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Author : Howard K. Nielsen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434327178
Author : Pat Magie
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781728365879
If you think you are a pilot, you have to read this. This guy was a legend in his time and accumulated over 40,000 hours of accident-free flying time, owned almost 500 aircraft and experienced 7 total engine failures in flight without putting a mark on an aircraft—although he admits to putting some holes in his floats. He has over 33,000 hours on floats, 6,000 hours on skis and a little over 1,000 hours on wheels and airports. He tells you how to fly two aircraft at one time and a good way to make a friend is to kill him and bring him back to life. He has thousands of hours flying external loads—if it doesn’t fit inside, tie it on outside—canoes, boats, lumber, plywood, furinture, Christmas trees and human bodies. He is even known as the body double for Catherine Zeta Jones! He has chased bank robbers off the road into the highway patrol and taken off and landed on 600 ft. runways, 800 ft. runways with a 45 degree bend, landed on paved highways, gravel roads, sand beaches and glaciers. And has made quite a few cross-country flight across the US in no-radio airplanes.
Author : Nancy Wakeman
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822549174
A biography of the multi-talented female athlete, discussing the different sports in which she competed and her part in creating the first women's professional golf circuit.
Author : David C. Ogden,Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781617038143
Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation, and the similar qualities ancillary to gender bear special exploration in how they impact an athlete's story. Central to this volume is the contention that women in their role as inherent outsiders are placed in a unique position even more complicated than the usual experiences of inequality and discord associated with race and sports. The contributors explore and critique the notion that in order to be considered among the pantheon of athletic heroes one cannot deviate from the traditional demographic profile, that of the white male. These essays look specifically and critically at the nature of gender and sexuality within the contested nexus of race, reputation, and sport. The collection explores the reputations of iconic and pioneering sports figures and the cultural and social forces that helped to forge their unique and often problematic legacies. Women athletes discussed in this volume include Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the women of the AAGPBL, Billie Jean King, Venus and Serena Williams, Marion Jones, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Sheryl Swoopes, Florence Griffith Joyner, Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer, and Danica Patrick.
Author : Tom Graham,Rachel Graham Cody
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743299244
"A striking and honest portrait of a man overcoming racism in a place that barely acknowledged its existence." —Publishers Weekly Bill Garrett was the Jackie Robinson of college basketball. In 1947, the same year Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, Garrett integrated big-time college basketball. By joining the basketball program at Indiana University, he broke the gentleman's agreement that had barred black players from the Big Ten, college basketball's most important conference. While enduring taunts from opponents and pervasive segregation at home and on the road, Garrett became the best player Indiana had ever had, an all-American, and, in 1951, the third African American drafted in the NBA. In basketball, as Indiana went so went the country. Within a year of his graduation from IU, there were six African American basketball players on Big Ten teams. Soon tens, then hundreds, and finally thousands walked through the door Garrett opened to create modern college and professional basketball. Unlike Robinson, however, Garrett is unknown today. Getting Open is more than "just" a basketball book. In the years immediately following World War II, sports were at the heart of America's common culture. And in the fledgling civil rights efforts of African Americans across the country, which would coalesce two decades later into the Movement, the playing field was where progress occurred publicly and symbolically. Indiana was an unlikely place for a civil rights breakthrough. It was stone-cold isolationist, widely segregated, and hostile to change. But in the late 1940s, Indiana had a leader of the largest black YMCA in the world, who viewed sports as a wedge for broader integration; a visionary university president, who believed his institution belonged to all citizens of the state; a passion for high school and college basketball; and a teenager who was, as nearly as any civil rights pioneer has ever been, the perfect person for his time and role. This is the story of how they came together to move the country toward getting open. Father-daughter authors Tom Graham and Rachel Graham Cody spent seven years reconstructing a full portrait of how these elements came together; interviewing Garrett's family, friends, teammates, and coaches, and digging through archives and dusty closets to tell this compelling, long-forgotten story.
