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Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, And Their Battle For Speed And Glory At Le Mans
by A. J. BaimeBy the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort, and Ford didn't offer what these young drivers wanted. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari lorded over the European racing scene, crafting beautiful, fast sports cars that epitomized style. Baime tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer named Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game, at the most prestigious and dangerous race in the world, the 24 Hours of LeMans. Go Like Hell transports readers to a golden era in racing when Ford's innovative strategy led to victories on the track and renewed respect for the American automobile.
Go Long!
by Paul Mantell Tiki Barber Ronde BarberIt's Tiki and Ronde's second year on their junior high school football team, the Hidden Valley Eagles. The eighth-grade season is here, and the boys have come together as a team. Now key starters, Tiki and Ronde are ready for a great season, and with hard work and determination, maybe they will even go all the way to the State Championship! But when Coach Spangler announces that he has been asked to move up to the high school team, and Mr. Wheeler, the science teacher, is tapped for the head coaching job, the season seems over before it begins. Sure, Coach Wheeler played college football until he was benched by an injury, but it just isn't the same. Tiki wants to give Coach Wheeler a chance, yet the team's loyalties are divided. What does a science teacher know about the game of football? Can the team work together, get behind their new coach, and play smart? Inspired by the childhood of NFL superstars Tiki and Ronde Barber, Go Long! is a story of teamwork, perseverance, and what it takes to be a champion.
Go Long! My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame
by Brian Curtis Jerry RiceJerry Rice has been called the best pro football player ever. In spite of Rice's legendary gridiron skills, or even his ability to transform himself into an instant ballroom-dance prodigy on ABC's hit TV series Dancing with the Stars, the surprising fact is, a guy like Jerry Rice is made and not just born. In Go Long!Rice shares the inspirational lessons and empowering practices that have helped him attain success, both on the football field and off.
Go Multisport: Add Fun, Challenge & Exploration to Your World
by Jennifer McConachieThe all-in-one resource and first handbook for multisport athletes with an introduction to the field of multisport and a look at how it came to be and what's next for the sport.Are you ready to Go Multisport? You can run, you can paddle, you can SUP (stand up paddleboard), you can swim, you can ski, you can climb, you can train, and you can bike. But how can you combine them all together? For ultra-like distances and days at a time? How about climbing, hiking, and packrafting all in one day?Beyond traditional 5Ks and 10Ks and single sport extreme and endurance events, is the newly evolving field of multisport. Multisport events are usually self-designed and determined. These extreme athletes most often create their own events because they are the first to do these human-powered endurance challenges.Some examples of multisport athletes include: Nathan Fa&’avae: Winner of the Eco-Challenge World&’s Toughest Race, and 7-time Adventure Racing World Champion Roman Dial: Combines biking and packrafts in the Alaskan backcountry; has made full-length traverses (upward of 700 miles) by foot, ski, pedal and paddle of the Brooks and Alaska Ranges Dave Cornthwaite: Adventurer who created Expedition 1000, a quest to take on 25 journeys, each one a minimum of 1000 miles, using a different way of non-motorized transport throughout the world Alastair Humphreys: A National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for his concept of microadventures, encouraging people to get outside, even in short bouts Perfect for those who are seeking to do more--more challenge, more fun--this book provides a history, background, and empowering how-to. You will learn how to walk the edge of a radical new discipline. Also includes gear lists, sample race challenges, training secrets and more.
Go Paddleboarding! (The Wild Outdoors)
by Heather E. SchwartzEnjoy calm waters and a warm, sunny day on a paddleboard! Readers will learn about the skills and equipment they need to go paddleboarding. Find out important safety rules and ways to protect the environment, all while having fun experiencing this outdoor activity!
Go Paddleboarding! (The Wild Outdoors)
by Heather E. SchwartzEnjoy calm waters and a warm, sunny day on a paddleboard! Readers will learn about the skills and equipment they need to go paddleboarding. Find out important safety rules and ways to protect the environment, all while having fun experiencing this outdoor activity!
Go Skiing! (The Wild Outdoors)
by Heather BodeWhoosh! Feel the rush as you speed down a snowy slope! Get outdoors and enjoy the thrill of skiing. Readers will learn all about the proper clothing, footwear, and supplies they need for both downhill and cross-country skiing. Find out how to stay safe and have fun while taking part in a popular winter sport!
Go Skiing! (The Wild Outdoors)
by Heather BodeWhoosh! Feel the rush as you speed down a snowy slope! Get outdoors and enjoy the thrill of skiing. Readers will learn all about the proper clothing, footwear, and supplies they need for both downhill and cross-country skiing. Find out how to stay safe and have fun while taking part in a popular winter sport!
Go Snowshoeing! (The Wild Outdoors)
by Heather BodeWhat's the best way to enjoy a cold, snowy winter day? Try snowshoeing! Readers will learn all about the proper clothing, footwear, and supplies they need to go snowshoeing in the wild outdoors. They can discover how to have fun while safely exploring the winter world around them.
