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Author : James L. Voris
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470924862
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Helluva Ride written by James L. Voris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous and whimsical look at the mis-adventures of an young man growing up in the Air Force as a photographer
Author : Liz Clarke
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0345504496
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book One Helluva Ride written by Liz Clarke and published by Villard. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races attended by hundreds of thousands of fans on any given weekend from mid-February through mid-November, watched on television by the second-largest viewing audience in sports, and bankrolled by the marketing largesse of the Fortune 500’s elite. One Helluva Ride, a full-throttle account of the rise and reign of NASCAR nation, is award-winning motorsports reporter Liz Clarke’s chronicle of how stock car racing exploded from regional obsession to national phenomenon. In covering the sport for more than fifteen years, Clarke has developed a strong rapport with NASCAR’s drivers, team owners, and hard-core fans. Through her reporting and analysis, we get to know the public and private sides of NASCAR’s most iconic figures, including seven-time champion Richard Petty, who set the standard for treating fans with respect, and the late Dale Earnhardt, whose brazen, bullying tactics wreaked havoc on the track, but whose heart was as big as Daytona’s infield. The sports world stopped in its tracks the day Earnhardt was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Some feared that NASCAR’s soul would die with him. But it has raced on, steered by visionary promoters, the all-controlling France family (who founded the sport), and, above all, the next generation of drivers to stir fans’ passions: Dale Earnhardt, Jr., son of the NASCAR legend and now, like his father before him, the circuit’s most popular driver; Jeff Gordon, the beloved but oft-maligned outsider, bred from the cradle to be NASCAR’s winningest modern champion; and Kasey Kahne, a reluctant heartthrob whose confidence derives entirely from an accelerator pedal. Clarke also brings us inside NASCAR’s most triumphant and tragic dynasties: the Pettys, the Earnhardts, and the Allisons–and reveals how faith, family, and a deep-seated love of their sport helps them cope with grief and loss. Clarke shows NASCAR to be at a crossroads. In pursuit of a broader audience, NASCAR has severed its sponsorship ties to Big Tobacco, abandoned racetracks in small markets in favor of speedways near glitzy major cities, and welcomed Japan’s Toyota into a sport traditionally restricted to American-made sedans. As NASCAR races toward mass appeal, some suggest it is leaving its roots behind. To others, it is boldly extending its reach from the Southern workingman to every man, woman, and child in the world. Whether you’re one of the die-hard NASCAR faithful or just a casual follower, nobody brings you closer to the sport and business of big-time stock car racing than Liz Clarke. This book, like the phenomenon it profiles, really is One Helluva Ride.
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Publisher : Legacy of Smiles LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A Helluva Ride: How a Father-son Family Business Overcame Crisis to Achieve the American Dream written by and published by Legacy of Smiles LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly entertaining memoir and business book specifically designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs, family business members, and general readers to help find their passion and achieve their career goals.
Author : Tommy James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439142645
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Me, the Mob, and the Music written by Tommy James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational ’60s music memoir—part rock & roll fairytale, part mob epic—that “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas” (The Denver Post). Tommy James was the 60’s pop icon behind timeless hits like “Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” and more. These songs helped define the era, and they have been covered by artists ranging from Billy Idol to Tiffany to R.E.M. But just as compelling as the music itself is the life Tommy James lived while making it. In Me, the Mob, and the Music, James reveals his complex and sometimes terrifying relationship with Roulette Records and Morris Levy, the legendary Godfather of the music business. It is a fascinating portrait of this swaggering era of rock ‘n’ roll, when concerts were wild and the hits kept coming—while, just backstage, payola schemes and mafioso tactics were the norm.
Author : Chris Karsten
Publisher : Human & Rosseau
ISBN 13 : 9780798150286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Charlize written by Chris Karsten and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl Charlize Theron saw Darryl Hannah in Splash and she was convinced that she would make a better mermaid. Ever since, she has pursued her dream with single-minded obsession. Prize-winning author Chris Karsten traces Charlize's meteoric rise from a smallholding in South Africa to the pantheon of stars. Personal interviews with friends and family in South Africa and extensive research flesh out the life and career of this remarkable woman. Judging from the first 33 years of her life as revealed in this part-biography, Charlize will indeed one day be able to look back on her life and say: "This has been one helluva ride."
