Download or read book Travis Dead Cow written by R.E. Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brenda Askins was an ordinary actress with ordinary dreams until she found herself in a strange man’s home in the middle of nowhere. She knows she needs to go home but she has fallen in love with the mysterious man. His rough words drive her away but his perfect body keeps her near. Can Brenda escape or will she be forced to marry him and become Mrs. Dead Cow for the rest of her life? Travis Dead Cow had never met a more conceited and self centered woman until Carryann showed up, unconscious and half frozen from a Missouri snow storm. What was supposed to be a few days of recovery quickly turn into a game of revenge when he decides to kidnap her. He must act quickly to keep her silent before she discovers who she really is.
Download or read book Animal written by Erica Fudge and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-10-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives. Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of the paradoxes of our relationships with them: for example, why is the pet that sits by the dinner table never for eating? Examining novels such as Charlotte’s Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, Animal also evaluates the ways in which we think about animals and challenges a number of the assumptions we hold. Why is it, for example, that animals are such a constant presence in children’s literature? And what does it mean to wear fake fur? Is fake fur an ethical avoidance of animal suffering, or merely a sanitized version of the unacceptable use of animals as clothing? Neither evangelical nor proselytizing, Animal invites the reader to think beyond the boundaries of a subject that has a direct effect on our day-to-day lives.
Download or read book Morning River written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hamilton interrupts his philosophy studies at Harvard to deliver money for his father to St. Louis, but his snobbish ways get him into trouble. He is robbed and sold for indentured labor on a keelboat bound for the Indian country of the Upper Yellowstone River.
Download or read book Last Trip Home written by Wanda Maureen Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Who do you thank you are, the Quane of Anglund?” That’s what Grace Marie’s father used to say to her whenever he thought she was getting out of her place. In her fifties now, Grace Marie is a college professor living in a beach town in California, and when she gets a phone call telling her that her father is dead, she is glad. She hopes her return for his funeral will be her “last trip home.” As a young girl Grace Marie struggled to escape from poverty, her father's lecherous, controlling grip, and a husband in the Klan. Determined to get an education, she clawed her way to a comfortable life and a home with indoor toilets—but her most unexpected struggle turned out to be survivor’s guilt, so she kept returning home to “fix” her family and the sharecropper shack. After her father’s funeral, Grace Marie burns down the family home—only to discover that she has unexpected ties to both the land and the people in her community. She realizes she will never have a “last trip home.”
Download or read book Cowboy to Freedom written by Trevor L. White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas 1860s. Dan Lyons had been in frontier towns before but when he accepted Taylor Countys job as District Rural Sheriff to assist in the protection of the outlying ranches from Indian raids, he hadnt anticipated being in the area very long. Now after several years of being based in the fledgling town of Sabilene he had grown to like the place.
Download or read book Invite to A Showdown written by Terrell Bowers and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a bizarre double killing forces her into exile, Rowena Jansen is living like a hermit in Keylock, Colorado, and concentrating only on survival. Travis Clay went off to war and witnessed the terrible suffering of men and his country. Afterwards, he joined his friend to work on a ranch, but when a deadly ambush costs Clay a herd of cattle and leaves him near death, he sets out to find the men responsible. Inadvertently ending up in Keylock, his fate is joined with that of Rowena. Four men are searching for her, intent on a killing, while Travis is on the trail of five or six murdering rustlers. The only way to win such a war is to invite both sides to a showdown.
Download or read book Documentary History of Jamestown Island Land ownership written by Martha W. McCartney and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wanted Dead Or Alive written by Richard Aquila and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Richard Aquila's introduction, which examines the birth and growth of the pop culture West in the context of American history, noted expects explore developments in popular western fiction, major forms of live western entertainment, trends in western movies and television shows, images of the West in popular music, and visual images of the West in popular art and advertising.
Download or read book Walt Disney from Reader to Storyteller written by Kathy Merlock Jackson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Disney, best known as a filmmaker, had perhaps a greater skill as a reader. While many would have regarded Felix Salten's Bambi and Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as too somber for family-oriented films, he saw their possibilities. He appealed to his audience by selecting but then transforming familiar stories. Many of the tales he chose to adapt to film became some of the most read books in America. Although much published research has addressed his adaptation process--often criticizing his films for being too saccharine or not true to their literary sources--little has been written on him as a reader: what he read, what he liked, his reading experiences and the books that influenced him. This collection of 15 fresh essays and one classic addresses Disney as a reader and shows how his responses to literature fueled his success. Essays discuss the books he read, the ones he adapted to film and the ways in which he demonstrated his narrative ability. Exploring his literary connections to films, nature documentaries, theme park creations and overall creative vision, the contributors provide insight into Walt Disney's relationships with authors, his animation staff and his audience.
