Author: Mark Gardiner Publisher: ISBN: 9780979167324 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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For 100 years, the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races have been the world's most dangerous organized sporting event. As one of thirty thousand fans who attended the annual spectacle, Mark Gardiner harbored no illusions about his own skill or bravery. He was, however, an avid motorcyclist for whom the race represented a boyhood dream. He went home, quit his job, sold everything he owned, and returned to the Island to race there himself. Riding Man is the account of an Everyman, struggling to qualify for -- and survive -- the TT races. If you're a dreamer, the lesson in this book is that the pursuit of any worthwhile goal involves risks, rewards and, almost inevitably some regrets. If you're not a dreamer, the lesson is more important: the deepest regrets are always over risks not taken.
Author: Gillian Linscott Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1466826436 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
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After three years of traipsing across Europe with her lovesick, widowed mother, Nell Bray has finally found her way to Oxford University. There she has befriended the beautiful Imogen and the charming Midge. When the three girls decide to accept an invitation by their male classmates to join a reading party in the country during vacation - accompanied by a dashing philosophy don with a reputation for stirring up trouble - they go against what is quickly becoming the obsolete conventions of the nineteenth-century. Once they arrive in the country, they are greeted by the unpleasant fact that their host has been accused of murder when a local boy is missing. Rather than return home, however, the six students and their mentor decide to put down their books and put their intellectual prowess to the test by solving the mystery. This combination of mystery and learning - with some college crushes and loves along the way - makes Dead Man Riding Gillian Linscott's best mystery to date.
Author: Jim Webster Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1782344438 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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Once more we visit the ‘Land of the Three Seas,' where the unintended theft of a tyrant's concubine, followed by the inadvertent acquisition of a wife, leads to revenge, the fall of dynasties and over-exposure to the world of high fashion. Such are the adventures of Benor Dorfinngil.
Author: Louis L'Amour Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553899678 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home—one to fight for, be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Asbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead person. Allen Ring was another: He’d won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses’ troubles, the characters in these classic Louis L’Amour short stories are all “riding for the brand”—staying loyal to what matters, staking the West with their courage and their blood.
Author: Van Holt Publisher: Three Knolls Publishing ISBN: 1941138225 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
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On sale for a limited time! Normally $7.99! RIDING FOR REVENGE Another wandering tale of revenge in the Old West begins with the brutal murder of Frank and Pearl Ryden and the wounding of their only son on the lonely Kansas prairie. They had come west after the Civil War looking for peace and safety and a distant farm a mysterious stranger had sold them a deed to. Another mysterious stranger saved young Jim Ryden’s life and taught him how to shoot as well as helped him track the killers all over the West—when he wasn’t too busy making war on a renegade band of Indians who had killed his younger brother. Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by reading another Van Holt western. Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s Law Curly Bill and Ringo Dead Man Riding Dead Man's Trail Death in Black Holsters Dynamite Riders Hellbound Express Hunt the Killers Down Maben Rebel With a Gun Riding for Revenge Rubeck's Raiders Shiloh Stark Shoot to Kill Six-Gun Solution The Antrim Guns The Bounty Hunters The Bushwhackers The Fortune Hunters The Gundowners The Gundown Trail The Hellbound Man The Last of the Fighting Farrells The Long Trail The Man Called Bowdry The Stranger from Hell The Vultures Wild Country Wild Desert Rose Coming soon by Van Holt: The Return of Frank Graben The Revenge of Tom Graben
Author: Jack Martin Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd ISBN: 0719821339 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 90
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There was a time when Thomas Fury was happy. A young wife, a child on the way and a farm to tend had kept him busy, but he'd enjoyed the toil for he knew that he was building a future for himself and his family. That future, though, was shattered one afternoon when five riders, led by Luke Marlow, rode in. Soon gunshots rang out and Thomas Fury's world fall apart. Now Fury rides the vengeance trail, driven on by a desire to deal out justice to those who have destroyed everything that mattered to him. Fury will not stop until every one of those five men lies dead in the ground, for then – and only then – will he reach the end of the Vengeance Trail.
Author: Thomsen Poet Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1435722043 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 88
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"Know thyself," says Socrates. But humankind tends to ignore human nature, choosing instead to politicalize (escape) thyself. But humankind is turning in on himself (ourself), and like it or not, in time we will be forced by necessity (the dynamic pattern of our own behavior) to meet our Lord (innermost Being), and know thyself as Life-Death, a Spirit-Matter Continuum (one Adam)--or perish altogether. The author offers a philosophical companion to his previous book of poetry The Heart Speaks. 86 pages, consisting of an introduction, 4 chapters, 3 poems and 12 articles on living faith.
Author: Paul Komesaroff Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group ISBN: 1938416503 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 375
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Riding a Crocodile is a novel that gives you an insider's account into life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story that explores issues of life and death with contemporary relevance. Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski's inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him.
Author: Mark Gardiner
Author: Mark Gardiner
Author: Gillian Linscott
Author: Jim Webster
Author: Louis L'Amour
Author: Van Holt
Author: Jack Martin
Author: George Nevile
Author: Thomsen Poet
Author: Paul Komesaroff