Download or read book Tales of the Twisted Texan written by Rich Mussler and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: aCourage is the last desperate act of the fool who, with wisdom, could have averted the very need to be courageous.a The Twisted Texan is back with more amazing tales told with humor, style, guile and wit. More stories to make you laugh and cryaeach told with a charming twist and mystical air. Tales of tarnished souls with sullied ambition, of love that ends too soon but endures a lifetime, of mystery, malevolence and mayhem. From the Nazi-hating underground in Vichy, France, to kids swiping cars and evading cops in the asixties, with characters as varied as a philandering electronics genius to an escaped felon called the aRooster, a these page-turning, plot-twisted tales are linked by a common thread: a singular Texan and the incidents, places and people that touch his life. Open this book and rediscover a world only a Texan could imagine, tales told as only a Texan can.
Download or read book Twisted Texan and Other Stories written by Richard Mussler and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: aI will put this down just as it happened, no yarn or stretched truth. Just because I am Texan donat mean I canat relate facts without embellishment.a A dreamer, alive and well in the Lone Star State, shares his stories with style, guile and wit. Stories of lost innocence and lost love, of murder, retribution, and a core philosophy that defines the man. Tales that charm the heart and melt the soul, that will make you laugh and make you cry. Each is told with a twist, and the mystical nature of these tales never fails to astound, entertain and amaze. Open this book and discover worlds that only a Texan could ever imagine, tales told as only a Texan can.
Download or read book The Tale of Texas Boots the Lone Gunslinger written by Bill Monthie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twisted Tales of Texas Landmarks written by Charlotte Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a twisted trip to some well-known Texas landmarks.Leap of Faith by Sally Love-Seventeen-year-old Anna is tormented daily by a dangerous group of thugs. She retreats to the peace of Mount Bonnell overlooking Lake Austin for solace but the gang threatens her and her boyfriend Jesse. In the Shadow of The Raven by Sally Love-During a beautification project for the Sam Houston Statue in a Houston park, Emahota Houston and her distant cousin, Ross Goins, join forces to solve an old murder. Stone Man by Alexis Glynn Latner-While hiking in the harsh and marvelous wilderness of Big Bend National Park, three friends find themselves in the way of a storm-and a storm warning-like no other. Banditos of Telephone Road by Laura Elvebak-Teen shelter counselor Niki Alexander is missing a troubled fourteen-year-old, and street smart Tori knows where to find her. More than a street in Houston, Telephone Road's history has built its reputation. Peyote by Mark H. Phillips-Private detective Eva Baum's luck runs out in the peyote fields of the Rio Grande Valley. In the Darkest Deep by Mark H. Phillips-A thrilling tale of suspense and survival set in the flooded underground tunnels of the abandoned Superconducting Supercollider project. The Cave in the Canyon by Charlotte Phillips-Will unexpected magic provide a woman with the means to heal her broken family or simply provide her with the ultimate escape?Yes, She Bites by Cash Anthony-While cruising on her motorcycle around the golf courses of the Texas Highland Lakes, writer and amateur sleuth Jessie Carr discovers the gory truth about a company selling fake pet burial services. Sarah Hornsby's Dream by Shirley Wetzel-On an August night in 1832, Sarah Hornsby rested uneasy in her bed, troubled by a dream. A surveying party had been attacked by Indians near her home at Hornsby Bend, near what would later become the city of Austin. The Marfa Lights by Cornelia Amiri-Kristy, a struggling single mom, enthralled by mysterious ghost lights, packs her son and all their belongings into her clunker of a car and takes off to the small town of Marfa. Crystals, Rainbows, and Oz by Betty Gordon-Caroline dreams of discovering a new finger or offshoot of Natural Bridge Caverns, one of the largest living caves in Texas. Her journey into alien territory leads her to encounters with mythical creatures.Great Spirit by Betty Gordon-A climb to the summit of Enchanted Rock, one of the most unique landmarks in Texas, brings unbelievable surprises and understanding of the past to Cathy, a Houston woman.
