Download or read book Inside Edge A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating written by Christine Brennan and published by Japanime Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles—for the first time—a season on the skating circuit, intimately portraying the lives, on and off the ice, of the sport's current and upcoming stars. Woven into the narrative are stories of figure skating luminaries—including Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, and Tara Lipinski. Revealing the backstage conflicts high-profile figure skaters face, and the ambition that drives them, Brennan also tells the stories of their families, of improbable rises to the top, and of wasted talents. If skaters are perfect, they can become international heroes. But if they fall, if they miss a three-revolution jump on a quarter-inch blade of steel, the despair is theirs alone. This is their life on the edge, where decades of training culminate in little more than four crucial minutes on the ice. There is no other sport like it. There is no other story like theirs.

Download or read book Jake Maddox Girl Skater s Secret written by Jake Maddox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie and Shannon are figure skaters and sisters. But Maggie is really tired of Shannon always being in the spotlight. For once, Maggie is determined to come out from behind her sister's shadow. Can Maggie learn to shine, even when Shannon always seems to get in her way?

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1948-10-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book The Secret Between Them written by Cathryn Parry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They share more than a past Wounded, weary and wiser, ex-marine Kyle Northrup had planned to stay far away from Wallis Point. But after his stepfather's passing, he must return home and claim his unexpected inheritance: the ice rink he grew up on. Except he has to share ownership with Jessica Hughes, the hometown girl who got away and whose figure skating career he ended. He'd hoped the rink would save him once more, as it had when he was a grief-stricken youth, but working with Jessica will be hard. Especially since his teenage infatuation is now full-blown adult attraction. And the last thing he wants to do is hurt Jessica again.

Download or read book Sophie Washington Secret Santa written by Tonya Duncan Ellis and published by Page Turner Publishing. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FUN READ ALL YEAR ROUND! Santa Claus is Coming to Town Christmas is three weeks away and a mysterious “Santa” has been mailing presents to sixth grader Sophie Washington in this adorable, illustrated chapter book for middle grade readers. There is no secret Santa gift exchange going on at her school, so she can’t imagine who it could be. Sophie’s best friends, Chloe, Valentina, and Mariama guess the gift giver is either Nathan Jones or Toby Johnson, two boys in Sophie’s class who have liked her in the past, but she’s not so sure. Sophie uncovers clues to find her secret Santa and the final reveal is bigger than any package she’s opened on Christmas morning. It’s a holiday surprise she’ll never forget! Here's what Goodreads reviewers say about Sophie Washington: Secret Santa: "It's the right kind of book a kid should be reading and the right kind of book their parent will be glad they are reading!" "I highly recommend Sophie Washington: Secret Santa. I am giving it five plus stars." "I was reminded of Enid Blyton books because of the very clear distinction between right and wrong, good family values, and kids who are still innocent and likable. I now desperately want to read all the books in the series for the feel good factor." This is the seventh book in the Readers' Favorite five star rated Sophie Washington book series that includes: Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee (Book 1) Sophie Washington: The Snitch (Book 2) Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie (Book 3) Sophie Washington: The Gamer (Book 4) Sophie Washington: Hurricane (Book 5) Sophie Washington: Mission Costa Rica (Book 6) Sophie Washington: Secret Santa (Book 7) Sophie Washington: Code One (Book 8) Sophie Washington: MIsmatch (Book 9) Kids Ages 8-12

Download or read book Setsuko s Secret written by Shirley Ann Higuchi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066. Only after a serious cancer diagnosis did Shirley's mother, Setsuko, share her vision for a museum at the site of the former camp, where she had been donating funds and volunteering in secret for many years. After Setsuko's death, Shirley skeptically accepted an invitation to visit the site, a journey that would forever change her life and introduce her to a part of her mother she never knew. Navigating the complicated terrain of the Japanese American experience, Shirley patched together Setsuko's story and came to understand the forces and generational trauma that shaped her own life. Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into the "camp life" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.

