Author: Harry M. Anderson Jr.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1641408103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The year 1964 was the year horsepower began to rule Detroit! It's the summer of 1964...the Motown sound, hot rod tunes, hot R&B, Beatle-mania, ice-cold Coca Cola, drive-in movies, 007, burger joints, and the brink of Vietnam! Adam Knight, a high school graduate from Detroit's Southwestern High School, gets a brand new 1964 Pontiac Royal Bobcat GTO as a graduation gift . With his friends, girlfriend, and the sounds of rock and roll music, Adam brings John Delorean's creation to full circle at the drag strip and movie and burger drive-ins!
The GTO Kid
Author: Harry M. Anderson Jr.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1641408103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The year 1964 was the year horsepower began to rule Detroit! It's the summer of 1964...the Motown sound, hot rod tunes, hot R&B, Beatle-mania, ice-cold Coca Cola, drive-in movies, 007, burger joints, and the brink of Vietnam! Adam Knight, a high school graduate from Detroit's Southwestern High School, gets a brand new 1964 Pontiac Royal Bobcat GTO as a graduation gift . With his friends, girlfriend, and the sounds of rock and roll music, Adam brings John Delorean's creation to full circle at the drag strip and movie and burger drive-ins!
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1641408103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The year 1964 was the year horsepower began to rule Detroit! It's the summer of 1964...the Motown sound, hot rod tunes, hot R&B, Beatle-mania, ice-cold Coca Cola, drive-in movies, 007, burger joints, and the brink of Vietnam! Adam Knight, a high school graduate from Detroit's Southwestern High School, gets a brand new 1964 Pontiac Royal Bobcat GTO as a graduation gift . With his friends, girlfriend, and the sounds of rock and roll music, Adam brings John Delorean's creation to full circle at the drag strip and movie and burger drive-ins!
GTO Volume 1
Author: Tohru Fujisawa
Publisher: TokyoPop
ISBN: 9781931514934
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old virgin and ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a hair-trigger temper. His goal: to be the greatest hight school teacher in the world! This is the story of how this former motorcycle gang member becomes a teacher to make a difference. Using his street smarts to deal with colleagues, students and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he too has many lessons to be learned.
Publisher: TokyoPop
ISBN: 9781931514934
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old virgin and ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a hair-trigger temper. His goal: to be the greatest hight school teacher in the world! This is the story of how this former motorcycle gang member becomes a teacher to make a difference. Using his street smarts to deal with colleagues, students and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he too has many lessons to be learned.
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka 2
Author: Toru Fujisawa
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636992552
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
He's got his foot in the door… now, can he squeeze his head through it? Eikichi Onizuka has pummeled through his teacher training only to be faced with the mammoth task of actually landing a teaching position. But with the help of a sledgehammer, an eighteen-wheel big rig… and his friends, he might just be able to pull it off. This content is from a former localization of this work and may contain phrases or scenes which were and are still offensive. Rather than omit this content, we have decided to present it in its original form to harbor conversation and growth among the community. Kodansha remains committed to the distribution of compelling stories worldwide, which serve as a lens through which we may view various communities.
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636992552
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
He's got his foot in the door… now, can he squeeze his head through it? Eikichi Onizuka has pummeled through his teacher training only to be faced with the mammoth task of actually landing a teaching position. But with the help of a sledgehammer, an eighteen-wheel big rig… and his friends, he might just be able to pull it off. This content is from a former localization of this work and may contain phrases or scenes which were and are still offensive. Rather than omit this content, we have decided to present it in its original form to harbor conversation and growth among the community. Kodansha remains committed to the distribution of compelling stories worldwide, which serve as a lens through which we may view various communities.
The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO
Author: Tom Glatch
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760359946
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO gives you a year-by-year, model-by-model exploration of the world's first muscle car, all in full color photography, most of which has never been published. When Pontiac created the original muscle car—the GTO—it reshaped the automotive world like a four-inch piston going through a three-inch cylinder bore. Everything changed the moment John Zachery DeLorean and his crew of hot-rodding miscreants bolted a big engine into a smaller car and created the 1964 GTO. Make no mistake: DeLorean and his partners in crime were genuine outlaws. The GTO broke so many of General Motors' corporate rules that the people responsible should have been fired. And they would have been, except the car was a hit. The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO explores every iteration of the first car created specifically for baby boomers. With rare photography from the archives of Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, this book is the complete resource for fans of of the world’s first muscle car.
