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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
"Hop on the bike with Bessie Stringfield, the motorcycle queen of Miami, in this powerful picture book from Coretta Scott King medalist Charles R. Smith, Jr. and debut picture book illustrator Charlot Kristensen. In 1929, 18-year-old Bessie Stringfield hopped on her motorcycle and headed out on an adventure, an unusual choice for a young Black woman at the time. Paying her way by winning motorcycle races, she criss-crossed the country through small...
3) Road queens
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Operation Starfish has one goal: to remove domestic violence survivors from danger. But when a mission backfires in tragedy, the band of bikers who founded OpStar dissolves the organization and their ride-or-die friendship. Five years later Amanda, Sidney, and Cassandra are brought back together by the same thing that tore them apart when the man who victimized his wife is murdered, and all signs point to Cassandra. Circumstances being what they are...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Evel. Not a name that will be forgotten. Not a man that will be forgotten. Hell, he wasn't a man, he was a daredevil. Evel was the original daredevil. He left behind a twisted wreck of a life and a story that can only be told at full speed, straight up, and with no flowery prose. Look back, and look inside. With a cast that includes those who were there, those who wanted to be Evel, and those who became who they are today because of one man.
6) The courier
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick. But after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers to survive the night.
7) Stray dog
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A portrait of a motorcycle-riding, freedom-loving, Vietnam veteran cast in the mold of an outlaw biker. The film follows Stray Dog as he caravans on his Harley with fellow vets to pay tribute to their fallen brothers at the Vietnam Memorial. Meanwhile, back home in southern Missouri where he owns and operates an RV Park populated by a community on the margins, he forges a new life of domesticity with his Mexican wife Alicia.
8) Easy rider
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm
Description
"Have you ever been told that you're not enough? That you're not strong enough, tall enough, or fast enough? Bessie was told she was not enough. This book combines an imagined story of Bessie Stringfield as a young girl with historical facts about the real Bessie, a true adventurer and one of the first African-American women to travel solo across the United States on a motorcycle"--Back cover.
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