Author : Jason Romero
Publisher : I'm Possible Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781941528532
After a successful business career, Jason Romero found himself divorced, unemployed, and deeply depressed after a degenerative eye condition rendered him blind. He took on the challenge of a lifetime to run, over 3,000 miles from California to New York in less than sixty days to log the seventh fastest foot crossing in the history of the world.
Author : Han Nolan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1665931795
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti meets Amber Smith’s The Way I Used to Be in this “twist-filled, highly original mystery” (Kirkus Reviews) following a teen searching for the truth behind the deadly car crash that claimed the lives of her twin sister and the high school football coach. What happens to the twin left behind? Scottie O’Doul isn’t looking forward to starting her senior year. Last May, her identical twin sister, Cait, died in a car crash involving the school’s beloved football coach. There’s been no official report on the accident yet, but before she died, Cait told Scottie a disturbing secret. When Scottie reveals this secret, half the town turns against her, certain that Scottie is lying to protect her sister and that Cait deliberately lost control of the car. Scottie knows her twin would never take her own life, or someone else’s, but how can she prove it? As she faces bullying and hostility at school, she starts to wonder if what Cait said was even true. Turning to running to break through her grief, Scottie finds a new world and a new sense of self outside her twinness. She also reconnects with her old boyfriend, who had a terrible accident of his own the same day Cait died. Could there be a connection? As she runs mile after mile, Scottie keeps trying to fit the jigsaw pieces together and find the true picture of what happened to Cait and what was really going on at school before the crash.
Author : Chas Newkey-Burden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1472989570
Cracking... full of running gems, realities and giggles. Nice work!' – Martin Yelling, Marathon Talk 'Lovely – very impressive' – TalkSPORT 'From now on, if anyone I know mentions that they want to start running, this will be my first recommendation' – Stuart Heritage Best Books of 2021: Sport – Waterstones selection The Runner's Code explores the unwritten rules of everyday running and is essential reading for anyone who marvels at marathons, tears round the track or simply plods round the park. Filled with smart advice and brilliantly knowing humour, this unique celebration of running takes the newbie and veteran alike through the secret, nuanced and blindingly obvious rules of running to answer all the important questions, such as: - What's the correct etiquette for acknowledging other runners? - What should you do if you get 'caught short' on a run? - And exactly how many times can you ask colleagues for marathon sponsorship? The book is packed with plenty of need-to-know information to help you deliver your best running performance, such as coping with different weather conditions, advice on kit and clothing (how many miles can a pair of trainers last, and is it ever appropriate to run in a mankini?) and pavement etiquette (overtaking dawdling pedestrians on a busy street). There are also sections on getting the best race-day nutrition, finding the perfect running headspace and gaining maximum joy from your running. The Runner's Code features exclusive contributions from BBC presenters Nicky Campbell and Louise Minchin, sports writer Henry Winter, and leading running authors Anna McNuff, Paul Tonkinson, Rachel Cullen, Martin Yelling, Liz Yelling, Helen Croydon and Michael Stocks. They each brilliantly reveal what they love and what they hate about running. Written by journalist, author and self-confessed running nut Chas Newkey-Burden, The Runner's Code will help us to all run better and more responsibly, while reminding us of the joy and, at times, the wonderful absurdity of running.
Author : Chris Easterly
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1681924110
What if the Catholic Faith could make you a better runner? What if running could make you a better Catholic? Before you toss these ideas out with your last pair of running shoes, take the next thirty days and put them to the test. In The Catholic Runner: 30 Days of Motivation and Inspiration, Catholic runner Chris Easterly becomes your personal trainer and running buddy, encouraging you with stories of his own running successes and failures, along with Scripture, saints quotes, and insights that will keep you going or get you started. The brief daily devotions come with a (totally doable) running challenge and a prayer to keep with you during your day. Whether you’re preparing for a 5K or a marathon, or you want to start running to improve your health, during these thirty days you’ll notice changes. You’ll find yourself growing closer to God and becoming a better runner — and a better Catholic! — because you’ll be giving it all to him. Click here to register for the related webcast ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chris Easterly is a professional screenwriter and independent filmmaker. A graduate of the prestigious Warner Brothers Television Writers Workshop, he has written for Fox, Cartoon Network, and the Hallmark Channel. His memoir Falling Forward was selected as an exclusive Amazon Kindle Single. Represented by Bauman Management in Los Angeles, he is a member of the Writers Guild of America.
