Eight Seconds: An inspirational story about one woman, with one dream, and one almighty driving passion. Inspired by Australia's first female open bullrider.

Eight Seconds: An inspirational story about one woman, with one dream, and one almighty driving passion. Inspired by Australia's first female open bullrider.
Author: Frances Dall'Alba
Publisher: Poinsettia Publishing
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0645116238

Enjoy this inspirational story about one woman, with one dream, and one almighty driving passion by author Frances Dall'Alba. Triumph, hardship, true grit?and one crazy dream. Grace Lucas knows from an early age that climbing onto a bucking animal and holding on is exactly what she wants. When Grace wins her first poddy ride at the age of twelve but is refused the first prize trophy because she?s a girl, it stirs a fierce streak that won?t rest ? not until she?s allowed to compete in the sport she loves as an equal and be recognised for it. ÿ Erin Blackwater comes into Grace?s life many years after her bull riding days are over, at a time when she has questions and doubts about how her own life is tracking. Employed by a medical research company to record Grace?s miracle recovery, Grace teaches Erin the importance of living life to the fullest without fear or regrets. Or life will leave you behind. ÿ Encapsulating the Australian outback landscape of the sixties and seventies, with a storyline weaving in and out of the present day, this story is inspired by one woman, with one dream, and one almighty driving passion. With every adversity in her way, Grace pushes past the barriers and succeeds in a male dominated sport, and creates a new legend. Eight Seconds is a standalone novel by romance author Frances Dall'Alba. For fans of Amelia Rose, Laurinda Lawrence, Adriana Locke and for those who love The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks, this book inspired by Australia's first female open bullrider is the one for you. It is Australian themed and set in amazing Australian locations.

The Glittering Star: An enemies to lovers, small town romance by author Frances Dall'Alba

The Glittering Star: An enemies to lovers, small town romance by author Frances Dall'Alba
Author: Frances Dall'Alba
Publisher: Poinsettia Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2024-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0645116270

Enjoy this emotional, enemies to lovers, steamy small town romance by author Frances Dall'Alba. Shimmering waters … towering giants … buried mysteries She’s the no filters chick. Funny, full of life and always ready for a good laugh. Until her mother drops a bombshell. He’s the environmental warrior. Passionate, driven and determined to save the world. Burnt once before, he’s moving on and doing things his way. So how did they end up handcuffed together on day one? Roberta Mintello is sent to North Queensland by her distraught mother, to dig up a small box buried nearly thirty years ago. It’s no help that it’s buried beside giant trees, in a protected national park, on the shores of a stunning lake. Its mystery will only be revealed when the box is returned. How is an impatient Roberta going to hold off that long? Nate Surrey’s family owns the teahouse that has graced Lake Barrine for nearly one hundred years. When he catches Roberta digging around the bases of the twin monoliths, he demands answers. Roberta follows no rules, especially the ones telling her to stay away from the drop-dead gorgeous Nate. But the rules change when the box is found. The chemistry ramps up between them, and Roberta shouldn’t have started what she can’t handle. When the mystery blows up in her face, she’s not prepared for the hurt and lies. Not even Nate can fix it, because she’s not staying long enough to find out. The Glittering Star is the second novel in the Sway of The Stars Series, although all books in the Sway of The Stars Series can be read as standalones. For fans of Denise Daye, Pepper Winters, Teresa Morgan, and K.C.Lynn, books by Frances Dall'Alba are filled with romance, emotion, passion, love, second chances, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, mystery and intrigue, might contain some ugly-cry, will contain some steamy scenes, and will always end happily. They are Australian themed and set in amazing Australian locations.

Born to Run

Born to Run
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 184765228X

A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
Author: Malcolm Lowry
Publisher: New Amer Library
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451132130

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.

Icon, Brand, Myth

Icon, Brand, Myth
Author: Maxwell Foran
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 1897425058

This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1912, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience – from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and a component of the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole.

Dislocating the Frontier

Dislocating the Frontier
Author: Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1920942378

The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. DISLOCATING THE FRONTIER departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters.

His Lessons on Love

His Lessons on Love
Author: Cathy Maxwell
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062896873

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s delicious Logical Man’s Guide to Dangerous Women series continues with this provocative romance between a reprobate earl and a sensible spinster who agree to marry under scandalous circumstances. Perfect for fans of Sophie Jordan and Sabrina Jeffries. Lesson #1: A man, even titled and handsome, cannot be careless forever. The Earl of Marsden—better known as Mars to all—has lived his life by his own rules…until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package—a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars won’t let his child be cast adrift, except he doesn’t know the first thing about babies. Panicking, he turns to a woman for help. Not just any woman, but Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Mars’s greatest critic. Still, who better to tend a motherless child than a woman who was abandoned as a babe herself? Lesson #2: Life always plays the upper hand—especially when it comes to love. Clarissa desperately wishes to not to be beholden to anyone. She has spent a lifetime being pitied by the village. Her plan is simple—to use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own woman. It all sounds so straightforward until the threat of scandal sends her and the one man she can’t abide toward . . . marriage? Mars and Clarissa are about to learn the greatest lesson of all—that sparks always fly when the iron is hot.

The Man Who Listens to Horses

The Man Who Listens to Horses
Author: Monty Roberts
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-12-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0345510453

Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer–an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing “horse sense” is based on a lifetime of experience. In The Man Who Listens to Horses, Roberts reveals his unforgettable personal story and his exceptional insight into nonverbal communication, an understanding that applies to human relationships as well. He shows that between parent and child, employee and employer, abuser and abused, there are forms of communication far stronger than the spoken word that are accessible to all who will learn to listen. This new edition features engaging photographs, a chapter that traces Roberts’s amazing experience gentling with a mustang in the wild, and an Afterword about the remarkable impact this book has had on the world.

Dispossessing the Wilderness

Dispossessing the Wilderness
Author: Mark David Spence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1999-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199880689

National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.