Books with title The Game

Janessa Reynolds is a studious and ambitious person, while Bryan O’Donald is just a remorseless player using girls for their hearts, and she is next. When they are nudged into each other’s direction, she decides to spend the last month of her senior year with a boyfriend, making memories and living. Unfortunately, the only contender that she could consider is Bryan. But as they date, they realize they are more similar than they initially thought, especially their past, which has been filled with domestic and child abuse by their fathers. While one continued to live that way beyond the age of five, the other did not, but they are still the only ones that really understand what the other is going through. As they start to fall for each other, Bryan makes a rash decision that causes him to lose her. Can she forgive him? Can he erase the doubt that he planted in her head and start again?

The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.Joe Fleming earns his livelihood as a sailmaker and supports his mother and sisters. He adds to his income by taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. He is due to be married to Genevieve, who works in the Silversteins' candy shop. Joe agrees to give up "the game" but asks that Genevieve watch his last fight, on the eve of their wedding, and she reluctantly agrees. The story is told from Genevieve's point of view.

Full text.On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.