Download or read book Running Man written by Charlie Engle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a decade-long addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol, Charlie Engle hit rock bottom after a near-fatal six-day binge ended in a hail of bullets. Then he found running, and it has helped keep him sober, focused and alive. He began to take on the most extreme endurance races, such as the 155-mile Gobi March, and developed a reputation as an inspirational speaker. However, after he made the documentary Running the Sahara, narrated by Matt Damon, which followed him on a 4500-mile crossing of the desert and helped raise $6 million, he was sent to prison after failing to complete his mortgage application properly. It was while he was in jail that he became known as 'The Running Man' as he pounded the prison yard, and soon his fellow inmates were joining him, finding new hope through running. Now, in his brilliantly written and powerful account, Engle tells the story of his life and how running has brought him so much pleasure and peace. Like such classics as Born to Runor Running with the Kenyans, this is a book that anyone who has ever found solace in the freedom of running will enjoy"--Google Books.

Download or read book Charlie Joe Jackson s Guide to Not Growing Up written by Tommy Greenwald and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious, final installment of the illustrated Charlie Joe Jackson series. As graduation day approaches, Charlie Joe is starting to realize being a kid isn't so bad after all.

Download or read book Growing Up written by Russell Baker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. “Magical….He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny…a work of original biographical art.”—The New York Times In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression-shadowed landscape of Baltimore. His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. We meet the people who influenced Baker’s early life: his strong and loving mother, his bold little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons. Here, too, are schoolyard bullies, great teachers, and the everyday heroes and heroines of the Depression who faced disaster with good cheer as they tried to muddle through. A modern day classic filled with perfect turns of phrase and traces of quiet wisdom, Growing Up is a coming of age story that is “the stuff of American legend” (The Washington Post Book World).

Download or read book Growing Up Charlie written by Charlie Leverette, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Charlie Leverette Jr. From the country, to the city. From a Drug dealer to ministering the word of God. Charlie adventures will take you to hell and back into God's loving arms. A truly compelling and heart wrenching story about love, loyalty, and the desire to become something better. This book will change your life!

Download or read book Growing Up Roosevelt written by Nina Roosevelt Gibson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nina Roosevelt was just seven years old, her family moved from California to live with her grandmother at the small cottage, Val-Kill, in Hyde Park, New York. It was at Val-Kill Farm that Nina shared her childhood years with her remarkable grandmother, the woman who would change her life. To Nina, she was Grandmère, but, to most everyone else, she was Eleanor Roosevelt. Few people realize how important Val-Kill was for Eleanor Roosevelt. Returning "home again" nourished her, allowed her time for reflection, planning, and rejuvenation so that she could continue pouring her heart and soul into the needs of so many people the world over. Growing Up Roosevelt gives an intimate picture of life at Val-Kill as well as Nina's wide-ranging experiences traveling as a teenager with her grandmother. Included are portraits of the family, staff, famous friends, people in need, and world leaders as disparate as Nikita Khrushchev, Haile Selassie, and John F. Kennedy. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt, her work as a trailblazing political and feminist leader, and the intimate behind-the-scenes details that only her granddaughter can tell.

Download or read book Charlie Joe Jackson s Guide to Not Reading written by Tommy Greenwald and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald is the hilarious story of an avid non-reader and the extreme lengths to which he'll go to get out of reading a book. Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, he's managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he's in middle school, avoiding reading isn't as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy McGibney decides that he's tired of covering for him, Charlie Joe finds himself resorting to desperate measures to keep his perfect record intact.

Download or read book Kool Kat Charlie of Cocoa Beach written by Ruby H. Happel-Holtz and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kool Kat Charlie of Cocoa Beach tells the story of Charlie, an orphan cat who is adopted by a toy Manchester dog named Benny (and his human family). The pair of friends lead easy, uneventful lives on Merritt Island in Floridauntil the day when their master, Steve, decides to move to the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, and brings Benny and Charlie along! On Charlies first day at the beach he meets Mack and Snowball, two cats who become his new friends. But as the days pass, he encounters trouble after troubleand nearly loses his life! He and his buddies set out to rescue a beautiful female cat from her abusive mateand find themselves captured and taken to the pound. His owner, Steve, must make a hard decision to save him from the animal pound, a jail for cats. In his new life, Charlie finds new friends and talents he didnt know he possessed. He learns important lessons about giving and loyalty, and he finally finds love.

