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The Greatest Beer Run Ever

John "Chick" Donohue,J. T. Molloy
The Greatest Beer Run Ever Book PDF

Author : John "Chick" Donohue,J. T. Molloy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062995483

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John "Chick" Donohue,J. T. Molloy Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Academy Award-winning director of Green Book, Peter Farrelly. “Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story.”—Malachy McCourt A wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s. One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired—some would call it insane—idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest Beer Run Ever. But who’d be crazy enough to do it? One man was up for the challenge—a U. S. Marine Corps veteran turned merchant mariner who wasn’t about to desert his buddies on the front lines when they needed him. Chick volunteered. A day later, he was on a cargo ship headed to Vietnam, armed with Irish luck and a backpack full of alcohol. Landing in Qui Nho’n, Chick set off on an adventure that would change his life forever—an odyssey that took him through a series of hilarious escapades and harrowing close calls, including the Tet Offensive. But none of that mattered if he could bring some cheer to his pals and show them how much the folks back home appreciated them. This is the story of that epic beer run, told in Chick’s own words and those of the men he visited in Vietnam.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

J. T. Molloy,John 'Chick' Donohue
The Greatest Beer Run Ever Book PDF

Author : J. T. Molloy,John 'Chick' Donohue
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781913183325

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever by J. T. Molloy,John 'Chick' Donohue Pdf

*** NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An extraordinary story.' - Daily Mail 'An unforgettable, wild ride from start to finish.' - John Bruning 'The astounding true story - from the streets of Manhattan to the jungles of Vietnam.' - Thomas Kelly IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME. As a result of a rowdy night in his local New York bar, ex-Marine and merchant seaman "Chick" Donohue volunteers for a legendary mission. He will sneak into Vietnam to track down his buddies in combat to bring them a cold beer and supportive messages from home. It'll be the greatest beer run ever! Now, decades on from 1968, this is the remarkable true story of how he actually did it. Armed with Irish luck and a backpack full of alcohol, Chick works his passage to Vietnam, lands in Qui Nhon and begins to carry out his quest, tracking down the disbelieving soldiers one by one. But things quickly go awry, and as he talks his way through checkpoints and unwittingly into dangerous situations, Chick sees a lot more of the war than he ever planned - spending a terrifying time in the Demilitarized Zone, and getting caught up in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. With indomitable spirit, Chick survives on his wits, but what he finds in Vietnam comes as a shock. By the end of his epic adventure, battered and exhausted, Chick finds himself questioning why his friends were ever led into the war in the first place.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Book PDF

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307373083

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Pdf

From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.

A World Champion's Guide to Running the Beer Mile

Lewis Kent
A World Champion s Guide to Running the Beer Mile Book PDF

Author : Lewis Kent
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1510735550

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A World Champion's Guide to Running the Beer Mile by Lewis Kent Pdf

Part memoir, part how-to manual, A World Champion's Guide to Running the Beer Miles is for both serious athletes and recreational runners who love to run, enjoy a drink, and like the idea of a challenge. In June, 2015, Lewis Kent was just an ordinary twenty-one-year-old college kid who liked to run. By December, 2015, just six months later, he had appeared in ESPN, Buzzfeed, Ellen, and dozens of other major outlets. Videos of him running went viral, and he received daily calls from agents. So why all the attention? Simple: He ran the Beer Mile, and he ran it unbelievably fast. The beer mile is a track or road race in which you chug a beer, run a quarter mile, chug another beer, run another quarter mile, chug, run, chug, run: four beers, four laps, no vomiting allowed. “Chug, run, repeat.” If it sounds difficult (but really fun), it’s because it absolutely is. The event first went viral in 2014 when the five-minute barrier was broken. Kent became the world champion and broke the world record in late 2015 with a time of 4 minutes, 47 seconds, just over a minute longer than the world record for the regular mile. After that, he became the world’s first professional Beer Miler, literally being paid for his superhuman ability to run fast and drink quickly.

Bad Tourist

Suzanne Roberts
Bad Tourist Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496223982

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Bad Tourist by Suzanne Roberts Pdf

Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

Tunnel 29

Helena Merriman
Tunnel 29 Book PDF

Author : Helena Merriman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541788824

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Tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman Pdf

He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape. From the award-winning creator of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast, Tunnel 29 is the true story of this most remarkable Cold War rescue mission. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and Stasi files, Helena Merriman brilliantly reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious group of student-diggers, the glamorous red-haired messenger, the Stasi spy who threatened the whole enterprise, and the love story that became its surprising epilogue. Tunnel 29 was also the first made-for-TV event of its kind; it was funded by NBC, who wanted to film an escape in real time. Their documentary—which was nearly blocked from airing by the Kennedy administration, which wanted to control the media during the Cold War—revolutionized TV journalism. Ultimately, Tunnel 29 is a success story about freedom: the valiant citizens risking everything to win it back, and the larger world rooting for them to triumph.

