Punching from the Shadows

Punching from the Shadows
Author: Glen Sharp
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476631336

Glen Sharp's boxing career was a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it. A sparring partner for light-heavyweight Hall of Famer Yaqui Lopez, he "retired" with a record of one victory and two defeats. A decade later, having come to understand how and why he failed as a younger fighter, he attempted a comeback. Told with heart and wit, his memoir is a treatise on boxing as both profession and purpose. Sharp uses economic theory to describe the sweet science as a case study in resource management while recounting his own struggle to win fistic glory and his father's admiration.

Punching from the Shadows

Punching from the Shadows
Author: Glen Sharp
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476672695

Glen Sharp's boxing career was a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it. A sparring partner for light-heavyweight Hall of Famer Yaqui Lopez, he "retired" with a record of one victory and two defeats. A decade later, having come to understand how and why he failed as a younger fighter, he attempted a comeback. Told with heart and wit, his memoir is a treatise on boxing as both profession and purpose. Sharp uses economic theory to describe the sweet science as a case study in resource management while recounting his own struggle to win fistic glory and his father's admiration.

Shadow Boxing

Shadow Boxing
Author: Henry Malone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1999
Genre: Christian life
ISBN:

Cast No Shadow

Cast No Shadow
Author: Nick Tapalansky
Publisher: First Second Books
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1596438770

A doomed romance brings a town to its knees in this teen gothic graphic novel from acclaimed comics writer Tapalansky and phenomenal newcomer artist Espinosa.

Boxing Shadows

Boxing Shadows
Author: W. K. Stratton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 029277351X

Reaching the top in any sport requires a long, hard climb. But when you start with the baggage of years of family dysfunction and incarceration in a hellish mental hospital, the climb is especially steep. Yet even with such weights to carry, Anissa Zamarron won not one, but two, world championships in women's boxing. Her story, as dramatically intense as the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby, is one of tremendous courage and determination to overcome the odds against her as a Latina and as a woman working through mental illness and addiction—a fight in which Zamarron has been as powerful and successful as she has been in the boxing ring. In this compelling biography, acclaimed author W. K. "Kip" Stratton collaborates with Zamarron to tell the story of her unlikely rise to the pinnacle of women's boxing. With searing honesty, Zamarron describes how the chaotic breakup of her childhood family caused her to develop "demons" that drove her to aggressive behavior in school, an addiction to self-destructive habits, including cutting, and eventually to a corrupt for-profit mental hospital in which she spent eighteen months tied to a bed. She explains how boxing became her salvation as an adult; she learned how to turn her anger and aggression into motivation to train hard and excel at her sport, not only becoming the first woman to fight as a professional in a sanctioned fight in New York, but also fighting more ten-round fights than any other woman in history. A gripping account of Zamarron's 2005 upset win over Maribel Zurita to claim her second world championship caps the book.

Chasing Shadows

Chasing Shadows
Author: Swati Avasthi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375863435

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York, in 2013."

Binding the Shadows

Binding the Shadows
Author: Jenn Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145169511X

Demons sure know how to kill a girl’s buzz. Renegade mage and bartender Arcadia Bell has had a rough year, but now the door to her already unstable world is becoming completely unhinged. When a citywide crime wave erupts, Cady’s demon-friendly tiki bar is robbed by Earthbounds wielding surreal demonic abilities that just flat-out shouldn’t exist. With the help of her devilishly delicious boyfriend, Lon Butler, Cady sets out to find the people who wronged her—but her targets aren’t the only ones experiencing unnatural metamorphoses. Can Cady track down the monsters responsible before the monster inside her destroys everything—and everyone—she loves? If she survives this adventure, one thing is certain: it’s last call for life as she knows it.

Beneath the Shadows

Beneath the Shadows
Author: Sara Foster
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466802642

In this thrilling gothic suspense debut by Sara Foster in the tradition of Rosamund Lupton and Sophie Hannah, a young mother searches Yorkshire's windswept moors for the truth behind her husband's mysterious disappearance. THE ANSWERS ARE HIDING BENEATH THE SHADOWS When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone—the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister—is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation. She is desperate for answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace hunts through forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues, and digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot get them away in time. "A haunting tale of loss and one woman's search for the truth no matter the consequences. This vividly written novel will leave you breathless and as chilled as the starkly beautiful North Yorkshire moors where this compelling story unfolds." –Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of These Things Hidden

Spooky Halloween Silhouettes

Spooky Halloween Silhouettes
Author: Jeffery Rudell
Publisher: Sterling Innovation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Cut-out craft
ISBN: 9781402780134

In this creative, creepy, large-format book of black pages, crafters will find jack-o'-lanterns, black cats, ravens, skulls, and more. Just put these 25 punch-out apparitions (no cutting, no folding, no mess) in the window, and they'll turn any home into a haunted house ready to welcome trick-or-treaters. Patterns on the inside back cover allow users to create life-size photocopied silhouettes of Frankenstein's monster, a mummy, zombies, a witch, and other ghosties, ghoulies, and things that go bump in the night.

Memoir of Shadows Ascension

Memoir of Shadows Ascension
Author: Darren Hollinshead
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2010-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446122220

Memoir of Shadows Ascension is the beginning of the series with the fall of Vau. Vau was a colony given god like status by humanity. It was the first colony formed in Dark Space with powerful technology and resources. Danielle Lorel must now defend it against impossible odds. Witness the fall of Vau and the beginning of their story.