Fotheringham, Alasdair

Summary: The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

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Fotheringham, William.

Summary: "This essential book is an A to Z compendium of everything you could ever want to know about the bicycle, from the history of the Tour de France to Chris Hoy's dominance of the Beijing velodrome, from the origins of the quick-release system to the diet that powered Graeme Obree to the world hour record, from Lance Armstrong's fabled career to the slang words used for performance-enhancing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2011

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Roberts, Alasdair

Contents: The merry wake -- The year of the burning -- Fusion of horizons -- The wheels of the world -- The end of breeding -- Song composed in December -- Brother seed -- Gave the green blessing -- Scandal and trance -- The laverock in the blackthorn.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City 2013

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Macleod, Alasdair.

Summary: A lavish visual survey of the world's greatest explorers, revealing who they were, where they went, and how their expeditions shaped the course of human history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: DK in association with the Smithsonian Institution 2010

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Fotheringham, William.

Summary: Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the only man to have won each of the Grand Tours on more than one occasion. In The Badger, bestselling author William Fotheringham finally gets to the bottom of this fascinating character and explores the reasons why France, the nation that considers itself cycling’s home, has found...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review 2015

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Duncan, Alastair

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1980

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Reynolds, Alastair

Summary: "A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur-and for humanity-peace is not to be. On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon 2015

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Reynolds, Alastair

Summary: In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels, and with the dying body comes bad news--to save the angel's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010

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Sawday, Alastair.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alastair Sawday Pub. 2006

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Bonnett, Alastair

Summary: "The real-life answers to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett's tour of the planet's most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Gee, Alastair

Summary: Bay Area-based reporters for The Guardian Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano relate the story of the worst American wildfire in a century, weaving together a portrait of the remarkable California community of 27,000 souls, destroyed wholesale in a fire that left 86 dead, while offering a bigger-picture exploration of the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change. Alastair Gee is a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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Heim, Alastair

Summary: Mr. Elephant wants nothing more than some peace and quiet--that is, until he gets it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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Reynolds, Alastair

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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000

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Reynolds, Alastair

Summary: Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Now someone is eliminating them--From publisher description.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009

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Reynolds, Alastair

Summary: "2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2019

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Duncan, Alastair

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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1975

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Heim, Alastair

Summary: "Big Bub the monster needs to take a taxi, but the car is too small. What will he do? It's time to get creative"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023

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Hull, Alastair

Summary: Bold, distinctive patterns; brilliant colors; astonishingly diverse decoration; affordability - these are some of the characteristics that explain the popularity of the marvelous flatwoven textiles from the Near and Far East known in the West as kilims. In recent years, demand for them has reached unprecedented levels, fueled by a new recognition of the special qualities of handmade ethnic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1993

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Reynolds, Alastair

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 2005

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Reynolds, Alastair

Summary: The next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity's future Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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