Download or read book She s a Knockout written by L.A. Jennings and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s fighting sports have a rich and storied history. As far back as the eighteenth century, female fighters battled at varying levels, from county fairs to elite events. With new opportunities to compete in legitimate arenas—from the Olympics and the Golden Gloves to wrestling tournaments and Ultimate Fighting Championships—women are now able to fight in ways their predecessors never could. And though women today still often face the same derision their predecessors faced, their fortitude and determination has earned them respect from much of the fighting community. In She’s a Knockout!: A History of Women in Fighting Sports, L.A. Jenningschronicles the stories of these strong and resilient women—including wrestlers, mixed martial arts competitors, and boxers—and the different issues they have encountered. Throughout the narrative, Jennings situates the stories of the female fighters in the culture of their time, revealing how women were often seen as objects of spectacle and ridicule before finally garnering admiration in the fighting world. The women featured in this book include England’s “Championess” Elizabeth Stokes of the 1720s, American wrestler Cora Livingstone in the 1930s, and early MMA great Debi Purcell in the 2000s. Featuring historical and contemporary photographs and exclusive interviews with professional fighters, this book delivers an in-depth look into the struggles and triumphs of female fighters. Fans of fighting sports, sports historians, and those interested in the history of women in sports will find this a fascinating and illuminating read.

Download or read book The Knockout written by Sajni Patel and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kareena Thakkar’s world is turned upside down when she learns she’s landed an invitation to the US Open, which could lead to a spot on the first-ever Muay Thai Olympics team. To make it to the US Open, she has to come clean about being a Muay Thai fighter—a sport that her traditional Indian community deems too violent for girls—and own her destiny.

Download or read book Eastern North Carolina Sayings written by Philip L. Beaman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down-home sayings, turns of phrase and expressions that have stood the test of time and tell the story of Eastern North Carolina word by word. Growing up on a farm in the heart of eastern North Carolina's tobacco country, author Phil Beaman has been surrounded by country folk and their colorful language his entire life. Though these communities continue to change, the bond of their phrases, expressions, colloquialisms and just plain talk has remained within the hearts and minds of their people. Beaman chronicles this language in a humorous and fascinating collection of eastern North Carolina's most down-home sayings. Everything from the weather to drunken sayings to gobbledygook is presented straight from the horse's mouth. You may not know how to pronounce some of the words, but you will surely enjoy a trip back to the halcyon days of livin' off the land and chewin' the fat..

Download or read book Knockout written by Mia Kang and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and unflinching memoir exploring Mia Kang’s journey from self-loathing to self-love Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, an eating disorder survivor, and a Muay Thai ï¬?ghter. Her ï¬?rst book, Knockout, is the story of how she eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redeï¬?ne her sense of self-worth. In a charming, ï¬?erce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her world. She once lived and died by her weight, but she is now deï¬?ned by her conï¬?dence in being a woman who lives outside the mold of what we’re taught is “feminine.” After dealing with bullying, addiction, body dysmorphia, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts, Mia acknowledges that she is lucky to still be alive to tell readers what she’s learned: to not let anyone else dictate who you are supposed to be.

Download or read book Knockout written by K.A. Holt and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levi just wants to be treated like a typical kid. As a baby, he had a serious disease that caused him respiratory issues. He's fine now, but his mom and overprotective brother still think of him as damaged, and his schoolmates see him as the same class clown he's always been. He feels stuck. So when his dad—divorced from his mom—suggests he take up boxing, he falls in love with the sport. And when he finds out about a school with a killer boxing team and a free-study curriculum, it feels like he's found a ticket to a new Levi. But how can he tell his mom about boxing? And how can he convince his family to set him free?

Download or read book Serendipity written by Fern Michaels and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful novel, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels follows the transformation of a heartbroken girl into a proud, sophisticated woman who stands at a turning point facing a magnificent destiny. SERENDIPITY Six years ago, Jory Ryan fled Philadelphia after a brief, tragic marriage to wealthy Ross Landers. Now Jory has come home to make peace with the past. With the unexpected jolt of a brief summer storm, Jory falls for Ross’s best friend—and becomes entangled with the Landers family and the business she ran away from. Suddenly Jory finds herself at the helm of an empire, confronted with changes and choices she never dreamed possible, and ready to meet a future ripe with the promise of lasting love.

Download or read book Memories for Eternity written by Brenda Jackson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming Clint Westmoreland In name only? The moment former Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learns that he is still married, he sets the limits for his wife's stay at his exclusive horse ranch. But when she arrives, Clint's boundaries begin to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley have thirty days to untangle the legal knot that bound them together during an undercover assignment years before. But this sexy, curvaceous Alyssa is different from the mousy, awestruck rookie agent he remembers. And now her every move has him wondering what it would be like if he really was her man.… Cole's Red-Hot Pursuit Cole Westmoreland always gets what he wants! What the former Texas Ranger wants is sultry Patrina Forman. But Patrina is dead set against falling for a man with a no-strings-attached attitude, and there is no way she is going to fall into bed with a lawman! Then a Montana blizzard changes everything. Trapped together for three sinfully delicious nights, Cole soon has Patrina singing a different tune thanks to his personal brand of red-hot seduction. But what will happen once the snow begins to thaw?

