Author: Kevin Jenkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546238883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This book is a humorous, searing, and vivid account of the city through the eyes of a livery-car driver. The story is told through a series of first-person anecdotes and vignettes that paint a ten-month portrait of what its like to drive and experience New York City streets.
T-Plates & Black Chariots
Author: Kevin Jenkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546238883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This book is a humorous, searing, and vivid account of the city through the eyes of a livery-car driver. The story is told through a series of first-person anecdotes and vignettes that paint a ten-month portrait of what its like to drive and experience New York City streets.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546238883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This book is a humorous, searing, and vivid account of the city through the eyes of a livery-car driver. The story is told through a series of first-person anecdotes and vignettes that paint a ten-month portrait of what its like to drive and experience New York City streets.
The Chariot Makers
Author: Steve Matchett
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409137066
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Former F1 mechanic turned TV broadcaster Steve Matchett is trapped overnight in New York, in a fogbound JFK Airport with some fellow motor racing enthusiasts. With no sign of the fog letting up and a long twelve hours to get through, talk inevitably turns to Formula 1. During the course of the night, and fuelled by regular trips to the departure lounge bar, the three protagonists, drawing upon Matchett's encyclopaedic knowledge of life in the F1 pit lane, decide to piece together the perfect Formula 1 Grand Prix car... Starting with the monocoque (or chassis) and moving through the engine type, gearbox, exhaust, suspension and aerodynamics etc, no bolt is left unexamined in Matchett's comprehensive and detailed, technical expose of the inner workings of the fastest cars on the planet. In straightforward, clear and concise language, Matchett explains how the F1 teams have arrived at their current state-of-the-art designs; how, exactly, a Formula 1 car is put together.
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409137066
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Former F1 mechanic turned TV broadcaster Steve Matchett is trapped overnight in New York, in a fogbound JFK Airport with some fellow motor racing enthusiasts. With no sign of the fog letting up and a long twelve hours to get through, talk inevitably turns to Formula 1. During the course of the night, and fuelled by regular trips to the departure lounge bar, the three protagonists, drawing upon Matchett's encyclopaedic knowledge of life in the F1 pit lane, decide to piece together the perfect Formula 1 Grand Prix car... Starting with the monocoque (or chassis) and moving through the engine type, gearbox, exhaust, suspension and aerodynamics etc, no bolt is left unexamined in Matchett's comprehensive and detailed, technical expose of the inner workings of the fastest cars on the planet. In straightforward, clear and concise language, Matchett explains how the F1 teams have arrived at their current state-of-the-art designs; how, exactly, a Formula 1 car is put together.
Chariot
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Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Chariot
Author: Liz Cummings
Publisher: Lyra Vega Publishing
ISBN: 1777769027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
HOLLY JACK TRILOGY (Book Three of Three) The year is 2123, and life that was once taken for granted, now hangs by a loose thread of time space continuum. Holly Jack is back in this final showdown to stop an OrgAI woman from erasing hundreds of years of history on Earth. Holly travels to worlds that she no longer recognizes as her own. Can she untangle the damage before it seals the fate of billions of humans and beings in the universe to find her way home? Click here to see the trailer at HollyJack.com - https://hollyjack.com/trailers/trailertc/
Publisher: Lyra Vega Publishing
ISBN: 1777769027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
HOLLY JACK TRILOGY (Book Three of Three) The year is 2123, and life that was once taken for granted, now hangs by a loose thread of time space continuum. Holly Jack is back in this final showdown to stop an OrgAI woman from erasing hundreds of years of history on Earth. Holly travels to worlds that she no longer recognizes as her own. Can she untangle the damage before it seals the fate of billions of humans and beings in the universe to find her way home? Click here to see the trailer at HollyJack.com - https://hollyjack.com/trailers/trailertc/
The Broken Chariot
Author: Alan Sillitoe
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504034481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This postwar British coming-of-age novel questions the foundations of society and self. Class and identity are lifelong struggles for Herbert Thurgarton-Strang, who was born in India but sent away at age seven to a boarding school in England. As an adolescent, Herbert loathes British weather and boxing—despite his penchant for camping and his brutality in the ring—and his only solace is imagining a violent revenge on his parents for “abandoning” him. As Herbert grows into an angry teen and World War II breaks out, he channels his rage into a passion for the Army Cadet Force. Then a book about escaped prisoners of war falls into his lap, and Herbert begins to daydream about running away. At the age of seventeen, the rebellious young man finally breaks free from school and heads straight into the industrial slums of Nottingham. There, Herbert discards his upper-class accent and reinvents himself as “Bert Gedling”—a working-class lathe man, a drinker, a womanizer, and eventually a soldier. During his tour of duty, Bert continues to adapt his character to the world around him, and when he returns to England he transforms once again—but this time the fictions he constructs will follow the truth of his heart. From the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, The Broken Chariot explores work, class, life, and love in postwar England.