Author : Jen Scotney
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2024-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1839810157
Ultrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK's toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her ambitions, not just to run the 268-mile Pennine Way but to take the record as the fastest woman to do so. But that didn't happen. Nothing went according to plan. The Jen the world knew was a successful lawyer and running coach – all photoshoots and finish-line smiles – but the truth was much darker. The real Jen Scotney, the one she hid from everybody, suffered with chronic fatigue, debilitating injuries, tragedy, grief and at times had a will so beaten down by setbacks that there just didn't seem any point in going on. But she did go on. Running Through the Dark is Jen's account of her ultra-journey. Playing out on the moors of the Pennines, the fells of the Lake District and the mountains of Wales and Scotland, this is much more than a running book, it is a story about resilience, about never giving up, and about battling through the night and always believing that there will be a new dawn.
Author : K. W. Jeter
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN : 9780553575705
K.W. Jeter picks up the tale of Rick Deckard, the `blade runner' created by Phillip K. Dick and popularized by Ridley Scott's cult classic film. Consistent with the sordid vision of 21st century Los Angeles crafted by Dick and Scott, Jeter creates a stylish piece of thrilling, futuristic suspense that finds Deckard not only in the role of hunter, but also hunted. Again, Deckard is on the trail of an replicant, not knowing that it may be the most elusive and dangerous android of all.
Author : Steven Sanders
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813172810
The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits. Science fiction films entertain the possibility of time travel and extraterrestrial visitation and imaginatively transport us to worlds transformed by modern science and technology. They also provide a medium through which questions about personal identity, moral agency, artificial consciousness, and other categories of experience can be addressed. In The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film, distinguished authors explore the storylines, conflicts, and themes of fifteen science fiction film classics, from Metropolis to The Matrix. Editor Steven M. Sanders and a group of outstanding scholars in philosophy, film studies, and other fields raise science fiction film criticism to a new level by penetrating the surface of the films to expose the underlying philosophical arguments, ethical perspectives, and metaphysical views. Sanders's introduction presents an overview and evaluation of each essay and poses questions for readers to consider as they think about the films under discussion.The first section, "Enigmas of Identity and Agency," deals with the nature of humanity as it is portrayed in Blade Runner, Dark City, Frankenstein, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Total Recall. In the second section, "Extraterrestrial Visitation, Time Travel, and Artificial Intelligence," contributors discuss 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, 12 Monkeys, and The Day the Earth Stood Still and analyze the challenges of artificial intelligence, the paradoxes of time travel, and the ethics of war. The final section, "Brave Newer World: Science Fiction Futurism," looks at visions of the future in Metropolis, The Matrix, Alphaville, and screen adaptations of George Orwell's 1984.
Author : Rhyannon Byrd
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373885830
In Rhyannon Byrd's latest Bloodrunners romance, passion and secrets collide and only their love will save two werewolves and their pack. With his sharp gaze locked on the most magnificent female he'd ever seen, Wyatt Pallaton did his best to hold himself back. Of course, Elise Drake was hardly just any female. Fiery and cool, strong, yet at the same time achingly vulnerable, she'd turned his entire world on its head. No matter how bloody difficult it proved to be, he was done letting her pretend he didn't even exist. Done with letting her fight her own battles. Done driving himself slowly into this maddening state of frustrated desire. One way or another, things were about to change. Come hell or high water, she was done running.... A Wolf Shifter Romance.
Author : Mark Remy
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1605292729
An engaging reference for anyone who loves to run, or wants to learn to, includes lessons, warnings and instructional asides and covers everything from first aid and hydration to the dating lives of runners to race intricacies and urban pitfalls.
Author : Max Turner
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250038623
Dark Talents is a 2-in-1 package of Night Runner and End of Days by Max Turner—a fast-paced, exciting addition to the vampire genre Night Runner: For Zack Thomson, the bizarre is commonplace. Living in a mental ward and surrounded by a host of strange characters, including Charlie, his wild and irrepressible best friend, and the beautiful but mysterious nurse Ophelia, Zack struggles to cope with an unusual illness that baffles all the local doctors. Then one night, an eccentric old man crashes a stolen police motorcycle through the front doors of the lobby to rescue Zack from an ancient and wicked evil. Zack soon finds himself thrust into an unfamiliar world of car chases, police hunts, teenage mayhem, girls, and murder. After stumbling from one disaster to another, Zack must confront a killer and come to terms with the truth about himself, his illness, and the likelihood of finding love after death. End Of Days: A year after the conclusion of Night Runner, Zack Thomson is still learning to cope with the changes in his new life. As he and his best friend, Charlie, try to establish a normal routine for themselves, a mysterious creature appears. Likened to the Beast of the Apocalypse, it begins to dismantle the network of support around Zack, who discovers he is more than just a struggling orphan—he is the subject of an ancient prophecy that relates to the End of Days. As friends and enemies, old and new, throw his world into chaos, he is forced to reexamine what it means to be good at a time when it seems that only the strong and ruthless can survive and find a way forward.
