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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...
Author
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
393 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Description
"Sometimes you just have to get away. That unmistakable urge was already growing inside of Mike Krabal when he received advice from a wise soul of eighty-one years to 'get out more.' In October 2011, he traded his life in a small West Virginia town to 132 days on America's open road. This journal spans more than 17,000 miles and recounts every day in remarkable detail."--Page 4 of cover.
8) Blacklisted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
"Dr. Presley Baskin has always lived a quiet, calm life. Unfortunately, nothing about her life in Loveless, Texas -- especially not the wild, rowdy, and impossibly close-knit Lawton family who've claimed her -- is quiet or calm. Which is how loner Presley finds herself roped into patching up local bad boy Shot Caldwell against her better judgment. Presley wants nothing to do with the dangerous, brooding leader of the local outlaw motorcycle club....
9) 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.
Author
Series
Texas crossroads volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
557 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Gillian Hodge goes to Rainbow's End Resort for some R&R after her promising career as a concert pianist is crushed, along with her right hand, after an encounter with a man on a motorcycle. Now she finds herself the reluctant rescuer to another one. TJ Benjamin finds himself stranded with a busted bike after wandering the country on his motorcycle for the past year after the deaf of his wife and the loss of his faith" --
13) American outlaw
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
361 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
The Discovery Channel star offers an honest reflection on the highs and lows of his life, from his troubled youth to his failed marriages, and discusses his struggle to overcome his own personal demons and make peace with his past.
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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