Miller, Dean.
Summary: The fast-paced world of professional auto racing is fun and fiercely competitive. Those at the top worked long and hard to get there, perfecting their turns, tuning their cars just right, and finding lucrative sponsorships so they can enter the best races. Readers find out how many pro auto racers start out on the track through detailed main content and additional informative sidebars....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.7 MILMcGee, Ryan.
Summary: To welcome NASCAR fans back to its airwaves in July 2007, ESPN airs a special, seven-hour programming extravaganza. The celebration kicks off with a five-month countdown of stock car racing's 100 most significant moments. For diehard fans of the nation's fastest growing sport, this book provides a sneak peak at the fireworks to come--a turbocharged, four-color, pedal-to-the-metal ride through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ESPN Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 MCGBusbee, Jay
Summary: Even after Dale Earnhardt died behind the wheel of his famed black No. 3 on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, the Earnhardts’ offspring have kept the throttle hammered down. Just months later, Dale’s son and namesake was back at Daytona and rode to victory on the same track that had killed his father, perpetuating the family legacy for a history-making third generation. The Earnhardts’...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUSSummary: The 50th running of the Dayton 500 provides NASCAR with an unforgettable and highly-anticipated milestone event. With a history of legend-defining and myth-making spectaculars, the Daytona 500 winners circle has embraced NASCAR heroes including Richard Petty, Mario Andretti, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Senior and Junior, and the 2008 winner Ryan Newman. The 2008 Daytona 500 will be presented in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 DAYBechtel, Mark.
Summary: The story of how Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip, A.J. Foyt, and Kyle Petty came together in an unforgettable season that featured the first nationally televised NASCAR races.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 796.720 BECEdelstein, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.720 EDEScheff, Matt
Summary: Chronicles the life and career of the NASCAR driver who competed in his first NASCAR race when he was only sixteen, joined the Joe Gibbs Racing team in 2008, and went on to win more than one hundred races in NASCAR's three major series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUSColins, Luke
Summary: Rev up your reading engines! Gearhead garage is ready to take you for a ride. From screaming fast F1 cars to custom choppers, get to know what's "under the hood" of your favorite vehicles. You're in the driver's seat now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE COLChapman, Giles
Summary: Racing Driver is a thrill-a-minute training course that shows children how the worlds fastest racing cars are driven. The book is divided into three types of spread that encourage the child to imagine speeding around the track and becoming a racing champion. Driving school looks at the engineering and science of driving. On the track puts the child behind the wheel in a variety of high-speed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.72 CHARoberts, Angela.
Summary: Glenn moved to Daytona and got bit by the racing bug. Jeff competed in midget cars when he was five years old. Richard followed in his father's footsteps. Janet flew airplanes and trained with NASA. They came from different backgrounds but had one thing in common. A love for speed! They were fast, fearless, and focused. They were NASCAR's best. Read all about them!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXSummary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLFielden, Greg.
Summary: NASCAR: The Complete History is a comprehensive pictorial history of American stock car racing from its moonshine-running roots to today's multibillion-dollar industry. The 628-page book features historic photos from NASCAR's unmatched collection, as well as rich stories about the characters, the cars, and the racetracks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publications International 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.7 FIESummary: The courageous story of an African-American sailor who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl's iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2001Summary: Race on one of 29 tracks from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR XFINITY Series, and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Lightning McQueen sets out to prove that he is still the best race car in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CARSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLIMaurer, Tracy
Summary: "Describes stock cars and stock car racing, including safety features and NASCAR rules governing races"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.72 MAUSummary: Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch. English cattle barons plot to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to protect her ranch. Together they experience four life-altering years, a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Australia 2009Summary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious children's academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Daddy 2003Summary: A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006