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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 : 249 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 2010-02-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, after five hardcover printings, Tommy James’s wild and entertaining true story of his career—part rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epic—that “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas” (The Denver Post). Everyone knows the hits: “Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” All of these songs, which epitomize great pop music of the late 1960s, are now widely used in television and film and have been covered by a diverse group of artists from Billy Idol to Tiffany to R.E.M. Just as compelling as the music itself is the life Tommy James lived while making it. James tells the incredible story, revealing his complex and sometimes terrifying relationship with Roulette Records and Morris Levy, the legendary Godfather of the music business. Me, the Mob, and the Music is a fascinating portrait of this swaggering, wildly creative era of rock ’n’ roll, when the hits kept coming and payola and the strong-arm tactics of the Mob were the norm, and what it was like, for better or worse, to be in the middle of it.
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 : 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 : 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: Told with laugh-out-loud humor and take-no-prisoners frankness, this is a story of incredible resilience amid the dangers and chaos of poverty, prejudice, and personal demons.
Author : Benita Eisler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324086X
Total Pages : 497 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 497 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 : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673314
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Gary Paulsen written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, including bestsellers Nightjohn, Soldier's Heart, and Woods Runner. From his trenchant prose in The Rifle and The Foxman to the witty escapades of Harris and Me and Zero to Sixty, Paulsen crafts stories with impressive range. The tender scenes in The Quilt and A Christmas Sonata speak to his empathy for children, with characters who endure the same hardships that marred his own early life. This literary companion introduces readers to his life and work. A-to-Z entries explore themes such as alcoholism, coming of age, slavery, survival, and war. A glossary defines terms unique to his work. Appendices provide related historical references, writing, art, and research topics.
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 : Joel D. Howell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472033301
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Washtenaw County Bike Rides written by Joel D. Howell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for anyone--newcomer to experienced--who wants to go bike riding on the roads of Washtenaw County
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 : Paul Howard
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553658175
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Eat, Sleep, Ride written by Paul Howard and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2010 by Mainstream Pub. Co. as: Two wheels on my wagon: a bicycle adventure in the Wild West.
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 : Rachel Caine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476714339
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 star-studded urban fantasy anthology starring bestselling authors Rachel Caine, Jennifer Estep, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, and Rob Thurman, and including Delilah S. Dawson, Kelly Gay, Mark Henry, Hillary Jacques, Jackie Kessler, Kelly Meding, Allison Pang, Nicole D. Peeler, and Jaye Wells, whose stories explore the creepy, mysterious, and, yes, sometimes magical world of traveling carnivals. Come one, come all! The Carniepunk Midway promises you every thrill and chill a traveling carnival can provide. But fear not! Urban fantasy’s biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and dangerous world. . . . RACHEL CAINE’s vampires aren’t child’s play, as a naïve teen discovers when her heart leads her far, far astray in “The Cold Girl.” With “Parlor Tricks,” JENNIFER ESTEP pits Gin Blanco, the Elemental Assassin, against the Wheel of Death and some dangerously creepy clowns. SEANAN McGUIRE narrates a poignant, ethereal tale of a mysterious carnival that returns to a dangerous town after twenty years in “Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea.” KEVIN HEARNE’s Iron Druid and his wisecracking Irish wolfhound discover in “The Demon Barker of Wheat Street” that the impossibly wholesome sounding Kansas Wheat Festival is actually not a healthy place to hang out. With an eerie, unpredictable twist, ROB THURMAN reveals the fate of a psychopath stalking two young carnies in “Painted Love.”
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
