Download or read book Tall Tales Half Truths of Pat Garrett written by John LeMay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His adventurous life spawned many a far-fetched, exciting legend. In 1896, Garrett's investigation of the still-unsolved murder of Albert J. Fountain on the White Sands led to nothing but a gunfight and a dead deputy. Some say that Garrett faked the details the night the Kid was brought to ultimate justice, while others swear another wannabe hero did him in. In perfect irony, Garrett's own 1908 death is shrouded in mystery. Some report he died by the hand of Billy the Kid himself. Author John LeMay exposes fabricated tales for what they are and focuses on memories long forgotten about Billy the Kid's personal grave digger, Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Download or read book Tall Tales and Half Truths of Billy the Kid written by John LeMay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A great exposé . . . that humorously captures the many myths that Americans are willing to believe and that make up the tapestry of the Old West.” —Former Representative Morgan Nelson While many respectable books on Billy the Kid aim to demystify his illusory life, this one-of-a-kind collection proudly has no such intention. Find all of the untold and potentially true—but very unlikely and highly embellished—stories of the Kid’s life, death and enthralling life thereafter. Be thrilled by sightings of Billy’s ghost riding through old Fort Sumner and marvel at his search for the fabled Lost Adams Diggings. Wonder at the mysterious thefts of his tombstone and discover the famed desperado’s dozen or so doppelgangers who posthumously popped up all across the Southwest. Courtesy of yarn-spinning raconteurs of yore, author John LeMay unveils the many forgotten and discarded tales of the legendary William H. Bonney, an everlasting emblem of the American West.
Download or read book Tall Tales and Half Truths of Clay Allison written by Donna Blake Birchell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sort outlandish fiction from no-less-outrageous fact in this wild ride with the West's Gentleman Gunfighter. Robert Andrew Clay Allison was a jumble of contradictions. Mentally unstable and mean as a rattlesnake, he was also a fierce defender of the innocent. A hard drinker but a quiet-spoken man. A hell raiser who was an impromptu preacher. He was as feared for his prowess with pistol and Bowie knife as he was famous for loving whiskey and dancing. Largely forgotten today, his legend once sprawled across the frontier from Cimarron to Mobeetie, where he was known to careen drunkenly through the streets wearing only his gunbelt and his boots. Donna Blake Birchell places one of New Mexico's most fascinating figures back among his more well-chronicled peers.
Download or read book Half Truths written by Adam Hamilton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are simple phrases. They sound Christian—like something you might find in the Bible. We’ve all heard these words. Maybe we’ve said them. They capture some element of truth, yet they miss the point in important ways. Join Adam Hamilton in this 5-week Bible study to search for the whole truth by comparing common Christian clichés with the wisdom found in Scripture. The clichés include: Everything happens for a reason. God helps those who help themselves. God won’t give you more than you can handle. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. Love the sinner, hate the sin.
Download or read book Tales of Half Truths written by Ruth Newell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Half Truths is a collection of fifteen short stories spanning the gamut of human emotions and literary styles, spinning the reader through the centuries. From historic fiction to science fiction, this collection of short stories brings an eclectic cast of memorable characters to life--pirates and warrior queens, snipers and sultans, defrocked priests and grandmother nuns, sages and surfers. Covering topics of lost love, betrayed trust, renewed faith, slavery, postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress, alcoholism and abuse, the author pulls the reader into each story with descriptive imagery and engaging dialogue. The collection leads off with Espoused, a love story. Born in Boston and raised in an Irish convent after the death of her parents, Adeline returns to America to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her uncle, former schooner captain to Kamehameha's, the young beauty voyages to Hawaii where she catches the eye of Sheamus Campbell, heir to a sugar dynasty. As Campbell's dark past resurrects after the death of his daughter, he flees unexpectedly, leaving his love-struck bride in the doting hands of the Earl of Suffield's fourth son, Clement Sanborn. Shooting Stars is a story about entangled love in which Paul is stuck on Dian, who is dating Vance, who jilted Tessa. Just as things are about to possibly unravel, tragedy strikes. Happy Hour is a romantic short story about frustrated and non-requited love. Whereas in the story, Molokai, middle aged Chesapeake Bay outrigger canoeist, Margaret draws from her Hawaiian upbringing when her longtime lover, Eric, abandons her. The tides turn for Eric when his other woman gets the baby bug. Meanwhile, back on the island, Margaret's younger sister, Lanna, works at their grandmother's spiritual healing center when not otherwise entangled with world class extreme surfer, Fitz.In Apache, White Feather sits perched in the canopy, high above the La Tho River, with a $30,000 price on his head. A platoon of Vietcong snipers had been stalking him for days. His scope, however, was set on a small, thin woman pacing in the shadows of her houch. Valley of the Moons introduces Luke, a Marine recently returned stateside after his second tour in the Middle East, hits the trails on the Channel Islands trying to muster the courage to tell his father, a career Marine, that he won't be reenlisting. Meanwhile, his weathered father, recently retired, contemplates how to live with himself, knowing the things he's done in the name of Freedom.The sic-fi short story, The Cataclysm, opens with Aerospace maverick, Hal Buchanan, tearing through the upper stratosphere along with the 3d Space Experimentation Squadron, looking for signs of life on Earth. Mountains had come crashing down while continents collapsed, and the seas surged over cities, swallowing civilization. The poles had shifted and life for the few who survived would never again be the same.Mystery abounds in Stepping Stone, Lily, a tenant in a farm hand house located on a colonial estate, lives quietly with her plants and tropical killer fish. She is an unimportant person living an uneventful life. Then, she finds a set of iron keys that open a hidden box containing old letters written by a young woman, chosen hundreds of years before as a mail order bride by one of Maryland's legendary pirates who had built a mansion on the cliffs of Whitehall. During the restoration of the historic site, the current owners discovered a secret passageway studded with gold galleons but have yet to find the keys.The final story, Prince of Passion, follows Javier who disappears when his childhood sweetheart dies. He is found a few days later standing over the dead body of her estranged boyfriend, self-proclaimed Don Juan, Jose Cassavante. Only, it wasn't him who had pulled the trigger.
Download or read book Tall Tales Half Truths and Big Fat Lies written by L. L. C. Re'Al "Bull" Oney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I listened to them speak their language and thought that I understood some of their tongue. Could this be? I ventured even closer and listened further. My heart was pounding with joy. Though these people were light years away from Mars, they possessed almost the same tongue language that we had learned in our lesser institutions on Mars. Imagine that? It seemed as though they now spoke about themselves and it was in an archaic mode of time, for they spoke of the quickness of their travel and the prominence of the Pharaoh Pharaoh? I once had read about such Pharaoh people in our history volumes, which lived on Mars thousands of years ago. I was beginning to now understand that this planet was not as progressed as Mars had been maybe this is good I thought, very well for us. "Thank you, Dargod," I whispered to myself. It was as though Dargod was always with me, wherever I went. I had been on Earth only three sunrises, and I had already found that this soil was like Mars's, only with different dimensions. The inhabitants here were nearly the same. But, were they friendly?
Download or read book Truths Half Truths and Outright Lies written by Earle Ross and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whole Numbers and Half Truths written by Rukmini Shrinivasan and published by Context. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by progressive and liberal young Indians, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically, by an unchecked population explosion and rising crimes against women. Is it, though? In 2020, the annual population growth was down to under 1 per cent. Only thirty-one of hundred Indians live in a city today and just 5 per cent live outside the city of their birth. As recently as 2016, only 4 per cent of young, married respondents in a survey said their spouse belonged to a different caste group. Over 45 per cent of voters said in a pre-2014 election survey that it was important to them that a candidate of their own caste wins elections in their constituency. A large share of reported sexual assaults across India are actually consensual relationships criminalised by parents. And staggeringly, spending more than Rs 8,500 a month puts you in the top 5 per cent of urban India. Data-journalism pioneer Rukmini S. draws on nearly two decades of on-ground reporting experience to piece together a picture that looks nothing like the one you might expect. There is a mountain of data available on India, but it remains opaque, hard to access and harder yet to read, and it does not inform public conversation. Rukmini marshals this information - some of it never before reported - alongside probing interviews with experts and ordinary citizens, to see what the numbers can tell us about India. As she interrogates how data works, and how the push and pull of social and political forces affect it, she creates a blueprint to understand the changes of the last few years and the ones to come - a toolkit for India."-- dust jacket.