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

Tucker Max
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell Book PDF

Author : Tucker Max
Publisher : Citadel
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780806535937

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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max Pdf

The “highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible” #1 New York Times bestseller—now with sixteen pages of photos and a new introduction (The New York Times). My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. --from the Introduction Actual reader feedback: "I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don’t believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist." "I’ll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. You’re an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I'm in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."

The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances

Matthew Inman
The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances Book PDF

Author : Matthew Inman
Publisher : Andrews Mcmeel+ORM
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781449460990

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The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman Pdf

This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering. It's a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch dressing, and Godzilla. It's a book about all the terrible and wonderful reasons we wake up each day and propel our bodies through rain, shine, heaven, and hell. From #1 New York Times best-selling author, Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal, comes this hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, and one cartoonist's reasons for jogging across mountains until his toenails fall off. Containing over 70 pages of never-before-seen material, including "A Lazy Cartoonist's Guide to Becoming a Runner" and "The Blerch's Guide to Dieting," this book also comes with Blerch race stickers.

We Few

Nick Brokhausen
We Few Book PDF

Author : Nick Brokhausen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504008198

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We Few by Nick Brokhausen Pdf

A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls “an unwashed, profane, ribald, joyously alive fraternity,” undertook some of the most dangerous and suicidal reconnaissance missions ever in the enemy-controlled territory of Cambodia and Laos. But they didn’t infiltrate the jungles alone. They fought alongside the Montagnards—oppressed minorities from the mountain highlands, trained by the US military in guerilla tactics, armed, accustomed to the wild, and fully engaged in a war against the North Vietnamese. Together this small unit formed the backbone of ground reconnaissance in the Republic of Vietnam, racking up medals for valor—but at a terrible cost. “In colorful, military-jargon-laced prose leavened by gallows humor, Brokhausen pulls few punches describing what it was like to navigate remote jungle terrain under the constant threat of enemy fire. A smartly written, insider’s view of one rarely seen Vietnam War battleground.” —Booklist “[An] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War just at the apex of its unpopularity. . . . This battle-scarred memoir is an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia.” —New York Journal of Books

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Barbara Robinson
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Book PDF

Author : Barbara Robinson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573617457

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Pdf

The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

The Oxford Companion to Beer

Garrett Oliver
The Oxford Companion to Beer Book PDF

Author : Garrett Oliver
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780195367133

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The Oxford Companion to Beer by Garrett Oliver Pdf

"The first major reference work to investigate the history and vast scope of beer, The Oxford Companion to Beer features more than 1,100 A-Z entries written by 166 of the world's most prominent beer experts"-- Provided by publisher.

The Good Beer Guide to Belgium and Holland

Tim Webb
The Good Beer Guide to Belgium and Holland Book PDF

Author : Tim Webb
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN : 1580171036

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The Good Beer Guide to Belgium and Holland by Tim Webb Pdf

The ultimate travel guide for enthusiasts and those interested in learning more about these unique brewing cultures - whether or not they make the trip!

Brown Dog

Jim Harrison
Brown Dog Book PDF

Author : Jim Harrison
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802120113

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Brown Dog by Jim Harrison Pdf

An anthology of all of the Brown Dog novellas includes a previously unpublished story and follows the down-on-his-luck Michigan Native American's misadventures with an overindulgent lifestyle, his two adopted children and an ersatz activist who steals his bearskin. 35,000 first printing.

A Beer in the Loire

Tommy Barnes
A Beer in the Loire Book PDF

Author : Tommy Barnes
Publisher : Muswell Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781999811754

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A Beer in the Loire by Tommy Barnes Pdf

Frustrated by a dead end job, fed up with renting in London and the loathsome daily commute and, to cap it all, failing to make it as a stand-up comedian, Tommy Barnes was at breaking point. But he didn't break - instead he made himself redundant and took off to France with girlfriend Rose to pursue his dream of brewing beer

How to Die Alone

Mo Welch
How to Die Alone Book PDF

Author : Mo Welch
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781523508167

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How to Die Alone by Mo Welch Pdf

Meet Blair, viral Instagram sensation and antisocial icon, in this handbook to living your worst life, written and illustrated with laugh-out-loud wit by comedian Mo Welch. For every brave soul who wants to just say no—no to meeting the gang for drinks, no to wishing a coworker happy birthday (unless there’s free cake involved), and no to dating of any kind—here comes Blair, the master of living life in sweatpants and talking only to her cat. With her dark but totally honest perspective, Blair will teach you how to become an antisocial hermit, fail at your boring job, sabotage your relationship, and always—always—give yourself permission to choose the couch over the gym.