boxing team into fighting machines. After all, her ultimate goal is to land a job training professional athletes. But when she notices a certain hard-bodied marine trying to hide an injury, Marianne realizes that she’ll have...
There's more than one way to win in the debut of the First to Fight series...
Athletic trainer Marianne Cook is ready to do whatever it takes to turn the men of the Marine Corps boxing team into fighting machines. After all, her ultimate goal is to land a job training professional athletes. But when she notices a certain hard-bodied marine trying to hide an injury, Marianne realizes that she’ll have...
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Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering, and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another. Danny was a boxer-a sensational...
13) In the heat
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Just as a boxer is ready to retire, he is propositioned by his promoter to help a woman find her runaway daughter and in return, she will have him put on a fight card with a big payday, but he didn't realize what he was getting himself into by taking the job.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"His mind failing from the effects of decades of bare-knuckle fighting, his foster mother's family legacy in the hands of strangers, and overwhelmed with gambling debts, Jack's only chance at redemption is to step into the fighting pit one last time."--WorldCat.
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He was a man worth loving ... Walking into that fight gym was the hardest thing Maureen Bryant had ever done, but the painful memories of the father she barely knew vanished the instant she beheld the fighter in the ring. All sculpted muscles and sun-bronzed skin, Jack Ryan was a sleek Adonis whose powerful physique left her weak. But she knew better than to surrender her heart to another man who'd give her up without a second thought.
She was a...
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First to fight volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The author of Below the Belt continues her First to Fight series with a novel of one Marine's battle to come out on top-in life and love... As a troubled teen, Gregory Higgs channeled his energy into boxing instead of breaking the law. The ring gave him purpose and something to strive for. So did the Marines. Combining the two seemed like a natural fit. Another natural fit? Reagan Robilard, the sweet athlete liaison who keeps all the fighters out...
17) Hard to handle
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When his uncle secretly hires a life coach to get him back into the ring, Supreme Battle Challenge fighter Harley Handleman, recovering from the death of his mother and his failure to win the title belt, is knocked out by Anastasia Bradley, who teaches him how to live again.
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When he meets skittish Felicia Wagner, ex-boxer Aaron Colton immediately senses she's hiding something. He makes it his mission to figure out what she's hiding...and soon discovers Felicia is keeping a dangerous secret. A threat from her past looms large over her present, and Aaron offers to keep her safe. Even if that means resisting their mutual attraction. Even if that means risking it all...
19) Outmatched
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"Parker Brown can't believe she needs to hire a fake boyfriend. When she landed her dream job in renewable energy, she thought she'd be entering a world at the forefront of progressive thinking. But the head boss prefers to promote employees who are "settled." Thankfully, she's found the perfect candidate, a fellow intellectual looking for some quick cash. What Parker gets is his protective big brother - Rhys Morgan. The tall, muscled ex-boxer with...
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[2021]
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Having completed her first assignment with the Domestic Terrorism Crime Unit, Benita Renee Jenkins draws on her sixth sense to investigate when a young boxer is blackmailed into participating in an illegal underground fight club to pay off his brother's gambling debt.
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