Author: Clara Wood
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Dreams either come true or come crashing down around you. Delilah Carson has been working her whole life to become the next big country singer and she won’t let anything get in her way. She only needs a starting point to launch her career. Micah Harris is the Vice President of the Blood Brothers Motorcycle Club and is a man who doesn't take no for an answer no matter who it is. When Delilah sets up a gig at the local bar the last thing she has on her mind is dating, but that is the first thing on Micah’s mind when he sees her. An unstoppable force is on a collision course with an immovable object and neither knows just how much their worlds are about to change.
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Author: Isabel Quintero
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052555341X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052555341X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.
Beneath a Ruthless Sun
Author: Gilbert King
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399183426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags." --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a "husky Negro" did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked away without trial. But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies. Bit by bit, the unspeakable truths behind a conspiracy that shocked a community into silence begin to surface. Beneath a Ruthless Sun tells a powerful, page-turning story rooted in the fears that rippled through the South as integration began to take hold, sparking a surge of virulent racism that savaged the vulnerable, debased the powerful, and roils our own times still.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399183426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags." --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a "husky Negro" did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked away without trial. But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies. Bit by bit, the unspeakable truths behind a conspiracy that shocked a community into silence begin to surface. Beneath a Ruthless Sun tells a powerful, page-turning story rooted in the fears that rippled through the South as integration began to take hold, sparking a surge of virulent racism that savaged the vulnerable, debased the powerful, and roils our own times still.
The Immortal Class
Author: Travis Hugh Culley
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 0375506659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Travis Hugh Culley came to Chicago to work and live as an artist. He knew he'd have to struggle, but he found that his struggle meant more than hard work and a taste for poverty. In becoming a bike messenger, he found a sense of community and fulfillment and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists. He rode like a postmodern cowboy across the city's landscape; he passed like a shadow through its soaring office towers; he soared like a falcon through the roaring chaos of the multilayered streets of Chicago. He became an invisible man in society, yet at the same time its most intimate observer. In one of the most dangerous jobs on dry land, he found freedom. In The Immortal Class, Culley takes us in-side the heart and soul of an urban icon the bicycle messenger. In describing his own history and those of his peers, he evokes a classic American maverick, deeply woven into the fabric of society from the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilege yet always resolutely, exuberantly outside. And he celebrates a culture that eschews the motorized vehicle: the cult of human power. The Immortal Class, Culley's vivid evocation of a bicycle messenger's experience and philosophy, sheds a compelling light on the way human beings relate to one another and to the cities we inhabit. Travis Hugh Culley's voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclist's life on the street.
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 0375506659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Travis Hugh Culley came to Chicago to work and live as an artist. He knew he'd have to struggle, but he found that his struggle meant more than hard work and a taste for poverty. In becoming a bike messenger, he found a sense of community and fulfillment and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists. He rode like a postmodern cowboy across the city's landscape; he passed like a shadow through its soaring office towers; he soared like a falcon through the roaring chaos of the multilayered streets of Chicago. He became an invisible man in society, yet at the same time its most intimate observer. In one of the most dangerous jobs on dry land, he found freedom. In The Immortal Class, Culley takes us in-side the heart and soul of an urban icon the bicycle messenger. In describing his own history and those of his peers, he evokes a classic American maverick, deeply woven into the fabric of society from the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilege yet always resolutely, exuberantly outside. And he celebrates a culture that eschews the motorized vehicle: the cult of human power. The Immortal Class, Culley's vivid evocation of a bicycle messenger's experience and philosophy, sheds a compelling light on the way human beings relate to one another and to the cities we inhabit. Travis Hugh Culley's voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclist's life on the street.
