Download or read book Real NASCAR written by Daniel S. Pierce and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Real NASCAR not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.
Download or read book Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing White Lightning written by Kent Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jodell has been raised up in his grandfather's moonshine business, but the boy dreams of something much bigger--racing stock cars.
Download or read book Fast As White Lightning written by Kim Chapin and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive view of the popular and dangerous sport of stock car racing, discussing famous drivers, mechanics, and cars, and the origins of the sport with Southern moonshiners
Download or read book White Lightning written by Allan Donald and published by HarperSport. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Allan Donald reviews his relationship with key players and backroom staff - including Bob Woolmer, Dennis Amiss, Dermot Reeve and Brian Lara - and contrasts the unique team spirit during Warwickshire's trophy winning seasons with the later rifts that developed over the selection of Lara as the county's overseas player.
Download or read book Rebel written by M.G. Higgins and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes: Africa, revolution, violence, war, child soldiers, survival Koji’s world is like any boy’s. He loves sports. Goes to school. Studies hard. Dreams big. But childhood ends quickly. Rebel forces enter his village. They ransack the school. Their teacher is beaten. Maybe even killed. The boys line up, guns to their backs. Koji’s group goes one way. His best friend’s another. What’s happened to his family? They are all dead, says a rebel. And you will be too if you don’t do what we say. They march for hours. Days. One boy drinks too much water. He is hit again and again. Then murdered. The boys watch and learn. That will not be their fate. It’s kill or be killed. So they kill...
Download or read book Digital Worlds written by Emily Schlesinger and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes: Technology, Nonfiction, Tween, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. People go inside the world of a video game. Doctors practice surgery before working on real patients. Sports fans feel like they're on the sidelines while watching from home. Technology makes it all possible. Virtual reality immerses people in new worlds. Augmented reality adds digital elements to the real world. Both are growing fast. How will this technology change the way people work, play, and live? Take a look inside White Lightning Nonfiction, a hi-lo nonfiction series for students in the middle grades. Mature, high-interest topics pull in readers and engage them with interesting information; full-color photographs and illustrations; detailed graphic elements including charts, tables, and infographics; and fascinating facts. A 20-word glossary is included for vocabulary support.
Download or read book White Lightning written by Sharon Brondos and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACK A WINNER--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. THE RACE IS ON Lynn McKinney knows Lightning can outrun any horse in the field--all he needs is time, training and Lynn in the saddle. But Sam Russell, part owner of Lightning, doesn’t see things her way. He knows nothing about horses except that this one was supposed to turn a fast profit. The jockey and the investor are headed for a showdown... CRYSTAL CREEK reverberates with the exciting rhythm of Texas. Each story features the rugged individuals who live and love in the Lone Star state. And each one ends with the same invitation... Y’ALL COME BACK...REAL SOON!
Download or read book White Lightning written by Minton Sparks and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had been wrestling the place I came from for years." Losing her salty-dog grandmother "Jebo" rocked Penny Sue's life completely off the rails. But Jebo knew better than to leave without a proper goodbye. She left Penny Sue something that felt as unexpected and potent as Jebo herself. Four diaries--filled with a lifetime of scratched down family secrets and penetrating poems. As Penny Sue slowly turns the pages, she unearths the secrets of a tightlipped family that keeps the past blurred and buried. But where is the fourth diary? And who is sending Penny Sue ransom notes with brazen and unorthodox conditions for obtaining it? As the painful, gorgeous truth in Jebo's diaries works its magic, it frees Penny Sue to see the woman she was meant to be . . . and a realization that sometimes lightning really does strike twice.
