Framed for a stranger's near-fatal overdose at a party, blackmailed into finding a mysterious flash drive everyone in school seems anxious to suppress and pressured by his shady best friend to throw an upcoming match, high school football player Charlie Dixon spends a frantic week trying clear his name, win back the girl of his dreams and escape a past that may be responsible for all his current problems. This book -- a bold stylistic departure for Bruised author Skilton -- captures the tone, st...
In 1874 Manhattan, Luc, sixteen, at nearly seven feet tall and seemingly impervious to pain, has become a local boxing star but when kangaroos are introduced to the ring, Luc's tender heart leads him to run away to save a joey.
Big hearted Chloe Camden is the queen of her universe and loved by all until winter break of her junior year. That's when her BF shreds her reputation and her school counsellor axes her junior independent study project. Forced to take on a "more meaningful" project in order to pass her junior year, Chloe joins her school's struggling radio station where she must team up with a group of misfits who don't find her too queenly. Ostracised by her former BFs, lonely Chloe throws herself into the radi...
"Meghan's the toughest girl in her dojo with a great future in the sport, but behind her is a painful history. Betrayed by a parent and by a coach, Meghan trusts only two old friends: one who pushes her to confront her past, the other who pulls Meghan down with her in a pill-popping daze"--
In 1872 New York City, a young newspaper reporter puts his life in danger when he goes undercover to investigate a conspiracy in the violent world of bare-knuckle boxing.
Street Fighter Unlimited Volume 2: The Gathering
by Ken Siu-Chong, Chris Sarracini, and Matt Moylan
While Ryu fights for survival against the full power of the ancient martial arts master Oro, Gill and the Secret Society reveal the World Warrior Tournament! This contest of champions will gather more fighters in one place than ever before. Ken, Chun-li, and Guile! Ibuki, Makoto, and Elena! Sakura and Karin! Alex and Hugo! Sagat and Adon! Rainbow Mika, Blanka, Necro, Poison, Dan… and so many more! Don’t miss the most jam-packed Street Fighter volume ever!
In nineteenth-century New York City, as Irish immigrant Myles McReary prepares to fight the mighty Giancarlo Sperio, a renegade priest gives Myles a relic that he claims will disorient Giancarlo--a relic the Catholic Church does not endorse.
"Jackson James wants three things: to succeed in MMA, to join the military like his father, and to protect his little brother from the dangers all around him. With so many challenges, and the wrinkle of a new romance, Jackson struggles to maintain control"--
Scott is a washed-up football player who never made it, and whose girlfriend abandoned him along with his dreams of playing pro football. But things have a way of working out, in this sweet, poetic tale--and a new chapter in Scott's life begins as the old one ends. Offered a position in a Japanese sumo training "stable," Scott abandons his old life, his old name, and even his old hair color, and becomes an aspiring sumo wrestler. And in so doing, he begins to find some kind of center in himself....
It's been a month since Trisha's dad was killed, wandering out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, and her mother grabs the wheel. To try to avoid him? To try NOT to avoid him? Trisha doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but she's afraid it's going to happen again ...Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye colour or a quirk of smile. Eighteen-year-old Trisha's trying to break the...
The Ghost Ninja of Hong Kong Island - Part III (The Ghost Ninja of Hong Kong Island Trilogy, #3)
by Lukas Krueger
Elbow Injury Guidelines for Grappling Athletes
by Pt Dpt Choi and Pta Augusto a Arnesen