Download or read book Gretchen Asks How Do Cars Work written by Angel Neuschwander and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gretchen is a seven-year-old girl who loves to explore the world around her. Her best friend and cat, Lucy, joins her on her many adventures. Together they always find new things to learn about. In this story, Gretchen wonders what makes the wheels of a car turn. Her mother explains how power for the car is made. They will discover that a car works a lot like a bike. Join Gretchen and Lucy as they learn how a car works.
Download or read book Driving While Black African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights written by Gretchen Sorin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.
Download or read book Creole Belle written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where "The Glass Rainbow" ends, "Creole Belle" finds David Robicheaux recuperating in New Orleans near the site an oil well blowout on the Gulf. Robicheaux is visited by a mysterious visitor and is surprised by what's inside a floating block of ice. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
Download or read book The Oblivious Girl s Handbook written by DelSheree Gladden and published by DelSheree Gladden. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being oblivious to all the signs that your life is about to fall apart doesn’t stop it from happening to Sara Taylor. Alone except for the Siamese cat her boyfriend—ex-boyfriend—Joseph left behind to teach her a lesson, Sara has no clue how to survive on her own. She hasn’t handled her own bills in years, can’t meet a deadline without someone else programming alarms into her phone, and is constantly either losing important things or getting herself hopelessly lost. Sara has no idea how she’s supposed to move out of her university apartment and start her first real job without someone there to hold her hand. Although she knows her new friend Monroe would step in to help, she’s not about to call him after having thrown him out of her apartment when his suspicions about Joseph prove true and Sara is left angry and mortified. It doesn’t take long before she is desperate to lean on someone else’s strength, even for just a few minutes, as real life begins to overwhelm her. Pride forces her to either sink or swim, even when sinking seems the most likely outcome.
Download or read book The Radius of Us written by Marie Marquardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in alternating voices, follows the growing relationship of two teenaged victims of violence who are struggling to overcome trauma and help each other cope.
Download or read book Knockdown written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THE WILL DEFIES FEAR. They call him “The Rig Warrior.” Name: Barry Rivers. Occupation: Long haul trucker. Special skills: Defender of freedom. Patriot. Government sanctioned killer. A NATION OFF THE RAILS No one saw the first attack coming. A perfectly orchestrated assault on a mass-transit railroad line that left countless Americans dead. Then came more attacks. More rail systems sabotaged. More civilian lives lost. Intelligence experts are convinced this is no ordinary terrorist attack. To pull off something like this, it would take a deep-state traitor with dark foreign connections. And to stop them, it will take someone who isn’t afraid to shed blood. A HERO OFF THE GRID Enter Barry Rivers, the Rig Warrior. An urban legend in the intelligence community, Rivers has been living off the radar for years. But when he sees his country under attack, he reaches out to his son in the FBI to track down the enemies in our own government. To these high-ranking traitors, Rivers is a threat to their global agenda. But when Rivers revs up his tricked-out 18-wheeler—and goes after a runaway train on a collision course with disaster—all bets are off. The war is on. And with Barry Rivers at the wheel, it’s going to be the ultimate knockdown, drag-out fight for America’s future . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
Download or read book No One Needs to Know written by Kevin O'Brien and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After killing a stalker who broke into her home, young widow Laurie Trotter takes her baby son and moves to Seattle, where she hopes to lay low and start over again. The dead man's brother--a charismatic sociopath with a 'family' of followers--is bent on revenge. Laurie's first job in Seattle is in a food truck catering a film production. The movie is based on the real-life 1970 murders of an actress, her husband, and their baby's nanny--and all the actual locales are being used. The 'cursed' film is plagued with on-the-set accidents and bizarre deaths. It's hardly the place for Laurie to 'lay low'"--Author's website.
Download or read book The Wisconsin Agriculturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lies Life and Love written by Sandra Shook and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camdan Taylor has no idea what is ahead when she marries Mark Kincade. She just wants to be married and have a family, even justifying leaving her Christian beliefs behind. Sadly, it does not take long for reality to show her Mark’s love for money and his lifestyle, leaving her alone and ignored by his family. Through a series of events, she finds out he had a son before they were married. The child was terminally ill, and Mark signed away his rights at the hospital. He never told her, even though he knew she wanted a baby desperately. As the real Mark became more real, Camdan sets out on a quest to find the child. It is during all this that she finds her way back to the Lord and seeks ways to serve God, not herself. After almost dying, Camdan starts to heal and is looking forward to getting back to normal when there is a tragic accident involving her best friend’s wife. However, as the police investigate, they find she was not the intended target, and Mark is just one of the prime suspects. Again throwing her world in a different direction, she starts trying to help and move forward but not knowing what to expect next.
Download or read book Murder Chain written by Ginger Conner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tasia Johnson takes over as Lieutenant of the homicide unit of the Greenville Police department. She doesn't expect her first case to lead to a murderous chain of torture and betrayal. As women are being killed in their high society homes, their daughters are going missing. Tasia is in a race against time to find the missing link to connect the crimes and find a killer.