Author : Ryzin
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781798058336
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Helluva Confession: A Book of Anonymous Confessions written by Ryzin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to hear people's deepest, darkest secrets? Of course you have, everyone has! What is it that fascinates us about other people's dirty laundry? Sometimes people seek out confession to share the craziest things they have done, simply to get it off their chest. This book is intended to reveal those confessions they've never told... until NOW! RYZIN, a delusive self-proclaimed Reverend of Sin, went forward and opened his confessional to author this book, "HELLUVA CONFESSION" which is complete with true risqué tales graphically told by those who lived it with the perk and protection of staying completely anonymous! Now you can read about it all! Tales from all over the world! Did someone have an extramarital affair? Has someone done dirty deeds in public with their spouse? Did an individual have money troubles, and the embarrassing steps they took to fix them? This book tells ALL! If you're looking for the juiciest of confessions -- that is, admissions of the kinds of sins unearthed in your favorite erotica program or the stories you can hardly believe on the smuttiest of reality TV -- then you absolutely came to the right place! This book compiles some of the craziest, shocking, most obscene completely true stories you'll have to read to BELIEVE!
Author : Benita Eisler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324086X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman written by Benita Eisler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Author : Nonieqa Ramos
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
ISBN 13 : 1541577612
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary written by Nonieqa Ramos and published by Carolrhoda Lab& 8482. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms--complete with gritty characters and outrageous endeavors. With an honesty that's both hilarious and fearsome, slowly Macy reveals why she acts out, why she can't tell her incarcerated father that her mom's cheating on him, and why her best friend needs protection . . . the kind of protection that involves Macy's machete.
Author : Peggy Moreland
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1459210654
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Ride a Wild Heart written by Peggy Moreland and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy Pete Dugan never thought he’d see the woman whose beautiful face had haunted him ever since their brief, turbulent affair. Now he’d come face-to-face with Carol Benson again, but this time a secret lurked in her green eyes—a sadness he was determined to soothe... Now that Pete was back, with lingering looks and seductive touches, Carol had a heck of a time remembering she had secrets that needed to be kept. Still, her heart told her to lean on his broad shoulders once more. And she was helplessly falling in love...
Author : Kat Bastion
Publisher : Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion
ISBN 13 : 1957025026
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Irresistible 4th of July Comic Book Date written by Kat Bastion and published by Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple award-winning author Kat Bastion returns with the heartwarming final romantic comedy in the Comic Book Date Series... The Irresistible 4th of July Comic Book Date. Store owner Scarlett MacArthur teeters on a ladder in the Comic Book Portal’s stockroom. Attempting to right a disastrous weekend. Until the universe drops one last multifaceted straw. Strong and independent, she’s faced with being stuck and… vulnerable. The greater hurdle? Accepting help from a handsome new customer, Lo Chiang. Will her battered defenses reject an unexpected rescue? Or is exposing her fragile heart the perfect remedy? Can everyday superheroes make room for love?
Author : David Housel
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665700394
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)
Download or read book From the Backbooth at Chappy’s written by David Housel and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One never knows what the topic of discussion will be when taking a seat with the gentlemen in the Backbooth at Chappy’s Deli in Auburn, Alabama. The topics change daily, often several times within the same sitting. The conversation is broad and knows no bounds. Throughout the day, conservative, liberal, and even some middle-of-the-road friends gather for breakfast to chat about the news of the day or just their thoughts and feelings on certain subjects. Usually, the conversation is cordial and without rancor ... but not always. This book is a collection of the group’s recollections, hopes, and dreams. In addition to football, politics and religion, there are stories of friends and neighbors, and of people the gentlemen know only through the news media—mostly imperfect people in an imperfect world doing the best they can. Filled with Southern charm and keen insights, you’ll finish this humorous book convinced that the world would be better if we as a nation had more conversations like the men at Chappy’s.
Author : Carolyn Brown
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464216975
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Just a Cowboy and His Baby written by Carolyn Brown and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown sends readers on a wild ride in this enemies to lovers romance between a rugged rodeo cowboy and a fierce competitor who thinks it's time for a woman to take the crown. Gemma O'Donnell was incensed when she wasn't the first woman to win the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Championship Association) buckle for bronc riding. This year, she heads out on the PRCA ProRodeo Tour burning to be the second. First stop is Cody, Wyoming where her stiffest competition is Trace Coleman, who already has a jump on her. A tall, dark-haired cowboy with a sexy grin and a swagger, he doesn't really give a damn about the trophy belt buckle—he wants the purse to buy a ranch he has his eye on. He damn sure doesn't have time for a sassy bit of Irish baggage who can evidently ride anything with four legs and make anything with two legs want to take her to bed. Gemma wins a few; Trace wins a few. In the end they both qualify for the final cut in Las Vegas. But when it comes down to the wire, only one can win the bronc-riding competition and take home one helluva prize. But in this competition, it just might be loser takes all...
