[PDF] My Ticket To Ride eBook

Author : Janice Mitchell
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1598511173

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A true-adventure, coming-of-age tale set in the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania … It’s 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love … with the Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four. On their own for the first time—in “Beatleland”—they explore a new city, a new culture, and a new life, visiting the hippest clubs of Soho, meeting some nice English boys, hitchhiking to Liverpool … But unbeknownst to them, the runaways have become international news—and a hunt is on. Adventure and newfound freedom end abruptly when Janice is apprehended by London police and hauled home to Cleveland and an unforgiving juvenile justice system. Warned by responsible adults to put it all behind her, she doesn’t speak of her extraordinary adventure for more than fifty years. In this memoir, she looks back with fresh insight on the heady early days of Beatlemania and an era in America when young women exercising some control over their lives presented a serious threat to adult society.

Author : Mark Rogalski
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780762427826

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Introduces each letter of the alphabet as the beginning letter in the name for an imaginative ride at an amusement park.

Author : Dennis Potter
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts
ISBN : 9780571147540

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Psykologisk thriller om et ægtepar, hvis trygge forhold krakelerer, da manden mister sit job, og begge kastes ud i en psykotisk tilstand

Author : Don Hussey
Publisher : Don Hussey
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0989332411

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Hussey's memior begins with a letter to his son, Gregory written a few weeks before his first deployment to Iraq as a officer in the U.S. Army. Hussey flew to Ft. Hood, Texas to be with his son, meet his commanding officers, attend the briefing sessions, and meet the other soldiers as they prepared for the long journey to the deadly Anbar Province of western Iraq. Hussey handed his letter to his son as he exited the barracks for the short bus ride to the flight line. "I wanted to share my life, my growing-up years, with my son because I feared I may never see him again." Hussey's letter details a story of a young boy growing up in relentless poverty and abuse. "There were stories from my childhood that I had never shared with him, and he never asked. Hussey left high school to find work and support his mother and younger brother. His brother suffered continuously from bleeding episodes resulting from his being born a hemophiliac. In 1965, after serving four years in the U.S. Air Force, Hussey was faced with the greatest series of challenges one could imagine. How he managed to navigate through that period has come to define him. This is a story of triumph over disaster...an unflinchingly honest memoir of a man with uncommon character who outwitted the odds to bring home his "ticket to ride."

Author : Tom Chesshyre
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1783728116

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Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing the world through train travel—on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of ride, from steam locomotives to bullet trains, meeting a cast of memorable characters who share a passion for train travel. Join him on the rails and off the beaten track as he embarks on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour around the globe, from Sri Lanka to Iran via Crewe, Inverness, the Australian outback, and beyond.

Author : Robert Bowman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1546209948

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In this second volume of memoirs, wistfully entitled Ticket to Ride, Robert Bowman again draws on events and experiences from his interesting international legal and commercial consultancy career, which has spanned the last four decades. In so doing, he inexorably draws the reader into the highs and lows of working internationally at the sharp endwhere nothing is quite what it seems and every day throws up new challenges. In this volume of Dispatches from the Coal Face of Life, the reader relives the poignancy of the early and sudden death of Beatle John Lennon in New York city, the raw excitement and deadly confusion of a live shoot-out in Downtown New Orleans, a visit to the distant River Kwai on the Thai/Burmese border before the days of package tours take the traveler there, and a desolate trip to the Delta region of Nigeria. In this new splendidly entertaining volume, the reader climbs Diamond Head above Honolulu and travels on the famous Blue Train across the Karoo from Johannesburg to Cape Town and then goes across the sea to meet the ghost of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island before shooting the rapids and climbing a volcano in the southern Philippines, and then returning in triumph through the dramatic snowy scenery of Glacier National Park and the Rockies on Canadian Pacific 1090. In this unique book, the reader gets to sample another unforgettable walk on the wild side of life. Grab it and taste it while you can, before it melts away into the distant blue yonder.

Author : Paula McLain
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061870331

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In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who’s come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an “unmentionable act.” It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends—and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity in the disaster that takes shape around them. “A captivating story about a teenager’s struggle to be accepted by her peers. . . . The story is more than believable—it simply comes alive. The book perfectly captures the free-spirited attitude of the decade and the curiosity of adolescence.”—Tampa Tribune “McLain compels as she excavates two tragedies.” —Chicago Sun-Times

Author : Carlota Caulfield
Publisher : InteliNet/InteliBooks
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 0971139164

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Carlota Caulfield's Ticket to Ride of is a collection of poems, essays and interviews. It is an autobiographical evocation of the author's family history, and a beautiful homage to her mother. Written over a period of years-from 1995 to 2005-these pieces make up a life as it is being lived and imagined. In them we find the poet's playful irony. Caulfield, like her beloved painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, loves intellectual puzzles.

Author : Arthur Gillette
Publisher : Unesco ; New York : UNCESI
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Adult education
ISBN :

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UNESCO pub. Booklet on the contribution of youth to literacy (incl. Functional literacy) programmes - discusses the respective roles of youth as teachers, learners and volunteer supporters. Bibliography pp. 81 and 82.