Download or read book From Walt to Woodstock written by Douglas Brode and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become shorthand for a creative work that has abandoned any controversial or substantial content to find commercial success. But does Disney deserve that reputation? Douglas Brode overturns the idea of Disney as a middlebrow filmmaker by detailing how Disney movies played a key role in transforming children of the Eisenhower era into the radical youth of the Age of Aquarius. Using close readings of Disney projects, Brode shows that Disney's films were frequently ahead of their time thematically. Long before the cultural tumult of the sixties, Disney films preached pacifism, introduced a generation to the notion of feminism, offered the screen's first drug-trip imagery, encouraged young people to become runaways, insisted on the need for integration, advanced the notion of a sexual revolution, created the concept of multiculturalism, called for a return to nature, nourished the cult of the righteous outlaw, justified violent radicalism in defense of individual rights, argued in favor of communal living, and encouraged antiauthoritarian attitudes. Brode argues that Disney, more than any other influence in popular culture, should be considered the primary creator of the sixties counterculture—a reality that couldn't be further from his "conventional" reputation.
Download or read book Crittenden County Kentucky Obituaries and Death Notices Volume Ii 1900 1905 written by Stephen Eskew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of obituaries and death notices transcribed from issues of The Crittenden Press dating from 1900 through 1905. It includes obituaries and death notices from Crittenden, Caldwell and Livingston Counties in Kentucky.
Download or read book Shoot out at Death Canyon written by Paulene Turner and published by Salty Dog Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Travel Fact: Guns are not the only, nor the most effective, means of erasing an enemy When Madison and Riley return from medieval England, there's good news and bad. The good? They succeeded in their mission to un-erase a fellow student. The bad? A stowaway from the time period turns up in Maddy's science class, seeking revenge. The medieval assassin tries to worm their way into Maddy's friend group and, with barbed comments and dirty tricks, force her out. Then they go further and kidnap Lauren, Maddy's best friend, jumping through time and space with her. Maddy and Riley learn that the pair have gone to the wild west of America where cowboys and buffalo roam the plains. So they chase them, through dusty towns and saloons, across landscapes of epic beauty and danger. There's a price on their heads and bounty hunters on their trail. Will Maddy find Lauren and escape the west? Or will she have to shoot it out with the assassin and watch the consequences cascade through the time continuum for 150 years? A high-stakes fast-paced time travel adventure in the Wild West.
Download or read book English Herd Book and Register of Pure Bred Jersey Cattle written by English Jersey Cattle Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Turn Left at the Cow written by Lisa Bullard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about his dead-before-he-was-born dad. But when he heads from California to his grandmother's house in rural Minnesota, hoping to learn about his past, he gets more than he bargained for. It turns out his dad was involved in a bank robbery right before he mysteriously disappeared, and the loot from the take is still missing. Along with Kenny and Iz, the kids next door, Trav embarks on a search for the cash. But the trio’s adventure quickly turns dangerous when it becomes clear that someone else is looking for the money—someone who won’t give up without a fight!
Download or read book Understanding Edward P Jones written by James W. Coleman and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the works of an acclaimed African American writer In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his fiction. Though Jones's first work was published in 1976, his career developed slowly. While he worked for two decades as a proofreader and abstractor, Jones published short fiction in such periodicals as Essence, the New Yorker, and Paris Review. His first collection, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and subsequent books, including The Known World and All Aunt Hagar's Children, received similar accolades, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Following an overview of Jones's life, influences, and career, Coleman provides an introduction to the technique of Jones's fiction, which he likens to a tapestry, woven of intricate, varied, and sometimes disparate elements. He then analyzes the formal structure, themes, and characters of The Known World and devotes a chapter each to the short story collections Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar's Children. His discussion of these volumes focuses on Jones's narrative technique; the themes of family, community, and broader tradition; and the connections through which the stories in each volume collectively create a thematic whole. In his final chapter, Coleman assesses Jones's encompassing outlook that sees African American life in distinct periods but also as a historical whole, simultaneously in the future, the past, and the present.
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Download or read book Documentary History of Jamestown Island Biographies of owners and residents written by Martha W. McCartney and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
