Download or read book The Dumb Tumbleweed written by TR Thomas and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weed in the desert has several adventures and experiences being the best teacher. He not only learns to survive but he also develops a physical form and intelligence to become the Wanderer as he has been called.

Download or read book Changing the Game written by Joanne L. Goodwin and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin’s study captures the shifting boundaries of women’s employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. It counters clichéd pictures of women at work in the famed resort city as it explores women’s real strategies for economic survival and success. Their experiences anticipated major trends in post-World War II labor history: the national migration of workers during and after the war, the growing proportion of women in the labor force, balancing work with family life, the unionization of service workers, and, above all, the desegregation of the labor force by sex and race. These narratives show women in Las Vegas resisting preassigned roles, seeing their work as a testimony of skill, a measure of independence, and a fulfillment of needs. Overall, these stories of women who lived and worked in Las Vegas in the last half of the twentieth century reveal much about the broader transitions for women in America between 1940 and 1990.

Download or read book Four Days to Veracruz written by Owen West and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With style and nonstop action, Owen West, winner of the Boyd literary award for best military novel of 2001, returns with Four Days to Veracruz -- an adventure-thriller that sizzles with international intrigue, relentless suspense, and straight-from-the-headlines consequences. Darren Phillips is a presidential aide, a Harvard graduate, a decorated Desert Storm veteran, and now a husband. Kate North, his new wife, is a world-class adventure racer whom he met on an Eco-Challenge endurance team. When an out-of-bounds kayaking excursion on the couple's honeymoon in Mexico lands them on the private beach of a violent drug dealer, their exotic getaway suddenly turns deadly. And Darren and Kate are, staggeringly, fugitives. They escape to the local police station -- only to enter into a bullet-ridden confrontation with the dealer's federale brother. Broadcasting the carnage and devastation left in the couples' wake, the Mexican government declares them sex-crazed drug couriers and assassins, and the State Department, to avoid an international incident, tags them as murder suspects. But even as they flee, Darren manages to pass a message to his former roommate, teammate, and disgraced Marine corpsman, Gavin Kelly (hero of Sharkman Six, West's critically acclaimed first novel). The couple's only hope for survival hinges on Kelly's ability to interpret their message and to rendezvous with them in Veracruz. The couple flees desperately on foot across the badlands of the Sierra Madre, unwittingly carrying a piece of the drug cartel's encrypted communication code with them. As they race toward Veracruz, they are pursued by corrupt Mexican police, federales, and bloodhounds. More terrifying, they are pursued by a man known as El Monstruo Carnicero -- "The Monster Butcher" -- a serial killer dispatched from the bloody desert of Juarez by the leader of the Mexican drug cartel. In all their military training, in all their endurance challenges, Darren and Kate have never before been tested as they are now, running for their lives across the wild belly of Mexico.

Download or read book Tombstones and Tumbleweed written by Edna Van Leuven and published by Avalon Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LC copy in original illustrated dust jacket, and signed by the author.

Download or read book Weekend in the Wild written by Richard P. Higgins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven kids are trapped in a cave: an enormous Alaskan brown bear behind them; a maniacal, gun-toting poacher in front. They have nowhere to go. Alarming the bear would be disastrous. Aggravating the poacher would be deadly. Daylight is approaching fast and with that brings the arrival of the poacher's gang. Soon the kids will be outnumbered and in even more trouble. They have two hours to come up with a plan or they will surely be killed.

Download or read book Too Many Jakes written by Jay Howlett and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Coulter, confederate, is just released by the union army at the end of the civil war with only what he was wearing. He was able to acquire everything he neededaEUR"clothes, horse, saddle, the worksaEUR"until he gets robbed of everything, including his clothes. Left with only his long johns and socks, the homeward trek gets a little more complicated.

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Download or read book Welcome to Last Chance written by Hope Ramsay and published by Forever. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essence of Southern charm!" -- Sherryl Woods, New York Times bestselling author This small town has one beauty shop, one bar, one hardware store... and the one man she's been waiting for all her life. Last Chance, South Carolina. As soon as Wanda Jane Coblentz sees the name of the town, she can't help but buy a one-way bus ticket-even if it means she's left with just five dollars in her pocket. Jane's hoping to leave her troubles behind and make a fresh start. But when she's drawn to a man playing fiddle in his worn black Stetson at the local watering hole, Jane realizes that falling for yet another bad boy may put an end to her plans to reinvent herself... Clay Rhodes is ready to settle down. He's intrigued by Jane but it seems like she's just passing through. Then to his surprise, Jane makes herself right at home, and the local matchmakers have him nearly convinced that she's the one for him. Until Jane's dark past follows her to Last Chance, and the woman who's brought a ray of sunshine into his small town may just make a run for it - unless Clay can convince her that she's finally found a home. Includes the bonus story "A Fairytale Bride"!/DIV/DIV

Download or read book The Evil from Within written by Catherine Jenks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete goes on a search for the man who had strangled one of the ladies in Rivertown. In the meantime Frank and Bob received a call from Montana in regard to a strangler, who is terrorizing their state. When Pete returns from his venture. He and Frank figured out or think they have figured out Harris is still alive and has resettled in Montana. They come to the conclusion they must head for Montana to find Harris, if it is truly him, and bring him to justice. But as fate would have it, there was to be a chain of events, which put Pete's life in peril. Would George be able to help his friend this time? Would they, at last, be able to catch the illusive strangler?

