Riding the Scalpel

Author: Jim Doilney
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781737634508
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This is the incredible 20 year saga of a globe-trotting adventure traveler who rode for his life. Jim Doilney was a PhD in economics and university professor when he kicked academia away and moved to a small mountain town in Utah. Within a few years he had a successful resort business and made a promise to himself to make time every year for long treks ...to places nobody goes, to meet people nobody knows. Traveling by foot or by bike, he crossed faraway deserts, climbed mountain peaks, hiked through tropical jungles and over glacier passes. His plan was no plan and he deliberately set out with minimal equipment and comforts, testing himself against deprivation and physical limits. He skied down active volcanos, waded through crocodile-infested rivers, dodged angry grizzlies and great white sharks, spending hours in a company of unique characters--- never-give-up hippies, burned-out surfers, laid-back expats, remote farmers, cocaine cowboys, backwater entrepreneurs, and a host of fellow travelers who shared the road. From the beaches of Mexico to the coasts of Australia, from frigid Patagonia to steamy Cuba, from magical New Zealand to Kathmandu, from Alaska to Scotland, from Cape Town to Spain, from Hawaii to the Himalayas, from the Panama Canal to the mountains of Spain, he hiked and biked---until tragedy struck. Facing a fatal diagnosis of prostate cancer, he weighed the only treatments offered---radical surgery, chemo or radiation, along with the brutal life-changing after-effects---and rejected them all. 'Butcher me, bake me or burn me, he called them, and vowed to find the alternate path. Twenty years later, he has lived to write this journal. Not just to relate his adventures, but to tell the thousands of aging men who every year face death from prostate cancer that there is another way. He is still trekking.

Implacable Alpha

Author: W. Michael Gear
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 075641458X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels. Called the 'Ennoia,' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes? Meanwhile, Bill Stevens has his own agenda, and his goons have already crossed blades with Psi Team. Now they are coming for Alpha, and all the revenge they can get. Because just as things seemed like they could get no worse, Alpha is back. And this time, she's coming for blood.

Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy

Author: Robert L. Gale
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1477259716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
Tennessee-born Horace McCoy joined the American Air Service in WWI, was wounded flying over France, became a reporter-actor in Dallas. In Hollywood, he was popular as a handsome actor, then toiled as a prolific movie-script writer. McCoy burst into fame with his first novel, They Shoot Horses, Dont They?, about Depression-era marathon dancers. His No Pockets in a Shroud features a social climber bribed to have his marriage annulled by the brides rich father, then establishing a radical magazine. I Should Have Stayed Home exposes Hollywood moguls and rich old women exploiting would-be actors and actresses. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye features warfare between a professional criminal and corrupt law-enforcement agents. When made into a movie it starred Jimmy Cagney. Additional films were based on McCoys fiction. McCoy visited England and France where translations of his works were admired by existentialists. Scalpel, his best-seller, features Tom Owen, a successful WWII military surgeon at odds with his superiors, including General Patton. Owen returns to his Western Pennsylvania roots to investigate his brothers death, is drawn into high-society--temporarily? Well-educated Owen perhaps resembles what McCoy aspired to be. But love of cars, wine, travel, and the high life clipped his wings. He left Corruption City, a sixth novel, in fragmentary form--completed by a ghost writer and blasting yet another set of unclean cops and thieving politicians. McCoys popularity in Europe may be better than in America, a land he loved and wished were cleaner. This book begins with a chronology of major events in the life of Horace McCoy (1897-1955), and then in one alphabetized sequence synopsizes the plots of his six novels and identifies each of their 494 characters--often with critical comments by publishing scholars, including Gale. It concludes with a select bibliography showing the range of scholarship on McCoy, then an index.

Riding Through It (Kindle Edition)

Author: Carol McKibben
Publisher: Troll River Publications
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
To Live in the Present, Let Go of the Past! Stop Being a Victim! Take Control of Your Life! Carol finds herself drawn to controlling, selfish men. She marries her college sweetheart, and her world spirals downward from there. Carol McKibben paints a picture of a women who has always allowed herself to be a victim, blaming others for her circumstances until one near-fatal night gives her the strength to take control of her own life...

Riding for Blood

Author: S. King
Publisher: S. King Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
A spin off of Riding for Kills, Riding for Blood goes back fifteen years to Zathrain Greyson in Chicago. Before he was the sergeant of arms for Snakeskin Fate, Zathrain was a prospect and trying to make a name for himself in the MC world. With orders from the president, Torryn, Zathrain has to start a business relationship with the drug lord of Chicago, Thantos. When problems start to arise with drug deals gone wrong and gang members dying left and right and the finger pointing at Zathrain, time is running out to make a deal with Thantos and find the real culprit behind the killings. Zathrain must make the choice to either go back to his MC empty handed or face the business end of Thantos's Ruger 57.

Riding Gain

Author: Joyce Krieg
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466879688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
In her prize-winning first novel, Murder Off Mike, Joyce Krieg proved that going behind the scenes of talk radio can be fun, fascinating, and sometimes downright scary. She continues to prove it delightfully in Riding Gain, Shauna J. Bogart's third escapade. When Shauna J. Bogart's former intern is shot to death in the city park, the grandmother of the suspect, another young man, asks Shauna J. for help. The young man tried to run from the murder scene and was shot and seriously wounded by the police. The youth's grandmother is certain he is innocent and Shauna agrees to look into it. A murder-mystery might be just the thing to distract her from her own problems, which are currently numerous. Shauna J.'s boss has added a weekly spot for a self-styled psychic into her program, without even telling her. She's been getting puzzling call-ins from someone who claims to be her high school friend. And she's learned that a network station with an almost-promised job for her thinks her image is "too old." Another offer is in the wind, but does she want it enough to move from her beloved Sacramento to Los Angeles? More important, would Pete Kovacs, her significant other, be willing to make the move? Taking up the case, Shauna J. enlists her willing assistant, Josh, and the pair hunts down every puzzling clue. What they turn up is an evil scheme that touches more and more of the people they encounter and threatens Shauna J., as well as those around her, with sudden death.

Riding the Snake

Author: Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0380800160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
A Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler Cassidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in Watts and now assigned to the L.A.P.D. Asian Crimes Task Force. The two make an unlikely pair, but together they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of the American government. It's an international conspiracy of huge proportions that will take Wheeler and Tanisha halfway around the world and into the most dangerous adventure of their lives...

Riding The Bones

Author: Larisa Hunter
Publisher: The Three Little Sisters
ISBN: 1959350358
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
This book is book one in a series of books that are linked to a custom tarot/oracle deck of the same name. This series is a mixture of Heathenry, Druid, and Irish witchcraft practices from the authors. It explores the concepts of the transition of the dead from person to divine personhood.

Scalpels & Buggywhips

Author: Eldon Lee
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781895811438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
A short series of profiles about medical pioneers in Central British Columbia, many of whom set up practice there in the latter part of the 19th century.

Riding With My Dad

Author: Dr. Ninja
Publisher: Thistledown Farms LLC
ISBN: 1954192010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Many people want to become a veterinarian when they are growing up. Twelve-year-old Ray, gets to live it. His father is a veterinarian and works on all kinds of animals. It’s not just playing with puppies and kittens, it’s much more. Difficult clients, dangerous situations, wild escapes, and gross disgusting stuff is all part of the job too. Ray gets to experience it all, when he rides with his dad. This is a book for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, and everyone that ever wanted to become a veterinarian.