Download or read book THE COP AND CALAMITY JANE written by Elane Osborn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNLUCKY IN LOVE…AND EVERYTHING ELSE! Wherever Callie Chance went, disaster seemed to strike, from exploding faucets to broken engagements. Now she'd stumbled across a bizarre catnapping case, and found herself in the protective custody of a sexy-but-skeptical detective. Yes, Callie was positively jinxed, and no one—especially Marcus Scanlon—was going to convince her otherwise! Marcus might not believe in curses, but he had to admit that Callie's mere presence did wreak havoc on people's lives—particularly his own. After all, he'd sworn off women, yet here he was, hopelessly charmed by his hapless witness. Could he possibly solve this case with his heart—and his precious bachelorhood—intact?
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph—and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity Jane’s life and legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives. Etulain begins with a brief biography of Martha Canary, aka Calamity Jane (1856–1903), then analyzes the origins and growth of her legends. The sources, Etulain shows, reveal three versions of Calamity Jane. In the most popular one, she was a Wild Woman of the Old West who helped push a roaring frontier through its final stages. This is the Calamity Jane who fought Indians, marched with the military, and took on the bad guys. Early in her life she also hoped to embody the pioneer woman, seeking marriage and a stable family and home. A third, later version made of Calamity an angel of mercy who reached out to the poor and nursed smallpox victims no one else would help. The hyperbolic journalism of the Old West, as well as dime novels and the stretchers Calamity herself told in her interviews and autobiography, shaped her legends through much of the twentieth century. Many of the sensational early accounts of Calamity’s life, Etulain notes, were based on rumor and hearsay. In illuminating the role of the Deadwood Dick dime novel series and other pulp fiction in shaping what we know—or think we know—of the American West, Etulain underscores one of his fascinating themes: the power of popular culture. The product of twenty years’ labor sifting fact from falsehood or distortion, this bibliography and reader’s guide includes brief discussions of nearly every item’s contents, along with a terse, entertaining evaluation of its reliability.
Download or read book Calamity written by Karen R. Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.
Download or read book It s a Calamity Jane written by Dylan Edward Asher and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia, a “hopefully retired” con-artist, has escaped in a close getaway and is hiding out in the Bahamas. Life has become simple, and she has peter donavan to thank for it. a man who saved her in a job gone bad, and then disappeared to pursue his own hideaway. Two Months Later... The First Clue Arrives. Olivia believes it’s been planted by Peter, vague and untraceable by design. a cry for help, perhaps. and something she must pursue. she soon finds herself coming out of exile to follow a trail of methodically placed clues, each increasingly savvy; seemingly to insure that she would be the sole person able to follow them. the intention, unknown. her purpose, a mystery. and soon, even the source of the clues becomes dangerously questionable. And as the puzzle unfolds, she can see only two possible scenarios if she succeeds. One: she arrives on time, as intended, to fulfill her purpose. Or two: she arrives on time, as intended... and it’s too late to turn back.
Download or read book Radio Programs 1924 1984 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. Entries include casts, character relationships, plots and storylines, announcers, musicians, producers, hosts, starting and ending dates of the programs, networks, running times, production information and, when appropriate, information on the radio show's adaptation to television. Many hundreds of program openings and closings are included.
Download or read book Love Is Murder written by Tim J. Kelly and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Download or read book Divas Dames Daredevils written by Mike Madrid and published by Exterminating Angel Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the Year BUST Magazine “Lit Pick” Recommendation Certified Cool™ in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop’s Catalog “Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These ‘lost’ heroines are now found—to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere.” —STAN LEE Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds. Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid’s insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary women—superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilots—who protected America and the world with wit and guile. In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we’re passionate about today, is unmistakable. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR “Best Book To Share With Your Friends” and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by Doris Faber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-08-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Calamity Jane? Simply a legend created by a popular novelist? Or did Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Cannary, really live the life she claimed? Doris Faber sorts out fact from fiction to tell the true story of a remarkable American woman who was part of the legend that celebrated the freedom and adventure of the West.
Download or read book 12 Months to Live written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Patterson and Lupica make a great team” (Carl Hiaasen) who get “deep into the lives of strong women” (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation—a badass lawyer with a year to live. “Jane Smith is the best character we’ve ever created. Bar none.” —James Patterson and Mike Lupica Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders. She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.
