A Ghost on Two Wheels
A Ghost on Two Wheels

Author: Bebe Balocca

Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1781841063

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An accident tore us apart, but I can't live without Michael. I'll find a way to love him, even if it's the death of me... Ivy and Michael, her tattoo artist boyfriend, share a timeless, passionate love. Both work from home, so their breaks are spent together, making love and going for erotically-charged motorcycle rides through the countryside. They plan to make their bond official with name tattoos over each other's hearts, but fate and a reckless driver bring their world to a crashing halt. At first, Ivy is devastated by grief, but she finds that she can make contact with Michael once more. She can touch him in his phantom form and feel his ghostly caresses. Across the veil of death, their lovemaking is different, but every bit as heated. Their after-death journey is mysterious, romantic, and undeniably erotic. Ivy and Michael learn that sexual pleasure remains after life ends, and that death doesn't stand in the way of true love.

Two Wheels Good
Two Wheels Good

Author: Jody Rosen

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1448192250

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much? Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity. By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance. 'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist 'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe

The Ghosts Went Floating
The Ghosts Went Floating

Author: Kim Norman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 0374388601

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A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 Inspired by the children's song "The Ants Went Marching" and involving early math concepts, writer Kim Norman and illustrator Jay Fleck's The Ghosts Went Floating is a spooktacular adventure perfect for Halloween. The ghosts went floating, one by one, BOO-rah! BOO-rah! when Halloween had just begun. BOO-rah! BOO-rah! The ghosts went floating, one by one, so why don’t YOU come join the fun? Trick-or-treat with ghosts, skeletons, witches, zombies, and all sorts of cute and creepy creatures in this fun-filled Halloween counting adventure!

Ghosts Don't Ride Bikes, Do They?
Ghosts Don't Ride Bikes, Do They?

Author: Andres Miedoso

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1534410414

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After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.

Motorcycle Mysteries
Motorcycle Mysteries

Author: Gary Koz Mraz

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781496114020

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Entertaining and irreverent journeys in search of El Chupacabre, Big Foot, Energy Vortex's and UFO Domes. Chasing stories of Alien abduction, Skinwalkers the ghost of Graham Parsons and a be-headed prostitute. Finding "Here" in Pink Floyds "Wish You Were Here" and "Champ", America's Loch Ness Monster. Following the trail of Easy Rider and riding Route 666.Koz Mraz has published over 200 tour stories and articles for Quick Throttle Magazine, Baggers Magazine, American Iron, Cruiser and www.bikernet.com . His "Piers of the West Coast –Traveled on Two Wheels" series explores Piers from Mexico to Canada. In "Motorcycle Mysteries", Koz travels to fascinating and unique destinations. A collection of rides through California, Arizona, Utah, Mexico, Hawaii , New England and abroad his stories are filled with fun facts, drama and a dash of humor. Motorcycle Mysteries will inspire an adventure of your own.

Two Wheels on my Wagon
Two Wheels on my Wagon

Author: Paul Howard

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-04-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1780570635

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As bicycle races go, the attractions of the Tour Divide are not immediately apparent. For a start, it is the longest mountain-bike race in the world, running nearly 3,000 miles down the Rockies from Canada to Mexico. But the distance is not the only challenge - the total ascent of 200,000 ft is the equivalent of scaling Mount Everest nearly seven times. Then there are the dangerous animals likely to be encountered on the route: grizzly bears, mountain lions and wolves, not to mention rattlesnakes and tarantulas. Worse, the rewards for all this effort are strictly limited. Unlike in the Tour de France, there is no fabled yellow jersey and no prize money. Yet, undaunted, and in spite of never having owned a mountain bike, Paul Howard signed up. Battling the worst weather for generations, drinking whiskey with a cowboy and singing karaoke with the locals, Howard's journey turned into more than just a race - it became the adventure of a lifetime.

Blue Bike, Blue Moon -- Love and Lunacy on Two Wheels
Blue Bike, Blue Moon -- Love and Lunacy on Two Wheels

Author: Erec Toso

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1387291971

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Blue Bike compiles stories of bike love and loss. Toso travels the dangerous terrain of obsession with the high art and sacred geometry of man's most wonderful invention. Here you will find zany friends enduring weeks of flatulence, a final bike ride with a dying father, and threats of jail time in Ruby, Arizona. All of this is fresh picked, raw, and good for your heart. Time to take a spin.

Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

Author: Anthony M. Townsend

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1324001534

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A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive. For decades we have dreamed of building an automobile that can drive itself. But as that dream of autonomy draws close, we are discovering that the driverless car is a red herring. When self-driving technology infects buses, bikes, delivery vans, and even buildings…a wild, woollier, future awaits. Technology will transform life behind the wheel into a high-def video game that makes our ride safer, smoother, and more efficient. Meanwhile, autonomous vehicles will turbocharge our appetite for the instant delivery of goods, making the future as much about moving things as it is about moving people. Giant corporations will link the automated machines that move us to the cloud, raising concerns about mobility monopolies and privatization of streets and sidewalks. The pace of our daily lives and the fabric of our cities and towns will change dramatically as automated vehicles reprogram the way we work, shop, and play. Ghost Road is both a beacon and a warning; it explains where we might be headed together in driverless vehicles, and the choices we must make as societies and individuals to shape that future.

Culture on Two Wheels
Culture on Two Wheels

Author: Jeremy Withers

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0803290438

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"Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger-idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history. Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle's flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett's modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer's pilgrims via bicycle. "--