Download or read book Texas Gothic written by Rosemary Clement-Moore and published by Ember. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Goodnight knows that the world isn't as simple as it seems. She also understands that "normal" doesn't mix with magic, and she's worked hard to build a wall between the two worlds. Not only to protect her family, who are all practicing witches, but to protect any hope of ever having a normal life herself. Ranch-sitting for her aunt in Texas should be exactly that: good old ordinary, uneventful hard work. Only, Amy and her sister, Phin, aren't alone. There's someone else in the house with them--and it's not the living, breathing, amazingly hot cowboy from the ranch next door. It's a ghost, and it's more powerful than the Goodnights and all their protective spells combined. It wants something from Amy, and none of her carefully built defenses can hold it back. This is the summer when the wall between Amy's worlds is going to come crashing down. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults Praise for Texas Gothic: [Star] "You can't get much more Nancy Drew. . . . This engaging mystery has plenty of both paranormal and romance, spiced with loving families and satisfyingly packed with self-sufficient, competent girls."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred [Star] "Teens looking for a rollicking adventure filled with paranormal events, dastardly evildoers, and laugh-out-loud moments as Amy and Ben argue and snipe their way to love will adore this book."--School Library Journal, Starred "The author mixes suspense, humor, and lots of local flavor. . . . The enjoyable sum is a lively teen ghost story with sex appeal."--The Horn Book "A deeply affectionate rendering of Texas landscapes and legends combines with an appealing cast of well-developed characters to give texture to this well-plotted mystery; truly scary moments are balanced by the humorous bumbles of the awkwardly developing romance between Amy and Ben, as well as Phin's sublime cluelessness about the way her eccentricities appear to other people."--The Bulletin
Download or read book Tall Tales from Texas written by Mody Coggin Boatright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the heart of the Lone Star State with "Tall Tales from Texas"! If you've ever yearned for a taste of Texas-sized tales, then buckle up and prepare for a wild, windswept ride. This book is a captivating collection of stories teeming with larger-than-life characters, fantastical creatures, and whirlwinds of adventure that will have you chuckling, gasping, and marveling page after page. No collection of Texan tales would be without the legendary Pecos Bill! The final three stories are devoted to this larger-than-life hero. "The Genesis of Pecos Bill" introduces us to the birth of this extraordinary character. Follow his wild and outrageous "Adventures of Pecos Bill", where reality is bent and twisted, and the impossible is just another day in the life. Finally, bear witness to "The Exodus of Pecos Bill", an epic conclusion to a story as vast as Texas itself. Get ready to holler "Yeehaw!" with "Tall Tales from Texas", a tribute to the Lone Star State's legacy of storytelling. Prepare to be swept away by the Pecos wind and thrown into a world where the wild roams free, and tall tales stand even taller.
Download or read book Tales of Old Texas or The Adventures of Bullfrog written by Weldon Reed and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his autobiography, Mark Twain stated, "In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor but didn't know it, and everybody was comfortable and did know it." This comment certainly applied to Cleburne, Texas, where Reed grew up from the mid-1940s through the 1950s. At least this was true on his side of town, northeast Cleburne across the Santa Fe railroad tracks. He lived on Sabine Street, and it was still just graveled even when he graduated from high school in 1959. Just about everybody on his street still had outdoor johns even then. Reed has been writing bimonthly articles for his hometown newspaper, the Cleburne Times-Review, since 2016, detailing the zany escapades, ludicrous stunts, and laughable situations he would place himself in from time to time as regular as clockwork. Mix a gullible youngster with a prankster of an uncle and a daredevil father, and anything goes. The incidents were many: a broken arm from falling off a donkey that his Uncle O. B. placed him on, a sore head from attempting to butt down a door after drinking what his uncle said was goat's milk, being put in a jail cell at the age of twelve for stealing a thirty-five-cent wheel bearing for his bicycle, proving pathetic both as a fighter and a football player, he and two friends smoking an entire carton of Luckies in two and a half hours. The list is interminable. Unfortunately, as he grew older, he really did not outgrow this "propensity for absurdity" but continued to demonstrate it on a frequent basis as his family would agree .
Download or read book The Texan s Reward written by Jodi Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jodi Thomas’s novels about a lottery in which love is the prize have won rave reviews from readers and critics alike. Now the New York Times bestselling author presents the fourth and final romance in this unforgettable series. Years ago, Texas Ranger Jacob Dalton bailed an orphaned girl named Nell out of trouble more times than he could count. But now the kid he once called “Two Bits” has grown into a beautiful young woman—and is in more trouble than ever before. Wounded in an ambush, Nell refuses to become a burden for her former guardian angel. Unfortunately, her injury has made it impossible for her to handle the ranches she’s inherited, so she decides to get herself a husband. One thing’s for sure: She isn’t about to let Jacob bully her into saying “I do.” When Jacob steps in line for her hand, Nell is forced to weigh her need for his help against a love too strong to allow him to sacrifice his future for her.
Download or read book The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories written by Alan Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Lone Star State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Alan Brown shines a light in the dark corners of Texas and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From tales of haunted hotels like the Von Minden and The Beckham, to a creek where a woman’s screams can still be heard to this day, and the shadowy figures still stalking the Alamo, these stories of strange occurrences will keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
Download or read book Texas Tales written by Myra Hargrave McIlvain and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.
Download or read book Crows Calling written by Kiki Curry and published by . This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVANCE PRAISE for MINE SEED: A powerful story--something extraordinary in literature. Historian Howard Zinn. . . . comes across as an authentic record of what must have been in part a result of personal experience, family tradition and the dramatic events of the late 19th century here in the greater Scranton area--a valuable record. Richard Rousseau, University of Scranton Secret meetings hidden in the mountains, informants, agents, spies . . . murder . . . in the Lackawanna Valley deep in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution. Poor immigrants and their descendants mined it. Follow the tale through the eyes of three miners in the toughest years of coal history: from the Irish Famine, Lincoln's funeral train, the labor victories Pennsylvania coal miners won including protecting union members from prosecution under conspiracy laws, to the landmark 1902 anthracite strike in which miners in Scranton, represented by Clarence Darrow, forced industrialists to accept the right of unions to sit at the arbitration table for the first time in United States history.