Author : Ellen Heenan Reddy
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525528965
After her mother suffered a stroke, Ellen Heenan Reddy hastily packed her mother’s belongings and moved her from Michigan into Ellen’s Wisconsin home. Among those rapidly gathered items was a simple bag from Target found at the back of an over-stuffed closet. Years later, long after her mother’s Alzheimer’s had progressed to the point where she required professional care, Ellen opened the bag and discovered hundreds of letters from her father to her mother. The letters tell the story of her parents as they met, courted, and survived the years of sacrifice and anguish that the country endured during World War II. Within these letters, the author learned stories of her parents she had never fully known and discovered inroads to understanding her mother, a woman she had largely seen as a mother in nomenclature only. Her mother had been the sort of woman who played the role once a year for the holidays and was otherwise absent—absorbed in her beach time, wine, travel, and living the life of a gadabout. My Darling Patty is a fascinating hybrid text that shares the unedited, discovered letters of her father alongside Ellen’s imagined responses from her mother. What emerges from this intriguing mix of documents and imagined extensions is a fascinating family portrait spanning three generations during some of America’s most defining history. The text that emerges also offers a mechanism for healing relationships long misunderstood.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCR:31210010798898
Author : Pat Magie
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781665517508
THE AUTHOR SPENT 63 YEARS IN THE SEAPLANE BUSINESS WITH OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA, FLORDIA, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, ALASKA AND HAWAII. HE HAS OPERATED FAA PART 91, PART 135, PART 141 AND HAS EVEN HELD A CANADIAN 9-4 UNSCHEDULED CHARTER CERTIFICATE. HE FLEW 40,800 ACCIDENT FREE HOURS INCLUDING A RECORD 33,000 HOURS ON FLOATS. HE HAS CONSTRUCATED MANY SEAPLANE DOCKS AND TWO STORY FLOATING CABINS - SOME WITH UP TO FOUR BEDROOMS.
Author : John C. Berkhoudt
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781649137449
In My Boots and Through My Eyes By: John C. Berkhoudt Author John C. Berkhoudt spent one year in combat as a first lieutenant infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. In My Boots and Through My Eyes is a collection of poetry, short stories, and ponderings during enlistment, training, combat, and home. This insightful work portrays a raw view of life in the jungles of Vietnam during the war. From the horrors to the small moments of joy, Berkhoudt’s journey is expressed with passion and reflectiveness that anyone could learn a thing or two from.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281039
Author : Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,John William Polidori,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,Sabine Baring-Gould,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Fitz-James O'Brien,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,H. H. Munro (Saki),Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 13812 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547671701
Are you ready to step over the edge? This grand horror collection contains the greatest supernatural mysteries, gothic novels, dark romances & macabre tales: Bram Stoker: Dracula The Squaw... John William Polidori: The Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House... Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Woman in White Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla... Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story The City of Dreadful Night The Mark of the Beast... Stanley G. Weinbaum: The Dark Other Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf... Amelia B. Edwards: The Phantom Coach... Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Some Real American Ghosts Some Chinese Ghosts...
Author : Michael Paterniti
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307765352
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.
Author : Maria Mazziotti Gillan,Jennifer Gillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101573891
A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. Unsettling America includes work by: Amiri Baraka Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rita Dove Louise Erdich Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Garrett Hongo Li-Young Lee Pat Mora Naomi Shihab Nye Marye Percy Ishmael Reed Alberto Rios Ntozake Shange Gary Soto Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nellie Wong David Hernandez Mary TallMountain ...and many more.
Author : C.L. Sniderman Barr,James George Barr
Publisher : Daniel R. Mazza
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A budding romance between two teenagers fresh out of high school from Worcester, Massachusetts, all documented in the letters they wrote between 1943-1946 while George served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WW II. Thanks to Lottie's foresight to have George mail her letters back, for the majority of the letters, the reader gets both sides of their conversations. You will experience firsthand George and Lottie's hopes and dreams, along with their fair share of despair and loneliness from having to be apart during this tumultuous time of American history. Much transpires in the young authors’ lives during the timeframe of the letters and you cannot help but feel as if you've traveled back in time and are peering over the shoulders of George and Lottie as they write to each other. In addition, to further enhance the readers' experience, many photos, postcards, telegrams, etc., which were found with the letters have been included in the book, as well.
Author : Doug Moench
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302480080
Collects Marvel Premiere #38; material from Marvel Super Action (1976) #1, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #24-26, A Marvel Super Special #11-13, Epic Illustrated #9, 11-13.