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In the forty-year period between 1951 and 1991, Canadian sports car competition underwent a massive change, transforming itself from an amateur recreational pastime to a commercialized profession and from an individual sport to a spectacle for mass consumption. The Chequered Past is the story of the struggle over power and purpose within the Canadian auto sport that led to this transformation. The first comprehensive history of sports car racing and rallying in Canada, The Chequered Past traces the efforts of the national governing body - the Canadian Auto Sport Clubs (CASC) - to bring its sports car competition up to a 'world class' level, and to manage the consequences of those efforts in ...
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The bestselling author delves into the twisted crimes of Wayne Adam Ford.“This kind of frightening and fascinating glimpse into a killer’s mind is rare.” —Ron Franscell, New York Times–bestselling author On a chilly November afternoon in 1998, a tearful 36-year-old man walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department in Eureka, California, and confessed to something horrible. “I hurt some people,” he said. Inside his pocket was the ghastly proof of his statement. But there was more to Wayne Adam Ford than the trail of mangled victims he left behind. More, even, than the twisted predator inside, which drove him to increasingly perverse sexual appetites. Pulitzer Prize–no...
A SUSPENSE AND ACTION-PACKED POLICE MYSTERY WITH A TOUCH OF ROMANCE Two wounded persons coming together to help each other become whole. Grant Thompson’s mother was supposedly killed in a car wreck when he was four. Now, she suddenly appears with no memory of anything before the wreck. Kelly Newcomb hadn’t seen her father since she was four. Now she’s told he is dead, killed in Afghanistan. She never knew him and now, she never will. Grant and Kelly are thrown together by the mystery surrounding Harry’s death. How do they each deal with their lost memories and with each other? Grant, a police detective has problems with his sergeant, solving two murders and his growing attraction for Kelly. Kelly searches for meaning in her life. She was partially crippled at the age of twelve in a car wreck which killed her mother. She struggles to be a fully functioning executive. Then Grant comes into her life. Grant and Kelly each try to deal with all they have lost individually and then together.
Randy Gordon has spent over 40 years in the world of professional boxing, as a broadcaster, ring announcer, New York State’s athletic commissioner, editor of TheRing magazine, and host of SiriusXM Radio’s At the Fights. No one else has ever seen the sport from so many different angles and from such lofty seats. In Glove Affair: My Lifelong Journey in the World of Professional Boxing, Gordon recounts never-before-heard stories of the boxing industry and offers insights into some of its most famous figures, including Hall-of-Famers Bert Sugar, Alexis Arguello, Bob Arum, and Mike Tyson. With the perspective only an insider can offer, Gordon also reflects on his times with Muhammad Ali—inc...
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