A Biker's Guide to the Open Road
Author: Penny Powers
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423609094
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Dreaming of hot pie and coffee at a favorite back road diner?Know what it's like to fix a bike with bungee cords and electrician's tape?Been to every smoky roadside bar between here and Sturgis?A side-cracking companion volume to A Biker's Guide to the Open Road: Ride it Like You Stole It, this brand new collection of biker wisdom kicks it up with a hundred miles worth of new quotes and quips, plenty of slick black wisdom, and intoxicating humor that goes down smooth after a long day on the highway: There should always be more miles on your bike than your car. The five food groups of motorcycling: gas, oil, nicotine, caffeine, and beer. Speed costs money. How fast is your wallet? In motorcycling, the good guys have names like Pig, Grizzly, Horseface, and Slammer. If you want to be treated like a badass, you have to BE a badass. If you're trying to BE a badass, don't be surprised at how people treat you. The bond between bikers has little to do with motorcycles-its beer. Never stop a fistfight unless it's getting too close to the bikes.No self-respecting biker should be without a copy of A Biker's Guide to the Open Road: Ride it Like You Stole It in their saddlebag.Penny Powers co-wrote Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On: A Biker's Guide to Life, also published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher, with Chuck Hayes. She rides a 1993 Harley FX Low Rider, teaches nursing at South Dakota State University, and likes to raise peafowl. Powers lives in South Dakota.Chuck Hays has spent the past twenty years as a journalist and writer. He is currently finishing a PhD at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches newspaper and magazine writing. He divides his time between Iowa and South Dakota. His 1989 Harley-Davidson Sportster has been ridden into the ground and rebuilt several times, but he still refuses to buy a larger bike.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423609094
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Dreaming of hot pie and coffee at a favorite back road diner?Know what it's like to fix a bike with bungee cords and electrician's tape?Been to every smoky roadside bar between here and Sturgis?A side-cracking companion volume to A Biker's Guide to the Open Road: Ride it Like You Stole It, this brand new collection of biker wisdom kicks it up with a hundred miles worth of new quotes and quips, plenty of slick black wisdom, and intoxicating humor that goes down smooth after a long day on the highway: There should always be more miles on your bike than your car. The five food groups of motorcycling: gas, oil, nicotine, caffeine, and beer. Speed costs money. How fast is your wallet? In motorcycling, the good guys have names like Pig, Grizzly, Horseface, and Slammer. If you want to be treated like a badass, you have to BE a badass. If you're trying to BE a badass, don't be surprised at how people treat you. The bond between bikers has little to do with motorcycles-its beer. Never stop a fistfight unless it's getting too close to the bikes.No self-respecting biker should be without a copy of A Biker's Guide to the Open Road: Ride it Like You Stole It in their saddlebag.Penny Powers co-wrote Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On: A Biker's Guide to Life, also published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher, with Chuck Hayes. She rides a 1993 Harley FX Low Rider, teaches nursing at South Dakota State University, and likes to raise peafowl. Powers lives in South Dakota.Chuck Hays has spent the past twenty years as a journalist and writer. He is currently finishing a PhD at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches newspaper and magazine writing. He divides his time between Iowa and South Dakota. His 1989 Harley-Davidson Sportster has been ridden into the ground and rebuilt several times, but he still refuses to buy a larger bike.
A Biker’s Secret
Author: Clara Wood
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Dreams either come true or come crashing down around you. Delilah Carson has been working her whole life to become the next big country singer and she won’t let anything get in her way. She only needs a starting point to launch her career. Micah Harris is the Vice President of the Blood Brothers Motorcycle Club and is a man who doesn't take no for an answer no matter who it is. When Delilah sets up a gig at the local bar the last thing she has on her mind is dating, but that is the first thing on Micah’s mind when he sees her. An unstoppable force is on a collision course with an immovable object and neither knows just how much their worlds are about to change.
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Dreams either come true or come crashing down around you. Delilah Carson has been working her whole life to become the next big country singer and she won’t let anything get in her way. She only needs a starting point to launch her career. Micah Harris is the Vice President of the Blood Brothers Motorcycle Club and is a man who doesn't take no for an answer no matter who it is. When Delilah sets up a gig at the local bar the last thing she has on her mind is dating, but that is the first thing on Micah’s mind when he sees her. An unstoppable force is on a collision course with an immovable object and neither knows just how much their worlds are about to change.