Download or read book The Knockout Queen written by Rufi Thorpe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction An InStyle Best Book of the Year A Refinery29 Best Book of the Year By the end of high school, Bunny Lampert is 6’3 with the abs of a ninja turtle and the face of a boy angel. Her dad has chaotic salesman energy and her mom is dead. But from the outside, Bunny seems to have it all⁠—she’s blonde, rich, and an Olympic volleyball hopeful. Michael⁠⁠—who has a ponytail and a septum piercing, works at Rite-Aid, and has a secret Grindr⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped cottage next door to Bunny’s McMansion. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. Their friendship is as improbable as it is irresistible, but when Michael falls in love for the first time, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny’s futures⁠⁠. A beautiful and darkly comic book about doing things you didn’t mean to do, wanting things you wish you didn’t want, and loving people you can’t afford to love.

Download or read book Fit to be Frisked Mr Cool Under Fire written by Carol Finch and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Bachelors of Hoot's Roost, Oklahoma, where love comes sweepin' down the plain! Fit to Be Frisked by Carol Finch Take your best shot! Cowboy Vance Ryder is footloose and fancy-free—until he plays a prank on gorgeous rookie cop Miranda Jackson. She fines him for his stupidity, but the police chief hits the roof and sentences both of them to a week in each other's company. Miranda doesn't want to be attracted to fun-loving Vance. But it isn't long before she's practically arresting him for theft—he's stolen her heart! Mr. Cool Under Fire by Carol Finch Under siege! Gage Ryder, confirmed bachelor and mystery man, takes on a temporary assignment as a bodyguard. But Mr. Cool Under Fire is definitely rattled when he meets his client—the feisty and playful Mackenzie Shafer must pose as his wife! She's more temptation than Gage can handle. How can he save Mackenzie from the bad guys when he can't protect himself from her sexy charm?

Download or read book Knockout Games written by G. Neri and published by Carolrhoda Lab ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Kalvin Barnes, the only thing that comes close to the rush of playing the knockout game is watching videos of the knockout game. Kalvin's crew always takes videos of their KOs, but Kalvin wants more—something better. He thinks if someone could really see the game for what it was, could appreciate it, could capture the essence of it—that would be a video for all time. The world would have to notice. That's where Erica comes in. She's new in town. Awkward. Shy. White. But she's got a good camera and a filmmaker's eye. She could learn. Kalvin could open her eyes to the power he sees in the knockout game; he could make her see things his way. But first she'll have to close her eyes to everything else. For a while, Kalvin's knockouts are strangers. For a while, Erica can ignore their suffering in the rush of creativity and Kalvin's attention. Then comes the KO that forces her eyes open, that makes her see what's really happening. No one wins the knockout game. Coretta Scott King Award honoree G. Neri captures the notorious and terrifying knockout game and its players in an unflinching novel that's hard to read and impossible to put down.

Download or read book Homeland written by Fernando Aramburu and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology of ETA, from 1980s to October 2011 when the group proclaimed an end to its savage insurgency. Told through a succession of more than one hundred short sections

Download or read book The Sustainable Rose Garden written by Pat Shanley and published by Casemate / Newbury. This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating and informative book for anyone who loves roses but wants to avoid spraying them with toxic chemicals” (The American Gardener). A winner of the World Federation of Roses Literary Award, this work brings together experts from around the world to inform gardeners about developments in the new, irresistible—yet long overdue—trend toward creating environmentally friendly and enduring rose gardens, with “sustainability” as the key. The queen of flowers, the rose—by presidential declaration, America’s National Floral Emblem—was initially left behind as “green consciousness” and the concept of sustainability took hold among the gardening public. But the rose is now making up for lost time. From the workshops of breeders—both in the United States. and abroad—a new generation of disease-resistant and low-maintenance rose varieties has emerged in the last decade to fill popular demand. In this book, you will learn how to make your own sustainable rose garden. With thirty-eight lavishly illustrated articles and descriptions of the best new—as well as old—rose varieties designed for the sustainable rose garden, this is a must-have book for today’s new generation of avid but environmentally conscious gardeners. “Finally, we have a book that addresses the notion of growing roses in an environmentally friendly manner . . . Nothing about sustainable rose culture has been presented as well as it has been in this book.” —Pacific Horticulture Society

