Finding The Edge My Life On The Ice
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Finding The Edge My Life On The Ice
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Author : Karen Chen
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Finding The Edge My Life On The Ice written by Karen Chen and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Figure skating icon and U.S. National Champion Karen Chen tells the amazing story of her rise to the top, featuring never-before-seen photos and behind-the-scenes details from her journey on and off the ice! At seventeen years old, Karen Chen has already achieved what some girls only dream of—and yet it’s only the beginning for this incredibly talented athlete. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Karen began to figure skate at just five years old. Ten years and many grueling training sessions later, she broke out at the 2015 US Championships with a bronze medal. This was after sustaining a nearly career-ending ankle fracture a year earlier. In 2017, Karen became the US National Champion, winning gold in two programs and receiving the highest score ever recorded for the short program at the US National level. Now for the first time, Karen shares the story of how she got where she is today—and where she’s going next. Karen has already overcome astounding obstacles, and her grit, determination, and positive attitude have made her future truly limitless. In Finding the Edge, she shares, in her own words, what it’s like to be Karen Chen—and what it takes to achieve the impossible. Features a foreword from Kristi Yamaguchi, the Olympic champion, two-time World champion, and U.S. champion.
Inside Edge A Revealing Journey Into The Secret World Of Figure Skating
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Author : Christine Brennan
language : en
Publisher: Japanime Co. Ltd.
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Inside Edge A Revealing Journey Into The Secret World Of Figure Skating written by Christine Brennan and has been published by Japanime Co. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Figure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles—for the first time—a season on the skating circuit, intimately portraying the lives, on and off the ice, of the sport's current and upcoming stars. Woven into the narrative are stories of figure skating luminaries—including Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, and Tara Lipinski. Revealing the backstage conflicts high-profile figure skaters face, and the ambition that drives them, Brennan also tells the stories of their families, of improbable rises to the top, and of wasted talents. If skaters are perfect, they can become international heroes. But if they fall, if they miss a three-revolution jump on a quarter-inch blade of steel, the despair is theirs alone. This is their life on the edge, where decades of training culminate in little more than four crucial minutes on the ice. There is no other sport like it. There is no other story like theirs.
Figure Skating S Greatest Stars
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Author : Steve Milton
language : en
Publisher: Firefly Books
Release Date : 2009-09-25
Figure Skating S Greatest Stars written by Steve Milton and has been published by Firefly Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-25 with Figure skaters categories.
A beautifully illustrated celebration of the best athletes from this widly popular sport.
Every Reason We Shouldn T
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Author : Sara Fujimura
language : en
Publisher: Tor Teen
Release Date : 2020-03-03
Every Reason We Shouldn T written by Sara Fujimura and has been published by Tor Teen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Every Reason We Shouldn't by Sara Fujimura is a charming multicultural romance perfect for the many fans of Jenny Han and Rainbow Rowell. Warning: Contains family expectations, delightful banter, great romantic tension, skating (all kinds!), Korean pastries, and all the feels. Sixteen-year-old figure skater Olivia Kennedy’s Olympic dreams have ended. She’s bitter, but enjoying life as a regular teenager instead of trying to live up to expectations of being the daughter of Olympians Michael Kennedy and Midori Nakashima...until Jonah Choi starts training at her family's struggling rink. Jonah's driven, talented, going for the Olympics in speed skating, completely annoying... and totally gorgeous. Between teasing Jonah, helping her best friend try out for roller derby, figuring out life as a normal teen and keeping the family business running, Olivia's got her hands full. But will rivalry bring her closer to Jonah, or drive them apart? “This book is like a warm hug filled with all the things I love. I started smiling from page one and couldn’t put it down.” —Courtney Milan At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Black Edge
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Author : Sheelah Kolhatkar
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-01-25
Black Edge written by Sheelah Kolhatkar and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Business & Economics categories.
Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Amazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017 'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell ‘Black Edge has the grip of a thriller ... Everyone should read this book’ - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of THE LOST CITY OF Z How do super-rich bankers get away with it? There is a powerful new class of billionaire financiers in the world, who use their phenomenal wealth to write their own rules and laws. Chief among them is Steven Cohen, a Wall Street legend, and the basis for Damian Lewis's character in BILLIONS, who built his hedge fund into a $15 billion empire on the basis of wizard-like stock trading, and who flies to work by helicopter and owns one of the largest private art collections in the world. But his iconic status was shattered when his fund became the target of a sprawling FBI investigation into insider trading, charged with using illegal inside information – or ‘black edge’ – to beat the market. His firm, SAC Capital, was ultimately indicted and pled guilty to charges of securities and wire fraud, and paid record criminal and civil fines of nearly $2 billion. But even as the company bearing his name pled guilty, Cohen himself was never charged, and is free to start trading publicly again from January 2018. Black Edge offers a revelatory look at the grey zone in which so much of Wall Street functions, and a window into the transformation of the worldwide economy. With meticulous reporting and powerful storytelling, this is a riveting, true-life legal thriller that takes readers inside the US government’s pursuit of Cohen and his employees, and raises urgent questions about the power and wealth of those who sit at the pinnacle of the financial world.
Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube
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Author : Blair Braverman
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-07-05
Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube written by Blair Braverman and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north. By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a “tough girl”—a young woman who confronts danger without apology—she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube brilliantly recounts Braverman’s adventures in Norway and Alaska. Settling into her new surroundings, Braverman was often terrified that she would lose control of her dog team and crash her sled, or be attacked by a polar bear, or get lost on the tundra. Above all, she worried that, unlike the other, gutsier people alongside her, she wasn’t cut out for life on the frontier. But no matter how out of place she felt, one thing was clear: she was hooked on the North. On the brink of adulthood, Braverman was determined to prove that her fears did not define her—and so she resolved to embrace the wilderness and make it her own. Assured, honest, and lyrical, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube paints a powerful portrait of self-reliance in the face of extraordinary circumstance. Braverman endures physical exhaustion, survives being buried alive in an ice cave, and drives her dogs through a whiteout blizzard to escape crooked police. Through it all, she grapples with love and violence—navigating a grievous relationship with a fellow musher, and adapting to the expectations of her Norwegian neighbors—as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land. Weaving fast-paced adventure writing and ethnographic journalism with elegantly wrought reflections on identity, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of Braverman’s journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
Alexandra Trusova The Girl Who Fights Gravity
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Author : Alex Chislov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-04
Alexandra Trusova The Girl Who Fights Gravity written by Alex Chislov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-04 with categories.
Figure skating is an incredibly beautiful and at the same time incredibly competitive sport. Every year tens of thousands of kids come to sports sections but only few of them reach the top.What is the path that a young figure skater and their parents have to go? How do kids from small towns get into the capital sport clubs? What is there behind the victories in international competitions? What does success depend on - working with distinguished coaches or the character itself? What is the price of medals?This is a true story of Alexandra Trusova. The girl who has made her way from the children's figure skating section to the podiums of the European and World Championships. The strongest figure skater in the world with an incredibly complex set of Ultra C elements. The figure skater who opened a new era of quadruple jumps in women's single skating.Here you will learn everything about modern figure skating seen through the eyes of Alexandra's parents, her coaches and the athlete herself. You'll learn about the way up and everything that is usually behind the scenes of this truly ultra-competitive sport."Character, obstinacy, hard work... You can't even count the times the author of the book uses these words. And that is because no other words can describe Sasha better - the girl who changed the world of figure skating forever. And us as well. I'd really like this book to be read not only by Sasha's fans but by as many boys and girls as possible, because Sasha's example proves that if you really want to, you can achieve anything. The main condition is to work hard. And first of all, to work on yourself".Maria Komandnaya, TV presenter, sports journalist.
Life On The Edge
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Author : Jennifer Comeaux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-09-26
Life On The Edge written by Jennifer Comeaux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-26 with Fiction categories.
Nineteen-year-old Emily is new to pairs skating, but she and her partner Chris have a big dream-to be the first American team to win Olympic gold. Their young coach Sergei, who left Russia after a mysterious end to his skating career, believes they can break through and make history. Emily and Chris are on track to be top contenders at the Winter Games. But when forbidden feelings spark between Emily and Sergei, broken trust and an unexpected enemy threaten to derail Emily's dreams of gold.
Triumph On Ice
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Author : Jean Riley Senft
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011
Triumph On Ice written by Jean Riley Senft and has been published by Greystone Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Sports & Recreation categories.
When Olympic figure skating judge Jean Senft blew the whistle on vote trading at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games, she opened the door to an entirely new way of judging. This system, which was developed and adopted following the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, is driving the sport in new directions. As skaters are pushed to explore ever-more difficult and dramatic ways of scoring points, they are changing the very nature of figure skating. In Triumph on Ice, Senft describes in detail how that new system has lead to this new type of skating, which was so thrillingly on display at the 2010 Olympics. Se.
Tessa And Scott
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Author : Tessa Virtue
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2018-10-02
Tessa And Scott written by Tessa Virtue and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story — now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair’s stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated figure skaters in the history of the sport, and are widely celebrated by peers and fans alike for their superior athleticism, one-of-a-kind partnership, and generosity of spirit. In these pages, they share their incredible story with the world. Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold offers an intimate and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the iconic duo. Veteran sports columnist Steve Milton draws from hours of conversations with Tessa and Scott as they take us from their first meeting in 1995 to their impressive debut and rapid rise on the international scene; from the highs and lows of competitive skating to the profound impact of Tessa’s injury and subsequent recovery; and from their unprecedented Olympic achievements in Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014, through to their exhilarating triumph in Pyeongchang in 2018, when their performance capture hearts the world over and catapulted them into unparalleled international acclaim. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 new photos, this updated and expanded edition is filled with personal stories and recollections from Tessa, Scott, and those close to them — including family members, friends, and coaches past and present. Tessa and Scott is as much a spectacular visual history as it is a celebration of two of the world’s premier athletes.