Author : Duane Wiltse
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595347223
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book written by Duane Wiltse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, but always genuine and fascinating, "Gittin' Western" opens a window into a lifestyle most of us have dreamed about but few dared to pursue. Heartily recommended." -Kathy Tyers, best-selling author of "Firebird Trilogy" 'Duane tells an engaging story in an authentic voice. Along the way you'll laugh, be surprised, and feel both joy and sorrow. You'll come to know the West, the embrace of its open spaces, and the dream that pulls him and his family in a fresh and vivid way." -Jenna Caplette, writing coach-www.justwrite.com At the age of thirty-five, author Duane Wiltse 'pushed all his chips into the pot" and left Michigan to pursue his goal of establishing a big game hunting business. Through forest fires, bear attacks, and runaway horses and mules-not to mention the elusive trophy bull elk, government bureaucracy, helpful New Mexico Indians, more than a few Tennessee rednecks, and the loss of his wife, Wiltse learns first-hand lessons of life and death. Wiltse's story reveals the complexities of a maturing man, father, and husband struggling to achieve a dream.
Author : Rob Thurman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147679359X
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Carniepunk: Painted Love written by Rob Thurman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rob Thurman, the New York Times bestselling author of the Cal Leandros, comes this wicked, mind-bending short story—from the Carniepunk urban fantasy anthology.
Author : Rachel Caine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476714150
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Carniepunk written by Rachel Caine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of urban fantasy stories that take place at carnivals. From vampires and creepy clowns to mermaids, Druids, and wisecracking Irish wolfhounds, you'll find out that carnivals aren't the healthiest types of places to hang out at....
Author : R.L. Kiser
Publisher : KiseSoft unInc.
ISBN 13 : 1301622567
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Educated Injun written by R.L. Kiser and published by KiseSoft unInc.. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Western Detective/Lawman Novel Don't miss this fun tale of an Indian US Marshal and his 6'2" cowboy partner against clever criminals in the old west. Hawk, a Harvard educated American Indian, and his 6'2" cowboy partner chase clever businessmen from the western desert to San Francisco to Denver and back again. On horseback, trains, and ships in the harbor they won't give up until they catch these nefarious criminals, but can it be done before they are shot and killed? Tyrone Narrowhawk - known as Hawk, raised by a powerful federal judge, educated at an eastern college, graduated with honors, law degree from prestigious Harvard University, a U.S. Marshal’s star, his wits, and a gun. Merle Johnson - a former Calvary Lieutenant sharp shooter turned cowboy just trying to make his way in life when circumstances turn him upside down. Judge Hostettler - a powerful man in Washington D.C and Denver society, given charge by the President of the United States over the lawless western territories. Steely-eyes - an intelligently cold, calculating killer, henchman for Dunston and company. Many others compete in this exciting tale of wits and gun battles in the old west. Reviews: **** Very Entertaining... I find this book to be very entertaining and full of action. It is also different! I enjoyed the Western style composure of this book and there is no dull moment. It keeps you in suspense! I plan to recommend it to my friends because I enjoyed it. ·· Tamarah ***** A good read with characters you like. I'd recommend it. ·· W.R. Masters **** I most enjoyed the fast paced, action driven storyline and the tongue-in-cheek banter between Merle and Hawk (and between Hawk and the judge that put him through college). Besides that, I got a kick out of Merle's nemesis, a certain shoulder cannon with, well, a kick. In summary, Educated Injun is action-packed, funny, clever, and entertaining. ·· Patricia Hamill on Goodreads
Author : Kent Meyers
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547400802
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Twisted Tree written by Kent Meyers and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “beautifully written” novel about a murder in small-town South Dakota explores “a haunted territory of regret, longing and guilt” (Jess Walter). Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the citizens of the windswept prairie town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this tragedy—the loss, the repercussions, and the secrets they carry—as one girl’s short life unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them are a supermarket clerk hiding the terrors of her past; an ex-priest who remembers a lost love; an abused caretaker exacting a long-awaited revenge; Hayley Jo’s best friend, who fed her addiction; and her father, channeling his grief in desperate and unexpected ways. As Hayley Jo’s murder recasts and reconnects these left-behind lives, her absence roots itself in the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways. One of the best contemporary writers on the American West, Kent Meyers takes us into the complexity of community regardless of landscape, and offers a tribute to the powerful effect one person’s life can have on everyone she knew. “Meyers’s small masterpiece deserves comparison to the work of Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Peter Matthiessen.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Like Russell Banks in The Sweet Hereafter, Kent Meyers spins out his intimate life stories from the hub of a small town tragedy and takes us into places we never thought we’d go.” —Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the Missing