Download or read book The Race to Love written by Kelsey MacBride and published by New Prosperity Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela must marry the perfect guy in order to receive her inheritance early. Jeremy is a good guy and desires Angela, but she's not interested. Instead, she wants the mysterious Corey who's about to give her more than she bargained for. If you want a thrilling Christian romance book that will keep you on the edge of your seat, you'll want to get your copy of The Race to Love. *This is the first half of the Newport Coast love story and not a stand-alone novel* This is Book 1 of two Clean & Wholesome Contemporary Romance books. Angela West is a single Christian attorney struggling to move past her painful divorce. Her wealthy grandmother Margaret West presents a challenge so she can receive her inheritance early. But can Angela succeed in finding true Christian romance with a man she can love and marry in such a short time? She finally falls for Corey, a charming man with ulterior motives. But Angela rejects Jeremy, the one man who truly loves her. Will she marry the wrong man and risk her own life to receive her inheritance? Or will she choose true love and live happily ever after.? Find out what happens by downloading this suspenseful Clean & Wholesome Contemporary Romance novel for women. Get your copy now!

Download or read book Knock Out written by Michele Mannon and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logan Rettino never imagined she'd fall so far. Dropped by her ex on national TV, she's gone from prima ballerina to ring card girl, reduced to revving up the crowds before MMA bouts. However distasteful she finds her new job, it pays well...and she needs the money if she's ever going to rebuild her life. Promised a huge bonus if she can convince a brooding, gifted welterweight to keep fighting, she'll do whatever it takes to earn his trust. Keane O'Shea is unbeatable in the octagon. A former marine, he fights with a ruthlessness no gym jockey can match. He knows his brutal strength is too much for the delicate ex-ballerina, regardless of how fascinating he finds Logan's tight dancer's body. But one private performance and he's drawn to her in a way he can't—or won't—resist. As Logan discovers the heartbreaking truth that lies beneath this handsome warrior's rage, she'll need to forfeit everything she thought mattered for the one thing that matters the most: saving Keane from himself. 89,000 words

Download or read book Virgin River Collection Volume 4 written by Robyn Carr and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Virgin River! Now available in a box set collection, return to this charming small town with more beloved stories form #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. Now a Netflix Original Series. Promise Canyon After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River’s new veterinary assistant. He’s been welcomed with open arms by everyone in town—everyone except Lilly Yazhi. Lilly has encountered her share of strong, silent, traditional men. In her eyes, Clay’s earthy appeal is just an act used to charm wealthy women like his ex-wife. Lilly can’t deny his gift for gentling horses, but she’s not about to let him control her. There’s just one small problem—she can’t control her attraction to Clay. Wild Man Creek Colin Riordan is recuperating from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is supportive, but it’s his art that truly soothes his troubled soul. Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock has rented an old Victorian with a promising garden. She’s looking forward to cultivating something other than a corporate brand. Both are looking to simplify, not complicate, their lives, but when Jillian finds Colin at his easel in her yard, there’s an instant connection. And sometimes love is the simplest choice of all… Harvest Moon Disillusioned and burned out after collapsing at work, rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock has retreated to her sister’s house to rest and reevaluate. Puttering in the garden is wonderful, but Kelly’s starting to get restless…until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriter—a combination Kelly finds irresistible. Less appealing is Lief’s rebellious teenaged stepdaughter. She’s the reason they moved from LA, but she’s still finding plenty of trouble. Kelly’s never fallen for a guy with such serious baggage, but some things are worth fighting for. Bring Me Home for Christmas This year, Becca Timm knows the number one item on her wish list—getting over Denny Cutler, who broke her heart three years ago. So she invites herself on her brother’s hunting weekend in the rugged little mountain town that Denny calls home. But when an accident turns her impromptu visit into an extended stay, Becca finds herself stranded. With Denny. In very close quarters. As the power of Christmas envelops them, Becca discovers that the boy she once loved has become a strong and confident man. And the most delicious Christmas present she can imagine. Four wonderful stories of finding home and discovering love. Don't miss Robyn Carr's next uplifting novel, The Friendship Club, where four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed—available January 2024! Look for the complete Virgin River series by Robyn Carr! Book 1: Virgin River Book 2: Shelter Mountain Book 3: Whispering Rock Book 4: A Virgin River Christmas Book 5: Second Chance Pass Book 6: Temptation Ridge Book 7: Paradise Valley Book 8: Forbidden Falls Book 9: Angel's Peak Book 10: Moonlight Road Book 11: Promise Canyon Book 12: Wild Man Creek Book 13: Harvest Moon Book 14: Bring Me Home for Christmas Book 15: Hidden Summit Book 16: Redwood Bend Book 17: Sunrise Point Book 18: My Kind of Christmas Book 19: Return to Virgin River

Download or read book Knockout written by Suzanne Somers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the expertise of eight doctors whose cutting-edge methods are enabling unprecedented cures, sharing the celebrity author's personal experiences as well as the survival stories of other cancer patients while identifying lifestyle strategies and challenging mainstream practices. By the best-selling author of Ageless.

Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: