Download or read book Lucky Legs written by Steve Gurney and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keys to success in a motivational autobiography by New Zealand's top multisport athlete. Steve Gurney is an exceptional athlete. He has been in 19 of the epic Coast to Coast races in a row, and he has won nine of them. He has represented New Zealand twice at the World Mountain Bike champs and has spent a lot of time adventure racing in far-flung jungles, caves, mountains and deserts. This motivational, funny and frank autobiography covers Steve's multisport career and his life in general. It's aimed at business/sports people wanting to know the keys to success, people interested in mental health issues, people who want to be inspired and to get motivated and driven people who want to understand themselves better. 'Have really enjoyed the read. A number of my training mates are also reading it, and it has created quite a lot of discussion while running/cycling and over coffees/beers. We have definitely picked up some training tips and also probably made us reflect on why we do this type of sport....personally I think his honesty makes it a book well beyond multisport.' - Matt Cowie, Weekend Warrior
Download or read book The Case of the Lucky Legs written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leggy Marjorie Clune, unjustly accused of murder of sleazy movie promoter Frank Patton, must rely on the able counsel of Perry Mason to clear her name.
Download or read book Lucky Legs First Steps written by J. M. Rowell and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case Of The Postponed Murder written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Mason is hired to protect Mae Farr from a presumed stalker, wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth. When Mason learns that Wentworth wants Mae for forging his name on a cheque, things get complicated. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman and Perry Mason in trouble.
Download or read book Lucky Jim written by Kingsley Amis and published by Viking. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.
Download or read book Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach written by Kelly Robson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliantly structured . . . with a delicious tension carefully developed among the wonderful characters." —The New York Times Experience this far-reaching, mind-bending science fiction adventure that uses time travel to merge climate fiction with historical fantasy. From Kelly Robson, Aurora Award winner, Campbell, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon finalist, and author of Waters of Versailles Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Devotions from Mattie s Mountain written by Shanna Kelley and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devotions from Mattie's Mountain is a daily devotional geared toward animal lovers. The devotions in this book are from real stories from Mattie's Mountain. The Bible says, "The animals will teach you" (Job 12:7-10), and at Mattie's Mountain, they do. God shows us something new daily through these animals on the farm, and we want to share those things with you. Enjoy and happy reading.
Download or read book The Laboratory of Love written by Patrick Roscoe and published by Arsenal Pulp Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful suite stories set in Spain, Africa, and North America populated by wild dogs, tattoo artists, and lost boys, Patrick Roscoe’s characters?lonely, damaged, nomadic?are outsiders searching for love and acceptance in an often brutal and punishing world. In Roscoe’s beguiling laboratory, science meets emotion in experiments that attempt to decipher the forces of love, loss, and longing.
Download or read book The Girl with Three Legs written by Soraya Mire and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. She describes FGM is the ultimate child abuse, a ritual of mutilation handed down from mother to daughter and protected by the word "culture."
Download or read book The Rough River Coyotes Collection Volume 2 written by Anitra Lynn McLeod and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Romance, Alternative, Paranormal, Shape-shifters, Sex in Shifted Form, MM, HEA] Saving a Fallen Mate - The magic of love… Cowboy Cole Roman never believed in fairy tales until he saves a drowning coyote that turns into a handsome young man. Overjoyed at his good fortune and thrilled to have a mate who gives him the ability to shift into coyote form, Cole vows to protect Lucky. Joshua “Lucky” Green can’t remember his past until his ex-boyfriend shows up determined to finish the job he started. As a man with murder on his mind and a gun to get the job done, Lucky’s ex-boyfriend takes aim, determined to kill Lucky. When Lucky is injured, Cole falls victim to a scheme that saves Lucky’s life, but dooms them to be together but always apart. Can Cole right the wrong, save his mate, and live happily ever after, or will his fairy tale become a nightmare? Indulging a Kinky Mate - The beauty of the beast… Shooting to kill was something Dillion Palmer was used to, but when a beautiful coyote stares him down, he finds himself shifting and claiming the creature as his mate. Micah is everything Dillion has hungered for, but just because they’re eternal mates doesn’t mean their relationship will go smoothly. Micah Grant was compelled to come to the desert, but he never thought he’d find a mate or discover he’s a coyote shifter. When he can’t escape his destiny, he becomes determined to stand his ground and claim his rights. But as he realizes the danger his brothers face, he must put aside what he wants for himself to protect the shifters as a whole. As Dillion and Micah struggle to accept one another, they must also fight multiple threats against their kind. Will Micah and Dillion learn to compromise, or will the cowboy shifters suffer a terrible loss?
Download or read book The Case of the Lucky Legs written by Brown Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book R A W Hitman written by S. Hussain Zaidi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2011, the double murder of gangsters Raju Pargai and Amit Arya rocked the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Pargai, who was well on his way to become a national security threat by smuggling weapons into India, had risen up the ranks of criminal quickly—but that also made him the target of Indian intelligence agencies, which then ordered the covert assassin named 'Agent Lima' to put him down. The day after the murder, Laxman 'Lucky' Bisht—an NSG commando who had also been the personal security officer for politicians such as L.K. Advani and then CM of Gujarat, Narendra Modi—was arrested from his home in Haldwani, accused of the double murder. Thereafter begins a tale shrouded in mystery and suspense. Was Agent Lima and Lucky Bisht one and the same person? And if they were not the same person, why did Lucky Bisht languish in prison for more than five years, being transported from jail to jail, his bail application denied, if he was working for the government? Master thriller writer S. Hussain Zaidi is back with a tale of intrigue and deceit in R.A.W. Hitman: The Real Story of Agent Lima. Based upon true events, this book will keep readers on their toes right till the end.
Download or read book Rohnert Park written by Tim Danisi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-five years ago, there was no Rohnert Park, only a vision in Paul Golis's mind. In 1962, just five years after construction of the first homes on land between Cotati and Santa Rosa, the community of Rohnert Park was incorporated. With a population of 40,000 today, the city has matured into more than simply a bedroom community. The planned neighborhoods Paul Golis and Maurice Fredericks designed for the first two sections, known as A and B, each included a school, pool, and park. These designs inspired many future city planners.
Download or read book Watch Those Car Guys written by Sandy Grasso and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WATCH THOSE CAR GUYS Eve used an apple...these guys used steel "Watch Those Car Guys"provides a window into the hectic, fast-moving and free-wheeling world of the automobile business during the post-war period. The absence of standardized factory prices for automobiles provided the dealer with the opportunity to manipulate prices in order to confuse customers. Quick sales by any manner were the primary objective. The pre-war practice of providing good service at fair prices for the purpose of repeat business was all but gone. Marty Stein is transformed from a respectful college sophomore into a devious automobile dealer. The greed and irresponsibility in his life parallels the practices evolving in the automobile business. His fifteen-year journey from a college sophomore to a felon leaves behind a wake that contains scores of deceived and disgruntled customers, a lover who almost dies from a bungled abortion, a son he may never see and the suicide of a trusting friend that was to a large extent Marty's fault.
Download or read book Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood written by Ron Backer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion volume to Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood (McFarland, 2010) focuses on 22 series and 167 individual films, primarily released during the 1930s. It was a decade that featured some of the most famous cinema detectives of all time, among them Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, Philo Vance, Nancy Drew, and such lesser known but equally entertaining figures as Hildegarde Withers, Torchy Blane, Mr. Moto, Mr. Wong, and Brass Bancroft. Each mystery movie series is placed within its historical context, with emphasis on its source material and the changes or developments within the series over time. Also included are reviews of all the series' films, analyzing the quality and cohesiveness of the mystery plotlines. For titles based on literary sources, a comparison between the film and the written work is provided.
Download or read book Just Lucky written by Melanie Florence and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things…like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t. Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you’ve ever known has been taken from you?