A Biker’s Trust
Author: Clara Wood
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A chance discovery has Zoe Davis caught in a world she never thought she'd ever be in. Zoe Davis had just gone into the backyard to let the dog out for the morning, not expecting to find a half-dead man beneath her children's jungle gym. She doesn't know what stops her from calling the police, but beneath his biker leathers and the dried blood, the single mother thinks she can see a man on the verge of giving up. Sending her children to stay with their grandmother for a few days she gives over her home to looking after the mysterious and handsome young man. She gets nothing out of him at first but his name, Mason, and the fact that his club members want him dead. But over time he opens up to the kind, beautiful woman who took him in, telling her his regrets and pleading with her to not get involved. But Zoe won't let him go, not until he's well enough to take care of himself. She's been lonely for so long it's nice to have a man in her home to make her smile and to look after. But will she regret her decision when the fury of the local bikers descends upon her small neighbourhood?
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A chance discovery has Zoe Davis caught in a world she never thought she'd ever be in. Zoe Davis had just gone into the backyard to let the dog out for the morning, not expecting to find a half-dead man beneath her children's jungle gym. She doesn't know what stops her from calling the police, but beneath his biker leathers and the dried blood, the single mother thinks she can see a man on the verge of giving up. Sending her children to stay with their grandmother for a few days she gives over her home to looking after the mysterious and handsome young man. She gets nothing out of him at first but his name, Mason, and the fact that his club members want him dead. But over time he opens up to the kind, beautiful woman who took him in, telling her his regrets and pleading with her to not get involved. But Zoe won't let him go, not until he's well enough to take care of himself. She's been lonely for so long it's nice to have a man in her home to make her smile and to look after. But will she regret her decision when the fury of the local bikers descends upon her small neighbourhood?
Biker at the Altar
Author: Claire St. Rose
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Biker at the Altar is book 2 of the Iron Claws MC trilogy. Book 3, Bad Boy at the Altar, is available everywhere now! I SWORE OFF WOMEN LONG AGO. BUT IT MIGHT BE TIME TO BREAK MY PROMISE. Because I haven't felt hunger like this since my first love died. Ariana might look untouched and innocent… But by the time I'll done, she'll be utterly wrecked. Thoroughly ruined. And pregnant with my baby. Years ago, as I put the dirt on the coffin of my dead old lady, I made myself a promise: Never again. I'd kept that oath in the years since. No emotions. Nothing permanent. One. Night. Only. But that was before Ariana waltzed into my life. She might hate me – but I just don't give a damn. Because she's everything I've always wanted. And I'm not gonna rest until I have her. Not just for a taste. Not just for a night. No, this one needs to be long, slow, and special. I want to savor breaking her down. Because once she's putty in my hands, I'm going to drag her to the altar. I don't just want a woman. I want a wife. A baby. A future. And she's going to give me all of that… Or else.
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Biker at the Altar is book 2 of the Iron Claws MC trilogy. Book 3, Bad Boy at the Altar, is available everywhere now! I SWORE OFF WOMEN LONG AGO. BUT IT MIGHT BE TIME TO BREAK MY PROMISE. Because I haven't felt hunger like this since my first love died. Ariana might look untouched and innocent… But by the time I'll done, she'll be utterly wrecked. Thoroughly ruined. And pregnant with my baby. Years ago, as I put the dirt on the coffin of my dead old lady, I made myself a promise: Never again. I'd kept that oath in the years since. No emotions. Nothing permanent. One. Night. Only. But that was before Ariana waltzed into my life. She might hate me – but I just don't give a damn. Because she's everything I've always wanted. And I'm not gonna rest until I have her. Not just for a taste. Not just for a night. No, this one needs to be long, slow, and special. I want to savor breaking her down. Because once she's putty in my hands, I'm going to drag her to the altar. I don't just want a woman. I want a wife. A baby. A future. And she's going to give me all of that… Or else.
Beneath The Mask
Author: Stephen A North
Publisher: Stephen A. North
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
There is just a veneer of civilization that masks the savagery that lies within us all... Rumors claim the whole earth is under siege. Is it an alien invasion or terrorist attacks? All that is sure is that Tampa, Florida is quarantined and Alexander Cray's Military Police unit is called up for the crisis. Follow him on a patrol that begins with a deadly encounter at an interstate truck stop to a trek across a panic-stricken, lawless metropolis.