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760359946
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO gives you a year-by-year, model-by-model exploration of the world's first muscle car, all in full color photography, most of which has never been published. When Pontiac created the original muscle car—the GTO—it reshaped the automotive world like a four-inch piston going through a three-inch cylinder bore. Everything changed the moment John Zachery DeLorean and his crew of hot-rodding miscreants bolted a big engine into a smaller car and created the 1964 GTO. Make no mistake: DeLorean and his partners in crime were genuine outlaws. The GTO broke so many of General Motors' corporate rules that the people responsible should have been fired. And they would have been, except the car was a hit. The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO explores every iteration of the first car created specifically for baby boomers. With rare photography from the archives of Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, this book is the complete resource for fans of of the world’s first muscle car.
Ride the Serpent
Author: Jerry Depinto
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557277019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Ride the Serpent is a story of life on the front lines in Mid America during the late 1960's for a group of Chicago area teenagers. Race riots, drugs, Vietnam War, the Chicago mob, suicides, muscle cars, sexual passion, the Democratic Convention riots, fight clubs, Hippies counter culture and all that teens face growing up. Amazingly the kids deal with all this in the spirit that defines youth. Ride the Serpent is fast paced filled with humor, history and romance. You will learn what life was like when America was growing up and socially throwing up.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557277019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Ride the Serpent is a story of life on the front lines in Mid America during the late 1960's for a group of Chicago area teenagers. Race riots, drugs, Vietnam War, the Chicago mob, suicides, muscle cars, sexual passion, the Democratic Convention riots, fight clubs, Hippies counter culture and all that teens face growing up. Amazingly the kids deal with all this in the spirit that defines youth. Ride the Serpent is fast paced filled with humor, history and romance. You will learn what life was like when America was growing up and socially throwing up.
Bumpy Road
Author: Sylvia Townsend
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149682086X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Bumpy Road: The Making, Flop, and Revival of “Two-Lane Blacktop” chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of director Monte Hellman’s 1971 existentialist car-racing movie. Hellman’s unconventional choices for the film included casting three nonactors—musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, as well as his girlfriend, Laurie Bird—in lead roles; shooting the movie in sequence from west to east on Route 66; and refusing to show the actors the full script, instead giving each his or her lines for the day. Before its release, Esquire put the film on its cover as the magazine’s choice for movie of the year and printed the entire screenplay, leading moviegoers to expect a crowd-pleaser. Audiences anticipated that Two-Lane Blacktop would be an action-packed car-racing movie and were disappointed when nobody won or even finished the race, no one got the girl, the two leading men barely spoke, and the leading lady was foul-mouthed and promiscuous. Universal Studios Chairman Lew Wasserman found the film subversive and refused to release it on video. Years after it flopped, however, the movie soared in stature, and it is now revered by such contemporary directors as Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater. It was included in the National Film Registry and was released on DVD and Blu-ray by the prestigious Criterion Collection and the highly regarded Masters of Cinema series. Author Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive examination of the film, its reception, and the resurgence of interest it has more recently generated. Interviewing individuals involved in and influenced by the film, including James Taylor, Richard Linklater, Gary Kurtz, and scriptwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, Townsend provides an inside look at the cult classic.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149682086X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Bumpy Road: The Making, Flop, and Revival of “Two-Lane Blacktop” chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of director Monte Hellman’s 1971 existentialist car-racing movie. Hellman’s unconventional choices for the film included casting three nonactors—musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, as well as his girlfriend, Laurie Bird—in lead roles; shooting the movie in sequence from west to east on Route 66; and refusing to show the actors the full script, instead giving each his or her lines for the day. Before its release, Esquire put the film on its cover as the magazine’s choice for movie of the year and printed the entire screenplay, leading moviegoers to expect a crowd-pleaser. Audiences anticipated that Two-Lane Blacktop would be an action-packed car-racing movie and were disappointed when nobody won or even finished the race, no one got the girl, the two leading men barely spoke, and the leading lady was foul-mouthed and promiscuous. Universal Studios Chairman Lew Wasserman found the film subversive and refused to release it on video. Years after it flopped, however, the movie soared in stature, and it is now revered by such contemporary directors as Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater. It was included in the National Film Registry and was released on DVD and Blu-ray by the prestigious Criterion Collection and the highly regarded Masters of Cinema series. Author Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive examination of the film, its reception, and the resurgence of interest it has more recently generated. Interviewing individuals involved in and influenced by the film, including James Taylor, Richard Linklater, Gary Kurtz, and scriptwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, Townsend provides an inside look at the cult classic.
