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Heft on Wheels

Author : Mike Magnuson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400052416
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heft on Wheels written by Mike Magnuson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time. Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XXL biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal. Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.

Bike Tribes

Author : Mike Magnuson
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609617436
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Bike Tribes written by Mike Magnuson and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and essential illustrated field guide that breaks down the tribes of the bicycling community: from the spandex-clad weekend warriors to the hipsters on street bikes who love to laugh at each other (and themselves) Anyone who rides a bike knows the bicycling world is made up of tribes. From tattooed messengers to pretty urban hipsters to grouchy shop owners, they may look like they live on different planets, but they are united by their abiding love of bikes—and often their total disdain of other members of this insular world. Bike Tribes is the Preppy Handbook of bicycling, replete with one-of-a-kind illustrations that taxonomize the special habits, clothing, preferences, and predilections of cyclists. Mike Magnuson, an avid rider, bicycling expert, and longtime contributor to Bicycling magazine, covers the basics of racing, etiquette, and apparel and gear, including running commentary on cycling culture, poking holes in practically every pretension in the cycling world. Bike Tribes is a fun romp through the various subcultures in the bike community—bound to appeal to newcomers and grizzled cyclists alike.

The Patchwork Bike

Author : Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536221686
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Patchwork Bike written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The words and images in this snapshot story pulse with resourceful ingenuity, joyful exuberance, and layered meanings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When you live in a village at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a license plate from bark if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for whooping and laughing as you bumpetty bump over sand hills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, this joyous story from Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd, is now available as an ebook.

Cycling

Author : Greg Garrett
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758205315
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Cycling written by Greg Garrett and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Cannon, a restless and indifferent author with a penchant for bikeriding, women, and Texas cooking, finds his carefully constructed life unraveling when he becomes involved with three different women.

Fall of Giants

Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101543558
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Fall of Giants written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .

Demolition

Author : Sally Sutton
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763673382
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Demolition written by Sally Sutton and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is all about as good as it gets for truck-obsessed preschoolers." — The Horn Book (starred review) Features an audio read-along! From the huge crane with a swinging ball (crack! ) to the toothy jaws that ram the walls (thwack! ), this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads showcase the gargantuan machines in all their glory.

George, Being George

Author : Nelson W. Aldrich
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812974182
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book George, Being George written by Nelson W. Aldrich and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors include Harold Bloom, Jules Feiffer, John Guare, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, Maggie Paley, Richard Price, James Salter, Robert Silvers, William Styron, Gay Talese, Calvin Trillin, Gore Vidal, and 200 other Plimpton intimates Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. This book is the party that was George’s life–and it’s a big one–attended by scores of famous people, as well as lesser-known intimates and acquaintances. They talk about his life: its privileged beginnings, its wild and triumphant middle, its brave, sad end. They say that George was a man of many parts: the “last gentleman,” founder and first editor of The Paris Review, the graceful writer who brought the New Journalism to sports, and Everyman’s proxy boxer, trapeze artist, stand-up comic, Western movie villain, and Playboy centerfold photographer. George’s last years were awesome, truly so. His greatest gift was to be a blessing to others–not all, truth be told–and that gift ended only with his death. But his parties, if this is one, need never end at all.

Time Bandit

Author : Andy Hillstrand
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345504127
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Time Bandit written by Andy Hillstrand and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.” By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself—a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature.

At a Construction Site

Author : Don Kilby
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781553379874
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book At a Construction Site written by Don Kilby and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informs readers about the vehicles and machinery typically seen on a construction site, such as the crane, bulldozer, dump truck, and cable truck.

Amazing Pop-up Trucks

Author : Robert Crowther
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780763655877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Pop-up Trucks written by Robert Crowther and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and pop-up illustrations introduce five different kinds of trucks from cement truck to garbage truck, and explain what they can do. Uses metric measurements.

What Happens at Night

Author : Peter Cameron
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226960
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book What Happens at Night written by Peter Cameron and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).

