Girl From The Racetrack

Download Girl From The Racetrack full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Girl From The Racetrack ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Girl from the Racetrack

Author : Robert Brundrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949248500
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (485 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Girl from the Racetrack by : Robert Brundrett

Download or read book Girl from the Racetrack written by Robert Brundrett and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American serviceman, Charlie, falls in love with a beautiful Vietnamese girl, Kim, during the Vietnam War. They meet at a horse racetrack in Saigon where Kim, a jockey, is involved in a horse racing accident and Charlie comes to her aid. Their love flourished despite the impediments of war, and grows stronger as together they face enemy shelling, the Easter Offensive, and escape by horseback. They find quiet times to disclose their private thoughts and dreams, both with unexplained feelings of something beyond fate having a hand in their meeting. They finally break free of the bonds of war, but not before a lie promoted by an enemy agent and Charlie’s racist commanding officer threatens to derail their future. Years later the couple returns to Vietnam and discovers a hidden connection. Was it fate or was there something else guiding them to find each other?" - amazon.com

Diane Crump

Author : Mark Shrager
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149303796X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Diane Crump by : Mark Shrager

Download or read book Diane Crump written by Mark Shrager and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, a few women, mockingly labeled “jockettes” by a skeptical press, had begun demanding the right to apply for jockey licenses, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in hiring based on race, religion, sex, or national origin. Most of their applications were rejected by racing’s bureaucracy, which alleged that women were unqualified to participate due to “physical limitations” and “emotional instability.” Female jockeys who attempted to ride met with boycotts by male jockeys. Onto this uneven terrain stepped 20-year-old Diane Crump, who had long since demonstrated her riding proficiency during a thousand workout rides on a thousand difficult Thoroughbreds (“I basically got on all the horses that no one else wanted to ride"). On February 7, 1969, having been granted a permit to ride at Florida’s Hialeah Racetrack, Crump, surrounded by a protective phalanx of police officers, walked calmly toward the saddling enclosure as she endured heckles from the crowd. Diane’s mount would not earn victory that day, but the young rider had earned a more fundamental prize: the right to compete in her chosen field. Just over a year later, on May 2, 1970, after 95 years and 1,055 all-male entrants, Diane Crump shattered tradition by becoming the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Over her career she amassed 235 wins. InDiane Crump: A Life in the Saddle, veteran turf writer Mark Shrager relies on Crump's own narrative, magazine and newspaper coverage, and numerous first-hand interviews to tell the story of an extraordinary athlete's life and career.

The Girl's Guide to NASCAR

Author : Liz Allison
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 1455525421
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Girl's Guide to NASCAR by : Liz Allison

Download or read book The Girl's Guide to NASCAR written by Liz Allison and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NASCAR's foremost female authority provides the first guide for women to America's fastest growing spectator sport. From shopping to scanners and pit stops to parties, this fun and informative guide gives you everything you need to enjoy a race, whether at the track or in your living room. Insider Liz Allison will tell you all the ins and outs of NASCAR, uncovering the hidden rules and official calls made on any given race day. She answers nagging questions like why race cars don't have speedometers or doors that open, what the real deal is on restrictor plates, and how top drivers get to be where they are. Liz also reveals driver superstitions, how to survive a race weekend with kids, the Gentlemen's Agreement, how to tell if a driver is serious with his girlfriend, tips on throwing the perfect NASCAR viewing party, and much more. With this race-savvy guide, you will quickly become a knowledgeable fan with an inside edge on the sport that most of your male counterparts will lack-and have a few laughs along the way.

Marathon Woman

Author : Kathrine Switzer
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030682566X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Marathon Woman by : Kathrine Switzer

Download or read book Marathon Woman written by Kathrine Switzer and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently eject her. In one of the most iconic sports moments, Switzer escaped and finished the race. She made history-and is poised to do it again on the fiftieth anniversary of that initial race, when she will run the 2017 Boston Marathon at age 70. Now a spokesperson for Reebok, Switzer is also the founder of 261 Fearless, a foundation dedicated to creating opportunities for women on all fronts, as this groundbreaking sports hero has done throughout her life. "Kathrine Switzer is the Susan B. Anthony of women's marathoning."-Joan Benoit Samuelson, first Olympic gold medalist in the women's marathon

Fast Girl

Author : Ingrid Steffensen
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580054684
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fast Girl by : Ingrid Steffensen

Download or read book Fast Girl written by Ingrid Steffensen and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Ingrid Steffensen’s New Jersey suburb was safe, comfortable, and predictable. A college professor, wife, and mother of a preadolescent daughter, her carefully cultivated world was comprised of the usual suspects: family, work, book clubs, yoga classes, and date nights. Then, one day—thinking she’d be a good sport and maybe learn something about what made her car-crazed husband tick—she put a helmet on her head, took her Mini Cooper to the racetrack, and learned how to drive it really, really fast. Soon, what began as a whim became a full-blown obsession—and a freeing journey of self-discovery. In the eventful, exhilarating year that followed her first lesson, Steffenson dove head-first into high-performance driving. In the process, she discovered the terrifying and addictive thrill of pushing her limits, learning an entirely new set of skills, and tackling danger head-on—and found that doing so liberated her in a way that she hadn’t even known she needed. Fast-paced and fun, Fast Girl is the quirky, real-life chronicle of how one woman stepped outside her comfort zone, shrugged off the shackles of suburban conformity, and changed her entire perspective on life through the unlikeliest of means: racecar driving.

