Harry - The Ride of My Life

Author: Wally O'Hearn
Publisher: Hodder Moa
ISBN: 1869712870
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
He may 'smoke like a chimney, drink like a fish and eat like a sparrow' but Noel Harris rides like a true champion. And he has outlasted many of his competitors, still leading them home in his late fifties after having notched up over 2000 wins. Along the way he has gained the loyalty of owners and trainers, the respect of fellow jockeys and the admiration of race-goers. He has also had a few beers, a bit of fun and lots of laughs, enjoying life and loving racing. Colourful - including green hair on occasions - and sometimes outlandish, Noel has stood out for his singular riding style, his optimism, commitment, sense of humour and straight-shooting sincerity. Racing is a game of wins and losses, highs and lows, and in this book, Noel takes us on the rollercoaster, from growing up in a racing family and apprenticeship days in a wild and scary Singapore, the rides and races of the NZ and Australian racing calendars, and the trials, tribulations and triumphs of staying at the top. Noel gives us the goods on the horses, owners, trainers, jockeys, races and officials, friends and family - the emotions, experiences, anecdotes and accolades of a long and successful career.

Proceedings

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702

Book Description

The Disenchantments of Love

Author: María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Published in 1647, these ten tales are among the earliest narratives in Western literature to focus on women's experiences and points of view in love relationships.

Muhlenbergia

Author: Amos Arthur Heller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
A journal of botany.

A Tale of Thorns and Honey

Author: Kate O'Donnell
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460293592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
A Welsh Chieftain’s Daughter, An English Warlord, And A Love That Defies Their World › › › It is the year 1277, and the fiercely brave Enith ab Owen must leave Wales and all she loves to go to King Edward of England as guarantee to the peace of her father’s clans. There, she meets the warlord Hugh fitz Alan, Edward’s mighty right hand man and close friend, a man determined to subdue the fiery Welsh beauty. But Enith has bathed, shrouded and buried five beloved brothers brought home from battle and, however strongly the handsome, war scarred English lord draws her, she is determined to never do so again. Yet beneath her defiance rages a fierce desire for Hugh, and she breathes a sigh of both relief and regret when she is returned to her beloved father and clan. Then Wales rises once again, and the tide of battle delivers her to Hugh’s bed, but he cannot hold her. Magnificently matched in passion, they are sundered by loyalty, Hugh to the royal cause, Enith to her beloved father and clansmen. Bitterness and violence rise between them and not until they each are brought to their knees by grievous loss will they be free to turn to each other in love’s proud and triumphant surrender. A Tale of Thorns and Honey is a well researched and extraordinary saga of love and war set within the turbulent conflicts of Celtic Wales and feudal England, a saga that is mirrored in the story of the two passionate, willful people trapped within them. Kate O’Donnell brings thirteenth century provocatively alive in an intensely moving, luminous love story that will sweep you into the tumultuous history of the era and the lives of a multitude of diverse and intriguing characters you will never forget. A gripping tale you don’t want to miss!

Saints at Heart

Author: Bert Ghezzi
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1640603131
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Saints at Heart presents an engaging picture of the spiritual life as shown in the experience and writings of the saints. The title announces the book’s double theme: the lives of holy men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, and to the possibility of our following them and also dedicating our hearts to God. Readers will discover in this book well-told and appealing stories of women and men, ordinary human beings like themselves, who knew God and whose lives as a consequence radiated light, love, and joy. Each story presents the core message of a saint’s life and highlights an important spiritual path that readers will be encouraged to follow.

The Will to Power

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
"The Will to Power" is a collection of Nietzsche's unedited and unpublished writings that present some interesting ideas of the radical philosopher. The will to power is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche that describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans.

A Benedictine Reader

Author: Hugh B. Feiss
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879071753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 736

Book Description
A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and from several languages and areas of Europe. The introduction to each of the thirty-two chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. The general introduction summarizes the main ideas and practices that are present in the Rule of Saint Benedict and in the first thousand years of Benedictine monasticism while suggesting questions that a reader might bring to the texts.

Garden Renovation

Author: Thomas Geoffrey Wall Henslow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 688

Book Description

The Letters of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and Those Who Knew Her: General Correspondence, vol. 1

Author: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Publisher: ICS Publications
ISBN: 9780960087693
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 700

Book Description
"Letter writing at the turn of the (19th) century was an important activity for the people of France. Those who received letters from family and friends alike usually kept the hand-written texts sent to them as precious gifts. That is why this collection of letters by and to one of the greatest saints of modern times is so interesting to us today. ..." [from back cover]