Author: George Djuric
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420897926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Riding With the Big Boys is a real-life account of an aspiring novelist trying to support his family by driving an eighteen-wheeler across the country, while waiting for publishers' response to his first U.S. novel. It is written in the shape of a diary, as a mixture of daily duties, falling hopes, financial stress, and panoramic sceneries shifting one after another, from Big Planes to the Rockies, from Newark Airport to Columbia River. It also reveals the parallel world of one of America's most impressive sub-societies, the life of the Big Boys - long distance truckers who spend the best years of their lives living inside their "sleepers."
Riding with the Big Boys
Author: George Djuric
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420897926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Riding With the Big Boys is a real-life account of an aspiring novelist trying to support his family by driving an eighteen-wheeler across the country, while waiting for publishers' response to his first U.S. novel. It is written in the shape of a diary, as a mixture of daily duties, falling hopes, financial stress, and panoramic sceneries shifting one after another, from Big Planes to the Rockies, from Newark Airport to Columbia River. It also reveals the parallel world of one of America's most impressive sub-societies, the life of the Big Boys - long distance truckers who spend the best years of their lives living inside their "sleepers."
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420897926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Riding With the Big Boys is a real-life account of an aspiring novelist trying to support his family by driving an eighteen-wheeler across the country, while waiting for publishers' response to his first U.S. novel. It is written in the shape of a diary, as a mixture of daily duties, falling hopes, financial stress, and panoramic sceneries shifting one after another, from Big Planes to the Rockies, from Newark Airport to Columbia River. It also reveals the parallel world of one of America's most impressive sub-societies, the life of the Big Boys - long distance truckers who spend the best years of their lives living inside their "sleepers."
Riding in Cars with Boys
Author: Beverly Donofrio
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Denied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up in an elite New England university, books in one arm, child in the other. A book about the compromise between being your own person and fitting into society.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Denied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up in an elite New England university, books in one arm, child in the other. A book about the compromise between being your own person and fitting into society.
The Congregationalist
Tobe
Author: Stella Gentry Sharpe
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469608855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This is the story of a little black boy, told for children and illustrated with over fifty photographs showing Tobe and his brothers and sisters in all the varied activities of a small southern farm. Both vocabulary and sentence structure have been kept as simple as possible, and although not graded rigidly to any one level, it should be read easily by children in the earlier grades. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469608855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This is the story of a little black boy, told for children and illustrated with over fifty photographs showing Tobe and his brothers and sisters in all the varied activities of a small southern farm. Both vocabulary and sentence structure have been kept as simple as possible, and although not graded rigidly to any one level, it should be read easily by children in the earlier grades. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Cowboy Life of James L Kenney
Author: Sally Harrison
Publisher: Fifth Leg Publishing
ISBN: 9781893793033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Fifth Leg Publishing
ISBN: 9781893793033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
St. Nicholas
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A Fast Ride Out of Here
Author: Pete Way
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472124332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy Osbourne There are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast Ride Out of Here tells a story that is so shocking, so outrageous, so packed with excess and leading to such uproar and tragic consequences as to be almost beyond compare. Put simply, in terms of jaw-dropping incident, self-destruction and all-round craziness, Pete Way's rock'n'roll life makes even Keith Richards's appear routine and Ozzy Osbourne seem positively mild-mannered in comparison. Not for nothing did Nikki Sixx, bassist with LA shock-rockers Motley Crue and who 'died' for eight minutes following a heroin overdose in 1988, consider that he was a disciple of and apprenticed to Way. During a forty-year career as founding member and bassist of the venerated British hard rock band UFO, and which has also included a stint in his hell-raising buddy Ozzy's band, Pete Way has both scaled giddy heights and plunged to unfathomable lows. A heroin addict for more than ten years, he blew millions on drugs and booze and left behind him a trail of chaos and carnage. The human cost of this runs to six marriages, four divorces, a pair of estranged daughters and two dead ex-wives. Latterly, Way has fought cancer, but has survived it all and is now ready to tell his extraordinary tale. By turns hilarious, heart-rending, mordant, scabrous, self-lacerating, brutally honest and entirely compulsive, A Fast Ride Out of Here will be a monument to rock'n'roll debauchery on an epic, unparalleled scale and also to one man's sheer indestructability.
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472124332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy Osbourne There are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast Ride Out of Here tells a story that is so shocking, so outrageous, so packed with excess and leading to such uproar and tragic consequences as to be almost beyond compare. Put simply, in terms of jaw-dropping incident, self-destruction and all-round craziness, Pete Way's rock'n'roll life makes even Keith Richards's appear routine and Ozzy Osbourne seem positively mild-mannered in comparison. Not for nothing did Nikki Sixx, bassist with LA shock-rockers Motley Crue and who 'died' for eight minutes following a heroin overdose in 1988, consider that he was a disciple of and apprenticed to Way. During a forty-year career as founding member and bassist of the venerated British hard rock band UFO, and which has also included a stint in his hell-raising buddy Ozzy's band, Pete Way has both scaled giddy heights and plunged to unfathomable lows. A heroin addict for more than ten years, he blew millions on drugs and booze and left behind him a trail of chaos and carnage. The human cost of this runs to six marriages, four divorces, a pair of estranged daughters and two dead ex-wives. Latterly, Way has fought cancer, but has survived it all and is now ready to tell his extraordinary tale. By turns hilarious, heart-rending, mordant, scabrous, self-lacerating, brutally honest and entirely compulsive, A Fast Ride Out of Here will be a monument to rock'n'roll debauchery on an epic, unparalleled scale and also to one man's sheer indestructability.
Johnny Blossom
Author: Dikken Zwilgmeyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Cowboy and the Senorita
Author: Chris Enss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493027964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and the Queen of the West. Off screen, this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the "Code of the West." In this biography, named for their first feature film as a pair, the Rogers family shares the inside story of these beloved Western icons, detailing their personal struggles and rise to stardom, the lives of their children, the tragedies that befell their family, and their memories of Roy and Dale and Trigger and other sidekicks on the silver screen and behind the scenes. More than eighty photographs of the couple at work and at home are included. In this expanded edition, there will be details on Trigger and Buttermilk, the famed horses who co-starred in the duo’s most memorable on-screen appearances, and there will be an epilogue covering what’s happened to the legacy of the couple and their family.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493027964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and the Queen of the West. Off screen, this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the "Code of the West." In this biography, named for their first feature film as a pair, the Rogers family shares the inside story of these beloved Western icons, detailing their personal struggles and rise to stardom, the lives of their children, the tragedies that befell their family, and their memories of Roy and Dale and Trigger and other sidekicks on the silver screen and behind the scenes. More than eighty photographs of the couple at work and at home are included. In this expanded edition, there will be details on Trigger and Buttermilk, the famed horses who co-starred in the duo’s most memorable on-screen appearances, and there will be an epilogue covering what’s happened to the legacy of the couple and their family.
Science Readers
Author: ́ Vincent T. Murche
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description