Books by Michael Hutchinson

The Hour: Sporting immortality the hard way

by Michael Hutchinson (Vintage Digital)

(257 reviews)

The Hour. It's the only cycling record that matters: one man and his bike against the clock in a quest for pure speed. No teammates, no rivals, no tactics, no gears, no brakes. Just one simple question - in sixty minutes, how far can you go? Michael Hutchinson had a plan. He was going to add his name to the list of record-holders, cycling's supermen. But how does a man who became a professional... See More

Length: 290 Pages (633 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Missing the Boat: Chasing a Childhood Sailing Dream

by Michael Hutchinson (Vintage Digital)

(27 reviews)

The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure. Yacht racing. A world of privilege and money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, and Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a band. It's not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of... See More

Length: 256 Pages (335 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Re:Cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels

by Michael Hutchinson (Bloomsbury Sport)

(142 reviews)

'As if Bill Bryson had taken to two wheels' - FT Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less immediate. Re:Cyclists is the tale of the following two centuries. It tells how cycling became a kinky vaudeville act for Parisians, how it was the basis of an American business empire to... See More

Length: 353 Pages (1,818 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Poetical Scraps and Scribblings

by Jenks (HardPress Publishing)

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain... See More

Length: 122 Pages (46,808 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Case of the Rigged Race (A Mighty Muskrats Mystery Book 4)

by Michael Hutchinson

Windy Lake First Nation is hosting the annual Trappers Festival, and the four Mighty Muskrats are excited about the sled-dog races and the chance to visit with family and friends from far and wide. But during the Teen Sled Race, the lead dog is the victim of a frightening accident that may be more than it seems. Between mysterious strangers seen lurking by the trail and a loud group of animal... See More

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The Case of Windy Lake: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery (A Mighty Muskrats Book Book 1)

by Michael Hutchinson

(33 reviews)

Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community... See More

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Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

by Michael Hutchinson (Bloomsbury Sport)

(987 reviews)

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's... See More

Length: 225 Pages (1,028 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Case of the Missing Auntie: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 2 (A Mighty Muskrats Book)

by Michael Hutchinson (Second Story Press)

(20 reviews)

The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee learns about Grandpa's missing little sister, who was adopted by strangers without her parents' permission many years ago, the Mighty Muskrats have a new mystery to solve. See More

Length: 132 Pages (1,549 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Greenland: A Visitors' Primer: A guide to the world's largest island where the climate-change clock ticks ever more loudly

by Michael Hutchinson

(3 reviews)

Rapid change in the natural world is taking place all around us today, no matter where we live. Tourists seek to capture a vision of precious places before their very nature and character are irrevocably lost. This could not be truer than with Greenland today. This tourists' guide to Greenland sets the context for their visit so as to make the trip much richer, more meaningful and more enjoyable. See More

Length: 120 Pages (11,033 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Healing American Healthcare: A Plan to Provide Quality Care for All, While Saving $1 Trillion a Year

by Edward C. Eichhorn Jr. (BookBaby)

(16 reviews)

Healing American Healthcare is a book that makes the case for universal healthcare in the United States. The authors research and the experience of their careers in our healthcare system have given them the expertise to suggest that as a nation we can provide care for all, while reducing our overall cost of care by $1 trillion per year. The book sets the stage for presenting its plan by reviewing... See More

Length: 174 Pages (4,787 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Child Of The Diaspora

by Michael Hutchinson

(4 reviews)

This book is about discovering the hidden and horrific events and the bravery that lay behind my idyllic childhood in rural Suffolk from the end of World War Two. Parental discord led to a permanent parental rift, but, rightly or wrongly, I came to accept that as par for the course. It was only later in life, that I looked deeper into my family roots and had began to question the assumptions that... See More

Length: 224 Pages (3,542 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Above the Law

by Michael Hutchinson (Outskirts Press, Inc.)

(1 review)

GREED IS A NASTY SIN... William Davenport is a private detective in Springfield, Missouri. He was born and raised in the Ozarks and plans to be buried there as well. An avid fisherman and hunter, he retired from the Springfield Police Department several years ago and opened his private detective agency along with his friend and fellow detective, Vern Hoover. He has always been haunted by a case... See More

Length: 285 Pages (1,012 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Healing American Healthcare: A Plan to Provide Quality Care For All While Saving $1 Trillion a Year

by Michael Hutchinson (Bookbaby)

(16 reviews)

In our book, we explain how high quality care can be made available to all Americans, while saving our economy as much as $1 trillion per year. We describe a comprehensive and straight forward way to reduce the cost of healthcare by as much as 30% per year. Our plan is not Medicare for All. It is universal health care that builds on what works in our current system and eliminates what does not. See More

Length: 174 Pages (4,790 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Uncle Schackerl and Cousin Poldi: A bitter-sweet family journey from Bolechow, Vienna and beyond

by Michael Hutchinson

This is the author's fascinating story about his discovery of an extended maternal family, largely of Jewish descent, and drawn mainly from what is now the Ukraine, Czechia, Germany and Austria. The story is largely chronological, tracing the roots of the family in Jewish history spanning from ancient times to the present-day, and delving into Jewish group derivation and Jewish diaspora travels... See More

Length: 317 Pages (6,231 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Knit And Crochet For Cats: Cute and Easy Patterns For Your Cats: The Ultimate Guide To Knit and Crochet for Cats

by Michael Hutchinson

(8 reviews)

Cats are hard not to love. Sure, maybe they're not as friendly or as blindly loyal as dogs, but there's no more acrobatic, snuggly, playful animal around. And don't even get us started on their floof, their tiny toe beans, and those mesmerizing cat eyes. From toys to accessories, these knit and crochet patterns for cats will make them stand out from the crowd! See More

Length: 56 Pages (19,353 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Rear Window: and other stories

by Michael Hutchinson

(2 reviews)

Short fictional stories. Darkly humorous. See More

Length: 104 Pages (3,891 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled