Download or read book Pug Sheridan written by Sandra Cline and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Pug Sheridan' proves herself to be a lively protagonist and a sure-footed storyteller in a compelling coming-of-age chronicle set in turn-of-the-century rural Alabama. At the outset, Pug looks back upon the decade that will form her narrative and begins her tale with trepidation: The man I shot had friends whose hearts and minds remain as closed as his once was. It has become my habit to listen for footsteps behind me in the dark...As I stir the smouldering ashes of the past, I can feel the searing heat on my face. Here is a first-person voice that is both sassy and poetic. Pug's 'confession' builds, inexorably, toward what appears to be a justified homicide. Pug forms indelible friendships with six extraordinary young women who dub their taboo multi-ethnic sorority 'The Secret Society of the Seven Sisters'. They are menaced one Halloween night by six drunken, delinquent boys who grow up to form the core of the local, resurgent Ku Klux Klan.The fearful asymmetry between these groups and their ideologies -- one female, the other male, one progressive, the other reactionary, one representing inclusiveness, the other prejudice and hatred -- produces much of the novel's considerable tension without descending to male-bashing. While remaining uplifting, 'Pug Sheridan' is written in a magical realist mode filled with cosmic ironies and mysterious synchronies, often highlighted with supernatural overtones. Emphasis is laid on the premise that life is a mystical journey; it's all about choices -- individual and cultural. Yet, if the story is informed, perhaps indirectly, by the influence of Garcia Marquez or Toni Morrison, it also draws upon some of the archetypal plot conventions of the Victorian novel, making for a unique blending of disparate influences. A page-turner with a rapid pulse, 'Pug Sheridan' will be treasured by readers of all ages.
Download or read book Dark River Road written by Virginia Brown and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One powerful man . . .has always controlled this small Southern town. Unchallenged, until now. Like everyone else in Cane Creek, Mississippi, Chantry Callahan grew up in the shadow of town boss Bert Quinton. Quinton held the lives of local people in his harsh grasp, never letting go. He knew where all their secrets were buried, along with the bodies of anyone who had dared to defy him. As a boy, Chantry couldn't best Quinton. Couldn't protect the people he loved, including his own mother. But now Chantry is grown. He's come back for answers. And for justice. "A marvelous coming-of-age saga in the new Old South. I couldn't stop reading."-Bertrice Small, author of The Border Chronicles "A page-turner filled with small-town passions, dark secrets and danger. I loved it."-Janelle Taylor, bestselling author of the Lakota Skies Series Virginia Brown writes the bestselling Dixie Divas Mystery Series and the Blue Suede Memphis Mysteries.
Download or read book To Treasure an Heiress The Secrets of the Isles Book 2 written by Roseanna M. White and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1906 Beth Tremayne has always been drawn to adventure. During her childhood, she fed that desire by exploring every inch of the Isles of Scilly. Now, after stumbling across an old collection of letters and a map buried on her family's property, she's found more adventure than she ever anticipated in the hunt for pirate treasure. But in order to discover where the clues lead, she must search alongside Lord Sheridan, a man she finds insufferable. Sheridan has spent years pursuing whatever archaeological interests pique his imagination. And when he discovers that Beth's search connects with one of his far-removed pirate ancestors, he can't help getting involved. Plus, he finds her irresistible, even though she insists he stole a prized possession of hers. As they work together following different clues and drawing closer to danger, they start to piece together a story of tragic love and piratical adventure. But which treasure will bring the greatest surprise--the one they find in each other or the one just out of their reach?
Download or read book Sheridan s and Henderson s practical method of reading and reciting English Poetry elucidated by a variety of examples Intended as a necessary introduction to Dr Enfield s Speaker etc written by Thomas SHERIDAN (M.A., Teacher of Elocution.) and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sheridan s and Henderson s Practical Method of Reading and Reciting English Poetry written by Thomas Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Appomattox written by Gregory P. Downs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.