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504034481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This postwar British coming-of-age novel questions the foundations of society and self. Class and identity are lifelong struggles for Herbert Thurgarton-Strang, who was born in India but sent away at age seven to a boarding school in England. As an adolescent, Herbert loathes British weather and boxing—despite his penchant for camping and his brutality in the ring—and his only solace is imagining a violent revenge on his parents for “abandoning” him. As Herbert grows into an angry teen and World War II breaks out, he channels his rage into a passion for the Army Cadet Force. Then a book about escaped prisoners of war falls into his lap, and Herbert begins to daydream about running away. At the age of seventeen, the rebellious young man finally breaks free from school and heads straight into the industrial slums of Nottingham. There, Herbert discards his upper-class accent and reinvents himself as “Bert Gedling”—a working-class lathe man, a drinker, a womanizer, and eventually a soldier. During his tour of duty, Bert continues to adapt his character to the world around him, and when he returns to England he transforms once again—but this time the fictions he constructs will follow the truth of his heart. From the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, The Broken Chariot explores work, class, life, and love in postwar England.
Ezekiel's Chariot
Author: Dana Redfield
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1612832318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Mindy, who has forgotten that dreams can come true, meets Jason, a know-it-all kid who says he came back to Earth to get Mindy's life on track. A thought-provoking and humorous exploration of suburbia, mid-life crisis, despair, hope, and true love against all odds, Ezekiel's Chariot will become a well-worn favorite on your shelf.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1612832318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Mindy, who has forgotten that dreams can come true, meets Jason, a know-it-all kid who says he came back to Earth to get Mindy's life on track. A thought-provoking and humorous exploration of suburbia, mid-life crisis, despair, hope, and true love against all odds, Ezekiel's Chariot will become a well-worn favorite on your shelf.
Prodigals
Author: Sarah Beth Childers
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820364657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Prodigals, a memoir inessays, explores the life of Sarah Beth Childers'swildly creative brother, who committed suicide at twenty-two, and her life with him and after him, through the lens of the Biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. This book examines the ways Childers's brother's story was both universal and uniquely Appalachian. While the archetype of the prodigal son carries all its assumed baggage, the Appalachian setting of Prodigals brings its own influences.Childers foregrounds the Appalachian landscape in her narrative, depicting its hardwood forests, winding roads, mining-stained creeks and rivers, hill-clinging goats and cows, neighborhoods and trailer parks tucked between mountains. The Childers family's fervent religious faith and resistance to medical intervention seemsnormal in this world, as doestheir conflicting desires to both escape from Appalachia and to stay forever at home. Weaving in the stories of other famous prodigals, including Branwell Brontë, the alcoholic brother of the Brontë sisters; Jimmy Swaggart, the fallen televangelist;Robert Crumb, her brother's beloved author of sexist and racist comic books; and even herself, Childers examines the role of the prodigalwithin the intimate tapestry of family life and beyond-to its larger sociocultural meanings.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820364657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Prodigals, a memoir inessays, explores the life of Sarah Beth Childers'swildly creative brother, who committed suicide at twenty-two, and her life with him and after him, through the lens of the Biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. This book examines the ways Childers's brother's story was both universal and uniquely Appalachian. While the archetype of the prodigal son carries all its assumed baggage, the Appalachian setting of Prodigals brings its own influences.Childers foregrounds the Appalachian landscape in her narrative, depicting its hardwood forests, winding roads, mining-stained creeks and rivers, hill-clinging goats and cows, neighborhoods and trailer parks tucked between mountains. The Childers family's fervent religious faith and resistance to medical intervention seemsnormal in this world, as doestheir conflicting desires to both escape from Appalachia and to stay forever at home. Weaving in the stories of other famous prodigals, including Branwell Brontë, the alcoholic brother of the Brontë sisters; Jimmy Swaggart, the fallen televangelist;Robert Crumb, her brother's beloved author of sexist and racist comic books; and even herself, Childers examines the role of the prodigalwithin the intimate tapestry of family life and beyond-to its larger sociocultural meanings.