The Comeback

Author : Daniel de Visé
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165796
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Comeback written by Daniel de Visé and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Greg LeMond was Lance Armstrong before Lance Armstrong . . . the story of a true hero . . . This is a must read if you believe in miracles.”―John Feinstein, New York Times–bestselling author In July 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world’s pre-eminent bicycle race, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his life in peril after a hunting accident, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback almost without parallel in professional sports. In summer 1989, he again won the Tour—arguably the world’s most grueling athletic contest—by the almost impossibly narrow margin of 8 seconds over another French legend, Laurent Fignon. It remains the closest Tour de France in history. “[A] blend of chaos, kindness and cruelty typifies the scenes that journalist de Visé brings to life in this sympathetic-verging-on-reverential retelling of LeMond’s trailblazing career (first American to enter the tour, first to win it) . . . As an author in quest of his protagonist’s motivation, [de Visé] subjects it to extreme torque.”—The Washington Post “A great book . . . Well written and thoroughly researched . . . Engrossing and hard to put down. If you’re a Greg LeMond fan, The Comeback is a must read because it’s a detailed accounting of his career and―more importantly―his life and person off the bike. It’s also an important reminder that American cycling did not begin and end with Lance Armstrong.”—PEZ

Great Grannies!

Author : Judy Sajewski
Publisher : Leisure Arts
ISBN 13 : 1601406819
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Great Grannies! written by Judy Sajewski and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says grannies have to be square? These high-energy designs by Judy Sajewski transform the concept of crocheted granny squares. Now you can create granny bars, circles, wheels, pie wedges, and more. You'll also find two new ideas for assembling squares to get fresh looks. Use these modified grannies to turn your yarn scraps and favorite bright colors into exciting afghans! 7 Scrap afghans to crochet with medium weight yarn: Addition Squares, Bars, Cathedral Windows, Circles, Piece of the Pie, Scrappy Wheels, and Square in a Square. Great Grannies! (Leisure Arts #4429)

Hearts of Lions

Author : Peter Joffre Nye
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496219317
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Hearts of Lions written by Peter Joffre Nye and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bike racers were America’s media darlings less than a century ago—dashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s bike races drew larger crowds than all other American sports events, including Major League Baseball games. Prize-winning racer and journalist Peter Joffre Nye vividly re-creates this period of sports history, forgotten until now, in Hearts of Lions, a true story of courage, daring, and occasional lunacy. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Hearts of Lions is based on interviews with more than one thousand cyclists whose racing careers span from 1908 through the 2016 Rio Olympics, along with interviews with trainers and family members. Included are stories about Joseph Magnani, the lone American from southern Illinois who rode on the dusty roads of Europe in road racing’s golden era of the 1930s and 1940s; Lance Armstrong, whose rise in the mid-1990s was eclipsed in the doping era that still casts a long shadow over the sport; Kristin Armstrong, a three-time Olympic gold medalist who set new standards for women in cycling; and Evelyn “Evie” Stevens, who chucked a Wall Street career in her mid-twenties to compete in two Olympics and win several world championship gold medals. Hearts of Lions is a colorful, exciting, classic work on the art of bicycle racing over 140 years against a backdrop of social, political, and technical changes.

Her Read

Author : Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680032291
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Her Read written by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Read: A Graphic Poem is a hybrid text at once poetry and visual art. In the tradition of reusing canvases, Steinorth takes a seminal text, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read and with the liberal use of correction fluid, scalpel and embroidery floss, transforms the book from art criticism into feminist verse. Though the maternal body appears with frequency in Read’s illustrated text which spans from prehistory to the modern age, he includes zero female artists. Her Read: A Graphic Poem is an excavation of buried voices, a reclamation of bodies framed in gilt and an homage to those whose arts remain unsung.

Campagnolo

Author : Paolo Facchinetti
Publisher : VeloPress
ISBN 13 : 9781934030370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Campagnolo written by Paolo Facchinetti and published by VeloPress. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campagnolo's rich history began with the founder, Tullio Campagnolo, a racer who turned to creating better bicycle parts when he found the equipment of the day not adequate for the rigours of professional competition. This book is suitable for lovers of the sport of cycling, as well as connoisseurs of the bicycle itself.

Pretend You Love Me

Author : Julie Anne Peters
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316205648
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Pretend You Love Me written by Julie Anne Peters and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh, poignant novel (originally published under the title Far From Xanadu), Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father's suicide and her mother's detachment from the family. Mike (real name: Mary Elizabeth) is gay and likes to pump iron, play softball, and fix plumbing. When a glamorous new girl, Xanadu, arrives in Mike's small Kansas town, Mike falls in love at first sight. Xanadu is everything Mike is not -- cool, confident, feminine, sexy.... straight. Julie Anne Peters has written a heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful novel that will speak to anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone who can't love them back.