Download or read book White Lightning written by Edwin Herbert Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fastest Man Alive written by Usain Bolt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Usain Bolt Covers his journey from playing cricket and soccer as a kid to becoming the fastest man alive Well-illustrated Years before he set world records for the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints, which made him the fastest man alive and famous, Usain Bolt was a fairly scrawny kid from Trelawny in Jamaica. In this autobiography, Bolt himself shares how, as he grew up and played cricket and soccer, he— and others—learned he could run fast. Very, very fast. Usain Bolt’s journey from a kid with humble beginnings to an Olympic gold medal winner is an inspiring and encouraging story. This beautifully illustrated autobiography shares that story from Bolt’s perspective. It is a celebration of someone who was inspired by other athletes around the world, someone who worked for years to become the best at his sport. Bolt shares stories of the sacrifices he made, the influence of Cristiano Ronaldo, the power of soccer and dancehall music, and his signature lightning bolt move.
Download or read book Spirits White as Lightning written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Banyon must face the latest plot to wipe out humanity by Aerune mac Audelaine, a lord of the Unseleighe Sidhe.
Download or read book Writing FAST written by Jeff Bollow and published by Embryo Films. This book was released on 2004 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple step-by-step process for breaking any writing project large or small into bite-sized chunks and then turning them into the desired finished format at lightning speed. A must-read book for all levels.
Download or read book White Lightning written by Steven Henry and published by Clickworks Press. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't stop what you can't see Detective Erin O’Reilly is used to people trying to kill her. She’s carefully established a false identity as a killer for the Mob, while secretly working to bring it down from within. She thinks she knows where the danger is. But now a fiendishly clever assassin is stalking the streets, targeting New York’s judges. His weapons are lethal traps, designed to kill without warning and look like freak accidents. With one judge dead and another’s life on the line, Erin and the rest of the Major Crimes squad race against time to track down a faceless, implacable murderer. To make matters worse, the mob war started by slick Mafioso Vinnie “The Oil Man” isn’t over yet. Nobody holds onto a vendetta like the Mafia, and the blood hasn’t stopped flowing. It’s an electrifying case for Erin and her trusty K-9 Rolf as old enemies surface and loyalties clash, setting the stage for a shocking showdown in Manhattan’s halls of justice.
Download or read book Break and Enter written by Leslie McGill and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes: loneliness, crime, single mothers, learning the hard way, lying His mom wanted a fresh start, but Dwayne just can’t settle into his life. He misses his friends and has trouble connecting with new classmates. Nothing is familiar. Walking through his neighborhood, he sees an open window. Instantly, everything changes. Maybe he can pretend to be someone else. He can live a different life by breaking and entering ... if only for a little while. Bringing home a souvenir to remember his adventures wouldn’t be so bad, right? But Dwayne is a terrible crook. And life is full of weird coincidences when he learns whose home he’s burgled.
Download or read book Lost Revolutions written by Pete Daniel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the events and societal trends that created disturbance and conflict after World War II, discussing school integration, migration into the cities, the civil rights movement, and the breakdown of traditional values.
Download or read book The Superhero s Prison action adventure young adult superheroes written by Lucas Flint and published by Secret Identity Books. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayed by the government, Kevin Jason (Bolt) finds himself in the best and only prison for supervillains in the country, but without knowing why. He soon allies himself with some of the prisoners in order to devise an escape plan to get him out of the prison and figure out why he was thrown behind bars in the first place. And escape becomes even more urgent when a supervillain who looks exactly like him suddenly appears in the country and begins causing havoc and chaos wherever he goes. Now Kevin must escape from prison and defeat this supervillain all the while discovering the truth behind his villainous doppelganger. If he fails, then not only will he remain jailed for the rest of his life, but the country itself will be torn apart by a villain who seeks nothing less than its destruction. KEYWORDS: superhero action fiction, superhero fantasy, superhero fiction novel, superhero science fiction, superhero scifi, superhero young adult, superhero city, superhero books, superhero action, superhero books for kids, superheroes, cool superheroes, action adventure books, superhero action adventure books, action adventure fiction, superhero action adventure fiction, young adult action adventure, action adventure young adult
Download or read book Lightning written by Seymour Simon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exceptional nonfiction for children from two of the most trusted names in science education: Seymour Simon and the Smithsonian Institution.