Publisher: Stephen A. North
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
There is just a veneer of civilization that masks the savagery that lies within us all... Rumors claim the whole earth is under siege. Is it an alien invasion or terrorist attacks? All that is sure is that Tampa, Florida is quarantined and Alexander Cray's Military Police unit is called up for the crisis. Follow him on a patrol that begins with a deadly encounter at an interstate truck stop to a trek across a panic-stricken, lawless metropolis.
Forced Perspective
Author: Colin Campbell
Publisher: Down & Out Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
“These aren’t actors we’re looking for. It’s mug shots not auditions.” McNulty tried not to sound impatient. “It’s local extras. Head and shoulders to see what they look like. If you’re casting cowboys you don’t want to be hiring Indians.” The producer wasn’t appeased. “The reservation’s just over the hill. Indians is what we’re gonna to get. And I don’t want to get scalped.” “Larry. As long as I’ve known you, you’re the one does the scalping.” Palm Springs, California Jim Grant enlists Vince McNulty’s help with a sting operation where wanted criminals are invited to audition as extras in a Titanic Productions movie. The plan is almost derailed when McNulty and Grant can’t resist protecting a hotel receptionist from an angry biker but the plan goes off without a hitch. Almost without a hitch. Mission successful. Except the Palm Springs sting is a dry run for the main person Grant wants to arrest; a crime lord movie buff in Loveland, Colorado. And the angry biker and the worst snow in decades mean that this time there will be blood and death and a very big hitch.
Publisher: Down & Out Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
“These aren’t actors we’re looking for. It’s mug shots not auditions.” McNulty tried not to sound impatient. “It’s local extras. Head and shoulders to see what they look like. If you’re casting cowboys you don’t want to be hiring Indians.” The producer wasn’t appeased. “The reservation’s just over the hill. Indians is what we’re gonna to get. And I don’t want to get scalped.” “Larry. As long as I’ve known you, you’re the one does the scalping.” Palm Springs, California Jim Grant enlists Vince McNulty’s help with a sting operation where wanted criminals are invited to audition as extras in a Titanic Productions movie. The plan is almost derailed when McNulty and Grant can’t resist protecting a hotel receptionist from an angry biker but the plan goes off without a hitch. Almost without a hitch. Mission successful. Except the Palm Springs sting is a dry run for the main person Grant wants to arrest; a crime lord movie buff in Loveland, Colorado. And the angry biker and the worst snow in decades mean that this time there will be blood and death and a very big hitch.
Need for the Bike
Author: Paul Fournel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496220390
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A book like no other, Paul Fournel's Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and things pass by way of the bike. In compact and suggestive prose, Fournel conveys the experience of cycling--from the initial charm of early outings to the dramas of the devoted cyclist. An extended meditation on cycling as a practice of life, the book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel after he impales himself on a downtube shifter, speculates about the difference between animals that would like to ride bikes (dogs, for instance) and those that would prefer to watch (cows, marmots), and reflects on the fundamental absurdity of turning over the pedals mile after excruciating mile. At the same time, Fournel captures the sound, smell, feel, and language of the reality and history of cycling, in the mountains, in the city, escaping the city, in groups, alone, suffering, exhausted, exhilarated. In his attention to the pleasures of cycling, to the specific "grain" of different cycling experiences, and to the inscription of these experiences in the body's cycling memory, Fournel portrays cycling as a descriptive universe, colorful, lyrical, inclusive, exclusive, complete.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496220390
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A book like no other, Paul Fournel's Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and things pass by way of the bike. In compact and suggestive prose, Fournel conveys the experience of cycling--from the initial charm of early outings to the dramas of the devoted cyclist. An extended meditation on cycling as a practice of life, the book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel after he impales himself on a downtube shifter, speculates about the difference between animals that would like to ride bikes (dogs, for instance) and those that would prefer to watch (cows, marmots), and reflects on the fundamental absurdity of turning over the pedals mile after excruciating mile. At the same time, Fournel captures the sound, smell, feel, and language of the reality and history of cycling, in the mountains, in the city, escaping the city, in groups, alone, suffering, exhausted, exhilarated. In his attention to the pleasures of cycling, to the specific "grain" of different cycling experiences, and to the inscription of these experiences in the body's cycling memory, Fournel portrays cycling as a descriptive universe, colorful, lyrical, inclusive, exclusive, complete.