Download or read book Heart of the Storm written by Nicole Stiling and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juliet Mitchell is doing just fine. Her career with the Shell Creek Police Department is on track, her son, Declan, is amazing, and for the first time in a long time, life is simple, if unremarkable. Until a dead body is found outside the Shell Creek Library. Sienna Bennett doesn’t know how she ended up here. She’s overwhelmed as a big city victim advocate, her soon-to-be-ex-husband is living in their pool house, and she feels like her stepson, Declan, blames her for the state of their family. She needs something else to focus on. Juliet and Sienna might share a history with Declan’s dad, but they’re nothing more than friendly acquaintances. When they’re thrown together in the midst of the biggest investigation Shell Creek has ever seen, neither anticipates a forbidden attraction. It definitely isn’t worth upending the life they’ve worked so hard for. Is it?
Download or read book One Eyed Paperboy written by Ned Gardner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Darby Tillman. An amiable-even likeable love starved thirty-six year old screwball who has some rather bizarre views on almost everything, including what it takes to woo, bemuse and finally conquer the fairer sex. Believing he's finally found true love at last, Darby can't quite understand why his frustrating, often lopsided relationship suddenly goes sour with Gretchen, the lovely but mysterious lady upstairs who has been concealing a chilling, unspeakable horror most of her life. Ultimately rejected by Gretchen, Darby shifts his amorous, somewhat vengeful feelings toward Amber-Gretchen's precocious niece-after learning the beautiful tennis playing coed is visiting her wealthy great aunt on Hawaii's Big Island for the summer. From the very beginning of Darby's moronically contrived "Amber Introduction Plan"-if one can accept kidnapping as a perfectly normal approach to meeting someone new-everything goes wrong. And things just get a lot worse as Amber and her loopy, nitwit abductor, Darby, suddenly find themselves battling for their lives-and each other-as they struggle to survive one of the worst cataclysms to ravage the Hilo coastline in years! "Disturbingly odd and well crafted. I loved every nutty, neurotic word!" R. Hoelterhoff, J&B Media - Chicago "Hilarious! Eerie! Spooky! Cage this lunatic (the author)! Just make sure he has something dull and non-sharp to keep writing with!" J. Nelson, Gannet Publications - NY
Download or read book Capturing His Heart written by Regina Brownell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Two-Week Promise presents a funny, romantic tale of friendships, flirtations, and being true to who you are . . . Back in high school, Millicent mercilessly teased her brother and his friends, especially Luke, for their nerdy devotion to Dungeons & Dragons. When she and Luke are reunited as adults, working together at his photography studio, she wants to make it up to him. After all, as a bisexual woman, she knows how it feels to struggle with being accepted. When a client requests boudoir photos, Luke is so flustered that Millicent offers to pose for a practice session so he can calm his nerves. She books an appointment with the best hair and makeup stylist in town—who happens to be a girl Millicent kissed in high school, but was ultimately rejected by. Meanwhile, Luke has his own troubles with a resentful ex. As old feelings are stirred up—and new feelings take Millicent by surprise—it becomes clear that fitting in with the crowd is much less important than finding someone you really belong with . . .
Download or read book Torino Dreams written by DelSheree Gladden and published by DelSheree Gladden. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate hates hiding, but the risk of her past sneaking up on her is too great to risk getting involved in anyone else’s problems. At least, until getting involved is the only way to avoid a run-in with the police. The snow was to blame for the car wreck, but desperation forces Kate to make Sam an offer she’s sure she’ll regret. If she can fix Sam’s car and send him on his way without the getting the cops involved, she can get back to her normal, safe life. It should be easy enough. Kate knows cars better than almost anything else. She can repair the damage to the car, but can she protect herself from falling for Sam and putting everything she’s worked for in danger?
Download or read book Forty Steps and Other Stories written by Terrence Murphy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sixteen short stories is set in Egg Rock, a fictional town north of Boston. They are written in approximate chronological order spanning hundreds of years and are linked not only by the setting but by the reappearance of characters, their ancestors, and descendants. Many are loosely based on local North Shore legends and historical events. Ragnhild is an adviser to Thorvald Eiriksson, son of Erik the Red and brother of Leif, on his voyages to Vinland. He describes their discovery of an idyllic almost island during Thorvalds last days. Ezra Newhall is a jack-of-all-trades who works at Egg Rocks sprawling, jerry-built hotel, called The Castle. On the eve of the Civil War the Castle owners son returns home with a secret that is about to be revealed. Priscilla, a writer seeking peace and quiet in a secluded Egg Rock cottage during World War II, gets swept up by the war in a way she could never anticipate. Mayland, a TV weatherman, and his wife barely survive a devastating fire, the work of an arsonist with a hundred-year grudge. In Forty Steps and Other Stories the reader discovers a unique place that leaves its imprint, for better or for worse, on all who call it home.
Download or read book Cold blooded written by John Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This disturbing book unearths the tale behind the 1964 murders of three teenage girls by Charles Schmid, a regular cruiser along Tucson, Arizona's glittery strip. Featuring detailed accounts of the murders based on interviews with Schmid and his friends, the book also contains accounts of events which led to the murders, and of his trials. Photos. Line drawings, maps.
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