Download or read book Escape From Elysian Fields written by C. Forrest Lundin and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is over, everything is in flux. Two brothers haven't finished fighting. Lace fears Izzy won't make it home. If Buster gets there first, she's prepared to hide out in the secret room that's part of the underground railroad. She can't let Buster find her. Would he really do all he's been threatening her with for years? Lace doesn't want to chance finding out. Buster's only a day behind him. He needs to get to the house and tell everyone the war's over and they're free. Finding complete devastation and Mam, Pa, and Satin dead is a hard blow. Izzy hopes Lace is waiting for him in her grandpa's cabin. If she is, they must get on the move. When Buster finds the place burned to the ground, there's no telling what he'll do.
Download or read book Escape From Elysian Fields written by C. Forrest Lundin and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is over, everything is in flux. Two brothers haven’t finished fighting. Lace fears Izzy won’t make it home. If Buster gets there first, she’s prepared to hide out in the secret room that’s part of the underground railroad. She can’t let Buster find her. Would he really do all he’s been threatening her with for years? Lace doesn’t want to chance finding out. Buster’s only a day behind him. He needs to get to the house and tell everyone the war’s over and they’re free. Finding complete devastation and Mam, Pa, and Satin dead is a hard blow. Izzy hopes Lace is waiting for him in her grandpa’s cabin. If she is, they must get on the move. When Buster finds the place burned to the ground, there’s no telling what he’ll do.
Download or read book Quick Escapes From Dallas Fort Worth written by June Naylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide details twenty-three itineraries ideal for getaways from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, including trips to Galveston, San Antonio, Nacogdoches, and South Padre Island.
Download or read book Elysian Fields written by Mark Gregory LaFlaur and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2013. * Winner of rare "double crown" of starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. * Publishers Weekly Featured Fiction selection. Simpson Weems is a 36-year-old aspiring poet whose life has been on hold -- to the breaking point. All he needs to fulfill his potential is to move to San Francisco, but he's torn between his long-held dream of being a great artist and obligations to his aged, ailing mother and his emotionally volatile brother, the all-demanding Bartholomew. Will someone in his family have to die before he can get to California? And how might that be arranged?Written "on location" in New Orleans and set shortly before Hurricane Katrina, Elysian Fields combines menace, the comic strangeness of Flannery O'Connor, and hints of magical realism to convey vivid, original characters and a Crescent City that is both recognizable and more offbeat and seductive than visitors usually see.PRAISE FOR "ELYSIAN FIELDS""A wholly involving story with Faulknerian characters in a fully realized setting. [A] tale of brotherly love and menace. . . . LaFlaur's descriptive talent shines. Fertile imagery drips like Spanish moss: the old buildings collapsing, 'as though the humidity-sodden bricks were returning to mud,' while 'cloud stacks glowed like the battlements of heaven.' [Main character] Simpson's mental landscape is equally vivid, drawn with such empathy and depth that readers will forgive his perpetual indecision and may even root for him to carry out the removal of his near-deranged brother." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[R]eaders will find the author's portrayal of New Orleans convincing and his characters fascinating and fully developed. . . . Life in the Weems family of 1999 New Orleans is anything but Elysian in this engrossing Southern Gothic snapshot." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A stunning debut . . . shades of Tennessee Williams, Faulkner and John Kennedy Toole. . . . LaFlaur gently and expertly pulls readers along with his characters, never flinching in the face of their foibles . . ." --Antigravity magazine (New Orleans)"[A] wonderful debut novel, a southern gothic that is at times comedic, at times heartbreaking . . . In places Elysian Fields is as heavy as summer air in New Orleans, but it most definitely has a sense of humor. . . . [A]n impressive debut that will leave readers looking forward to LaFlaur's next offering." --Self-Publishing Review
Download or read book Last Car to Elysian Fields written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn’t realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life—and into the lives of those around him—an ancestral evil that could destroy them all. A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the darkest corners of the heart, and filled with the kinds of unforgettable characters that are the hallmarks of his novels, Last Car to Elysian Fields is Burke in top form in the kind of lush, atmospheric thriller that is “an outstanding entry in an excellent series” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Retribution written by Ron Vitale and published by Ron Vitale. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Gregory arrived in Purgatory with just one thought—do everything she could to rescue her daughter and Lily. Now, alone with the two girls, she must find a way to escape or be trapped forever with the nuns who run the orphanage on the other side of death. But time is running out for her, because back on the Other Side the Night Brothers run wild in the city streets with Charles and Rose struggling to stay alive. When all she’s worked to save comes crashing down around her, Lady Gregory must make a heart-wrenching choice—sacrifice everything in order to save Rose and everyone on the Other Side or stay with her daughter and protect her at all costs. Torn between an impossible choice, Lady Gregory fights to make a new path for herself and for her new family. In the end, her choice will set the course that will change all their lives forever. Set in the 1860s, join Lady Gregory in the third thrilling installment of the Red Door Diaries that blends adventure, romance, and magic into an unforgettable read.
Download or read book The Resurrection written by Geza Vermes and published by Image. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrection is the rock of faith on which Christianity is founded. But on what evidence is the most miraculous phenomenon in religious history based? World-famous biblical scholar Geza Vermes has studied all the evidence that still remains, over two thousand years after Jesus Christ was reported to have risen from the dead. Examining the Jewish Bible, the New Testament, and other accounts left to us, as well as contemporary attitudes toward the afterlife, he takes us through each episode with a historian’s focus: the Crucifixion, the treatment of the body, the statements of the women who found the empty tomb, and the visions of Christ by his disciples. Unraveling the true meaning conveyed in the Gospels, the Acts, and Saint Paul, Vermes shines new light on the developing faith in the risen Christ among the first followers of Jesus.
Download or read book How Baseball Happened written by Thomas W. Gilbert and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
Download or read book New Orleans written by T. R. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
Download or read book Annual Conference written by State Conference on Taxation in the State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Elysian Fields written by T. Austin Campbell and published by Blue Plane. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The System is a universe of alternate realities; its purpose remains enigmatic. It throws its captives from one harrowing venue to another at whim. But why? System captives seize an international criminal from a Himalayan fortress, escape from time-traveling aliens, manage a wild Blues band, leap from modern Japan to a medieval Shogun's palace then into an abduction at an American 4th of July celebration, explore a new Andes cave complex and discover illicit research on materials with unstable quantum structures, and try to prevent sabotage of a deep-water oil drilling rig. What is this unfathomable System? What is its purpose?
Download or read book A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages Based Upon that of Baretti and Containing Among Other Additions and Improvements Numerous Neologisms and a Copious List of Geographical and Proper Names written by Giuseppe Baretti and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lucian True History written by Diskin Clay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially describe the genre or genres he wrote in. Of all the ancient Greco-Roman writers, Lucian is without doubt one of the most inventive and witty. The Greek text in this edition of the True History is accompanied by a facing page English translation, making it an accessible and informative resource aimed at students and teachers of Greek. Whether used in the classroom or in research, readers will benefit from an introduction to Lucian and his place in imperial Greek literature, as well as a translation and commentary that bring out the wonders of his True History.
Download or read book Zell s Popular Encyclopedia written by Leo de Colange and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Modern Dictionary of the English Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
