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Tales from the Back Bumper

Author : Christopher Garrish
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927527030

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Buckle up your seatbelt and prepare for a ride on the history highway! Christopher Garrish has collected hundreds of facts and photos (not to mention licence plates) in this astonishing assembly of motoring madness. Discover what the earliest motorists in the province used to build their own licence plates; why some licence plate numbers are worth waiting in line overnight for; which offensive acronym slipped under the radar and found its way onto a licence plate before authorities recalled it; and dozens of other entertaining anecdotes. Whether you're a car connoisseur or a tailgating trucker, you'll find that Tales from the Back Bumper is more than just an ABC-123 account of licence plates. This book is not only the definitive guide to everything from plate prefixes and decals to provincial slogans and vanity plates, but also a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at how cars—and by extension licence plates—have played a part in our exploration and navigation of "Beautiful British Columbia" for the past hundred years.

A Paramedic’s Tales

Author : Graeme Taylor
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550179033

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In most people’s minds, ambulances are best avoided—we pull over to let them pass, perhaps briefly thanking the universe that the day’s events have not necessitated our own swift passage to the ER, and then we go on with business as usual. But have you ever wondered, as that siren screeches by, what it would be like to work as a paramedic, when the most dire emergency is just another day at the office? In A Paramedic’s Tales, Graeme Taylor reveals all—from the humorous to the horrific. Not knowing what’s around the bend makes for a fast-paced adventure every time a paramedic goes on duty. Taylor, who worked as a paramedic for twenty-one years in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland, the BC Interior and Victoria, shares true stories that are both gritty and uncensored, yet the compassion and courage of co-workers, patients, strangers—and people who had previously threatened to kill our narrator—shine through the gore. The author writes that as a paramedic, to stop from crying you have to keep laughing, and readers will find themselves doing the same. From the near-daily task of deciding whether to send someone to the ER or the drunk tank, to the occasional miracle, to the just plain ridiculous, readers will gain insight into everyday life in emergency medicine. With stories set across the province, from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to down the side of a cliff, these rollicking tales explain the perils of life before GPS, what to do if a drunk mob surrounds your ambulance, and how to drive like a paramedic.

Tales and Torts

Author : Robert B. Kearl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039157293

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“The newspaper headline declared in large bold letters: “Shoot Out At High Noon.” Reading the first paragraph of the article disclosed the truth of the old saying, “don’t take a knife to a gun fight.” The man with the knife lay dead on the ground, while the fellow with the rifle fled the scene in his blue Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck” (from “The Love Triangle”). Tales and Torts: Stories of a Country Lawyer is a unique collection of short stories proving the axiom, “sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.” Each story recounted is based on a real legal case and each illuminates the human condition. Love, prized animals, tragedy, murder, swindlers and thieves, disgruntled family members, and hardened criminals. These tales involve a wide variety of cases in many areas of the law with astonishing fact patterns and extraordinary individuals chosen out of thousands of cases over a forty-year legal career. From the Jewish Russian tenor escaping religious persecution in Russia, to the Tongan travelling to experience the miracle of snow in Canada, to Li jing, whose life was tragically altered on Chinese New Year’s Eve, each character is brought to life with humour, compassion, and an eye to achieving one goal: justice.

Tales from the University of South Carolina Gamecocks Locker Room

Author : Tom Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781683580737

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Tales from the University of South Carolina Gamecocks Locker Room by Tom Price Pdf

With one of the most amazing football turnarounds in NCAA history, from 0-21 in 1998-99 to a 2001 Outback Bowl victory over Ohio State and six subsequent championships since, the South Carolina Gamecocks rang in the new century with a bang. For 45 years, author Tom Price was in Columbia, South Carolina recording the stories that have made the Gamecocks one of America's greatest collegiate sports teams. Whether it’s tales of football, basketball, soccer, baseball, golf, track and field, or any one of the Gamecocks’ many other sports, this book, first published in 2001, captures it all through engaging anecdotes gleaned from the author’s many years of personal experience and interviews with athletes and others connected with the university. Perfect for the shelf of any fan of the garnet and black! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Angel Tales

Author : Catherine Lanigan
Publisher : Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462101931

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Learn how to travel through life on active "angel watch"—-always open to the many ways in which angels contact us—-with this thought-provoking collection of true life miracles. By weaving a tapestry of inspiring stories from readers and personal experiences, Catherine Lanigan takes readers on a spiritual journey. Angel Tales will inspire you to pursue your own divine path and leave you with a sense of peace and new hope.

All My Patients Have Tales

Author : Jeff Wells
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781429966955

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All My Patients Have Tales is a heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many other domestic, and not so "domestic" animals. Wells begins his work as an inexperienced recent college grad and emerges a caring and beloved veterinarian. Affording the reader an inside glimpse into his daily life, he narrates many uplifting, life-altering, lifethreatening, and hilarious episodes.

Tales of the Caballos

Author : William H. White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465348654

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Tales of the Caballos by William H. White Pdf

This is the first complete book Bill has written on the subject of Treasure Hunting. Up to this point he has merely documented his forays to the many out of the way places that still exist in this vast country. He is currently working on his second Treasure Hunting book and reports being about half finished at this writing. He promises the reader that there will be very little re-hashing of old stories and events except when there are new prospects to explore. Bill also promises that most stories will be in print for the first time. This second book on Treasure Hunting should be out by early 2004.

Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

Author : Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200687978

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Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird by Jonathan Maberry Pdf

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov. Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from Cosmic Horror, Sword and Sorcery, Space Opera, to the Truly Weird—things too strange to publish elsewhere, and the magazine’s raison d’etre. Landmark stories such as “The Call of Cthulhu”, “Worms of the Earth”, and “Legal Rites” stand beside original stories and insightful essays from today’s masters of speculative fiction. This visually stunning hardcover edition is a collector’s dream, illustrated throughout with classic full color and black & white art from past issues of Weird Tales Magazine.

A Sea Dog's Tale: The True Story of a Small Dog on a Big Ocean

Author : Peter Muilenburg
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781937644086

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A Sea Dog's Tale: The True Story of a Small Dog on a Big Ocean by Peter Muilenburg Pdf

A family with wanderlust, a sailboat to carry them across oceans, and an 11-pound dog to watch over them… These are the elements of this delightful memoir of adventurous living. Young newlyweds Peter and Dorothy Muilenburg found their way from New Hampshire to the Virgin Islands. He had been a civil rights Freedom Fighter, jailed in Mississippi while protesting racial injustice. In St. John, she founded the Pine Peace School. They both taught. On an East End beach, he built a sailboat strong enough to take them anywhere, and they put to sea with their two young sons. But their crew was not yet complete. Santos, a schipperke, came to them as a tiny puppy and sailed with them all his life—75,000 deep-sea miles—four times across the Atlantic, crisscrossing the Caribbean, coasting the U.S. eastern seaboard, exploring the Med, ranging up African rivers. A lightning rod for trouble, he survived a kidnapping, hurricanes, raging surf, being lost overboard at sea, and was twice given up for dead. And he watched over his family with fierce and abiding devotion. If you want to see the world—really see it—go by sailboat. And if you want to absorb the world through every pore, take a venturesome dog as your guide. The bright spirit named Santos became a legend to millions of readers through the pages of SAIL and Reader’s Digest magazines. Now Peter Muilenburg—a wise and observant chronicler with a true wanderer’s desire to engage the world on authentic terms—has written this captivating story of familial love and adventure, unforgettable people and places, and an amazing schipperke who has sailed right into the sea dog hall of fame.

The Bumper Book

Author : Watty Piper
Publisher : Price Stern Sloan
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 0448420015

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Enchanting, timeless children's classics by A.A. MilneRobert Louis Stevenson and more. Includes "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat", "Wynken, Blynken and Nod", as well as other beloved favorites.

A Twice-told Tale

Author : Santiago Juan-Navarro,Theodore Robert Young
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137330

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Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

The Lincoln Story

Author : Thomas E. Bonsall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0804749418

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The Lincoln Story by Thomas E. Bonsall Pdf

Lincoln's heritage is as rich as that of any car built anywhere in the world, and more impressive than all but a few. Generations of Americans have known it as the Car of Presidents; since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, the White House has exhibited a marked preference for Lincolns. This comprehensive, illustrated history describes in detail the successes and failures of the Lincoln from World War II up to the present-day Aviator. It discusses the forces in the market and in Ford Motor Company that have affected the Lincoln, and is a must read for anyone interested in this classic marque.

North Side Story

Author : Frank W. Pandozzi
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Vietnamese fiction
ISBN : 9780741417411

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North Side Story by Frank W. Pandozzi Pdf

They were called the Back Alley Boys and best define the North Side of Syracuse, New York during the '50s and '60s. Although not as legendary as the "Dead End Kids" portrayed in the movies of the 1930s, they had their own flare for drama. But North Side story is not just a story about growing up on the North Side in the '50s and '60s. It is also a story of a changing neighborhood. Names like Stretch, Axle, Scams, and Boogers are now gone. Today the North Side residents have names like Cuong, Danh, and Ai'. Just as the immigrant grandparents of the Back Alley Boys had once struggled to come to this country, so did the Vietnamese "boatpeople." North Side story is their story as well.

Short Stories from My Heart

Author : Larry Wade Livingston
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469175188

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Short Stories from My Heart by Larry Wade Livingston Pdf

Larry Wade Livingston was born in Cincinnati, Ohio early in the month of November. He grew up traveling state to state only living in cities sometime for only a few short weeks. His dad was an over the road truck driver which allowed him to attend countless schools throughout his entire childhood. Always being the new kid in school he really had no friends. He found that by writing stories it occupied his mind and he could create his own little world. It was a world that he could control and where he was accepted. I hope you enjoy the stories that Mister Livingston still amuses himself with now as an adult. He writes humorous tales to deep complicated ones and covers many subject matters. If you enjoy his tales told in his down home style; you can find other books by Larry Wade Livingston at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The Poetic Storyteller, A book of poems representing the many poetic forms. Three Agendas, A book of three Sci-Fi stories filled with suspense and intrigue.

Swapping Stories

Author : Lindahl, Carl,Maida Owens,C. Renée Harvison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1604736755

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Swapping Stories by Lindahl, Carl,Maida Owens,C. Renée Harvison Pdf

Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews--whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.