Download or read book A Bad Day for Billy written by Wendell G Sweet and published by Wendell Sweet. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Billy Jingo, living in Glennville is a dead in life. His trailer home next to the county dump. His dead-end job. The boring life he lived. And then on Friday morning his whole world turned upside down. He suddenly found himself emerged in crime that was so far above his normal reasoning range that, at first, he couldn't even comprehend the implications on it. In a heartbeat he found himself in a fight for his life. On the run with someone's drugs and money and a girl he had not even know just a few hours before. Buckle up, enjoy the ride. Fast paced pulp style fiction...

Download or read book Billy the Kid Rides Again written by Jay Miller and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2003, three sheriffs set out to prove that Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid, thereby also proving that Brushy Bill of Hico, Texas was not the real Kid. Along their way, the sheriffs enlisted New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's support and took two communities on a wild ride through court battles to dig up Billy and his mother. Governor Richardson found an attorney willing to work free and provide Billy with a voice. Follow "Billy" as he speaks for himself in court, requesting that he and his mother be dug up to examine the DNA in their dusty remains for evidence that they were related. And follow the small towns of Fort Sumner and Silver City, New Mexico as they fight to retain the integrity of their municipal cemeteries and keep the legend of Billy the Kid from crumbling away. Author Jay Miller followed the strange unfolding of events, digging to find the source of the money that financed an official murder investigation and the court action against two courageous small towns struggling to prevent the exhumations.

Download or read book Billy and the Beast written by Nadia Shireen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018! 'It's a great story for everyone, especially those not used to seeing themselves centre-stage'- The Guardian From the author of Bumblebear, comes a new heroine for our times. Introducing: Billy! Whilst on a lovely walk in the woods, Billy and her trusty sidekick Fatcat hear a terrible rumble... a terrible rumble coming from a Terrible Beast... He’s making a Terrible Soup out of all of Billy and Fatcat’s friends! Luckily, our brave heroine Billy has a trick or two up her sleeve (or in her hair)... Join Billy on her mission to defeat the Terrible Beast (and save those adorable little bunny rabbits too). 'A refreshing picture book star' - The Observer

Download or read book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a story about me through their eyes then. Find the beginning, the slight silver key to unlock it, to dig it out. Here then is a maze to begin, be in. (p. 20) Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje’s ground-breaking book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a highly polished and self-aware lens focused on the era of one of the most mythologized anti-heroes of the American West. This revolutionary collage of poetry and prose, layered with photos, illustrations and “clippings,” astounded Canada and the world when it was first published in 1969. It earned then-little-known Ondaatje his first of several Governor General’s Awards and brazenly challenged the world’s notions of history and literature. Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid (aka William H. Bonney / Henry McCarty / Henry Antrim) is not the clichéd dimestore comicbook gunslinger later parodied within the pages of this book. Instead, he is a beautiful and dangerous chimera with a voice: driven and kinetic, he also yearns for blankness and rest. A poet and lover, possessing intelligence and sensory discernment far beyond his life’s 21 year allotment, he is also a resolute killer. His friend and nemesis is Sheriff Pat Garrett, who will go on to his own fame (or infamy) for Billy’s execution. Himself a web of contradictions, Ondaatje’s Garrett is “a sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane” (p. 29) who has taught himself a language he’ll never use and has trained himself to be immune to intoxication. As the hero and anti-hero engage in the counterpoint that will lead to Billy’s predetermined death, they are joined by figures both real and imagined, including the homesteaders John and Sallie Chisum, Billy’s lover Angela D, and a passel of outlaws and lawmakers. The voices and images meld, joined by Ondaatje’s own, in a magnificent polyphonic dream of what it means to feel and think and freely act, knowing this breath is your last and you are about to be trapped by history. I am here with the range for everything corpuscle muscle hair hands that need the rub of metal those senses that that want to crash things with an axe that listen to deep buried veins in our palms those who move in dreams over your women night near you, every paw, the invisible hooves the mind’s invisible blackout the intricate never the body’s waiting rut. (p. 72)

Download or read book Billy s Story written by Louise Allen and published by Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster care expert Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.

Download or read book Billy written by Noel Morrison and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Billy Anderson is autistic, bound by rituals, and greatly agitated when things happen out of the ordinary. One night the power in his home suddenly fails, causing his mother, Meg, to unleash a fury of emotions and send a panicked Billy fleeing into the cold, wet darkness. Billywho has created his own world to keep himself safeis now out of his element. Plunged into the unknown beyond his front door, his flight to escape his fears sends his parents into a panic. As he heads toward a church where he hopes to find candles, Billys mother summons the police while his father races home, only to have a traffic accident delay his arrival. Meanwhile, none of them have any idea that an unlikely hero is about to save Billy from a frightening encounter, release him from his silent prison, and send his parents on a journey of acceptance, healing, and hope. Billy is an uplifting and emotionally moving novel about a runaway autistic boy who struggles to overcome the dangers of the night, unwittingly teaching a valuable lesson to everyone who loves him. Noel Morrisons pen provides expression for an autistic boys thoughts and fears, and spreads understanding and glimpses of hope. Josephine Croser

Download or read book Billy Don t written by William Baker and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Don't, a novel, takes place in Oakland, and other parts of California during the 1930's. It is a story of the conflicts and behaviors which take place in a young boy who is placed with his older sister and younger brother in a boarding home run by the Blair's. The conflict comes form the evangeslistic preaching of Mrs. Blair who constantly tells Billy, "Your sole will turn black" or "God will send you to the Devil," and the other understandings he has gained from his grandmother who has taught, "God sees the good in you." Billy's often wild and vicious behaviors are driven by his hatred for Mrs. Blair. It is a story of young boy's desperate search for love and understanding.