Crash Course
Author: Paul Ingrassia
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812980751
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
“A definitive account . . . It’s hard to imagine anyone better than Paul Ingrassia to ‘ride shotgun’ on a journey through the sometimes triumphant, often turbulent, history of U.S. automaking. . . . [A] wealth of amusing, astonishing and enlightening nuggets.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit’s boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit’s self-destruction inevitable? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry—the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration’s stake in Detroit’s recovery—Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America? With an updated Afterword by the author Praise for Crash Course “In order to understand just how much of a mess it was—not to mention how it got that way and how, if at all, it can be cleaned up—you really need to read Crash Course.”—The Washinton Post “Ingrassia tells Detroit’s story with economy, vigour and restrained fury.”—The Economist “A delightful mix of history and first-person reporting . . . Employing superb storytelling skills, Ingrassia explains in head-shaking detail the elements of a wholly avoidable collision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812980751
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
“A definitive account . . . It’s hard to imagine anyone better than Paul Ingrassia to ‘ride shotgun’ on a journey through the sometimes triumphant, often turbulent, history of U.S. automaking. . . . [A] wealth of amusing, astonishing and enlightening nuggets.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit’s boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit’s self-destruction inevitable? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry—the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration’s stake in Detroit’s recovery—Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America? With an updated Afterword by the author Praise for Crash Course “In order to understand just how much of a mess it was—not to mention how it got that way and how, if at all, it can be cleaned up—you really need to read Crash Course.”—The Washinton Post “Ingrassia tells Detroit’s story with economy, vigour and restrained fury.”—The Economist “A delightful mix of history and first-person reporting . . . Employing superb storytelling skills, Ingrassia explains in head-shaking detail the elements of a wholly avoidable collision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Dalton's Undoing
Author: RaeAnne Thayne
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488032181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Return to Cold Creek in a heartwarming story of love and family… He was known as a major player who'd left a swath of broken hearts across the Teton Valley. Yet when single mother Jenny Boyer saw the tenderness in Seth Dalton's eyes when he looked at her children—not to mention her—it was impossible for her to believe it was all a game. She was new to this small town, a school principal who needed to be respected. The last man she should be getting involved with was the Hunk of Cold Creek! But every time Seth came near, Jenny could feel herself falling…like all of the women who'd come before her. So why did she hope that her story would have a different ending—as in, happily ever after? Originally published in 2006.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488032181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Return to Cold Creek in a heartwarming story of love and family… He was known as a major player who'd left a swath of broken hearts across the Teton Valley. Yet when single mother Jenny Boyer saw the tenderness in Seth Dalton's eyes when he looked at her children—not to mention her—it was impossible for her to believe it was all a game. She was new to this small town, a school principal who needed to be respected. The last man she should be getting involved with was the Hunk of Cold Creek! But every time Seth came near, Jenny could feel herself falling…like all of the women who'd come before her. So why did she hope that her story would have a different ending—as in, happily ever after? Originally published in 2006.
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569766800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Pamela Des Barres spent the sexual revolution on the ramparts as the celebrated "queen of the groupies" and chronicled her adventures with the high priests of rock in her best seller I'm With the Band. Affectionate, subversive, and funny, it was hailed by The New York Times as representing "something honorable and loving ... about the sexual honesty of modern women." It became an underground classic, an emblematic memoir of the 1960s generation.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569766800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Pamela Des Barres spent the sexual revolution on the ramparts as the celebrated "queen of the groupies" and chronicled her adventures with the high priests of rock in her best seller I'm With the Band. Affectionate, subversive, and funny, it was hailed by The New York Times as representing "something honorable and loving ... about the sexual honesty of modern women." It became an underground classic, an emblematic memoir of the 1960s generation.
Motherless Child
Author: Glen Hirshberg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765337452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Fleeing the families they might unwittingly harm after being transformed into vampires by a mysterious musician they once idolized, Sophie and Natalie prepare for a violent showdown with their enemy, who uses his adoring fan base to counter their efforts.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765337452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Fleeing the families they might unwittingly harm after being transformed into vampires by a mysterious musician they once idolized, Sophie and Natalie prepare for a violent showdown with their enemy, who uses his adoring fan base to counter their efforts.