Go Snowshoeing! (The Wild Outdoors)
by Heather BodeWhat's the best way to enjoy a cold, snowy winter day? Try snowshoeing! Readers will learn all about the proper clothing, footwear, and supplies they need to go snowshoeing in the wild outdoors. They can discover how to have fun while safely exploring the winter world around them.
Go Up for Glory
by Bill Russell William McsweenyBack in print for the first time in decades, Go Up for Glory is the classic 1968 basketball memoir by NBA legend Bill Russell, with a new foreword from the author.From NBA legend Bill Russell, Go Up for Glory is a basketball memoir that transcends time. First published in 1965, this narrative traces Russell's childhood in segregated America and details the challenges he faced as a Black man, even when he was a celebrated NBA star. And while some progress has been made, this book serves as an urgent reminder of how far we still have to go in the fight for human rights and equality.
Go West: London to the Welsh Coast – 8 Days, 2 Wheels and a Whole Lot of Hills
by Steve SilkWhat would happen if you got on a bike in central London and didn't stop riding until you hit the Welsh coast? Steve Silk, the best-selling author of The Great North Road, provides the answer over eight days, 300 miles and rather a lot of hills. Enriched with history, Go West is a must for anyone who has ever dreamed of a cycling adventure.
Go Wild: Find Freedom and Adventure in the Great Outdoors
by Chris NaylorThe world is yours to exploreThe great outdoors is the beating heart of our world, but modern life is pulling us ever further away from it. Spending our time shut away indoors and hunched over screens, we’ve lost touch with nature, and it’s harming our health and our happiness. But it’s never too late to find our way back.This book will help you find a way of reconnecting with the great outdoors. Whether you like to walk, run or swim, admire the wildlife or forage for wild foods, within these pages there will be something to inspire you to get out into the fresh air and reignite your sense of wonder at the world around you. Nature is a balm for the body and soul, so escape the pace of the everyday and set yourself free: get out there, find adventure, and go wild!
Go for the Goal! (All-Star Sports Stories #5)
by Fred BowenJosh and his talented travel league soccer teammates are having trouble coming together as a successful team--until he convinces them to try team-building exercises.Thirteen-year-old Josh tries out for the United, an elite travel league soccer team, and is thrilled when he makes the cut. But once the season is underway, he discovers that the practices are grueling and the other team members are prone to hogging the ball. All the other players are talented, but they each seem to be playing for themselves and not for the team. They can't seem to pull together enough to win a single game. Tired of always being in the losers bracket, Josh begins to wonder if he made a mistake by leaving his old team and his buddies. Should he quit the United?But just when Josh is about to give up on his new team, he makes a discovery: While doing a homework assignment about the World Cup soccer championships, he learns that the 1999 United States Women's World Cup team faced similar difficulties. Individually they were excellent athletes, but they just couldn't work together. How did the 1999 team win it all that year? By using team-building exercises. Fired up by this idea, Josh convinces his coach to try the same approach. At first his teammates are skeptical, but with time they turn the United into a real team!
Go for the Gold (The Gymnasts #22)
by Elizabeth LevyA Dream Come True! Heidi Ferguson is going to compete in the Olympics! Newspapers are full of stories about her spectacular career--her battle with anorexia--and her amazing comeback. Can she handle the pressure of world-class gymnastics competition this time around? Heidi knows she can. She's tougher, and stronger than ever--and she's ready to prove it. Her friends and family will be cheering her on--and the whole world will be watching.
Go for the Magic: The Five Secrets Behind a Magical, Miraculous Way of Life
by Pat Williams Jim DenneyPat Williams, The general manager of the Orlando Magic basketball team, describes how Walt Disney's five-step plan for success can be applied to achieve any goal one has in life.
Go to the Hoop! (Angel Park Hoop Stars #3)
by Dean HughesAssigned to play center in the starting lineup of his basketball team because he is tall, fifth grader Harlan feels pressure to perform well and tries to develop some self-confidence.