Download or read book Trial of Justice written by Rich Mussler and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A United States D.E.A. agentA[a¬A] A Bible-quoting foreign missionaryA[a¬A] A Hollywood motion picture directorA[a¬A] When the computerized airline booking system seats three travelers together on a fateful flight from Dallas, their lives become entangled in deceit, espionage, danger and incredible adventure! DEA Agent Fritz Hauser battles leftist revolutionaries, a corrupt secret police, insane military extremists and greedy drug lords as he investigates the mysterious, decades-old murder of his fiancAA(c), her two fellow Peace Corps volunteers, and a group of Belgian nuns, the Sisters of Saint Francis. Rich MusslerA[a¬a[s characterization of the straight-talking Texan who A[a¬Adoes things his wayA[a¬A is told with his customary style, guile, humor and wit. A story of intrigue, of suspense and of God at work in mysterious waysA[a¬A]the Twisted Texan in Trial of Justice.
Download or read book Outrageous Texans written by Mona D. Sizer and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous Texans profiles ten larger-than-life, eccentric, extravagant, and interesting personalities to ever come out of the Lone Star State. Mona Sizer, who is the queen of quirky Texas historical writing, details the remarkable lives of notable figures such as Janis Joplin, Miss Texas Guinan's burlesque show that was too hot for Paris, Kinky Friedman, Racehorse Haynes, Stanley Marsh 3's Cadillac Ranch, and more.
Download or read book Tales of Texas Cooking written by Frances Brannen Vick and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food is comfort, yet it is also political and contested because we often are what we eat--meaning what is available and familiar and allowed. Texas is fortunate in having a bountiful supply of ethnic groups influencing its foodways, and Texas food is the perfect metaphor for the blending of diverse cultures and native resources. Food is a symbol of our success and our communion, and whenever possible, Texans tend to do food in a big way. This latest publication from the Texas Folklore Society contains stories and more than 120 recipes, from long ago and just yesterday, organized by the 10 vegetation regions of the state. Herein you'll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s Family Cake, memories of beef jerky and sassafras tea from John Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame, Sam Houston's barbecue sauce, and stories and recipes from Roy Bedichek, Bob Compton, J. Frank Dobie, Bob Flynn, Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, Gary Lavergne, James Ward Lee, Jane Monday, Joyce Roach, Ellen Temple, Walter Prescott Webb, and Jane Roberts Wood. There is something for the cook as well as for the Texan with a raft of takeaway menus on their refrigerator.
Download or read book When a Texan Gambles written by Jodi Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second romance in the Wife Lottery series, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas tells an emotionally powerful story about a marriage of convenience that quickly turns into a marriage of two hearts… It all started when she got thrown off the wagon train. Now, a crook is dead and Sarah Andrews has been raffled off in a “Wife Lottery.” That seems bad enough—until she discovers her new groom with a knife in his back. He just barely survives—and now if Sarah doesn’t get him out of town fast, someone is going to make sure Sam Gatlin doesn’t live long enough to enjoy the honeymoon. No matter what he may have done, or how many enemies he has, Sarah feels she owes him. After all, he saved her from a life in prison. But never in her wildest dreams did she imagine that this dangerously attractive Texan would steal her heart and make her want to take the biggest gamble of all...
Download or read book A TEXAS RANGER True Story of the Leander H Mcnelly s Texas Ranger Company in the Wild Horse Desert written by Napoleon Augustus Jennings and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "In the following story of those years of my life which were passed on the broad tablelands of western Texas, I have endeavored to set down, plainly and truthfully, events as they actually occurred..."Napoleon Augustus Jennings (1856–1919) was a Texas Ranger and writer, best remembered for his autobiographical account of the career of Leander H. McNelly's Texas Ranger company in the Nueces Strip, A Texas Ranger, published in 1899. In 1874 Jennings moved to Texas, where after some adventures as a cowboy he joined McNelly's Special Force where he served not as a regular member of the company but only as a field clerk.
Download or read book Twisted Creek written by Jodi Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Twisted Creek will weave its way around the reader’s heart. Compelling and beautifully written, it is exactly the kind of heart wrenching, emotional story one has come to expect from Jodi Thomas.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber Bad luck's been biting at Allie Daniel's heels all her life, so when she inherits a tiny café in a small Texas lake community she’s sure there has to be a catch. But Allie brings her grandmother along, and the cafe gives Nana a chance to do what she loves best—cook. As Allie settles in to try and make the best of what surely must be a mistake in an old man's will, the people of the lake drop by. Lonely folk discover there's always a “table for one” available, with downhome food to warm the soul. An old maid, a shy young man, a drifter who races the moon across the lake: slowly, they become the family Allie never had. And when trouble comes, Allie finds she's not alone any more—and that sometimes, the only cure for bad luck is the courage to love.