Women in Racing

Author : John McEvoy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493069659
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women in Racing by : John McEvoy

Download or read book Women in Racing written by John McEvoy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in all facets of the horse-racing industry share their stories. The updated edition includes an interview with horse-racing pioneer Diane Crump, the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

Jockey Girl

Author : Shelley Peterson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145973436X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jockey Girl by : Shelley Peterson

Download or read book Jockey Girl written by Shelley Peterson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) — Commended 2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection A teen girl’s quest to find her mother leads her to the big city, and gives her the courage to fulfill her dream of becoming a jockey. Evangeline “Evie” Gibb lives a seemingly charmed life on a thoroughbred racehorse farm. But in reality, Evie feels alone in the world, cheered only by the affection of a racehorse named No Justice. She’s always been told that her mother, Angela Parson, is dead. Then, on her sixteenth birthday, a card arrives from her great aunt Mary with the suggestion that Angela might still be alive — and Evie’s life is turned upside down. In hopes of winning enough money to leave her hateful father and find her mother, Evie enters the Caledon Horse Race. But something she overhears her father say changes everything, and Evie steals the racehorse in the night and runs away. With a stray dog named Magpie at her side and help from Aunt Mary, Evie unearths long-hidden family secrets, finds unexpected love, and takes the racing world by storm.

Off-Track and Online

Author : Holly Kruse
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034417
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Off-Track and Online by : Holly Kruse

Download or read book Off-Track and Online written by Holly Kruse and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Kruse explores how horse racing has used media over the last several decades, arguing that examining the history and context of horse racing and gambling gives us a clearer understanding of the development of data networks, media complexes, public entertainment, and media publics. She describes an enormous industry that depends on global information and communication flows made possible by a network linking racetracks, homes, off-track betting, farms, and auction sites.

Racer Girls

Author : Bob Woods
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1489647821
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Racer Girls by : Bob Woods

Download or read book Racer Girls written by Bob Woods and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racer Danica Patrick took the world by storm in the 2005 Indianapolis 500. However, she is not alone in the ranks of well-known, talented female racers. Discover more about these high-speed athletes in Racer Girls, a Girls Rock! book.

Show Barn Blues

Author : Natalie Keller Reinert
Publisher : Natalie Keller Reinert
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Show Barn Blues by : Natalie Keller Reinert

Download or read book Show Barn Blues written by Natalie Keller Reinert and published by Natalie Keller Reinert. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delightfully addictive barn drama." - HorseNation.com Grace has built her life on show horses. It's been a good life, too -- she mounts her wealthy students on European warmbloods, competes her horses on Florida's rigorous A-circuit, and runs the nicest barn in the neighborhood. Then, suddenly, it's the only barn in the neighborhood. As Grace's country town becomes a sun-drenched playground of pools and golf courses, she vows that no bulldozer will ever touch her farm. With her neighbors selling their farms and moving to more isolated corners of Florida, she finds herself fighting off land-hungry developers alone -- until Kennedy comes along. Kennedy is everything Grace doesn't want around her bustling show barn -- a pleasure rider who would rather wander in the woods than tackle a show-jumping course. Kennedy might make for an unlikely sidekick, but she's just the inspiration Grace needs to fight back against the developers who want to bulldoze her corner of Floridian wilderness -- and, eventually, against the wilderness itself.

Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl'

Author : Stephen M Cullen
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399099418
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl' by : Stephen M Cullen

Download or read book Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl' written by Stephen M Cullen and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Her successes against men led to a ban on women competing against them in the UK, but Fay Taylour carried on, racing around the world. She also built a new career in long distance car racing and carved a name for herself in the new sport of midget car racing. All of this came to a halt with the outbreak of the Second World War, which, controversially, saw Fay Taylour join Oswald Mosley’s fascist movement and become part of an underground pro-Hitler campaign in London. She was imprisoned for three years by the British authorities. After the war, she was one of the very few pre-war women motorsports champions to return to the track. She re-established her career with highly successful tours in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, before moving to the USA. There she first sold sports cars in Hollywood before returning to midget-car racing across America. Later banned from the USA for her earlier politics, she again took to racetracks around the world, competing against the world’s best well into her fifties. This first full biography of Fay Taylour is based on her extensive personal papers, media reports of her racing career around the world, and decades of UK government security files. It covers Taylour’s life on and off the track, her struggles with sports and security authorities, her battles against anti-female prejudices, and her many passionate love affairs.

Women Athletes Who Changed the World

Author : Jill Bryant
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448860016
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women Athletes Who Changed the World by : Jill Bryant

Download or read book Women Athletes Who Changed the World written by Jill Bryant and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects short biographies of important female athletes, including Julie Krone, the Williams sisters, and Michelle Wie.