Download or read book Growing Up Ivy written by Peggy Dymond Leavey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father. In 1931, Frannie sends twelve-year-old Ivy to stay with her paternal grandmother in Larkin, Ontario, while she seeks stardom in New York City. When Ivy’s father, Alva, arrives unexpectedly in Larkin, he turns out not to be the Prince Charming she imagined, but an illiterate peddler. Rescuing Ivy from her uncompromising grandmother, Alva takes her with him for the summer, wandering the countryside by horse-drawn caravan, selling shoes. Back in Larkin at summer’s end, Ivy meets teenager Charlie Bayliss, orphaned as an infant and raised by his aunt on a farm outside town. Ivy has a flair for writing and boundless imagination, while Charlie loves baseball and loathes farming. Unknown to both of them, though, is a secret connection they share. When the final pieces of the puzzle of their lives fall into place, nothing will ever be the same.

Download or read book Magical Mischief written by Anna Dale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if magic took over everything in its path? This is the fate of the old Hardbattle Bookshop. Magic has settled in every corner and brought chaos to Mr. Hardbattle's life, driving away all of his customers. Then one day, just when Mr. Hardbattle's had enough, a young boy named Arthur stumbles in. And soon Mr. Hardbattle, Arthur, and the lovable Miss Quint are banding together to reclaim the shop. A new home for magic must be found . . .

Download or read book Wish written by Barbara O'Connor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Barbara O'Connor comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers the true meaning of family.

Download or read book Sam Grows Up on a Homestead written by Eldon Hearn and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam lives on a pioneer homestead in rural Manitoba with his parents, Charlie the dog, and Katie the horse. While his parents are distracted caring for the land and animals, Sam becomes a free-roaming kid. There are dangers on the farm: the rushing river, farm equipment, and plenty of places to get lost. But Sam’s friends Charlie the dog and Katie the horse look out for him, saving him from disaster more often than not. As Sam ages, his responsibilities and independence increase too. Soon, he is travelling the long distance to his one-room school and fetching goods for the family in town all by himself. When a blinding blizzard swallows him up on the road home from school, Katie cannot see because of the snow sticking to her face but Charlie come to meet them and guides them home. Sam Grows Up on a Homestead shows us what it was like for a pioneer family in the prairies—the lifestyle, the hardships, and the simplicity. With no running water, electricity, radios, or phones and children who sacrifice their schooling to labour on the family homesteads, Sam’s world reminds us how much has changed in the last hundred years, and how generations evolve.

Download or read book Twin Bill I Love You I Love You My Life with Women written by Joseph G. Cowley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Bill consists of two plays tied together by their themes of love and lust in mature men and women. In I Love You, I Love You an out-of-work writer and a married woman meet and fall in love in Alcoholics Anonymous. Through an anguished affair they learn a valuable lesson in spiritual growth and responsibility. In My Life With Women an unusual drama of the absurd, a lustful old man is visited by the ghosts and memories of the many women he has loved over a lifetime.

Download or read book Charlie Brown s America written by Blake Scott Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

Download or read book Charlie Joe Jackson s Guide to Not Growing Up written by Tommy Greenwald and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes! Graduation day is finally here! Charlie Joe has been waiting for this moment his entire middle school career. This might even be the best day of his life. No more teachers! No more books! Just make it through the ceremony and he's free. But suddenly things around him are starting to change. Words like "responsibility" and "college prep" keep popping out of his friend's mouths. What happened to words like "fun" and "pool party"? And come to think of it, doesn't high school bring more teachers and more books? Maybe this whole growing up thing isn't such a good idea after all. Actually being a kid is pretty darn fun! Surely Charlie Joe can figure out a way to put the brakes on growing up-and fast! This hilarious final installment in the Charlie Joe Jackson series written by Tommy Greenwald and illustrated by J. P. Coovert is infused with nostalgia and just the right amount of chaos.

Download or read book Time And The Consequences written by Ian Meacheam and published by APS Books. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A post-Ofsted novel. The sequel to 'An Inspector Called'.

Download or read book Growing Up Charlie written by Charlie Leverette and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Charlie Leverette Jr. From the country, to the city. From a Drug dealer to ministering the word of God. Charlie adventures will take you to hell and back into God's loving arms. A truly compelling and heart wrenching story about love, loyalty, and the desire to become something better. This book will change your life!

Download or read book Jimmy Quixote written by Tom Gallon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel tells the story of Old Paul, a lovable country gentleman who ventures to the big city of London to do some shopping for his family. Despite his bumbling and befuddled ways in the city, Old Paul manages to bring back a wealth of delightful surprises for his loved ones. But it is his encounter with a young woman named Moira that leads him on a quixotic adventure, as he tries to fulfil her request for a special dress.