A Biker's Guide to the Open Road

A Biker's Guide to the Open Road
Author: Penny Powers
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781423609094

Dreaming of hot pie and coffee at a favorite back road diner?Know what it's like to fix a bike with bungee cords and electrician's tape?Been to every smoky roadside bar between here and Sturgis?A side-cracking companion volume to A Biker's Guide to the Open Road: Ride it Like You Stole It, this brand new collection of biker wisdom kicks it up with a hundred miles worth of new quotes and quips, plenty of slick black wisdom, and intoxicating humor that goes down smooth after a long day on the highway: There should always be more miles on your bike than your car. The five food groups of motorcycling: gas, oil, nicotine, caffeine, and beer. Speed costs money. How fast is your wallet? In motorcycling, the good guys have names like Pig, Grizzly, Horseface, and Slammer. If you want to be treated like a badass, you have to BE a badass. If you're trying to BE a badass, don't be surprised at how people treat you. The bond between bikers has little to do with motorcycles-its beer. Never stop a fistfight unless it's getting too close to the bikes.No self-respecting biker should be without a copy of A Biker's Guide to the Open Road: Ride it Like You Stole It in their saddlebag.Penny Powers co-wrote Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On: A Biker's Guide to Life, also published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher, with Chuck Hayes. She rides a 1993 Harley FX Low Rider, teaches nursing at South Dakota State University, and likes to raise peafowl. Powers lives in South Dakota.Chuck Hays has spent the past twenty years as a journalist and writer. He is currently finishing a PhD at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches newspaper and magazine writing. He divides his time between Iowa and South Dakota. His 1989 Harley-Davidson Sportster has been ridden into the ground and rebuilt several times, but he still refuses to buy a larger bike.

Endless Horizon

Endless Horizon
Author: Dan Walsh
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-02-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0760336040

Reports from the gonzo frontier of motorcycle travel--from Dakar to Ghana to South Africa, then on to North and South America--from the pre-eminent biker-rebel writer of our generation.

Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It #1

Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It #1
Author: Tini Howard
Publisher: Oni Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It is a new comic book miniseries based on the popular Adult Swim television series and inspired by the Pocket Mortys mobile game! In this five issue series, Morty is on a quest to free himself (and all the other Mortys) from the clutches of Ricks, who collect Mortys and force them to battle one another for schmeckles and glory. Along the way, he’ll discover the grisly history of Morty battling, the dastardly lengths that Ricks are willing to stoop to in order to win, and perhaps… the strength in himself that’s needed to free the Mortys once and for all?

Riding Skills

Riding Skills
Author: Mark Lindemann
Publisher: Weldon Owen International
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1681886952

Learn to ride your motorcycle like a pro with this comprehensive beginner’s guide to everything from breaking in your engine to going full throttle. You have your motorcycle. You have you gear. Now it’s time to ride. Whether you’re a brand-new rider looking for safety tips or a speed demon seeking insider track tips, this is the book for you. The editors of Cycle World know everything there is to know about riding a motorcycle, and in this book they share all of their secrets. Their tips bring you into their world on two wheels, while step-by-step illustrations, instructions and awesome action shots give you an understanding of each technique. ABC’s Starting with the basics of breaking in an engine, your pre-ride check and knowing your bike’s limits before moving to improvising a cruise control, countersteering correctly and hitting the engine breaks, these experts have your fundamentals covered. ACCELERATION The editors take things to next level with splitting lanes safely, avoiding target fixation, surviving a crosswind, getting your bike wet and even spending an unplanned night outdoors FULL THROTTLE Why hold back? Read about navigating by the stars, riding in swamps, popping a wheelie, surviving a crash, riding on a tightrope and riding around the world.

A Father's Name

A Father's Name
Author: Holly Jacobs
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373717334

A love to be proud of Tucker--as Angelina Tucker is known to her friends--is in the midst of big change. The pressures of juggling single parenthood and the family business keep her busy 24/7. And now something else is throwing her world into flux--Tyler Martinez. Oh, right. That Tyler. The successful--and sexy--business guy who asked her out. The same guy she turned down. But Tyler needs a job. He also needs her help with the toddler he's guardian to. So what are she and Tyler, exactly? Helpmates? Friends with benefits? She needs some definitions, because she's already in love with his little boy and--heaven help her--she's falling for Tyler, too...

Broken

Broken
Author: Lisa Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416579060

A journalist describes how she overcame personal challenges through a relationship with a famous Arapahoe quadriplegic horse trainer from whom the author learned spiritually transforming life lessons; a personal journey during which she came to deeply love Wyoming's Native American culture.

Forever Home

Forever Home
Author: Elysia Whisler
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369706110

If home is where the heart is, Dogwood County may have just what Delaney Monroe needs Newly retired from the Marine Corps, Delaney is looking for somewhere to start over. It’s not going to be easy, but when she finds the perfect place to open her dream motorcycle shop, she goes for it. What she doesn’t expect is an abandoned pit bull to come with the building. The shy pup is slow to trust, but Delaney is determined to win it over. Detective Sean Callahan is smitten from the moment he sees Delaney, but her cool demeanor throws him off his game. When her late father's vintage motorcycle is stolen from Delaney's shop, Sean gets to turn up in his element: chasing the bad guy and showing his best self to a woman who’s gotten under his skin in a bad way. Delaney isn't used to lasting relationships, but letting love in—both human and canine—helps her see that she may have found a place she belongs, forever. "Complex, quietly compelling characters… A poignant reminder that ‘home’ is often more than a place." —Maggie Wells, author of Love Game Dogwood County Book 1: Rescue You Book 2: Forever Home

Amazing Love

Amazing Love
Author: Mae Nunn
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459201213

Texas beauty Claire Savage learned a hard lesson the day her father left to pursue his selfish dreams. Trust no one. Now in possession of an MBA, and the owner of her own business, she felt in control. A woman like her had no use for church newcomer and former rocker Luke Dawson. What kind of a man had nothing better to do than produce music for her church's youth band? The kind of man she needed to keep an eye on. She never expected Luke's noble spirit to soothe her, yet could even his gentle touch curb her mistrust when his past resurfaced to threaten them both?

Speak Ill of the Living

Speak Ill of the Living
Author: Mark Arsenault
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1615950028

Everybody thought the banker surprised by car-jackers was dead and buried until a photograph of him taken by his captors turns up. If the banker is alive, then whose ashes are buried in his grave? Eddie's chase after the story takes him across many neighborhoods of his home and crime beat, Lowell, Massachusetts, and deep into his own famiy's dark secrets. What he hears are the echoes of a forgotten crime. What he finds are bodies blocking his path.... Someone is killing off his sources. High tension, dark doings, and a real surprise mark this exciting novel.

Cabin

Cabin
Author: Lou Ureneck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143122088

Inspired by his From the Ground Up blog for the New York Times, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age—job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce—Lou Ureneck needed a project that would engage the better part of him and put him back in life's good graces. City-bound for a decade, Lou decided he needed to build a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods. He bought five acres in the hills of western Maine and asked his younger brother, Paul, to help him. Twenty years earlier the brothers had built a house together. Now Lou saw working with Paul as a way to reconnect with their shared history and to rediscover his truest self. As the brothers—with the help of Paul's sons—undertake the challenging construction, nothing seems to go according to plan. But as they raise the cabin, Ureneck eloquently reveals his own evolving insights into the richness and complexity of family relationships, the healing power of nature, and the need to root oneself in a place one can call home. With its exploration of the satisfaction of building and of physical labor, Cabin will also appeal to readers of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft, and Tracy Kidder's House.