Download or read book A Mother s Secret written by Janice Kay Johnson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seems history has a nasty way of repeating itself for Daniel Kane. It's bad enough his mother harbored a secret about his heritage. Now his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Ballard is trying to do the same thing! Not on his watch. His son is going to know who his father is. But to give his child the future he deserves, Daniel has to make nice with Rebecca. That he can do. But he's not so sure he can forgive her for keeping their child a secret. Funny thing happens, though. Spending all that time with the pair makes him realize he might still care for her….

Download or read book Secret Chicago written by Sam Weller and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unique Guidebook to Chicago's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes

Download or read book The Secret written by Debi Towns and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is good. For most of us in America, life is very good. Many of us spend our years following our career dreams, enjoying those we love, trying to give back to our communities, and even being involved in our church. It is all great stuff. The good life becomes the goal. It gives a confident but false feeling of security by letting us think God must be okay with us because things are smooth. We rarely, if ever, seek to know our Creator in a personal way. Often justifying that our decisions are His will, we glide along through the good life. But He wants more. When there is an awakening of the soul, it is God calling us. Sometimes life takes us to a place we don't know--but a place where God can get our attention. And if we are fortunate enough to listen and choose to follow His call, He will respond and come in and dwell with us. We finally belong. We belong to the one who transcends this life. Our desire to be with Him begins to absorb us. For some, this can be a traumatic or dramatic experience. But many may not have such an eventful conversion. The good, decent life that many live in today's America may actually make it more difficult to realize that the plan of salvation is meant for each individually. God does not want to just coexist somewhere out there; He is the reason for our existence. He loves us and wants a relationship with each of us.

Download or read book Hummingbird Secrets written by Triece Bartlett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christmas with Her Secret Prince written by Nina Singh and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her last-minute plus one… A prince in disguise! Waitress Melina Osmon is dreading attending her work Christmas ball alone for the first time since her ex took everything from her. But a little Christmas magic brings her a savior in the form of mysterious, gorgeous Ray. Yet the happy ending of Mel’s festive fairytale is uncertain — Ray is Crown Prince Rayhan al Saibbi and soon he must choose... Mel, or duty to his kingdom. “…I highly recommend this one, Ms. Singh has written a story that ticks all of the boxes for a true romance that is sure to warm your heart and leave you smiling, thank you for a fabulous story.” Goodreads on Snowed in with the Reluctant Tycoon “It was wonderfully sweet.... [The characters] make you believe in love. They make you want to ensure that you have the right person by your side. I loved it.” Goodreads on Tempted by Her Island Millionaire

Download or read book The Girl with the Saddest Secret written by Angela Hart and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uplifting true story from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author, Angela Hart. Why has no one given Jasmine the safety and care she desperately needs? Angela is determined to find a solution. Jasmine is a little girl with a difficult upbringing whose current foster carers have refused to keep her on as they can no longer handle her behaviour. Social Services place her with specialist foster carer Angela Hart. Angela does her best to provide a secure environment for Jasmine in the hope that she can begin to move on, but it proves challenging as Jasmine often breaks out in bursts of anger and sometimes physical violence. Can Angela show Jasmine what safety looks like? And can she help Jasmine's beloved grandparents – who have been campaigning to become her full-time guardians – persuade social services that they are best placed to look after this troubled little girl? The Girl with the Saddest Secret is the eighth book from well-loved foster carer Angela Hart. A true story that shares the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years. Angela's stories show the difference that quiet care, a watchful eye and sympathetic ear can make to those children whose upbringing has been less fortunate than others.

