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Language
English
Description
The basic thesis of the manifesto is as follows: The American aversion to bicycling for transportation is a unique historical-cultural absurdity that is based largely on false assumptions and bad information. As the nation's acute energy predicament intensifies, the most simple and elegant remedy available is the one that almost never gets mentioned. The avoidance of the bicycle in recent public discourse has been conspicuous, ridiculous, and downright...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. In the 1890s, the nation's promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of the African American bicycle racer who won the 1899 World Championship title.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Heading for the mountains for a cycling trip, Zak Polanski and his friends are terrorized by a jealous former boyfriend, but when one of the stalker's friends falls to his death, Zak and his companions struggle to get off the mountain alive.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.
10) Final payment
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of a West African youth who pursued an education, helped support his family and became a record-setting cyclist in spite of a disability traces his ongoing achievements as an activist.
14) The program
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish sports journalist searches for evidence that will expose cyclist Lance Armstrong's alleged use of banned substances.
15) Hell on wheels
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Le Tour de France is the toughest bicycle race of all. This film shows the torture and the pain, the fear and the courage of the riders on the Tour. It also showcases the supporting casts of managers, masseurs, fans, and more.
Author
Publisher
Charlie Walker
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
v, 273 pages : maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aged twenty-two, Charlie Walker left home in search of adventure. Fleeing the boredom that comes with comfort, he set off on a secondhand bicycle. The aim was simple: to pedal to the furthest point in each of Europe, Asia and Africa. He didn’t train or plan. He just packed a tent and set off. Living wild and sleeping rough in myriad countries, Charlie came to appreciate life's simple pleasures and to glory in the beauty that abounds in both nature...
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Childhood for Mat Hoffman was packed with hazardous behavior and a constant searching for a new rush: sliding down the laundry chute, blatantly misusing a trampoline, leaping off the roof holding an umbrella, executing a two-story bomb drop into a swimming pool on a bike, and more. After experimenting with his bike on a plywood ramp at age eleven, Mat found his true calling. He became addicted to aerials. By the time he was fourteen years old, Mat...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Comeback chronicles the life of one of America's greatest athletes, from his roots in Nevada and California to the heights of global fame, to a falling out with his own family and a calamitous confrontation with Lance Armstrong over allegations the latter was doping-a campaign LeMond would wage on principle for more than a decade before Armstrong was finally stripped of his own Tour titles. With the kind of narrative drive that propels books...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 461 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on interviews with more than one hundred people close to Lance Armstrong to chronicle fourteen critical years in his career, from his cancer recovery to his precipitous fall after revelations about his systemic doping became public.
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