Download or read book Tales from Toadsuck written by John Black and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toadsuck isnt a town. Its not even a village. Its a place located on the bank of the Arkansas River. But, as a child, author John J. Dub Black grew up in the area. In this memoir, he narrates a patchwork of stories that re? ect the adventures of his youth near Toadsuck. Tales from Toadsuck follows four years of Blacks life beginning at age ten, when he fought the two asylum attendants as they dragged his screaming mother from their house, locked her in a van, and left. His alcoholic dad watched quietly and then drove away in his car never to return. His memoir describes the boys thirty-mile bike ride through farm country to the home of his aunt and uncle who let him live there and work on the farm. He shares tales of being attacked by a 400-pound wild pig, nearly drowning in a raging river, and playing Halloween pranks with his friends. A story of both survival and love, Tales from Toadsuck tells of a boy coming of age while tackling both the good and the bad that life throws at him.

Download or read book Tales From Toadsuck Texas written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name.

Download or read book Singin a Lonesome Song written by Gary Brown and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T

Download or read book Lawmen of the Old West written by Del Cain and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.

Download or read book Real life Stories of Supernatural Experiences written by Michael Norman and published by Atriad Press LLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected writings dealing with supernatural encounters or experiences.

Download or read book Texas written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a myriad of little known, often forgotten, and sometimes unbelievable events, places and people that make up the warp and woof of the Texas mystique. This book consists of intriguing facts taken from age-old legends about the people who developed and settled the state. A section called Truth is Stranger than Fiction will defy imagination. The Texas history buff is sure to enjoy Forgotten Footnotes to Texas History. Have You Ever Wondered? will supply answers to questions about certain Texas legends and folklore. Texas: Land of Legend and Lore presents the Texas of fact and fantasy that so captivates the imaginations of Texans and non-Texans alike.

Download or read book From My Mother s Hands written by Susie Kelly Flatau and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From My Mother's Hands" celebrates the positive roles mothers can play in the lives of daughters. In a collection of poignant memoirs crafted from interviews with thirty-three notable Texas women, Susie Kelly Flatau weaves a tapestry of intimate memories, family photographs and recipes, and profiles of each daughter. The daughters' observations and discoveries about their mothers are filled with a wide range of emotions. Lessons of integrity, love, and hope chronicle the powerful bonds that can exist between a daughter and her mother.\r\n\r\n "Every day is Mother's Day in this wonderful collection of daughters' memories of their mothers their guidance, their endurance, even their recipes. And what remarkable daughters speak here! This is a tribute to two generations".\r\n\r\n Nancy Baker Jones, Ph.D., independent scholar specializing in Texas women's history. Co-author (with Ruthe Winegarten) of the recently released book "Capitol Women" and the video Getting Where We've Got to Be, histories of Texas's female legislators\r\n\r\n "So many books are about what went wrong. This is a book about what went right. There is immense wisdom in these lives, wisdom that mentors us, inspires us, gives us hope for our own future and our children's future. The section on [Creating Your Own Mother's Journal] is both an occasion for reflection and a reminder of what is yet possible".\r\n Chuck Meyer, author of "Twelve Smooth Stones: A Father Writes to His Daughter About Money, Sex, Spirituality and Other Things That Really Matter"\r\n\r\n Susie Kelly Flatau is an author whose fascination with people and places lives within the spirit of herwriting. In "Counter Culture Texas" (in collaboration with photographer Mark Dean) Ms. Flatau's vignettes taken from on-the-spot interviews capture the histories of old-time diners, dance halls, drugstores, and more.\r\n For over twenty-five years this award-winning educator has taught writing and literature to students of all ages in both public schools and the private sector. Susie lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Jack, and daughter, Jenni.\r\n

Download or read book Switch A Tale of Spanking BDSM Romance written by Ardie Stallard and published by Pink Flamingo Media. This book was released on 1900 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one-year-old Felicia is a college student working part-time as a professional Dominatrix. She came to the profession on the advice of an older Dominatrix. As a dominant female, she hopes to come to terms with a traumatic and humiliating event from her past. At just eighteen, she consented to a disciplinary paddling from her school principal. The ensuing media attention resulted in her being almost totally ostracized by her peers. She still suffers from PSTD and feels she's missing out on something she may be afraid to admit, even to herself... that is until one warm spring evening, when she accepts an "outcall" from a posh hotel not far from her apartment, she meets a "client" of the sort she never expected. Turns out, he never expected a girl like her! Two dominants in the same room? While it’s a practical joke, as their evening progresses, Felicia discovers that not all males calling themselves Dominants are cut from the same cloth. He suggests possibilities she's been missing and an aspect of her personality she may never have quite accepted, until tonight…

