Download or read book The Ghost of Milagro Creek written by Melanie Sumner and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Devastating . . . [Ghost of Milagro Creek] simmers with metaphysical tension."—Time Out Chicago The story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys, Mister and Tomás, she raised to adulthood unfolds in a barrio of Taos, New Mexico—a mixed community of Native Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Now deceased, Ignacia, a curandera—a medicine woman, though some say a witch—begins this tale of star-crossed lovers. Mister and Tomás, best friends until their late teens, both fall for Rocky, a gringa of some mystery, a girl Tomás takes for himself. But in a moment of despair, a pledge between the young men leads to murder. When Ignacia falls silent, police reports, witness statements, and caseworker interviews draw an electrifying portrait of a troubled community and of the vulnerable players in this mounting tragedy. Set in a terrain that becomes a character in its own right, The Ghost of Milagro Creek brilliantly illuminates this hidden corner of American society.
Download or read book How to Write a Novel written by Melanie Sumner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12.5 years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father’s death, however, she’s been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane’s floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor. Not to mention co-parenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money. Luckily, Aris has a plan. Following the advice laid out in Write a Novel in Thirty Days! she sets out to pen a bestseller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material. If the Mom-character, Diane, would ditch online dating and accept that the perfect man is clearly the handyman/nanny-character, Penn MacGuffin, Aris would have the essential romance for her plot (and a father in her real life). But when a random accident uncovers a dark part of Thibodeau family history, Aris is forced to confront the fact that sometimes in life—as in great literature—things might not work out exactly as planned.
Download or read book The Milagro Beanfield War written by John Nichols and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
Download or read book New Mexico Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ghost of White Woman Creek written by Robert Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tribune, Kansas, a small, irregular creek runs through the woods just north of the town. It's been known as White Woman Creek for as long as anyone can remember. Most agree that in the 1860s, a local woman was kidnapped in the area and either killed by the Indians who captured her or else freed by nearby Cavalry Troops.
Download or read book The Ghost of Honeymoon Creek written by Raymond Bial and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank and his 'fraidy-cat buddy Clifford are chased by a host of ghosts through the countryside near Myrtleville and encounter a mysterious old lady who leads them to uncover the secret of the ghost of Honeymoon Creek.
Download or read book The Ghost of Mingo Creek written by Greg Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories based on spooky Oklahoma legends.
Download or read book The Ghosts of Varner Creek written by Michael Weems and published by Epigraph Books. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1909, Solomon Mayfield awoke to find his mother and sister had disappeared. Left with his alcoholic and abusive father, Sol lived his life believing the story he'd been told, the story all the people of Varner Creek believed about what happened that summer. But in a plot of twists and family secrets that will leave the reader reaching for their jaw upon the floor, Sol is taken back to his childhood by the spirits he knew in life when he passes away so many years later . . . it is only then he learns what secrets The Ghosts of Varner Creek have been keeping so many years. "Very well written . . . this debut novel is a real page turner with some very interesting characters." - Jani Brooks, Romance Review Today "As much a mystery as a family drama. This tale is very atmospheric with dark overtones that imply a paranormal gothic mystery." 5 stars - Harriet Klausner, Amazon #1 Reviewer MICHAEL WEEMS is married with children and lives in Houston, TX where he works as an attorney. The Ghosts of Varner Creek is his first novel.
Download or read book The Ghost in the Constitution written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.
Download or read book Rio Grande written by Jan Reid and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid has assembled writings by an astonishing array of leading authors--Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie, and more--to explore the politicization, culture, history, and ecology of the vital river.
Download or read book Ghost Over Boulder Creek written by Elaine Pease and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Milagro Beanfield War written by John Treadwell Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence erupts in the poor town of Milagro when one dirt farmer impulsively taps the main irrigation channel.
Download or read book The Environmental Justice Reader written by Joni Adamson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the environmental justice movement, examining the various ways that teaching, art, and political action affect change in environmental awareness and policies.
Download or read book The Ghost of Coldwater Creek written by Mark Chartrand and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there such a thing as ghosts? Well, if you grew up in the town of Wabash, there is no shortage of the urban legend of the ghost of Coldwater Creek. Join Jessica Carrolton as she tells the tales of her older brother Brian and his two best friends Sean and Kevin as they find themselves in the middle of a mystery that may just prove the legend to be true! When a robbery at one of the town churches occurs, Brian, Sean, and Kevin take it upon themselves to find out who did it. What the junior sleuths don't realize is they are not the only ones on the lookout for the stolen church donation box. Little do they know that their search for the church bandits will lead them into an unexpected encounter. Is the ghost of Coldwater Creek for real? You decide as Jessica Carrolton relives the story of The Ghost of Coldwater Creek! 10% of all book sales are donated to Care STL, an organization committed to the protection and rehabilitation of animals who have fallen victim to abuse and neglect; and the Nine Line Foundation, whose goal is to "rebuild, strengthen and enrich the quality of life of wounded veterans."
Download or read book Preaching Judges pct written by and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judges is crisis literature, reflecting a time of violence and confusion very much like our own. Preachers confronted by the Bible's dark side will discover guidance and inspiration.
Download or read book The Ghost of Gooseneck Creek written by J. Edward Corley and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghost of Gooseneck Creek" is a sequel to "Miracle at Maggie's Bluff". John Arthur Jackson lll "Tripper," is now grown and lives in the mountains of north Alabama with his wife and two children. In "Miracle at Maggie's Bluff", one of my earlier books, Tripper and his sister Tag were protected by a guardian angel as they played on Maggie's Bluff. A guardian angle protects he and his family and the other residents of the small community of Sunshine, Alabama where he now resides. Each of the stories in the two books can be read independently as short stories.