Download or read book Billy written by Martin George and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy is the true story of a compulsive gambler who went to the depths of depravity to feed his gambling addiction—stealing from those who loved him and from people who trusted him. His story depicts a seven-year period where the only thing he cared about was getting enough money to gamble. Gambling was first, last, and everything. Yet with help and a stubborn determination, he slowly turned his life around to become a well-respected business man, able to hold his head up high after years of skulking in the shadows.

Download or read book Billy written by Timothy Lee and published by Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Billy Butler. He's been safely guarded from the evils (fun) of life by his overprotective parents, thereby spending his first 18 years on the planet moldering on the line of goodness and virtue. Meet Mirna, Billy's older sister who, now that her brother is out of school, wants to rectify that situation by introducing him to wine, women and song. Meet Sue, the girl who can't wait to sink her roots into the young flower that is Billy Butler and sprout some weeds! Meet Billy's nemesis, Smith (high school bully extraordinaire), who has been a thorn in Billy's side for so long that the daily dose of verbal abuse just seems natural. But Billy is ready for his life to begin now, for some excitement and romance--there's just one teeny little hitch in this plan that even Billy isn't prepared for. Now meet the hitch: Greg, Billy's soon-to-be boyfriendA[a¬A]

Download or read book The Vanderhorns written by Tyrone Sharpe and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has been anything but easy for 17-year-old orphan, Harriet Vanderhorn, a morally corrupt teenager, forcibly raped and impregnated by a homeless transient. Adamant that she does not want the baby, she is coerced by her social worker and foster parents not to abort. She gives birth to an adorable baby girl, who she names Gloria. For Harriet's 18th birthday, her foster father, Dan Smith, gives her enough money to sustain her for a few years. Needing to get away, Harriet moves to Cowdung, Tennessee. With no sense of direction and a town full of predators, Harriet does not stand a chance. Harriet, with Gloria in tow, begins a rapid descent into the fiery depths of hell.

Download or read book An Amazing Cooking Class written by Janice Gunstone and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book of a series, country boys Billy and Lionel meet an elf, Alfred. They are invited to his village hidden in the local bushland. This starts a series of adventures and even joining a cooking class with Chef Lou Mae. As they get to meet more of the community they realise there is another world down here. Madam Erle causes all sorts of problems and Billy saves the town from a horrible flood. It is a wild ride for the boys.

Download or read book BILLY DOG S BAD DAY written by RICHARD. SCARRY and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Billy Southworth written by John C. Skipper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Cardinal teams won more than 100 games. He won three National League pennants with the Cardinals and one with the Boston Braves, and his .597 winning percentage is the fifth highest in baseball history. But Southworth was dogged by demons off the field, including the deaths of three children. On the field, his achievements were minimized by many because they occurred during the war years when the baseball talent level was below par. When he finally got top recognition, being elected to the Hall of Fame in 2007, the honor occurred 38 years after his death.

Download or read book Sorting Out Billy written by Jo Brand and published by Review. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy is a lad. He's a laugh, he's loud, he behaves badly and Sarah is besotted with him. But after another 'accident' involving Billy's temper, Sarah's face and a night in the A&E, Sarah's friends Martha and Flower decide that it's time to take action. What should they do? Reason with him? Send him to anger management classes? Hire a hit man? Martha and Flower have problems of their own: Martha is seven months pregnant by one of three possible blokes (she did this mainly to wind up her sanctimonious vicar father); and hippie Flower's career as a stand-up comic is more sit-down after some nasty encounters with south London's finest hecklers. Will Martha survive single-motherhood on a council estate in need of a peace-keeping force? Will Flower find the perfect put-down? And will they sort out Billy before he gets to them first...? Jo Brand tells it like it is in her darkly comic and sharply observed debut novel.

Download or read book Billy s Log written by Dougie Brimson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridget Jones's Diary... for lads!For Billy Ellis, life is one series of disasters after another. His haemorrhoids have just cost him promotion, his new boss is threatening to move in next door, and on the very occasions he need a condom, he can't even buy a packet without almost getting arrested. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's suddenly woken up to the fact that he's almost thirty, still single and has the looks that give a new meaning to the word 'average'.But at the end of last year, as always, Billy read his 'Log of Life' and vowed to make things better.And this year, he succeeded. Eventually.Billy's Log reveals the frustrations of life for a single male and the never-ending battle to understand the workings of the female mind.

Download or read book Hot Hand written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica! It's simple. All Billy Raynor wants to do is shoot. After all, he is one of the best shooters in the league. But with his dad as his coach, and his parents newly separated, somehow everything's become complicated. His brother Ben hardly talks anymore. His mom is always traveling on business. And his dad is always on his case about not being a team player. But when Ben's piano recital falls on the same day as the championship game, it's Billy who teaches his dad the meaning of being a team player.

Download or read book Shutter Man written by Richard Montanari and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline, as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family. While Billy stalks Philadelphia, Detective Kevin Byrne is assigned to a series of bizarre home-invasion cases and is joined by his former partner-turned-assistant district attorney, Jessica Balzano. Their investigations circle Byrne's childhood neighborhood of Devil's Pocket, and they find themselves revisiting a crime from Byrne's past that has haunted him for decades. What Byrne witnessed as a child in Devil's Pocket jeopardizes the Farren family -- which makes him the next target on Billy's hit list. A multigenerational story of hardship, guilt, and redemption, Shutter Man is Byrne and Balzano's most tense and personal case to date. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016