Daredevil Dennis Lenahan witnesses a mob hit while looking down from his high-dive platform, and soon finds himself caught up in the mob's web after a second witness begins to blackmail him.
Recounts the stunt performed by sixty-two-year-old retired charm school instructor Annie Edson Taylor, who went over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel in an effort to gain fame and fortune.
Profiles a number of men and women who are involved in dangerous sports or occupations including race car driver Danica Patrick, gold medal bobsledder Vonetta Flowers, speed skier Michael Milton, and test pilot Chuck Yeager.
how to win a sumo match, catch a great white shark, and start an independent nation and other extraordinary feats (for ordinary people)
Fulghum, Hunter S
2002
Presents step-by-step instructions for over thirty diverse activities--many heroic and many questionable--including winning a bullfight, breaking into Buckingham Palace, and defusing a human bomb.
High school seniors Ben and his friends decide to do ten dares in ten months, and, after their online videos catch the attention of a benefactor, they find their stunts becoming increasingly more dangerous.
Chronicles the life of daredevil Evel Knievel, discussing his childhood in Montana, his dangerous stunts, his liver transplant, and his exalted status as an American icon.
Toestomper doesn't mind having baby caterpillars invade his home because they make such nice pets, but when they change into butterflies and begin zooming around Littletown, no one is safe.