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Download or read book Baby Hold On written by Stephanie Bond and published by Stephanie Bond, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Southern Roads romance series, the Armstrong brothers return with an army of men to rebuild their mountain hometown of Sweetness, Georgia that was destroyed by a tornado. To ward off a worker rebellion, they recruit hundreds of single women with a pioneering spirit to grow the town with them. Let the matchmaking begin! In the romantic comedy novella BABY, HOLD ON soldier Mike Nichols brings his search and rescue dog Sheridan to Sweetness for a skills refresher at the town’s dog training facility. But he’s worried sick—his once fierce and heroic dog is now so timid and nervous, Mike fears he’ll have to be retired. Irritation over Sheridan’s condition puts Mike at odds with the offbeat owner of a dog grooming service, who, according to local rumor, is some sort of dog whisperer. Lacey Lovejoy is intrigued by the handsome dog handler, but after the man snaps at her, she decides his dog’s issues might have something to do with his overbearing master. When Mike grudgingly asks for her help with healing Sheridan to meet a training deadline, Lacey reluctantly takes the job. In close quarters, the task and the pressure is unnerving—even more so when Lacey realizes she and Mike have some powerful animal magnetism! A story for dog lovers and lovers in general!
Download or read book Dogs Their History and Development written by Edward Cecil Ash and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Southern Roads written by Stephanie Bond and published by Stephanie Bond, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women wanted--lots of them! The Armstrong brothers have recruited an army of men to rebuild their hometown in the Georgia mountains that was destroyed by a tornado 10 years ago. But when the men threaten mutiny over the lack of women, the brothers have to get creative. So they take out an ad for "100 women with a pioneering spirit." And they wait... This boxed set includes: Baby, I'm Yours (prequel novella) Baby, Drive South Baby, Come Home Baby, Don't Go Baby, I'm Back (novella) Baby, Hold On (novella) Baby, It's You (novella) For the first time ever, get all 7 Southern Roads stories together!
Download or read book Farm Boy City Girl written by John "Gene" E. Dawson and published by MiRiona Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, John "Gene" E. Dawson was a shy, insecure boy who had been born to a struggling Iowa farm family during the Great Depression. In his memoir, Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina, Gene first recalls his years as a "Farm Boy," when he and his brothers worked alongside their parents as soon as they were able and attended country school. But life wasn't all work and school, and he writes about his love for and time with his extended Irish Catholic family. As a teenager, the "Farm Boy" realized that he never would be like his male peers and interested in girls. When Gene eventually decided that he could not lead a double life and pretend to be heterosexual, he began his life away from the farm as a "City Girl," complete with beautiful clothes and makeup. But that chapter in his life came to an abrupt halt when tragedy struck his family. It would be four more years before he again could live in a city. Gene's life story takes the reader through the twists and turns of reconciling his love of family, God, and the Catholic Church with being able to accept himself. As Gene tried to live a life true to himself, there were some turbulent times in a world where not everyone was accepting of the gay lifestyle.
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Download or read book A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language To which are Prefixed Principles of English Pronounciation Etc written by John Walker (the Philologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Betrayed by Rita Hayworth written by Manuel Puig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuel Puig's "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig’s debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true romance" and movie magazines, the techniques of American modernism, and Hollywood montage, Puig created an exuberant queer aesthetic while also celebrating the secret lives of women. Hanging on the conversations of his mother, friends, and neighbors, Puig's stand-in Toto pieces together stories as full of passion, desire, and revenge as anything dreamed up for the silver screen. “A screamingly funny book, with scenes of such utter bathos that only a student of final reels such as Puig could possibly have verbally recreated for us” (Alexander Coleman, New York Times), it is also a bittersweet love letter to the the golden age of Hollywood.
Download or read book George Raft written by Everett Aaker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a name for himself playing stylish and charismatic gangsters in films like 1932's original Scarface. Raft's own real-life connection to the New York mob added frightening authenticity to his portrayals, and his star quality coincided with the peak years of the Hollywood factory to produce a remarkable track record of successful movies. Highly regarded during his lifetime as a performer, his reputation as an actor suffered a steep decline after his death. This definitive study of all of Raft's films offers intimate insight into all of his productions, including casts, characters, technical credits, and story synopses, and dispels a number of myths surrounding his legendary career.
