Download or read book The Blue Terraplane written by James A. Terry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Terraplane is a 89 page novel. This novel is written in the local unadorned Black dialect spoken in 1937 Bronzeville, Chicago. Bishop Flipper was a poor runaway southern Black orphaned teenager who encountered a starving crippled old Black man with a three-legged dog. After sharing his meager food with this old man, the old man promised the orphaned teenager a blessed life in Chicago for six and a half years. On July 12, 1937, Madame Madelyn, a frail pipe-smoking elderly woman, invited Bishop to her to mysterious storefront business. Madelyn, a voodoo priestess, warned her guest that his blessed six-and-a-half year period would end on July 13, 1937. This old lady offered the young man a battered old bronze magic ring, which she claimed would protect him from any harm. At noon, July 13, Bishop encounters Raoul La Croix and Paloma Issert. Raoul was huge menacing-looking, baldheaded Black man with a long serpentine stiletto who was treating the helpless Paloma Issert in the local Illinois Central train station. Paloma Issert was a young girl, from Algiers, Louisiana, who was desperately attempting to escape from Raoul. Quickly, Raoul became Bishop's adversary, while Paloma became his femme fatale.
Download or read book Terraplane written by Jack Womack and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terraplane, the second novel in Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series, is a vision of an alternate realiy-New York, 1939, as experienced by travelers from the twenty-first century. Retired general Luther Biggerstaff and his hit man Jake are on a covert mission to kidnap Soviet superscientist Alekhine for the multinational Dryco. But Alekhine has disappeared, leaving behind a device that catapaults them headlong into the past. And this 1939 is different-F.D.R has been assassinated; the Great Depression has cut even deeper; Churchill died in a street accident; and the world is at Hitler's mercy. The only hope Luther and Jake have of getting home again depends on an unlikely conjunction of the New York World's Fair, the blues of Robert Johnson, and the avant-garde physics of Nikola Tesla. Terraplane is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the twilight zone of history gone mad.
Download or read book Pilgrimage to Memphis written by Paul Hock and published by PHP Paul Hock Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a time travel romance and adventure spanning three decades of young Elvis Presley's life and the world events that occured.
Download or read book Custom Bicycles written by Christine Elliott and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique study of the names and bikes of the world's most famous, innovative and legendary makers of contemporary bespoke bicycles.
Download or read book Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast Copy written by Dan Jenkins and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton’s father lures her from a New York job with Time magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the editor of his Claybelle Standard-Times. Betsy brings along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and Yale graduate to whom she is constantly explaining Texas. Ted will run Ben Throckmorton’s radio station, KVAT, where Booty and Them Others sing in rivalry with the better known WBAP Light Crust Doughboys. In Texas, it’s the middle of the Depression and the Drought. And Prohibition is barely over, liquor still a controversy. Every city has its hobo camp, and Claybelle has the Star of Hope Mission. But it is also the time of new oil money, high living, infidelity, and tangled love triangles. Betsy and Ted chain-smoke and drink often and long, they wouldn’t miss a Paschal High School or TCU football game, they party at the Casino on Jacksboro Highway, and dine at Claybelle’s Shadylawn Country Club. Betsy is a serious journalist though, and she sets out to change the paper, clashing with the managing editor when she claims international not state news belongs on page one. She clashes with the columnists when she tries to sharpen their leads. The Texas Murder Machine becomes her big story, when she suspects that Texas Rangers may be killing innocent young men to collect rewards offered by the Texas Bankers Association. Betsy’s journalistic determination leads to a personal tragedy that changes her life forever—and makes her a determined, relentless newswoman. Fast Copy is a page-turner that combines romantic comedy with the best of the thriller genre. But it’s much more. Dan Jenkins captures Texas in the mid-1930s with a clarity that brings it alive, and his affection for Texas, Fort Worth, and TCU are revealed on every page. Only a native like Jenkins would include the minute details of a TCU-SMU game, the new zephyr stainless steel railroad train, the T&P railroad station, the Fort Worth Cats, and LeGrave Field. His portrait of Claybelle and its leading society folks is tongue-in-cheek funny and right on the mark. Texans should treasure this book for years to come.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volume 1 Jack Eddy Stories written by Dick Stodghill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Jack Eddy, a man driven to succeed, is an assistant manager of the Akron branch of Wellington's National Detective Agency, circa 1938. This collection was granted a Thrillie Award from Thrilling Detective as best of 2006.
Download or read book Violations of Free Speech and Assembly and Interference with Rights of Labor written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 20th Century Un limited written by Felice Picano and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th Century is over and done with and nothing can be changed. Or is it? Felice Picano's two short novels take delicious what-if peeks at outwitting Time's (seemingly) unbending Arrow. In Ingoldsby, a handsome graduate student finds himself caretaking a Midwestern architectural treasure in which not everything or everyone is what they seem—or when they seem either! But a sexy newcomer challenges him to change all that, for himself, and for a gay youth way out of his own time. In Wonder City of the West, a man too young in spirit to be at retirement age takes a leap back to Golden Age Hollywood. He encounters youth, friendship, a movie star lover, and talents he never knew he possessed. But as he succeeds beyond his dreams, he must ask—is he merely a tool for a shadowy group with a far larger purpose? Provocative, mind-bending, sensual, and entertaining, 20th Century Un-limited is an unexpected addition to an established body of work by an author unafraid to confound and surpass expectations.
Download or read book Digest Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Blues Network written by Andrew Kellett and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Download or read book The Autocar written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cars written by Lou Phillips and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book Automobile Trimmer and Painter written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Automobile Quarterly Vol 39 1 written by and published by Automobile Heritage Publishing & Co. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