Download or read book FAITH A Secret Life written by Chub Yublinsky and published by Thomas Kirkwood. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Miller, 18 years old, sits in a packed courtroom, accused of the rape and murder of his high-school girlfriend, Faith. The novel, written in first person, recounts the dramatic saga of the last two years from Josh's point of view. Time is layered, events are staggered, so we see the action from one character's many different perspectives. Sometimes Josh describes extraneous events, sometimes he turns to internal monologue. As a consequence of the novel's structure, the reader lives the tension between the protagonist as an adolescent and as a man, both in his real physical existence and in his thoughts. Traditional coming-of-age themes are sharpened by Josh's ability to look back at them from the perspective of a kid forced prematurely into adulthood.So much for general remarks. Within the first few pages, both the reader and Josh realize that the evidence convincingly implicates Josh. Obviously, we know that the heroine is dead; what we don't know is why though the prosecution's first witness would seem to have told us. We next find ourselves in the months before Josh and Faith meet. Josh's high school in an affluent Midwestern suburb is preparing to institute a pilot program for gifted kids taught by professors from a nearby university. Parental money talks, a room is transformed into an ideal setting for education, the students surprise everyone, including themselves, by their passionate interest in subjects and ideas that would seem to constitute a formula for adolescent boredom.It is into this class of exuberant, sometimes troubled, always brilliant young people that Faith Hansen walks, a "new girl" from Philadelphia whose credentials are off the chart. Josh is not interested in those credentials. Faith would seem to be the perfect girl, as sexy as she is smart, endowed with seductive charm and a sense of humor that won't quit. Though "such things do not happen in his world," Josh and Faith soon hook up intimately. Their relationship, like Faith herself, seems perfect: it is tender, sincere, profound. The two stake out their private world, an abandoned quarry deep in the woods whose only tie to civilization is a defunct narrow-gauge rail line. Josh builds them a place to be alone; the quarry provides steep walls for rock climbing and a promontory for summer diving. Much of the action of the novel takes place in and around this idyllic setting. There is of course the school, the courthouse, the occasional road trip.Josh's emotions as an adolescent painfully in love are paralleled by his later struggle with Faith's absence not to mention officialdom's apparent decision that he is the cause. These emotions peak shortly before Faith's death, and again as the trial nears its conclusion. What happened to Faith is revealed in shocking fashion at the end of Part II; what happened to Josh must await the denouement of the story. I'm not going to describe these events here: knowing them will make the novel an entirely different read

Download or read book Secrets to Love Life and Be Happy written by Alex A. Lluch and published by WS Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone deserves to be happy and live life to the fullest. However, millions of people struggle with loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and depression every day. Secrets to Enjoy Life and Be Happy shows readers that anyone can achieve true happiness by making just quick, simple changes to their perspective, attitude, and lifestyle. Secrets to Enjoy Life and Be Happy provides 100 practical, valuable secrets that readers can apply to start them on the road to true happiness. Additionally, 100 journal pages, complete with short questions and exercises, help you make the most of the each secret. This book gives readers secrets on topics such as accepting themselves, enriching their friendships, getting healthy, finding new interests, overcoming fears, and building confidence. No matter their age, faith, or financial and relationship status, readers will find ideas that they can apply immediately to enjoy life in ways they never thought possible. And all readers will enjoy the chance to reflect and comment on their experiences using the journal pages.

Download or read book Tim Possible the Secret of the Snake Pit written by Axel Maisy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Timmy Failure and Dog Man comes the third wacky adventure in the Tim Possible chapter book series about two best friends and a time-traveling T-Rex—this time taking on Weremoles! Tim and his best friends Tito and Oskar, the time-traveling T-Rex, battle the evil Weremoles—an army of hungry, sharp-toothed rock-munchers who are out to destroy their fair city of Metrosalis! Will Tim’s worrying superpower help them defeat the underground monsters, or is doomsday just a worry away?

Download or read book Secret Louisville A Guide to the Weird Wonderful and Obscure written by Kevin Gibson and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cinderella s Daughter and the Secret of Big Bend written by Diane Garner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Garner considers herself a small town Texas Anglo girl with an astonishingly successful single mom. She experiences a dramatic transition from desperate poverty that resulted when her father abandoned the family. The family finds prosperity in a small Texas town when her mother becomes a hospital executivea very unusual career for a woman in the fifties. Diane grows up in the nurturing community where she enjoys various adventures and mischievous pranks with friends. One day at the age of twenty-two she learns a startling secret about her mothers hidden past, then embarks on a journey to restore the lost legacy of her family.