Download or read book From the Kitchen of Half Truth written by Maria Goodin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressive and heartfelt debut that will appeal to many readers, this charming and sensitive mother/daughter story captures the struggle between protection and isolation."—Library Journal Meg May's mother has created a life out of stories. Outlandish stories that can't possibly be true. And when sickness threatens to hide the truth of her past forever, Meg must convince her imaginative and free-spirited mother tell her what is real. As charming as the stories she's been told are, they aren't enough for Meg anymore. As she and her mother spend one last summer together, Meg tries to convince her mother to reveal a thing about who they used to be—and who they are now. Full of quirky humor and depth of feeling, From the Kitchen of Half Truth is a delicious debut contemporary novel. Fans of Chocolat (Joanne Harris), The School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister), and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender) will be charmed by this unobtrusive look at mother daughter relationships and the powerful exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to create the lives we want. Full of quirky humor and depth of feeling, From the Kitchen of Half Truth is a delicious debut contemporary novel. What reviewers are saying about The Kitchen of Half Truth "[A] touching debut novel about the relationship between a mother and daughter" —Publishers Weekly "There are some novels that grip you with a story so unique, yet so heart wrenching that you can't stop reading. From the Kitchen of Half Truth was just such a novel."—Laura's Reviews "Held me captivated from first to last word ... You'll find just a little piece of yourself in all the wonderful characters."—Long and Short Reviews " Funny, tender, quirky, and heartfelt, From the Kitchen of Half Truth is for anyone who has daydreamed about the future or been shocked to find something unexpected in the past."—Booklist "A gorgeous tale of love, loss and making sense of the past ... filled with energy and life."—RT Book Reviews "A story about understanding and compassion and how people often distort the truth to protect themselves and others, Goodin's narrative contains moments of eloquence, wit and sensitivity."—Kirkus
Download or read book The Half True Lies of Cricket Cohen written by Catherine Lloyd Burns and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr). This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few fabrications lead to a fiasco when a middle schooler and her mischievous grandma run away from home.
Download or read book Half Truths written by Claire Contreras and published by Claire Contreras. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard of these groups - the secretive ones that only the crème de la crème are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries - I'm the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I'm fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they'll elbow past me, that I'm here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they'll find out soon enough that I'm not. I may look like one of them, with my designer bags and clothes straight from the Parisian runways, but I'm not. I'm here for answers, to take revenge for blood spilled on their centuries-old Persian rugs. I transferred here in search for answers about what happened to my older brother, who hightailed out of here, and my friend who seemingly disappeared into thin air. I certainly wasn't here for the attention of the star hockey player, regardless of how much he willed my eyes his way. I wasn't here for his scrutiny or his judgment or to read into his mysterious aura. I was here for the society, because only they held the answers I needed. That was, until I found out that in order to get those answers, I needed to go through him. He's saying if I want in, I have to play by their rules, follow their lead. It's a game I'm willing to play. I may be the second person I know of to be invited into their society, but I'll be the first to make it out intact. *This is a complete standalone novel*
Download or read book Tall Tales and Half Truths of Billy the Kid written by John LeMay and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His adventurous life spawned many a far-fetched, exciting legend. In 1896, Garrett s investigation of the still-unsolved murder of Albert J. Fountain on the White Sands led to nothing but a gunfight and a dead deputy. Some say that Garrett faked the details the night the Kid was brought to ultimate justice, while others swear another wannabe hero did him in. In perfect irony, Garrett s own 1908 death is shrouded in mystery. Some report he died by the hand of Billy the Kid himself. Author John LeMay exposes fabricated tales for what they are and focuses on memories long forgotten about Billy the Kid s personal grave digger, Sheriff Pat Garrett."
Download or read book Heartbreaks Half truths written by Judy Penz Sheluk and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's 1950s Hollywood, a scientific experiment, or a yard sale in suburbia, the twenty-two authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of "heartbreaks and half-truths" in their own inimitable style.
Download or read book Half true Tales written by C. H. Augur and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Half Lies written by Sally Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the same magical world as Sally Green's internationally beloved and acclaimed Half Bad series, this is the journal of Gabriel's younger sister, Michele, a teen witch living in Florida and grappling with the recent death of her mother, the restrictions placed on her because of her magical gifts, and her love for a boy who can never be hers. Now streaming on Netflix as The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself.
Download or read book Half Truths written by Sally Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half Truths follows Gabriel’s story from the time he arrives Switzerland, seeking help in recovering his magical powers from the conniving Black Witch Mercury, and goes up until the moment when he first meets Nathan and their paths become forever intertwined. For the new reader, this is the perfect bite-sized introduction to the world of Half Bad, where witches and humans live alongside one another. And for the returning reader, this story sheds new light on one of the trilogy’s most beloved characters. Now streaming on Netflix as The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself.
Download or read book The Book of Common Fallacies written by Philip Ward and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you thought you knew was...
