Author: Russell Mendivil
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Keywords: ride, angeles, dying, los, francisco, bike, san
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1589398696
ISBN-13: 9781589398696

Are you just an ordinary person who has always dreamed of doing something extraordinary? Then this is the book for you. Russell Mendivil is a middle-aged dad, gardener and couch potato with a history of heart attacks who, after a medical scare with his oldest daughter, decides to ride his bike 585 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles to help raise awareness and money for AIDS services. Despite the many physical and emotional struggles Russ faces in preparation for the ride, he remains inspired by the amazing people he meets along the way. This very witty yet touching story serve

Authors:Lindsay Ride, May Ride,
Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr
Keywords: stones, macao, voices
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 1999-08
List price: $43.50
ISBN-10: 9622094872
ISBN-13: 9789622094871

Hidden away in odd corners or standing incongruously surrounded by modern buildings and thronged with traffic, unnoticed by almost all who pass, are the treasure vaults of Macao’s rich and colorful history. These stones, statues and memorials found all over Macao trace its story from the days of the first Portuguese navigators in China in the 16th Century to the events of more recent times.

Author: Bill Maher
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Keywords: ride, limited, bin, laden
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1597775134
ISBN-13: 9781597775137

Political provocateur Bill Maher tells it like it is in a useful and hilarious guide for the many Americans who want to do more here at home to help the war effort, but are at a loss as to what. Thirty-three dynamic new posters and several classics from our government’s archive, accompanied by text from one of our leading pundits and cutting-edge comedians make this the perfect book for this time in our nation’s history, the zeitgeist of one-year-post-9/11 America. This is the book that will help Americans make the connections between what we do and how it can help our troops and ourselve

Author: Patrick Hahn
Publisher: Motorbooks
Keywords: ride, advanced, motorcyclists, strategies, ultimate, hard, smart, street
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0760317607
ISBN-13: 9780760317600

Ride Hard, Ride Smart is a practical, hands-on survival guide for the average motorcyclist. It takes up where the Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s Guide to Motorcycling Excellence leaves off. That very successful book is aimed at beginning riders, and as such outlines the most basic strategies of motorcycle riding. This book provides more advanced survival and safety strategies. The vast wealth of knowledge and information developed by the motorcycle safety industry is bound into one chapter and one simple concept—the "three degrees of separation"—that sets the stage for the rest of the bo

Author: James Patterso
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: maximum, ride, protectors, final, warning
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0316002879
ISBN-13: 9780316002875

Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming--Earth’s biggest threat--in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true...until they’re hunted by the world’s nastiest villains. Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studyi

Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Keywords: ride
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-06-16
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0670011940
ISBN-13: 9780670011940

This special edition includes all-new bonus material, including: ¥ Sarah DessenÕs recollections of her own summers at the beach ¥ A playlist of the songs that inspired her as she wrote Along for the Ride ¥ A map of the town of Colby, where the book takes place

Author: Mat Hoffman
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Keywords: life, ride
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 006009415X
ISBN-13: 9780060094157

I had seriously reached a point in my life where I wasn’t scared of anything. Panic was replaced by awww, shit, how can I fix this before I hit the ground? Childhood for Mat Hoffman was packed with hazardous behavior and a constant searching for a new rush: sliding down the laundry chute, blatantly misusing a trampoline, leaping off the roof holding an umbrella, executing a two-story bomb drop into a swimming pool on a bike, and more. After experimenting with his bike on a plywood ramp at age eleven, Mat found his true calling. He became addicted to aerials. By the time he was four