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Take Me On

Katie McGarry · 384 pages

Abandoning kickboxing after a tragedy in the ring, champion fighter Haley is forced to train an attractive mixed martial arts student who secretly fights on Haley's behalf to redeem his troubled past. Abandoning kickboxing after a tragedy in the ring, champion fighter Haley trains a cute mixed martial arts student who secretly fights to redeem his troubled past. The plot contains profanity. The A

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Ambush

Chris Bradford · 399 pages

In Africa only the strong survive. Teenage martial arts expert Connor Reeves is tasked with protecting a foreign ambassador's family on safari. Considered the perfect assignment, the holiday turns to hell when their convoy is ambushed by gunmen. Fleeing through the bush, Connor and his assigned family become the prey in a shoot-to-kill hunt across the African plains. As they fight for their surviv

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Payback Time

Carl Deuker · 304 pages

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Extreme Love

Abby Niles · 352 pages

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Worth the Chance

Vi Keeland · 266 pages

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Kage Unleashed

Maris Black · 274 pages

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Mexican WhiteBoy

Matt de la Pena · 249 pages

DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.But at his private school, they don't expect much else from him. Danny's brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close t

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Stupid Fast

Geoff Herbach

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Crackback

John Coy · 201 pages

Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

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Naruto, Vol. 11: Impassioned Efforts

Masashi Kishimoto · 183 pages

While Naruto studies with Jiraiya to harness the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox chakra locked within him in preparation for the Chunin Selection Exams, other ninja villages are secretly forming alliances against Konahagakure.

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Zeroboxer

Fonda Lee · 353 pages

"As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations"--

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Simon Says

Lori Foster · 343 pages

Sexy ex-fighter Simon Evans has the perfect life-until he catches his girlfriend cheating. To work off his rage, he goes back into the ring full-force. But a gutsy and gorgeous P.I. is about to send him reeling with a secret about his family-and one about her heart.

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The Contender

Robert Lipsyte · 174 pages

Before you can be a champion,you have to be a contender.Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a high school dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn't even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli's Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it'

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Full Contact

Sarah Castille · 296 pages

Sia O'Donnell secretly attends every underground MMA fight featuring The Predator, the undisputed champion. When he stalks his prey in the ring, Sia is mesmerized. He is dominant and dangerous and every instinct tells her to run. Soft, sweet and innocent, Sia is the light to Ray's darkness-- and completely irresistible. From the moment he lays eyes on her, he knows he's going to have to put his da

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Out of the Pocket

Bill Konigsberg · 264 pages

Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he's different from his teammates. They're like brothers, but they don't know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he's outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates' trust an

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Noah

Elizabeth Reyes · 352 pages

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The Book of David

Anonymous · 272 pages

"The author of this fictional diary began writing for a class assignment, but soon it became much more to him. As the star player of his high school football team, he faces a lot of pressure and expectation. Not to mention the secret that he's harboring inside. The secret that could change everything. And as David quickly learns, nothing stays secret forever. His innermost thoughts and feelings ar

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Fighting For Irish

Gina L. Maxwell · 310 pages

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Boxers

Gene Luen Yang · 328 pages

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Revenge

Mark A. Cooper · 240 pages

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In Kelly's Corner

Roxie Rivera · 276 pages

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Undefeated

Scott Hildreth · 272 pages

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Tyler's Undoing

L.P. Dover

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Winger

Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

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