Download or read book Never Pick Up Hitch Hikers written by Ellis Peters and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English hitchhiker disrupts a criminal’s plans in this caper gone wrong from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. On the road to a new town and a new life, William Banks is grateful to Alf, the somewhat seedy stranger who gives him a lift. In return, the unworldly young man is more than happy to deliver a package for his benefactor to a specific address in Braybourne. He has no idea, however, that his driver has chosen him to serve as a patsy in a sinister plot to retrieve £250,000 stolen earlier from a Braybourne bank—and that, if the scheme succeeds, William Banks will be dead before sundown. But with the help of Calli, a lass William encounters along the way, and a dose of blind luck, he is able to avoid a most unpleasant end. Now he and Calli will somehow have to steer clear of London gangsters, as well as the original thief and his vengeful entourage, while further derailing Alf’s insidious plot without getting shot, stabbed, strangled, or blown to smithereens in the process. The Edgar, Agatha, and Gold Dagger Award–winning author delivers a funny, edgy stand-alone crime novel. “Charm is not usual in murder mysteries, but Ellis Peters’ stories are full of it.” —The Mail on Sunday

Download or read book Riding with Strangers written by Elijah Wald and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating tale of the author's cross-country hitchhiking journey is a captivating look into the pleasures and challenges of the open road. As the miles roll by he meets businessmen, missionaries, conspiracy theorists, and truck drivers from all ages and ethnicities who are eager to open their car doors to a wandering stranger. This memoir uncovers the hidden reality that the United States remains hospitable, quirky, and as ready as ever to offer help to a curious traveler. Demonstrating how hitchhiking can be the ultimate in adventure travel—a thrilling exploration of both people and scenery—this guide also serves as a hitchhiker's reference, sharing the history behind this communal form of travel while touching on roadside lore and philosophy.

Download or read book Carsick written by John Waters and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo. John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash? Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? His real-life rides include a gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the perverse filmmaker's unexpected hero: a young, sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette. Laced with subversive humor and warm intelligence, Carsick is an unforgettable vacation with a wickedly funny companion—and a celebration of America's weird, astonishing, and generous citizenry.

Download or read book Nobody Hitchhikes Anymore written by Ed Griffin-Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Griffin-Nolan's Nobody Hitchhikes Anymore is an "act of loving rebellion" (Sean Kirst, Buffalo News) and a travelogue about a changing society and the people who lifted him up.

Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them—the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation, and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell.

Download or read book Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hitchhiking in America Using the Golden Thumb written by Dale Carpenter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though it tends to be looked down upon as a trivial activity confined to vagrants, the feeble-minded, sex maniacs and serial killers, hitchhiking needs to be re-valued as a means to an end (transportation and self-education) and as an end in itself (as suggested by Jack London's wonderful paragraphs quoted at the top of p. 35).""This is a source book, not just a casual handbook, and by its appeal to a long tradition it gives hitchhiking well-deserved stature. People have been hitchhiking since the first vehicle - probably a raft - was invented.Odysseus hitchhiked, St. Paul hitchhiked; anyone who hitchhikes today is keeping alive an ancient and honorable tradition and your book will help readers put modern hitchhiking into its particularly American context."Prof. Daniel H. GarrisonDepartment of Classics, Northwestern University -Presenter of a lecture that students refer to as "Hitchhiking as an Art Form."

Download or read book 100 Classic Hikes written by Craig Romano and published by 100 Classic Hikes. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-time best selling hiking guidebook to Washington state!

Download or read book Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers written by Justin Sturn and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DO NOT PICK UP HITCHHIKERS? Is a true and gripping tale about a quick-witted young man from Alaska who has been hitchhiking from the age of seven and battling his inner demons ever since. His volatile lifestyle of violence and impulsivity has strained his closest relationships and brought a stigma to his presence. After losing his girlfriend, he's sent spiraling into depression and leaves everything he knows behind to seek out unknown adventure. Thinking that a new city will give him the clean slate he desperately craves, he hitchhikes down to Boulder CO to start over, but when he brings all his same issues right along with him. He walks away from his life again to follow the whim of the road.Fueled by addiction and desire, step inside the dark uncensored mind of Justin Sturn as he navigates you through a cataclysmic cross-country hitchhiking trip of self-discovery. You'll meet prostitutes, drug dealers, hippies, the ultra-rich, and men who want super gay sex. No one has stories like this, and you never know where they're going to lead you next.