Time's Winged Chariot
Author: Ian J. Kennedy
Publisher: Ian J. Kennedy
ISBN: 1393605427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Meet John Green John would be happy to be left alone to get through life, but the Fates have other ideas. John is the man who will discover the secret of time travel (accidentally)! John regards himself as a fairly ordinary run-of-the-mill inventor, but those who know him best disagree with that assesment. Follow John's story as he tries to live his 'ordinary' life whilst coping with events ranging from the extraordinary to the mundane.
Publisher: Ian J. Kennedy
ISBN: 1393605427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Meet John Green John would be happy to be left alone to get through life, but the Fates have other ideas. John is the man who will discover the secret of time travel (accidentally)! John regards himself as a fairly ordinary run-of-the-mill inventor, but those who know him best disagree with that assesment. Follow John's story as he tries to live his 'ordinary' life whilst coping with events ranging from the extraordinary to the mundane.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Author: Jackie Lynn
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429988207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A spiritual and riveting follow-up to Jacob's Ladder, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is ultimately a story about redemption, and the chariots that carry each of us from hardship and darkness, to understanding. When her husband left her for a younger woman, Rose Franklin bought a camper and started traveling. Eventually, she put down roots in Shady Grove, a campsite along the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Arkansas, where she has lived for almost two years now. After helping to solve two murders in the area, Rose is now entangled in the murder of a young man from South Dakota—a murder which Chariot, a young woman at the Shady Grove campground, stands accused. As Rose tries to help her friend Chariot out from under the shadow of suspicion and solve the murder, she also struggles with unresolved maternal instincts, and her own difficult choices.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429988207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A spiritual and riveting follow-up to Jacob's Ladder, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is ultimately a story about redemption, and the chariots that carry each of us from hardship and darkness, to understanding. When her husband left her for a younger woman, Rose Franklin bought a camper and started traveling. Eventually, she put down roots in Shady Grove, a campsite along the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Arkansas, where she has lived for almost two years now. After helping to solve two murders in the area, Rose is now entangled in the murder of a young man from South Dakota—a murder which Chariot, a young woman at the Shady Grove campground, stands accused. As Rose tries to help her friend Chariot out from under the shadow of suspicion and solve the murder, she also struggles with unresolved maternal instincts, and her own difficult choices.
We Were There but Where?
Author: Arlene Blessing
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1477223665
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Seasoned traveler Arlene Blessing has roughed it in a tent in Montana, squeezed an old bus through a narrow tunnel in the Black Hills, shopped in Londons Piccadilly Square, and spotted a humpback whale in Alaska. In her amusing and educational travelogue, Blessing combines interesting historical facts with entertaining personal anecdotes that chronicle her many trips within the United States and around the world with family, friends, and acquaintances. Blessing begins with stories about her travels to Yellowstone, Montana, South Dakota, and beyond as she and her family set out to satiate their curiosity about the world outside the comforts of their own home. As she continues with details about her travels outside the border, Blessing provides a glimpse into her often humorous experiences as she toured Hell in George Town, Grand Cayman; crossed the Taieri Gorge in New Zealand aboard a narrow gauge train; and bravely cruised the Mexican Riviera after a tsunami in Japan. We Were There But Where? shares the experiences and history surrounding a veteran traveler as she embarked on remarkable adventures in the United States and beyond.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1477223665
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Seasoned traveler Arlene Blessing has roughed it in a tent in Montana, squeezed an old bus through a narrow tunnel in the Black Hills, shopped in Londons Piccadilly Square, and spotted a humpback whale in Alaska. In her amusing and educational travelogue, Blessing combines interesting historical facts with entertaining personal anecdotes that chronicle her many trips within the United States and around the world with family, friends, and acquaintances. Blessing begins with stories about her travels to Yellowstone, Montana, South Dakota, and beyond as she and her family set out to satiate their curiosity about the world outside the comforts of their own home. As she continues with details about her travels outside the border, Blessing provides a glimpse into her often humorous experiences as she toured Hell in George Town, Grand Cayman; crossed the Taieri Gorge in New Zealand aboard a narrow gauge train; and bravely cruised the Mexican Riviera after a tsunami in Japan. We Were There But Where? shares the experiences and history surrounding a veteran traveler as she embarked on remarkable adventures in the United States and beyond.