Drift Race

Drift Race
Author: David Jubermann
Publisher: Epsum Media Ltd
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0473206951

Leon grows up in Japan. After a major tragedy his family is split apart and his mother decides to move back to New Zealand. In this new and foreign country, Leon tries to put his past behind, but when he attends a drifting competition with his friend Byron it all comes flooding back and his passion is reignited. He is able to help one of the drift racers with his car problems and one event leads to another. Before he knows it, he spirals into an exciting world of adrenaline, fast cars and high-speed chases. Soon he becomes a top competitor himself and things could not be better when he meets Lorna, a smart and beautiful girl. Yet little does he know that danger and death are lurking just around the corner. Can he, against all odds, overcome those that will stop at nothing to beat him?

How to Drift

How to Drift
Author: Paul Morton
Publisher: CarTech Inc
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2006
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1932494235

Drifting is the newest, most exciting motorsport we have seen in the United States since the invention of the limited slip differential - it may be the most exhilarating contest of man and machine ever devised! From the winding mountain passes and desolate industrial roads of Japan, this unique sport of sliding a car sideways through a series of corners has become a huge hit in America. Drifting, or dorifto as they call it in Japan, extracts the most exciting aspect auto racing, extreme oversteer, and makes it the focus of an intense and visually intoxicating new motor sport. How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer is a comprehensive guide to both the driving technique and car setup required for drifting. The author defines various precision driving techniques used in drifting and explains them from a racecar driver’ s point of view. How to Drift illustrates the finer elements of car control required in drifting with technical descriptions, detailed line art and intense photography. This book even includes a budget drift car build-up with detailed suspension, chassis, and engine modifications that will help you turn your economy car into a drift machine— on top of that, there’ s a chapter detailing the finer aspects of an SR20DET swap!

Drifters

Drifters
Author: John L. Campbell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698146352

The survivors of the Omega Virus make a desperate effort to find the living. But the walking dead aren’t done with them yet… Helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish is a man of his word. The last thing he wants is to abandon the safety of the U.S.S. Nimitz and his newly adopted son Ben. Still, a promise is a promise, no matter how close to death it brings him… Angie West has fought hard to keep strangers alive, but now it’s time to tend to her own. Only, when she finds her family missing and their hideout burned and looted, she realizes the threat to her family isn’t just the undead—the living can do so much worse… Halsey has done well for himself, given the circumstances. Between his secluded ranch and precise shooting, the plague hasn’t touched him. Until a Black Hawk crashes on his property, bringing the war to his front door… Amid the chaos of a destroyed civilization, the survivors encounter a new threat. And these new monsters can’t be outrun—or outwitted…

ESSA Professional Paper

ESSA Professional Paper
Author: United States. Environmental Science Services Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1967
Genre: Geophysics
ISBN:

The Trailsman #344

The Trailsman #344
Author: Jon Sharpe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101197919

It's a short drop…and a sudden stop. Skye Fargo knows there are many reasons people call it "Bleeding Kansas." And a whole rotten bunch of those reasons are holed up in a frontier trading post of Sublette, under the iron hand of the ruthless Rafe Belloch. They prey on innocents like wolves on lambs. But now that the Trailsman has joined the fray, the predators don't have a prayer…

Gas Engine

Gas Engine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1910
Genre: Internal combustion engines
ISBN:

The Drifters

The Drifters
Author: James A. Michener
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812986725

In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the world—as well as the hedonistic pursuit of drugs and pleasure that collapses all around them. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the private world of these unforgettable characters, exposing their innermost desires with remarkable candor and infinite compassion. Praise for The Drifters “A blockbuster of a book . . . full of surprise, drama, and fascination.”—Philadelphia Bulletin “Rings with authentic detail and clearly descriptive sights and smells . . . The Drifters is to the generation gap what The Source was to Israel.”—Publishers Weekly “[The Drifters] conveys a sense of a new time, a new generation.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Michener has slid open a window on the world of the dropout and has spared no effort to make the reader aware of this new world.”—The Salt Lake Tribune

Boulevard

Boulevard
Author: Stephen Jay Schwartz
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765362889

Haunted by painful childhood events including the early death of his father, LA detective Hayden Glass hides private struggles about his sex addiction while investigating the murder of a politician's daughter by a sexual predator.