Download or read book Once Upon a Camel written by Kathi Appelt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm. sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.

Download or read book The Last Chance Collection written by Hope Ramsay and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this special four-book collection from bestselling author Hope Ramsay, travel to Last Chance, South Carolina, where love is just around the corner. . . Dear Reader, I've owned the Cut 'n' Curl beauty shop for years, and I've seen folks come for a visit, then stay for a lifetime. Yes, our town is way off the beaten path, but wonderful miracles happen a lot around here-and they've happened to all four of my children! In Welcome to Last Chance, you'll meet my son Clay who, ever since he left his country western band, has been playing everything too safe. But when he meets a pretty firecracker of a girl who's new in town, well, he and Jane soon realize they're singing the same tune. My stock-car-driver son, Tulane, comes back to town in Home at Last Chance. And he's brought a young lady by the name of Sarah. She's just the sweetest girl you could meet-but mark my words, Sarah is tired of being a good girl. And no one is better at breaking the rules and raising Cain than my Tulane. Growing up, my beautiful daughter, Rocky, wasn't much interested in the local boys, but who'd have thought she'd come home with English royalty? In Last Chance Beauty Queen, we meet Hugh, who's classy and handsome-but what do we know about him, really? I'm going to get to the bottom of everything, cause my little girl deserves the best. And at long last, my prayers might just be answered for my oldest boy, Stone! He's a widower who raises his daughters by himself but, in Last Chance Christmas, he meets a lovely girl named Lark. It's clear Lark has been through some trouble and could use a place to finally call home. I only hope Stone can let go of his own past soon enough to keep her. Listen to me, going on and keeping customers waiting. I best get back to work, but next time you're in Last Chance, be sure to swing by. We've got hot rollers, free coffee, and the best gossip in town. See you real soon, Ruby Rhodes

Download or read book Mesquite Jenkins Tumbleweed written by Clarence Edward Mulford and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hell s Half Acre written by C. L. Brooks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Eastern Idaho has many famous lava flows that cover large portions of the countryside. Unknowingly the humans have created parks and National Monuments out of these ancient places of destruction. Among these is Hell's Half Acre; a stretch of lava that runs along part of the I-15 highway in Idaho. For thousands of years something has lain dormant beneath the strange scenery; it's tomb. This book contains several tales of its awakening and the unwitting people who are pulled into the darkness of the lava flow known as Hell's Half Acre.

Download or read book Our House on Hueco written by Carlos Nicolas Flores and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junior and his family move from the barrio to a better part of El Paso in the 1950s, but they must live in the basement of their new house while they attempt to raise their standard of living.

Download or read book Jack and the Denizen written by Erik Bidinger-Boggess and published by Erik Sean Bidinger-Boggess. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient nightmare race, known as Denizen, rules the universe. A young man named Jack, caught in their fiendish designs will have his heart shattered, and fight to discover the truth of his past. Travel from the dark alleys of Edge City to the wild frontiers of the planet Laer, and explore the cosmos in the adventure of a lifetime with, Jack and the Denizen.

Download or read book Life written by Keith Richards and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.

Download or read book The J E D P Murders written by Rev. Thomas F. O’Donnell Esq. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, Tucker's ex-wife turns up murdered on the very same day that he comes out of a four-year coma. For no apparent reason, she is found lying on the floor of her apartment strangled to death. No note, no nothing. Three months later a high society "escort" meets a similar fate. A cryptic biblical reference is left behind, signed only by "J." Within the week, two more bodies show up. First, liberal theologian Noah Templeton is found drowned in his bathtub after winning the prestigious Sophia award. Another biblical reference, this time signed by "E." Seventy-two hours later atheist extraordinaire Winston Caine turns up dead in his hotel room. Caine is bludgeoned to death beyond recognition with a note from "D" pinned to his chest. J. E. D. Three down and one to go. All that remains is P. Who's next? J, E, D, and P, short-hand names for the anonymous writers of the first five books of the Old Testament. J, the Yahwhist. E, the Elohimist. D, the Deuteronomist. And P, the Priestly writer. But what does it all mean? There is an "evangelical Christian whacko" on the loose, single-handedly trying to rid the world of persons with loose morals and those heathens who don't fall in line. That's what GOD is saying. Not that God. The other one. G.O.D. Garrett Osborne Donalty, the nighttime shock jock who comes to you every night from seven to ten over radio station W.O.R.D. The police don't seem tuned in to GOD, though. Nor do they seem to have a clue. In fact, incredible as it sound, they may be in on it. It's either a "whacko," or a cover up, or??? Whatever it is, one by one the pieces of the puzzle seem to be falling into the hands of none other than Reverend Tucker Tolliver. All poor Tucker wants to do is to bring Sarah's killer to justice and get on with his life in the peaceful serenity of a brand new seminary named in his honor. But like it or not, he seems to be the only one connecting the dots, and the picture he gets when he connects them isn't very pretty. Sometimes seminaries aren't as peaceful and serene as they are cracked up to be.