Heft On Wheels

Author : Mike Magnuson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400052416
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heft on Wheels written by Mike Magnuson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time. Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XXL biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal. Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.

Author : Mike Magnuson
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609617436
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bike Tribes written by Mike Magnuson and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and essential illustrated field guide that breaks down the tribes of the bicycling community: from the spandex-clad weekend warriors to the hipsters on street bikes who love to laugh at each other (and themselves) Anyone who rides a bike knows the bicycling world is made up of tribes. From tattooed messengers to pretty urban hipsters to grouchy shop owners, they may look like they live on different planets, but they are united by their abiding love of bikes—and often their total disdain of other members of this insular world. Bike Tribes is the Preppy Handbook of bicycling, replete with one-of-a-kind illustrations that taxonomize the special habits, clothing, preferences, and predilections of cyclists. Mike Magnuson, an avid rider, bicycling expert, and longtime contributor to Bicycling magazine, covers the basics of racing, etiquette, and apparel and gear, including running commentary on cycling culture, poking holes in practically every pretension in the cycling world. Bike Tribes is a fun romp through the various subcultures in the bike community—bound to appeal to newcomers and grizzled cyclists alike.

Author : Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536221686
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patchwork Bike written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The words and images in this snapshot story pulse with resourceful ingenuity, joyful exuberance, and layered meanings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When you live in a village at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a license plate from bark if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for whooping and laughing as you bumpetty bump over sand hills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, this joyous story from Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd, is now available as an ebook.

Author : Sally Sutton
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763673382
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demolition written by Sally Sutton and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is all about as good as it gets for truck-obsessed preschoolers." — The Horn Book (starred review) Features an audio read-along! From the huge crane with a swinging ball (crack! ) to the toothy jaws that ram the walls (thwack! ), this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads showcase the gargantuan machines in all their glory.

Author : Paolo Facchinetti
Publisher : VeloPress
ISBN 13 : 9781934030370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Campagnolo written by Paolo Facchinetti and published by VeloPress. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campagnolo's rich history began with the founder, Tullio Campagnolo, a racer who turned to creating better bicycle parts when he found the equipment of the day not adequate for the rigours of professional competition. This book is suitable for lovers of the sport of cycling, as well as connoisseurs of the bicycle itself.

Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101543558
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall of Giants written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .

Author : Andy Hillstrand
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345504127
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Bandit written by Andy Hillstrand and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.” By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself—a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature.

Author : Julie Anne Peters
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316205648
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretend You Love Me written by Julie Anne Peters and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant novel about queer identity from National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Mike (real name: Mary Elizabeth) is gay and likes to pump iron, play softball, and fix plumbing. In addition to her identity, Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father's suicide and her mother's detachment from the family. When a glamorous new girl, Xanadu, arrives in Mike's small Kansas town, Mike falls in love at first sight. Xanadu is everything Mike is not: cool, confident, feminine, sexy...and straight. Originally published under the title Far From Xanadu, this heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful novel will speak to anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone who can't love them back.

Author : Peter Cameron
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226960
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Happens at Night written by Peter Cameron and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).

Author : Robert Crowther
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780763655877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazing Pop-up Trucks written by Robert Crowther and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and pop-up illustrations introduce five different kinds of trucks from cement truck to garbage truck, and explain what they can do. Uses metric measurements.