Download or read book Twenty one Texas Short Stories written by William Peery and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a splendid collection of stories about Texas by Texans—stories that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century. Authors in this volume: Dillon Anderson Barry Benefield Charles Carver Margaret Cousins Chester T. Crowell Eugene Cunningham J. Frank Dobie Fred Gipson William Goyen O. Henry Sylvan Karchmer Harry Kidd, Jr. Mary King O’Donnell George Pattullo George Sessions Perry Katherine Anne Porter Winifred Sanford John W. Thomason, Jr. Thomas Thompson John Watson John W. Wilson

Download or read book Twenty one Texas Short Stories written by William Peery and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a splendid collection of stories about Texas by Texans—stories that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century. Authors in this volume: Dillon Anderson Barry Benefield Charles Carver Margaret Cousins Chester T. Crowell Eugene Cunningham J. Frank Dobie Fred Gipson William Goyen O. Henry Sylvan Karchmer Harry Kidd, Jr. Mary King O’Donnell George Pattullo George Sessions Perry Katherine Anne Porter Winifred Sanford John W. Thomason, Jr. Thomas Thompson John Watson John W. Wilson

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Download or read book Let s Hear It written by Sylvia Ann Grider and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.

Download or read book Short Stories by Texas Authors written by B. Alan Bourgeois and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas authors have once again allowed their creative minds to open up and expand the Universe in which they live with short stories that capture one's emotions through the everlasting medium of storytelling.This sixth volume of award-winning short stories takes readers on a personal ride of growth and understanding, then a jaunt through history both factual and fictional, then a trip of magic, suspense, and much more. Those are just a few of the emotions one will experience as they read the 14 winning short stories from prolific Texas authors.

Download or read book Texas Women Writers written by Sylvia Ann Grider and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.

Download or read book Waylon County written by Heath Dollar and published by Sleeping Panther Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether they left home as fast as they could or would never dream of leaving, this collection is about the folks from Waylon County in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. A nine-time bride is faced with a law stopping her from marrying again. A military contractor, fresh from Afghanistan, enters the Wailin¿ Biscuit Café with a comfort monkey on his back, and a bookman descended from Spanish explorers discovers an incredible treasure. Waylon County is Texas itself. It is a place of fable, satire, and the slow drawl of truth.

Download or read book 21 Texas Short Stories written by William Perry and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book One Texas Night written by Jodi Thomas and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas lassos the heart of Texas with these four spellbinding stories, available together for the first time, where love shows up unexpectedly. . . Hank Harris wasn't even looking for a woman when he ended up with a wife. Aggie is exactly who he needs as a business partner--if only she weren't so damn beautiful, spirited--and in his bed. . . Rowdy Darnell was born to be wild and Laurel Hayes knows she shouldn't get involved with him--but oh, how he can kiss. . . When Annalane Barkley whispers her dreams to Wynn McCord, the Texas Ranger knows he's found a woman worth fighting for. . . If Cozette Camanez's groom doesn't show up for their wedding by dawn, she'll lose her family ranch. Trouble is, the groom doesn't exist--until unsuspecting thief Michael Hughes comes along. . . "The undisputed queen of Texas romance." --RT Book Reviews Praise for Jodi Thomas "Thomas knows how to tell a story." --Love Western Romances "Jodi Thomas's writing is breathtaking. . .her name should be at the top of everyone's favorite author list." --Affaire de Coeur

Download or read book God Save Texas written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.

Download or read book Electrifying the Rural American West written by Leah S. Glaser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans consider electricity essential to their lives, but the historic disparity of its distribution and use challenges notions of a democratic lifestyle, economy, and culture. By the beginning of the twentieth century, substations, wires, towers, and poles had followed migrants westward as the industrial era?s most prominent symbols of progress and power. When private companies controlled power production, electrical transmission, and distribution without regulation, they argued that it was not ?economically feasible? for many ethnic and rural communities to access ?the grid.? Yet, government agents continued to advocate electrical living through federal programs that reached into and across farming communities and American Indian reservations to homogenize and assimilate them through urban technologies. In the end, however, rural electrification was a locally directed process, subject to local and regional issues, concerns, and parameters. ø Electrifying the Rural American West provides a social and cultural history of rural electrification in the West. Using three case studies in Arizona, Leah S. Glaser details how, when examined from the local level, the process of electrification illustrates the impact of technology on places, economies, and lifestyles in the diverse communities and landscapes of the American West. As today?s policy-makers advocate building more power lines as a tool to bring democracy to faraway places and ?smart grids? to deliver renewable energy, they would do well to review the historical relationship of Americans with electronic power production, distribution, and regulation.

Download or read book The Ornamental Hermit written by Robert Murray Davis and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a collection of essays, Robert Murray Davis describes his travels across the United States.

Download or read book Texas 5x5 written by Laurie Champion and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of twenty-five stories, five each by five Texas writers. Except for the five points of the Texas Lone Star, there's nothing particularly Texan about the number five--nor the number twenty-five--yet the stories whole-heartedly represent many facets of Texas. In fact, it doesn't get more Texas than this. Or more fittingly, I might say it don't get more Texas. The stories in Texas 5X5 offer both traditional themes and ideas and subjects that are pure Texan. These stories accomplish what solid fiction should in offering thoughts about the more profound ideas we ponder: love, life, death--all told among cowboy-boot kickers and topped with a Stetson.

Download or read book The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories written by Alan Brown and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa

Download or read book This is One Way to Dance written by Sejal Shah and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deluxe -- Thank You -- Pelham Road -- There Is No Mike Here -- Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps -- Temporary Talismans -- Six Hours from Anywhere You Want to Be -- No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary -- Ring Theory -- Saris and Sorrows -- Voice Texting with My Mother.

Download or read book Tales of Texas written by Rebecca Nolen and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of short stories and prose from Texas authors, the Houston Writers House invites you to take a journey deep in the heart of Texas

Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.