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Author : John Alexander Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : California
ISBN : UOM:39015027067936
Author : Al Unser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642341037
Winning came naturally for Al Unser, Jr. He had a gift for finding the fast line on the track and he possessed a boisterous and lovable personality. Fans and the press adored him. Behind this affable persona, an appetite for drugs and alcohol was destroying his private life. Unser's battle to climb out of that cave is one of the great stories in motorsports. A Checkered Past is an unblinking story of triumph, tragedy, and the road to recovery.
Author : William Van Poyck
Publisher : 1st Book Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : Criminals
ISBN : 1410734390
Cataclysmic events set the stage for the formation of an unlikely partnership that will bend the course of history. In China a brutal attack by a rampaging warlord sends a rich young couple on a desperate voyage where they become targets of the Tong Of The Black Hand. Meanwhile, a half-dead Yankee officer escapes from a notorious Confederate prison and returns to his ranch and the arms of his raven haired wife, a beauty in bootpants. Fate, destiny, or maybe just pure accident will soon bring Malcolm and Steffi Frazier and Ben Wang and Su Chang together. Events unfold rapidly when copper prices skyrocket. Bank stock in an Arizona mining venture becomes available to Ben and his banker when the mine owners are gunned down. The bankers wife is murdered during a kidnapping in which Su Chang is captured by the Tong and taken to Colorado. Malcolm leads a high mountain rescue attempt and Steffi gains heroine status when forced into a gunbattle with rustlers, actions which endear them to Ben Wang who now controls the mining stock. In this fast paced thinking person's thriller, the reader is swept up in blazing action occurring in China, Kansas, Colorado, Mexico, and Arizona, and is treated to a rare look into the financial pressures and strategies to be dealt with as our heroes prepare to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: The quest for the untold riches of the Rose Pit Mine. It all welds a colorful cast of never-to-be-forgotten characters together in a saga which will enrich the reader from beginning to end. BLACK HAND OVER KANSAS-the first in a series of three books-stands alone. It can be enjoyed singly, or, if the reader is caught up in the adventure, THE JOURNADA DEL MUERTO and THE VICTORS will be available for publication soon.
Author : Malia Blake
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546331921
Have you ever wondered what stories your clothes could tell if given the chance? Blue Checkered Shorts shares her tale of a short but ultimately fulfilled life after she takes the chance at the risk of living. Experience her transformation from the bottom of the clothes pile to the top shelf by becoming the most valuable member of the wardrobe. Blue Checkered's story will inspire even the most timid of children to find the courage to conquer their greatest fear.
Author : Fern L. Henry
Publisher : Carl Mautz Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1887694528
My Checkered Life is Luzena Stanley Wilson's classic account of her family's 1849 overland journey and life in early California. Fern Henry draws upon her considerable skills as a researcher to bring to light intriguing details, following the Wilson family from their Quaker beginnings in North Carolina, to their experiences in Nevada City, Sacramento, and Vacaville. This compelling story is enriched with narratives of other gold seekers and settlers, and illustrated with rare photographs, documents, and engravings.
Author : Peter Schlesinger
Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106016460419
"Fascinated with the rich tradition and youthful creativity of London in the 1960s and longing to leave suburban America, a wide-eyed twenty-year-old Californian named Peter Schlesinger arrived in 1968 with his partner, David Hockney, to study painting at the Slade School of Art. He stayed on for ten years and moved in some of the city's most intriguing social and artistic circles. Manolo Blahnik, Paloma Picasso, Ossie Clark, Cecil Beaton, Bianca Jagger, Christopher Isherwood, and Bryan Ferry - all became friends of the bright and talented Schlesinger, along with other prominent figures in the worlds of art, ballet, music, photography, film, and society." "Schlesinger was one of Hockney's favorite models and he appears in many of his most important paintings of this period, but he was a gifted artist in his own right, with a tireless interest in documenting the amazing world of London bohemia in which he found himself. His privileged position during these extraordinary years resulted in literally thousands of intimate photographs of friends and acquaintances in everyday situations, taken both at home in London and on numerous trips to continental Europe. Featuring 180 of the most artful and revealing images, Checkered Past guides us with a wry eye through the artists' studios, fashion shows, grand country houses, and gay discos that made London such a magnet during the late 1960s and early 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Alexander Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU01492870
Contains biographical sketches of prominent figures of the Civil War as well as personal experiences and descriptions of events, including a number of poems written by the author.
Author : John Alexander Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348117534
Author : Marguerite Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Journalists
ISBN : UOM:39015046343995
Author : Ivan L. Flynn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468536454
A Checkered Path to Destiny is about the survival of a young man born in a rural area of Jamaica into the Lower Class of Society. It tells of his constant desire to find a place to call home and a fit for him in Jamaican society. Ivan really digs deep to open a window to the world he survived. Every child has the right to a name, a home and an education. Sadly, a lack of those basic rights plus hunger and abuse all became a normal part of Ivan's severely limited childhood. Some of the odds against him were: a broken home, being placed as a servant in the care of others, a lack of education and many of his trials were self-imposed. The Checkered Path in Jamaica took a dramatic turn that changed his life forever. Ivan indicates in this book that he has always been inspired by people of high moral values and fortitude. These were people he held up as role models, and chose to emulate throughout his life. As a result, he learns very early in life that all good opportunities come and go and like a moving platform one must chose to either hop on or watch in bewilderment as it gets out of reach. Unfortunately as he grew older, he did not always practice what he had learned. A Checkered Path to Destiny will horrify, intrigue and delight people of all ages - globally. Perhaps you will smile as you read this book, and even question the author's rational for being so candid about certain events, but in this writing his history shows not what he wished it could have been, but what was and what is.
Author : Nedler Palaz
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460213087
By 1883, Dave Smith has matured into the cowboy life without fear of retribution from his father’s criminal schemes, but the long reach of Jason de Forest sends bounty hunter outlaws after Dave resulting in a shootout that kills four men. The last great overland cattle-drive of the Checker Board on the old Chisholm Trail into Kansas is confounded by misfortunes. Subsequent confrontations lead deeper into disaster, all maneuvered by an unseen vicious hand at land grabbing that results in a deadly attack. The combined forces of Checker Board hands, Mexicans, and Comanche Indians assault the Checker Board ranch to seize control from brutal squatters. The ensuing massacre brings reprisals against them and brands them renegades. Sam Eagle Feather attempts to bring about a cease-fire between the law and the renegades succeeding only in a lone rescue in order to fight another day.
Author : Lisa Harper
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718011208
Are you truly willing to risk everything? In Believing Jesus, Bible teacher and author Lisa Harper retraces the steps of the apostles in the book of Acts, while throwing in a few of her own crazy adventures along the way. The disciples didn’t have much of a road map after Jesus ascended to heaven, but God’s grace and spirit filled in the gaps as they moved forward. It required their willingness to risk everything to establish a new community that would change the future world. As a regular speaker on the Women of Faith® tour, Lisa has earned a reputation as a true theological scholar and hilarious storyteller—not necessarily in that order! Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado calls Lisa one of the “best Bible tour guides around.” Believing Jesus will highlight both of Lisa’s strengths as she tackles every chapter of the Book of Acts with biblical wisdom and modern wit. Lisa keeps it real, telling stories on herself and pointing readers back to Jesus, the only one who can truly lead.
Author : Edward S. Cooper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683930136
The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, “I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate.” McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president “actually stood god-father at its christening.” The demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his “Untouchables” ever accomplished during the prohibition era in America.
Author : Jean Leonhard Henri Corneille Ver Mehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101063843062
Author : Liz Rosenberg
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763699062
An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, “I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.” Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud’s personal life. Her childhood was spent with strict, undemonstrative grandparents, and her reflections on writing, her lifelong struggles with anxiety and depression, her “year of mad passion,” and her difficult married life remained locked away, buried deep within her unpublished personal journals. Through this revealing and deeply moving biography, kindred spirits of all ages who, like Maud, never gave up “the substance of things hoped for” will be captivated anew by the words of this remarkable woman.