Go to the Net
by Al StrachanPlayers and coaches of genius come along; rules and tactics and strategies evolve; careers ebb and flow. And the best way to see how the game changes is to look at the goals, the events that led up to them, and the way they change hockey history. From Canada's ultimate hockey insider comes the lowdown on the personalities, the dressing-room banter, the chalk-talk, the sweat-stained passion behind eight of the goals that changed the game.There are moments in hockey history that matter even more than the question of who won or lost, when a single goal can tell us about the game itself.Among the most famous and stirring in hockey lore was Paul Coffey's dramatic counter-attack in the 1984 Canada Cup against the USSR. Canadian fans were terrified of the dazzling Soviets, and were nervous about another drubbing like the 8-1 loss Canada had suffered the last time the two teams had played. Coffey's pass interception and rush up-ice is now the stuff of legend, but it was not only the defenceman's skill that won the day.Glen Sather was as mindful of the vaunted Soviet attack as any Canadian fan, and he put together a game plan with one objective: to keep the puck away from the Russians. Once Coffey got the puck into the Soviet zone, it was Tonelli's spadework along the boards and Bossy's refusal to budge from the crease that allowed Coffey's point shot to eventually find its way to the net. That goal beat the Soviets and changed the way the game was played forever.Other goals were equally shaped by their time. Think of Guy Lafleur's notorious "too- many- men- on- the- ice" goal in 1979, which effectively ended Don Cherry's career as a coach. Or Wayne Gretzky's overtime goal in Game Two of the Smythe Division finals in 1988 against the Calgary Flames, arguably the goal that marked the pinnacle of his career. Or Mario Lemieux's 1987 Canada Cup-winning goal. Or Brett Hull's disputed 1999 Stanley Cup-winner.Al Strachan, whose insider hockey connections are second to none, was witness to all these goals. He has been writing about the game we love for more than three decades. Chummy with the players, respected by coaches, and friends with the broadcasters and journalists, he knows what is going on in the dressing rooms and the board rooms, and he understands what is evolving on the ice. He has talked to the men who made the decisions, as well as to those who made the plays. In Go to the Net, he passes on, in the trenchant style of his famous columns, insights into the goals that tell us not only about the way the game has changed but also about the gritty soul of hockey that will never change.From the Hardcover edition.
Go! Fight! Twin!
by Belle PaytonAva pretends to be Alex at the cheerleading tryouts in the fourth book of the It Takes Two series! Will the twins get away with their big switch?All of Alex's new friends are trying out for the cheerleading squad, and they convince her to try out with them. There's only one problem: she's the least coordinated person on the planet! Alex knows she can never actually be a cheerleader, but she wants to avoid total humiliation at tryouts, so she enlists Ava to pretend to be her and try out in her place--sometimes having a twin really comes in handy! Alex instructs Ava to be good, but not good enough to make the squad. But Ava finds herself enjoying the routines, giving a great performance, and making the team! Ava can't be a football player and a cheerleader at the same time...what's a scheming pair of twins to do?
Go, Fractions!
by Judith Bauer Stamper Chris DemarestThe coach of the soccer team is a math teacher. And the name of the team is the Fractions. The numbers on the kids' uniforms are fractions. At half time, the kids eat orange slices that are cut in halves, quarters, and thirds. All of these fractions add up to two things-a winning team and lots of fun! Illustrated by Chris Demarest.
Go, Girl, Go! (Cheer USA #1)
by Jeanne BetancourtThis new cheerleading series starts with seventh-grade tryouts at Claymore Middle School in Florida. Not everyone in the incoming class will make the team, but four fiercely determined girls will give it their 150 percent best.
Go, Sled! Go!
by James YangTheodor Seuss Geisel Award Winner James Yang hops on a speeding sled with this hilarious and helpful easy-to-read picture book, perfect for beginning readers!Go, sled, go!What could be more exciting than a thrilling sled ride?Maybe when a few unexpected creatures join the adventure?Before long, there's a bunny, a moose, a snowman, and even a baker with cakes on the sled, and more surprises are headed their way.Repetitive words and large type make this a perfect book for beginning readers. And the laughs and surprises keep coming until the very satisfying end.
Go-Kart Rush
by Jake MaddoxWhen Tony turns twelve and moves up to the next class of kart racing, he worries that he will never be able to compete against the older boys who have more experience.
Goal Dust: The Warm and Candid Memoirs of a Pioneer Black Athlete and Actor
by Woody Strode Sam YoungWoody Strode's extraordinary career led him from football field to wrestling ring to Hollywood. In 1939 Woody, Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington led UCLA to its first undefeated football season. After World War II Woody and Kenny Washington became the first blacks to play in the NFL. In 1950 Woody became pro wrestling's first black star, After that it was a small step to Hollywood where he appeared in such films as The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, and The Cotton Club. Sam Young and Woody Strode met while working on a televisions production. Their relationship grew until after three years, countless hours of conversations and interviews, Goal Dust was completed.
Goal Line
by Paul Mantell Tiki Barber Ronde BarberTiki and Ronde have grown a lot during the spring and summer. At the start of ninth grade, they're not only wiser and more mature, but they're also taller and stronger--with bigger muscles and bigger hands to grab and hold the ball. Factor in the return of their beloved Coach Wheeler, and the boys couldn't be more ready for football season. But when Tiki wins a school-wide essay contest and gives an inspirational speech in front of the whole school, he becomes sought after for guidance and advice. The school paper even wants him to do a Dear Tiki column! However, Tiki would prefer make his mark on the field--and with the Eagles starting 4-0 and a perfect season in sight, he'll have to put a lid on his advice column and concentrate on football.