Pushing The Limits - Life, Marathons & Kokoda
There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself ...
Extreme Sports - Pointers for Pushing the Limits
Running, jumping and throwing faster, higher and farther tha...
Casey Stoner - Pushing The Limits
The Sleeping Beauty Killer
Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance – famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III – fifteen years ago. And Casey claims – has always claimed – she’s innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living `under suspicion.’ Her story attracts the attention of Laurie Moran and the Under Suspicion news team – it’s Casey’s last chance to final...
Pushing The Limits - Life, Marathons & Kokoda
There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself on, screaming, ‘Who are you? Who are you?’ And each time the answer that kept bouncing around in my mind was just- ‘I am someone who will never stop. Someone who will never give up. Ever.’ When Kurt Fearnley was a kid, he would leave his wheelchair at the front gate and go exploring with his brothers and sisters. ‘You’re going to ...
The Sleeping Beauty Killer
Falsely accused victim? Or cold-blooded killer? Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance fifteen years ago. But Casey claims – has always claimed – she’s innocent. And although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living `under suspicion’. She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can’t get a job. Even her own mother treats her like she’s guilty. ...
Endure - Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
`This book is AMAZING!’ – MALCOLM GLADWELL `If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson’s Endure.’ – BEAR GRYLLS How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we’re fasc...
Reality Is Not What It Seems - The Journey to Quantum Gravity
‘The physicist transforming how we see the universe’ (Financial Times) ’An utter joy’ (Adam Rutherford) ’A hugely engaging book… Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide’ (Manjit Kumar Prospect) Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the bo...
PUSHING THE LIMITS/HOT PURSUIT
Pushing The Limits – Katherine GarberaSurvival expert Jessie Odell has faced the most hazardous environments on earth. Training astronauts should be easy. But enter candidate Hemi Barrett and his hot, ripped bod, and suddenly Jessie is breathless with raw excitement – something she hasn’t felt for a long, long time – and it scares her to death.Hemi isn’t just some sexy distraction. Jessie act...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 “Astonishing and unsettling … A masterwork” San Francisco Chronicle “A book that demands to be read.” Wall Street Journal A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to ma...
The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl - Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie
Jaime Primak Sullivan, outspoken star of Bravo TV’s Jersey Belle, offers no-nonsense Southern-spun advice for navigating life and love with her signature charismatic Jersey charm in this winning fish-out-of-water tale. Jamie Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven—and unlikely transplant in an upscale suburb of Birmingham, Alabama—has spent her entire life crossing the line: whe...
The Library at the Edge of the World
“A charming and heartwarming story.”Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cafe by the Sea Hanna Casey, local librarian on the West Coast of Ireland’s Finfarran Peninsula, is wondering where it all went wrong …As she drives her mobile library van between farms and villages she tries not to think of the sophisticated London lifestyle she abandoned after finding her barrister hus...
BEYOND THE LIMITS/PLAYING DIRTY
Beyond The Limits – Katherine GarberaAstronaut Isabelle Wolsten fought like hell to be one of the final candidates for the CRONUS mission to space. She can’t afford to be distracted by teammate Antonio `Playboy’ Curzon’s broad shoulders, sexy eyes and hot-as-hell Spanish accent. But one searing kiss from Antonio, and Izzy knows she’s definitely hit mission critical. When the two astronauts ar...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity’s Rainbow, ‘it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off’. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adve...
Arminius - The Limits of Empire
‘This is a powerful retelling of one of the most dramatic events in ancient history’ – BBC History Magazine One man’s greatest victory.Rome’s greatest defeat. A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of thr...
Reefer Movie Madness - The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide
Only a year after being published, “Pot Culture” is already in its seventh printing with net sales of 48,100, making it one of the best-selling titles for Abrams Image. Halperin and Bloom’s great follow-up book, “Reefer Movie Madness” will be the most extensive guide ever to feature movies with specific stoner appeal, as well as hundreds more that contain pot scenes and drug themes or are sim...
The Silent Witness
`IÂ’m so sorry, Casey,Â’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. `I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.Â’ ItÂ’s the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on a ventilator, fighting for his life, while her mother is currently...
Pushing the Limits
They say be a good girl, get good grades, be popular. They know nothing about me. I canÂ’t remember the night that changed my life. The night I went from popular to loner freak. And my family are determined to keep it that way. They said therapy was supposed to help. They didnÂ’t expect Noah. Noah is the dangerous boy my parents warned me about. But the only one whoÂ’ll liste...
The Finest Hours - The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
The story behind the major motion picture from Disney-starring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleck-written by a recognized master of the genre-“a blockbuster account of tragedy at sea”. It’s the winter of 1952 and a ferocious Nor’easter is pounding New England with howling winds and seventy-foot seas. Two oil tankers get caught in the violent storm off Cape Cod, its fury splitting the...
Pushing Up Daisies - An Agatha Raisin Mystery
New York Times bestseller M. C. BeatonÂ’s beloved Agatha Raisin is back on the case and poking around where she doesnÂ’t belong.Agatha Raisin, private detective, resident in the Cotswold village of Carsely, should have been a contented and happy womanÂ…But in M.C. BeatonÂ’s Pushing Up Daisies, things are about to get a little less cozy. Lord Bellington, a wealthy land developer, wants to turn the ...
Holistic Anatomy - An Integrative Guide to the Human Body
Complementary and alternative approaches to health and medicine have become increasingly widespread as the limits of conventional treatments become more apparent. “Holistic Anatomy” presents an authoritative study of anatomy, physiology, and pathology but expands the discussion by connecting the science of the body to a variety of alternative modalities to explore how human beings exist within Â...
The Barrowfields
Mesmeric in its prose and mythic in its sweep, THE BARROWFIELDS is an extraordinary debut about the darker side of devotion, the limits of forgiveness, and the reparative power of shared pasts. In the remote, mountainous landscape of North Carolina, Henry Aster grows up in the shadow of his eccentric father, a lawyer and frustrated novelist who has chosen to raise his family a gothic mansion – n...
Out of Your Mind - Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. This book presents 12pinnacle teachings on how to break through the limits of the rational mind and play the “Great Game of Life.” Born fromhundreds of recordings by Alan Watt’s son and archivist, Out of Your Mind captures the scope of this legendary teacher inaction for long-time followers and a ...
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia WoolfÂ’s finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions, ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs RamsayÂ’s house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. An experimental...