Download or read book Boo Stew written by Donna L. Washington and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning storyteller Donna L. Washington has cooked up a delightfully spooky tale in this imaginative twist on the classic "Goldilocks." Curly Locks is a good-hearted girl, but she's an awful cook. All the townspeople of Toadsuck Swamp know to steer clear of her peculiar dishes—like batwing brownies and toad eye toffees. So it's quite a mystery when one of her dishes goes missing from her windowsill. Next morning, chaos breaks out in town and word spreads how the Scares of Toadsuck Swamp are running wild and terrorizing the town at mealtime. They shriek "Gitchey Boo, Gitchey Bon! Gitchey Goo, Gitchey Gone!" and send folk running for their lives! But Curly Locks isn't frightened, and she has an inkling her unsavory cooking can help corral those Scares for good. Exercising tremendous narrative skill, internationally known storyteller Donna L. Washington breathes a spirited new life into an old classic. Her clever, can-do protagonist and joyful language pair brilliantly with Jeffrey Ebbeler's fantasy-like illustrations. This enchanting read is a treat for any time of the year!

Download or read book The Mud Racing Contest at a Town Called Toad Suck written by Barbara Winningham and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This picture book tells a story of an ornery toad that lives under rocks, dense foliage and tree stumps. The story unfolds with Toadlow being awaken from a deep slumber by one of his friends, Sneezy. His friends want him to enter into a race they are sure he can win. The race is held in a small rural town called Toad Suck. At first, he is uncertain if he even wants to try until he hears about the prize to be given to the winner. In her fourth book, the author, Barbara Winningham provides children another example of overcoming life challenges using insects and animals as the main characters. As they read and look at the colorful illustrations it becomes apparent that a solution can be found for nearly any problem. Most importantly, Toadlow gains more confidence to win directly from the encouragement and support he receives from his friends. Children will be encouraged that even though he starts out slow; in the end, Toadlow’s name is announced as the winner. Oh what a prize. Listen in as children relate what would be just as good a prize to them as a big bowl of worms was to Toadlow. Viewed as a series this story continues in that same vein as her first three published books. In The Turtle Pit, My Kitty Dog and Chatter’s Nut House we see many avenues of information, guidance and inspiration revealed to the young reader’s mind. Most importantly, Toadlow gains more confidence to win directly from the encouragement and support he receives from his friends.

Download or read book Children s Literature in Place written by Željka Flegar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children’s culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children’s culture. The places and spaces of children’s literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children’s literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children’s and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children’s literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children’s literature, and the place of children’s literature in the context of international scholarship.

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Download or read book Abandoned Arkansas written by Michael Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement from publisher's website.

Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Arkansas written by Edward L. Underwood and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through Arkansas' forgotten past and find the colorful characters, unusual stories and strange occurrences left out of conventional history books. Authors Edward and Karen Underwood weave fact and fun in this offbeat, gripping and little-known history of the Natural State. Discover the Tantrabobus monster rumored to lurk in the hills of the Ozarks, meet the imposters who faked the state's first history museum and learn the story behind Arkansas' lost amusement park, Dogpatch, USA. Truth really is stranger than fiction in Arkansas, and this one-of-a-kind state has the stories to prove it

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Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Palabra. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.

Download or read book Joyful Stories written by Alan Maki and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice to Cheerish During a cold Montana Christmas, Alan cuts down and decorates a Christmas tree for himself and his dying grandfather, George. As his present, Alan may choose one of eight keepsakes of his grandfathers. Yet before he can choose, he must read a story George wrote about each keepsake. Through these stories, Alan learns the secrets of his grandfather's life. The Snowflake Christmas 1897. Ellen Pierce and her brother are determined to reach the Alaska gold rush. But when ice stalls their steamship, all seems lost, until Buck Lewis makes a decision: he'll lead all who dare to follow on foot toward Dawson City. Buck is determined to leave behind a heartbreaking past. No amount of ice or weather will stop him. But he never counted on a woman joining a dangerous wilderness trek--or on falling in love with her. As their journey unfolds and Christmas approaches, Ellen and Buck discover that the greatest gift of all can't be wrapped in paper and tied with a bow. It comes from, and is received in, the heart. Come share in a soul-deep romance that gives a joyful reminder of a redeeming God who makes us each unique, yet loves us all the same. The Angel of Bastogne In the tradition of It's a Wonderful Life and John Grisham's Skipping Christmas… Newspaper reporter Ben Raines is a full-fledged cynic trying to bypass what he feels is the least wonderful time of the year-Christmas. But his plan to escape on a dream vacation overseas is foiled when the boss assigns him to write the annual front-page