Download or read book Death in the Grotto written by Joe McCormack and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in the Grotto is the story of a death, perhaps a murder, at Notre Dame University. A student, Ben Pacelli, is caught up in the murder when he finds the body tucked among the stones of the sacred Grotto at Notre Dame. Ben starts as suspect, and is drawn into the investigation of the death of a young woman he has dated. His journey takes him through a post-modern University, as he struggles to find out how the girl died. Suspects include a priest, a linebacker, and a professor of philosophy. The story is interesting, and the writing is crisp, often funny, and more than a little poignant. As the death is unraveled, Ben begins to grow up, and finding the murderer becomes as much a quest to understand as a quest for justice. Vivid characters, interesting situations, and a wonderful sense of place make this book a sharp commentary as well as a good read.
Download or read book This Heart for Hire written by Marie Ferrarella and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE… With Logan Buchanan's life in jeopardy, private investigator Jessica Deveaux's conscience demanded she guard her ex-lover. She'd once loved Logan with her whole, young heart, but the charming millionaire hadn't wanted any romantic entanglements. And now proud Jessica vowed to use this one-week assignment to end whatever feelings she still had for him… But two years had changed Logan. This former playboy was still devastatingly sexy, but now he seemed more caring, compassionate and…committed. He almost seemed to regret losing Jessica. And as the danger escalated around them, Jessica found herself hoping that Logan wouldn't just want her heart for hire, but for keeps!
Download or read book Which Twin written by Elane Osborn and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One minute she was “Secondhand” Rose Delancey, no one special, a woman driven by her dreams to a faraway home...to meet the man of her imaginings. The next, everyone was calling her Anna, as in Anna Benedict, troubled daughter of the political powerhouse Benedicts. A woman who was her spitting image. A woman who had a special relationship with her dream lover.... Logan Maguire’s job was to troubleshoot for the Benedicts. But Rose was one fire he didn’t want to extinguish. Though she bore an uncanny resemblance to his missing surrogate sister, Logan’s feelings for Rose were far from brotherly. And now this mystery lady was his only link to finding Anna...and, perhaps, to finding ever-elusive love....
Download or read book A SEASON TO BELIEVE written by Elane Osborn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO AM I? She asked. But no one knew. A near-fatal accident had stolen Jane’s past, and now she struggled daily with her new life. Only the knowledge that policeman Matt Sullivan was rooting for her kept her going. But when flashes of her memory returned, Jane grew afraid she wouldn’t like the person she used to be…. And so she turned once more to Matt. Now a private detective, he vowed that this time he’d discover the truth about Jane. And this time no one would be able to hurt her in mind or body. Because suddenly Matt was realizing that the new Jane was everything he’d dreamed of getting for Christmas…. But could he keep her?
Download or read book MIDNIGHT CINDERELLA written by Eileen Wilks and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WAY OUT WEST LONE-STAR LONER? Nathan Jones was the richest rancher around—but he was the outcast of Bitter Creek, Texas. Once his hometown's Prince Charming, his love for the wrong woman had cost another man his life. Now a fallen hero, Nate swore no one would ever break through the impenetrable fortress he'd built around his heart. But Nate had never counted on the sweet beauty of Hannah McBride. What was it about his injured brother's nurse that had Nate hungering for her healing touch? Even though her innocent heart was as transparent as a glass slipper, hadn't Nate learned there was no such thing as happily ever after? Because there's nothing like a cowboy.
Download or read book THE DADDY TRAP written by Kayla Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAMILIES ARE FOREVER FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD… To save her nephew from the clutches for his abusive "father," Kristen Monroe would do anything. But even she hesitated at Luke Hollister's door—for despite her adolescent crush on him, he'd been in love with her late sister. And she was about to drop a bombshell on him…. Luke Hollister found it impossible to believe he was the child's father, but he knew his feelings didn't matter. Luke's first goal: ensuring Cody's safety. If only Cody's lovely aunt weren't making him wish for things that could never be…. Happily ever after—with kids!
Download or read book Harlequin Intrigue October 2014 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new edge-of-your-seat romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Intrigue bundle includes Cowboy Behind the Badge by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen, The Hill by Carol Ericson and Christmas at Thunder Horse Ranch by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Elle James. Catch a thrill with 6 new edge-of-your-seat romances every month from Harlequin Intrigue!
