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Author: Marina Cohen
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2009-10-19
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1459717422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 14-year-old Sam McLean reluctantly joins Cody and his sidekick, Javon, for a ghost ride, something goes terribly wrong. Cody convinces Sam to flee the scene, leaving Javon for dead. Soon mysterious messages appear. As Sam struggles with his conscience, a haunting question remains: Who else knows the truth?
Author: Andres Miedoso
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1534410414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
Author: Neil Peart
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1554907063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. That lack of direction lead him on a 5
Author: Michael Aquino
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-02-02
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781985010963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften pestered to write an autobiography, Michael Aquino has always demurred: "No one would believe it, and I'm not sure I would either!" But looking for lifelinks, he hit upon the idea of an "automobiography" - sequentialisms suggested by some of the unique cars he discovered over the decades. Here's an expose of Michael's dalliances with his mechanical mistresses, a re-collection that often veers off-road into weird wanderings, space spectacles, and Twilight Zonics: a tantalization of incredible fact and credible fiction, anecnotes, and tachomemories. Fasten your seat belt and hang on for the ride of your afterlife!
Author: Chris Dixon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2011-10-21
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1452110093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Takes us to a place of almost mythic power and tells a story that unfolds like a long ride on a killer wave . . . compellingly written.” —Sebastian Junger, New York Times–bestselling author Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just fifteen feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the biggest rideable wave on the face of the earth. In this dramatic work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Chris Dixon unlocks the secrets of Cortes Bank and pulls readers into the harrowing world of big wave surfing and high seas adventure above the most enigmatic and dangerous rock in the sea. The true story of this Everest of the sea will thrill anyone with an abiding curiosity of and respect for mother ocean. “A terrific, deeply researched tale about a truly wild place. You couldn’t make up Cortes Bank, or the characters who’ve tried to make it theirs.” —William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life “A first-rate account of an amazing phenomenon and the people who tried to conquer and exploit it. A great read.” —Winston Groom, New York Times–bestselling author of Forrest Gump “After reading Chris’ most excellent account of the monstrous waves of the mysterious Cortes Bank—the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific—I never thought I would ever consider riding a wave like this. But after surviving a five-foot, head-first fall from the stage earlier this year, I think I might be ready.” —Jimmy Buffett
Author: Colin Hawkins
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780744577945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome for a ride on the spookiest ghost train ever. Under every flap something horrible lurks. Through the dark tunnel, over the loathsome pit, deep in the scary forest, into the gruesome graveyard, past the haunted chapel and into the creepy crypt - who knows what surprises await you
Author: Marina Cohen
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2011-12-24
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1459700716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Clair discovers a book of spells, she quickly learns that she can’t solve her problems with magic. Teased by her older brother, bullied by the popular girls at school, and plagued by a blistering pimple that has surfaced on the tip of her nose, twelve-year-old Claire Murphy wishes she could shrivel up and die or spontaneously combust. But when a mysterious book appears at her feet in the checkout aisle of a grocery store, Claire is confident all her troubles are over. Following the instructions carefully, Claire dives nose-first into reeking remedies, rollicking rituals, and silly spells. It’s only when she recklessly disregards the Law of Three that the line between good and evil blurs and Claire must race against time to undo all of the trouble she’s caused.
Author: Joy Priest
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 0822987589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPriest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track—before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of “the horses & their restless minds.”
Author: Mauktik Kulkarni
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2009-08-07
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1440161089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"...The reader departs with the narrator from Louisville and accompanies him on his route, which takes him from Peru, through Argentina and Chile, on his return through Peru and eventually on his return to Louisville, Kentucky. However, the human side of the story that occurs with the narrator, in fact the most outstanding part of the story, does not follow as linear a path as the trip on which Kulkarni embarks through the areas of South America. In fact, what stands out most in the text is the mastery of narration that catches the reader from the first page and never lets go. One continues reading because one wants to (needs to, in fact) know what will happen next. The plot contrasts the trip through geographic points, the ponderings and reflections of Mauktik along his trip and his retrospective vision of his life. The result is fascinating. All of it awakens our attention... ...The book is a cultural/anthropological study that permits us access to the perspective of a person coming from another culture disparate from that of Latin America, a non-North American vision of our people and our customs. What's fascinating is that the narrator does not speak Spanish fluently; a reader that has a command of both languages quickly notes the linguistic errors. However, one immediately recognizes that the value and purpose of the book goes far beyond linguistic conventions. A Ghost of Che explores the human condition, as told by a narrator who travels thousands of kilometers in search of the unknown and who ends up finding himself; in the process, he discovers the goodness of people. Probably, the best tribute that one could make to the book would be to say that the reader wants to embark on a similar journey after reading it." - Dr. Manuel F. Medina, Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Spanish, University of Louisville, in Al Da en Amrica. Full review is available Here
Author: Mark Felton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0306825600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered . . . As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaner's from Vienna's Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions -- stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving Red Army reaches the stables first, they will kill the horses for rations. The Americans, under the command of General George Patton, whose love of horses was legendary, decide to help the Germans save the majestic creatures. So begins "Operation Cowboy," as GIs join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners of war to save the world's finest horses from fanatical SS soldiers and the ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the war in Europe. This is an epic untold story from the waning days of World War II. Drawing from newly unearthed archival material, family archives held by descendants of the participants, and interviews with many of the participants published throughout the years, Ghost Riders is the definitive account of this truly unprecedented and moving story of kindness and compassion at the close of humanity's darkest hour.