Women on the Move

Author : Roger Gilles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210417
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women on the Move by : Roger Gilles

Download or read book Women on the Move written by Roger Gilles and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women's mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the "safety" bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women's professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902. For seven years, female racers drew large and enthusiastic crowds across the country, including Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans--and many smaller cities in between. Unlike the trudging, round-the-clock marathons the men (and their spectators) endured, women's six-day races were tightly scheduled, fast-paced, and highly competitive. The best female racers of the era--Tillie Anderson, Lizzie Glaw, and Dottie Farnsworth--became household names and were America's first great women athletes. Despite concerted efforts by the League of American Wheelmen to marginalize the sport and by reporters and other critics to belittle and objectify the women, these athletes forced turn-of-the-century America to rethink strongly held convictions about female frailty and competitive spirit. By 1900 many cities began to ban the men's six-day races, and it became more difficult to ensure competitive women's races and attract large enough crowds. In 1902 two racers died, and the sport's seven-year run was finished--and it has been almost entirely ignored in sports history, women's history, and even bicycling history. Women on the Move tells the full story of America's most popular arena sport during the 1890s, giving these pioneering athletes the place they deserve in history.

Block Seventeen

Author : Kimiko Guthrie
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1982678399
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Block Seventeen by : Kimiko Guthrie

Download or read book Block Seventeen written by Kimiko Guthrie and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akiko “Jane” Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiancé, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer, the TSA. Jane’s mother has seemingly disappeared, her existence only apparent online. Jane wants to ignore these worrisome disturbances until a cry from the past robs her of all peace, forcing her to uncover a long-buried family trauma. As Jane searches for her mother, she confronts her family’s fraught history in America. She learns how the incarceration of Japanese Americans fractured her family, and how persecution and fear can drive a person to commit desperate acts. In melodic and suspenseful prose, Guthrie leads the reader to and from the past, through an unreliable present, and, inescapably, toward a shocking revelation. Block Seventeen, at times playful and light, at others disturbing and disorienting, explores how fear of the “other” continues to shape our minds and distort our world.

The World’s Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great, Stock Car Racing Book

Author : Jerry Bledsoe
Publisher : Scruffy City Press
ISBN 13 : 0998302864
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (983 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The World’s Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great, Stock Car Racing Book by : Jerry Bledsoe

Download or read book The World’s Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great, Stock Car Racing Book written by Jerry Bledsoe and published by Scruffy City Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Labor Day weekend of 1972, journalist Jerry Bledsoe hooked up with the stock car racing circuit to begin research for his first book. The result of his efforts, first published in 1975, has been called the classic work on stock car racing. Bledsoe captures the beginnings of the modern NASCAR era, a time when legends like Richard Petty, David Pearson, Bobby Allison, and the Wood brothers ruled. It was also a time when independent drivers like Wendell Scott (NASCAR’s first African American driver) and Larry Smith could build a car in their garages during the week and race on Sunday alongside King Richard. With levels of access impossible to achieve today, Bledsoe is not only in the pits and garages with the drivers, but also is alongside their family driving to the next race in a van piled high with ice chests filled with sandwiches and fried chicken. He digs into the sport’s rough and rowdy history and shines a light into its nooks and crannies, uncovering the forgotten role that women drivers played in creating this most macho of motorsports. And then there are the fans. There’s Red Robinson, the self-proclaimed “World’s Number One Stock Car Racing Fan," who collects racing beauty queens the way some people collects stamps. And the fans camped out in the infield at Darlington, the biggest, wildest, whoopingest, holleringest, drinkingest, gamblingest, carousingest, knock-down, fall-out blowout held in the South. More than a book about racing, this is a close-up look at a cultural phenomenon that illuminates America and the South. In 1965, Tom Wolfe called racer Junior Johnson “the last American hero.” “The World’s Number One, All-Time Great, Stock Car Racing Book” shows that a decade later there were still plenty of heroes circling the track with no signs of them disappearing anytime soon.

A Shadow of Hope

Author : Kim-Briana Nguyen Lorine
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1449088740
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Shadow of Hope by : Kim-Briana Nguyen Lorine

Download or read book A Shadow of Hope written by Kim-Briana Nguyen Lorine and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young girl named Kale and her parents are called to the Oak Ridge Racing Stables, they have no idea that they were about to be involved in one of the greatest mysteries in the stable's history. Something is spooking the horses and making them too nervous to race, and staff members are resigning because of how the horses keep bolting and charging unexpectedly. The owner of the stables is worried that he might have to sell the horses and close down the stables, but Kale desperately wants to do something to help. Kale has always loved horses, but will that be enough to save the future of the stables or will the answer to the mystery lie in a gorgeous black stallion that seems to trust only one very special girl? Find out in this first book of the series A Shadow of Hope!

Athletes of Purpose

Author : Arnold B. Cheyney
Publisher : Good Year Books
ISBN 13 : 9780673586674
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (866 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Athletes of Purpose by : Arnold B. Cheyney

Download or read book Athletes of Purpose written by Arnold B. Cheyney and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!