Download or read book Shock Value written by Jason Zinoman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre. Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film-aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, The New York Times's critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age. By the late 1960s, horror was stuck in the past, confined mostly to drive-in theaters and exploitation houses, and shunned by critics. Shock Value tells the unlikely story of how the much-disparaged horror film became an ambitious art form while also conquering the multiplex. Directors such as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, and Brian De Palma- counterculture types operating largely outside the confines of Hollywood-revolutionized the genre, exploding taboos and bringing a gritty aesthetic, confrontational style, and political edge to horror. Zinoman recounts how these directors produced such classics as Rosemary's Baby, Carrie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween, creating a template for horror that has been imitated relentlessly but whose originality has rarely been matched. This new kind of film dispensed with the old vampires and werewolves and instead assaulted audiences with portraits of serial killers, the dark side of suburbia, and a brand of nihilistic violence that had never been seen before. Shock Value tells the improbable stories behind the making of these movies, which were often directed by obsessive and insecure young men working on shoestring budgets, were funded by sketchy investors, and starred porn stars. But once The Exorcist became the highest grossing film in America, Hollywood took notice. The classic horror films of the 1970s have now spawned a billion-dollar industry, but they have also penetrated deep into the American consciousness. Quite literally, Zinoman reveals, these movies have taught us what to be afraid of. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of the most important artists in horror, Shock Value is an enthralling and personality-driven account of an overlooked but hugely influential golden age in American film.

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Download or read book The Extra Mile for Love written by Daphne M. Burleson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extra Mile for Love is an adventure into love. There is a refreshing reward for those who would dare to travel the distance. The author invites you to leave old thoughts and inhibitions behind and climb on board, you dont want to miss what is ahead. Enjoy.

Download or read book Personal Safety Tips for Everyday Living written by Lee Stoneburner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety tips are everywhere and everyone has one. This book is a collection of the best and most useable tips that I have given to people or learned over the years from the different situations that I have seen, heard about, or had to deal with as a police officer. What I have tried to do is present them in a way that is understandable and in a format this is easy to use. Some books on the market want to scare you. That is not my intent. I want to make you confident and aware. Doing everything in this book will not guarantee that you will always be safe, but making them a part of your daily life will make you a much less likely target. Crooks look for easy prey, don't be easy!

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Turkey written by Suzanne Swan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Turkey travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions this fast-changing country has on offer. Packed with photographs and illustrations discover Turkey region by region; from the labyrinthine Grand Bazaar and Blue Mosque of Istanbul to the famous Roman remains at Ephesus. The guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs from the invigorating outdoor activities on offer in the Black Sea area to shopping for carpets, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, resorts, restaurants, shops, and nightlife in each region for all budgets. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sitesof all the major Turkish cities and towns. DK Eyewitness Turkey explores the rich layers of culture, history, architecture and art of this diverse country not forgetting the best scenic routes and the country's magnificent bazaars, mosques and ruins. With up-to-date information on getting around by train, tram, bus, car and foot and all the sights, beaches, markets and festivals listed town by town, DK Eyewitness Turkey indispensable. Don’t miss a thing on your holiday with the DK Eyewitness Turkey

Download or read book Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security written by Frank R. Spellman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the state of our food protection readiness. Accompanied with actual cases of domestic food-related contamination and terrorism, the author provides the battle plan against our food supplies and a blueprint for the defense of our critical, agriculture infrastructure. Included are detailed overviews of 46 foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins, suggested guidelines for security measures at each link in the food supply chain, and identification of potential targets.

Download or read book National Geographic Traveler California 4th Edition written by Greg Critser and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a description and travel guidebook of California, United States. It will assist travellers with their itinerary and plans.

Download or read book Preparing for the Journey Through Adolescence written by Indira Gilbert and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook Preparing for the Journey through Adolescence: A Handbook for Teens makes adolescents aware, in a down-to-earth manner, of the hardships that await them in those trying, though exciting years. It deals in detail with the challenges that face adolescents. The Handbook aims at helping adolescents understand themselves and seeks to equip them to cope with the pressure that awaits. The Handbook goes further to help adolescents understand their parents within the context of parenting. Guidance is provided for adolescents to focus on and prepare for the world of work which sits on their horizon. An interesting list of Principles for life and a comprehensive list of South African resources are provided to facilitate access to professional help. A stunning, uplifting, and inspiring book, that is hugely comprehensive and impressive. It is impressively and clearly set out, with pertinent questions at the end of each section. It is easy to read with some very gut- wrenching and powerful chapters. I cannot see how anybody can walk away from it unmoved, and unchanged in their direction in life, at least to some extent. If the advice given is taken, many young people will lead productive, responsible, wholesome lives that will bring them true happiness. BRENDA GEORGE Freelance Editor, Pietermatrizburg, South Africa This book could not have come at a better time. It offers sound factual information, based on principles and values on which the young can base their choices, and enter adult life with a set of values that will endure and lead to true happiness. DR. R B R HAWKES Medical Doctor, Durban, South Africa