Nothing Handles Like a Rental Car

Author: Rich Duisberg
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542376884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
This book is about road trips with a reason; retracing the steps of some well-known motorsport heroes like Fangio and Hopkirk, and less well-known (but no less interesting) men like Roy 'The Weasel' James, Jock Horsfall and Captain Albert Ball. There's some Hermann G�ring-inspired barnstorming too, thanks to lax security at an unnamed airfield.Starting with a �100 trip to Stelvio in a rented Fiat 500 and ending up hooning around France in a broken press fleet Maserati, the author unwittingly goes from weekend roadtripper to ham-footed TV presenter. Vehicles as diverse as the Volvo Laplander, Morgan 3 Wheeler and Mercedes 190E Cosworth all feature, in locations such as Zandvoort, Las Vegas and Sicily. Even time stuck in the office doesn't stop the mischief, with an amusing spell of chasing the ambulance chasers.This book is a loose collection of light-hearted and mildly incriminating stories from around Europe. It contains photographs, bad maps and a useless guide to dealing with foreign police. There are twelve uses of the word 'Porsche', six of the word 'apex' and one of the word 'frenulum'. Nothing handles like a rental car.

Thanksgiving

Author: Michael Dibdin
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0385672454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
A haunting tale of desire, death, and the power of the past. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has suddenly died. Immersed in grief, he becomes obsessed with her youth and her life before they met. To satisfy his desperate need to uncover all the details of her previous existence, Anthony travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband, who retained an emotional hold over her that endured even as Anthony's and Lucy's marriage grew increasingly passionate. The eerie, devastating encounter between the two men is the beginning of a journey that will take Anthony to the edge of madness, to a place where he is never far from the woman he loves. Thanksgiving is a dark and riveting work, an unsparing yet compassionate portrait of a man trapped in emotional turmoil. A brilliant departure for Michael Dibdin, it is certain to be his most widely read book yet.

Diary of a Rental Car

Author: Jim McAllister
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781667890722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
We often use rental cars as a tool. Transportation on a vacation, a short-term vehicle while getting your car repaired, or saving wear and tear on a personal vehicle. Most are dismissed and never remembered as soon as they are dropped off. No second thoughts given about them. Rental cars are exposed to so many things in the short lifespan before being retired and sold. Often overlooked and easily forgotten, what if rental cars had a voice? What if they could tell their story of what they see over the two-year average in that role? What were the most memorable experiences it had seen? What stood out the most? What stories would be told about the places, experiences, people, and adventures it would have, good and bad? The love and the abuse. What if a rental car kept a diary of this experience to tell to the world? What if it developed a personality of its own through the transportation it provided, and wrote down what it had been through? Maybe this is the story that would be told...

Rental Tales

Author: Ferdinand Komenda
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781516935383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
Sometimes unusual and crazy things happen to people while they have a rental car. Like an out of town tourist runs into a random turkey crossing the road. Or a local renter is pumping gas into his rental car and witnesses a random man throw his bicycle at the car for seemingly no reason. Many more crazy stories are in the book. Some stories are brief, others are extensive, but all are either crazy, weird, or funny, and some stories are all three combined. There are even photos of some of the vehicles after the incidents. Check it out!

Power Concedes Nothing

Author: Connie Rice
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416544739
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
An influential civil rights attorney describes the family beliefs and achievements that inspired her career, recounting her dedication to civil rights causes in areas ranging from transportation and education to the death penalty and the LAPD.

Breakfast of Champions

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0307567230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly

On the Knife's Edge - Three Novels to Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat

Author: A.J. Scudiere
Publisher: Griffyn Ink
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1151

Book Description
Get ready to stay up all night with three full novels of suspense, intrigue, and action… UNDER DARK SKIES X-Files meets Bones in this 7 book series with more to come! In NightShade nothing is as it seems . . . Strange clues. Strange cases. Stranger investigators. BLUFF CITY BUTCHER A series of seemingly solved murders rips a city apart when the “Butcher” comes back to town. Not only wasn’t he dead, he was hiding a decades old secret… WHO BY WATER Jo Wiley thought she had her life figured out and had made peace with her past when she moved around the world to Slovenia. Only there are more ghosts in Slovenia than in the life she left behind… Buckle up and hang on tight to over 1000 pages of nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat thrill rides.

Hard to Handle

Author: Raven Scott
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 1617735442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
A covert ops specialist, a cyber-surveillance expert, and an unmatched international security and recovery pro. These are the men of Fortis. When money is no object, discretion is essential, and the police are not an option, the wealthy and powerful call on this trio of former government agents with elite military training—not to mention charm and good looks... Samuel Mackenzie has his hands full with Fortis’ latest assignment. Their client is a European real estate investor who is trying to close a multi-million dollar acquisition. But a competitor is attempting to block the deal by any means necessary, including threats and vandalism that quickly escalate to life threatening assault. For Samuel it’s all in a day’s work—except for one unexpected twist... The mission requires protective detail for the client and his mistress, who is also his personal assistant. But the mistress is Mikayla Stone-Clement—the only woman Samuel has ever loved, and who always seems out of his reach. Yet things aren't what they seem. Because Mikayla has a hidden agenda of her own, one that puts her directly in the crossfire. Now Samuel will have one chance to save her life...and make her his forever. Praise for Hard as Ice “Well-written, suspenseful, steamy and full of surprises."—Romance in Color “Sexiness galore.”—USAToday.com

Beaker's Dozen

Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312868437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Kress's best short stories of the decade are collected for the first time in this substantial anthology that includes many Nebula Award nominees.

NightShade Forensic FBI Files (COMPLETE SET) :A Witch and Werewolf Investigative Supernatural Suspense Series

Author: A.J. Scudiere
Publisher: Griffyn Ink
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6346

Book Description
HUGE savings off individual book prices! Includes all 11 books of the NightShade Forensic Files series. Strange clues. Strange cases. Stranger investigators. Eleri Eames never thought she’d be able to work for the FBI again, not after they kicked her out the first time. Donovan Heath never expected to be recruited as an agent, he figured he belonged in the morgue with the dead things. But when Eleri and Donovan are thrown together, they are tasked with solving the increasingly wild cases that come their way. Eleri can’t explain the hunches she gets, and Donovan simply can’t tell Eleri why exactly his sense of smell and hearing are heightened or why he sometimes just needs to run. As their pasts become more apparent in who they are, and as guarded secrets start to leak out, can they trust each other? The stakes are high, and the odds are low, but Eleri and Donovan might be the only ones who can find justice. In NightShade nothing is as it seems…