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A rising star in Muay Thai figures out what (and who) is worth fighting for in this YA debut full of heart.If seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar is going to alienate herself from the entire Indian community, she might as well do it gloriously. She’s landed the chance of a lifetime, an invitation to the US Muay Thai Open, which could lead to a spot on the first-ever Olympic team. If only her sport weren’t seen as something too rough for girls, something she’s afraid...

**Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. CosbyA Penguin Classic**A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for knocking himself unconscious. As he begins to exploit his talents, the notorious...

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell’s Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble).With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar…and doesn’t know she’s one of the Hell’s Belles—a group of vigilantes operat...

The 13th book in Catherine Coulter's hugely popular FBI series.After witnessing her relatives burying a pile of dead bodies in the middle of the night, a seven-year-old uses her telepathic powers to call a man she's seen only on television: FBI Agent Dillon Savich. Now Savich and his wife and partner, Agent Lacey Sherlock, face their most elusive foes to keep the child out of harm's way-before it's too late.

Allie Saunders has a dirty secret. Make that two fantastically filthy secrets. Beau Colton and Van Mitchell. The leading stars of her X-rated fantasies also happen to be her brother's best friends. Hello, big fat hairy complication. It's no mystery why her unrequited crushes insist on keeping her at arm's length, but it doesn't stop her from wishing for the impossible.When she discovers their dirty secret, the once forbidden is suddenly a tantalizing temptation an...

"Knockout Girl" - Seoul's Swimming, Boxing, and Sarcastic Queen of Chaos!Yoon Ha-eun didn't just move to Seoul; she crash-landed into a city full of skyscrapers, swimming pools, and schoolyard bullies who quickly learned the hard way that Ha-eun's fists are as fast as her freestyle. One arm-twist later, she's the queen of Taeyang High School, turning heads with her swimming skills, boxing moves, and the kind of sarcasm that leaves bullies speechless.From ba...

The first time she spoke to him was at midnight.Seven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after he’d brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew she’d found him. She called Savich, but she didn’t use the phone.They were burying dead people in my daddy’s grave . . . they’re coming after us. Please help me.Who’s they?Blessed, he’s coming.Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Vir...

From top stripper in the cratered ruins of Cambridge to a fake fiancé in the eldritch-touched town of Kingsport.How did Natalia’s life get so effed up?Well, there was the apocalypse. That sucked.Then she took pity on a slave and pissed off the local warlord.Now he wants her to steal some top-secret alien tech from a mysterious bunker hidden in sleepy coastal Kingsport.How hard could it be?First up, grab a fake husband for protection. The enig...

Almost everyone knows that Stanley Ketchel was one of the great boxing champions of all time, but many have forgotten that he was murdered—and under baffling circumstances. All the evidence pointed to a gambling syndicate yet the case was obscured by a missing diamond stickpin, a lucky bracelet, and a pretty cook. Here Erle Stanley Gardner relates how this strange case was solved by not following the logical clues.

The New York Times says the Knockout Game is a lie. USA Today says it is a myth, a product of white fear. This book settles that once and for all. This is the most complete collection of Knockout Game links and videos and stories ever assembled. "Knockout Game a Lie?" uses hundreds of links to videos and stories that provide the compelling answer: "Aww, hell no!" It also contains a link to a video with hundreds of examples. Created by the author of White Girl Bleed a Lot, Colin Flaherty ha...

The fastest growing format in online poker is without doubt Progressive Knockout tournaments. Online poker rooms like them, recreational poker players love them, yet a lot of serious poker players struggle to get to grips with the way the strategy changes compared to regular MTTs.In PKO Poker Strategy professional poker player Dara O’Kearney has done rigorous study using the latest solver technology to show you the biggest adjustments you need to beat these tournaments. This book f...

If seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar is going to alienate herself from the entire Indian community, she might as well do it gloriously.She’s landed the chance of a lifetime, an invitation to the US Muay Thai Open, which could lead to a spot on the first-ever Olympic team. If only her sport weren’t seen as something too rough for girls, something she’s afraid to sharewith anyone outside of her family. Despite pleasing her parents, excelling at school, and making plans to get...