A lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by cheating his own partner. She hastily returns to the U.S., moves into the boarding house run by the partner's granddaughter, and gives her a million dollars. This newfound wealth causes the girl untold trouble as her fiance refuses to marry a woman with more money.

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.

"On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief. "It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over." The show that had...

Robert Anasi's The Gloves offers a gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today.
The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on.
Anasi took up boxing in his twenties to keep in shape, attract women, and sharpen his knuckles for the odd bar fight. He thought of entering "the Gloves,"

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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sister's death."-- Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can remember, and those skills are going to come in handy as...

Now A Major Motion Picture The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers-drunk and high on whatever's on offer-bet on the fighters. Jarhead is a desperate...

Martha and Seth pretend they're dating to help ward off unwanted advances in the Amish community, but what happens when their fake relationship turns into more? "Bestselling and award-winning author Kathleen Fuller returns to the Amish community of Birch Creek in this charming tale of falling in love while pursuing the dreams of your heart"-- Having grown up in poverty, Seth Yoder refuses to be financially insecure again. His passion is woodcarving,...

When young Sheen backs down from a street fight with a rival school and his fellow classmates accuse him of cowardice, he decides to secretly train in boxing to avoid ridicule.

The infamous boxing match between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on June 28, 1997, was like none other in the sports history, and this insightful account of the anticipation, the gruesome fight itself, and the ongoing aftermath of that one night reveals just how much of an impact it really made. The rivals met for a rematch that would never be finished, as Tyson earned a disqualification and infamy that followed in the third round by biting off...

"Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most iconic figures in sports and possibly the greatest boxer of all time. His legendary career spanned nearly 26 years, including his titles as the middleweight and welterweight champion of the world and close to 200 professional bouts. This illuminating biography grounds the spectacular story of Robinson's rise to greatness within the context of the fighter's life and times. Born Walker Smith Jr. in 1921, Robinson's...