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What's New in Sports? April 2021
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing
by Harry Mullan
A boxing reference that covers various aspects of the sport since its rise from the days of illegal big-money challenge matches to the multi-million-dollar televised extravaganza it is today. It details the careers of the world's greatest boxers, and descriptions of many of their outstanding fights.
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Protect yourself at all times : an inside look at another year in boxing
by Thomas Hauser
Protect Yourself at All Times offers a behind-the-scenes look at Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, dressing room reports from big fights like Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin, and compelling portraits of luminaries like Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, and Don King, all filtered through the perspective of a true champion of boxing.
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Beyond glory : Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a world on the brink
by David Margolick
A study of the two boxing competitions between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, in 1936 and 1938, examines the global significance of the sporting events in terms of a world on the brink of war, tracing the lives and careers of both boxers, as well as the cultural and societal divisions they came to represent.
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Iron Ambition : My Life With Cus D'Amato
by Mike Tyson
The former heavyweight champion and best-selling memoirist presents an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of the legendary boxing trainer, exploring D'Amato's pivotal role in the careers of multiple world champions and his legal adoption of Tyson in the aftermath of the latter's mother's death.
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The fair fight
by Anna Freeman
The Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club: A page-turning novel set in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late eighteenth-century England.
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Drago : On Mountains We Stand
by Todd Noy
Rising from the ashes in Moscow, a broken warrior goes in search of atonement, in search of retribution and in search of a better self. A story that has captured the hearts and minds of sports fans throughout the world. Feel every blow and unearth the answer to the all-important question...What ever happened to Ivan Drago?
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Journeyman : The Story of Nhl Right-winger Jamie Leach
by Anna Rosner
Journeyman is a first-person biography of Ojibwe right-winger Jamie Leach, son of the legendary NHL superstar Reggie Leach. Follow the fascinating hockey trajectory from his childhood years watching his father play for Philadelphia Flyers, to Jamie's first goal in the NHL. Journeyman touches on Jamie's summers on Lake Winnipeg, the World Junior Hockey Championships, his life in the minor leagues, and his eventual draft into the NHL as a Pittsburgh Penguin. Discover how some of hockey's biggest stars such as Bobby Clarke, Jaromir Jagr, and Mario Lemieux influenced Jamie's life.
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Hometown Hero
by Liza Kendall
When baseball star Andrew "Ace" Braddock, who is a player in every sense of the word, returns home to heal after being injured, nurse Mia Adams refuses to succumb to the charms of her onetime enemy despite his best efforts.
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Game changer
by Neal Shusterman
Transported into other dimensions by a seemingly random hit, a young football player visits alternate worlds that evolved differently in accordance with respective belief systems. By the National Book Award-winning author of Challenger Deep.
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Welcome to sudden death /
A former special forces officer races against time to rescue his kidnapped daughter and save the crowd in a basketball arena when terrorists threaten to blow it up.
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