Download or read book The Devil s Smokehouse written by Justin Jones and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were always two options: the closet or under the bed. In the 1960s, young Jenkins and his sister, Jill are trying to grow up in a dusty, hardscrabble area a few miles out from a one-stoplight town in the American southwest. It's a long bus ride through farmland to school where both children put on brave faces to cover up for the nights they suffer at the hands of their violent, alcoholic father, to whom they refer as the Devil. In his drunken rampages, he regularly beats Jenkins, Jill, and their mother, smashes up the shabby dwelling that serves as their home, and then retreats to his bedroom, his chamber of horrors. As they grow into adolescence, Jill copes by focusing on doing well in school so that she can get out as soon as she can, as Jenkins is sucked into a life of truancy and increasing violence. While contemplating eventual revenge on his father, Jenkins must decide how to handle people and situations whose evil and cruelty will test ordinary readers’ imaginations. The realities of the lives of Jenkins and Jill are not unfamiliar to author Justin Jones, who has firsthand experience in the juvenile and adult justice systems. The Devil’s Smokehouse is an unvarnished story of the ravages of rural poverty and an unsparing look at one boy managing to triumph against crushing odds. “A work of fiction inspired by the author's childhood, The Devil's Smokehouse is the inspiring, painful, exhilarating, disturbing, and at times hilarious journey of a child survivor. One who must cross a line in order to keep surviving. Jones weaves plot twists that are fantastical but believable, as only a survivor could.” —Fury Young, founder of Die Jim Crow Records "It’s a struggle to survive childhood, and that’s the conundrum faced by Jenkins, the narrator of Justin Jones’s coming-of-age mystery novel, The Devil’s Smokehouse. Jenkins underrates the prevalence of evil in his hometown, an impoverished rural community in the middle of the country. Everyone knows everyone in this hamlet where even the local pervert’s identity is an open secret. As he matures, Jenkins uncovers more dark secrets, learning that the twisting threads of big-city drug culture have a stranglehold on some local powerbrokers. Even his own road to nowhere takes an unexpected turn. The Devil’s Smokehouse is a page-turner that is hard to put down." —Sue Hinton, retired English professor, Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) "Justin Jones captures the raw essence of humanity in all its beauty and grit. Characters leap from the page with intensity, as they grapple with love, violence, loss, and redemption. Instantly compelling, Jones’s writing is full of wisdom and depth as it goes to people's darkest struggles, and also their most glorious moments of triumph." —Royal Young, author of Fame Shark

Download or read book The Devil s Boneyard written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Lost Coyote Saloon, you can bet your bottom dollar that some lowlife will try to cheat you, beat you, or defeat you. But bar owner Ben Savage won’t let a few bad customers ruin a good time. And he’s got the guns to prove it . . . JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. HOTTER THAN HADES. DRINK WITH THE DEVIL Located in the bullet-riddled heart of Texas, the Lost Coyote Saloon in the town of Buzzard’s Bluff, is a magnet for drifters, grifters, and outlaws on the run. That’s why the bar’s manager, the beautiful Rachel Baskin, is glad the new owner is Ben Savage. A former Texas Ranger with a fast draw and low threshold for trouble, Savage knows how to keep the peace. But when notorious hellraiser Malcolm Hazzard is released from prison—and heading to Buzzard’s Bluff to kill the local sheriff—the whole town knows the lawman doesn’t have a prayer. There’s only one way to stop a devil like Hazzard. It’s hard. It’s mean. And it’s Savage . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Download or read book The Last Reunion written by Billie Conner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the previous 9 books I have written are about a family and their friends, who are scattered all around the country and Scotland. They seldom see each other except at the annual family reunion, Book 10 brings these people together for their final reunion in the territory of Wyoming the first week of October, 1959. Some come from Scotland by ship, join others in NYC, ride a train to Omaha, and a stagecoach to Wyoming. Others riding a train from western Virginia mountains, joined them in Pittsburg. Some came by wagon train from western Kentucky.

Download or read book Devils written by Isaac Asimov and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devil s Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories written by John W. Harden Sr. and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first colonization at Roanoke Island, the bizarre and inexplicable have shrouded the Tar Heel State. From history and legend, John Harden records ominous events that have shaped or colored state history.

Download or read book Don t Give It Another Thought written by Mark D. Michael and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER THE UNBOUNDED WISDOM AND POWER OF STORYTELLING The book in your hand has some of the best and most beloved short stories you will ever read. The stories are not all original. They are the product of many years of listening. The sources from which these stories derive are eclectic. Most of them have been collected from various books, sermons, and front porches as friends and acquaintances told and retold stories they have heard over the years. This collection of stories represents over thirty years of collecting the most relevant, funny, reflective, and spiritually significant stories. Whatever you do, do not put this book down. You will miss out on a wonderful treat if you do. God gives us wisdom through many experiences. These short stories are a bastion of wisdom that will certainly enrich your life and broaden your horizons. I am glad you have it in your hand.

Download or read book Fated Memories written by Judith Ann McDowell and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie Thornton, the beautiful only child of Eathen Thornton, one of the richest most powerful men in the state of Montana, has never heard the word “no” until she sets her sights on Two Spirits, a young Blackfeet Indian her father has hired onto the ranch to tame the wild mustangs brought down out of the hills. Jessie soon finds herself fighting an uphill battle against 1903 Montana morals and small-town bigotry in her struggle to be with the man she loves.

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Download or read book Devil House written by John Darnielle and published by MCD. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is. Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.

Download or read book Devils and Demons written by Marvin Kaye and published by Marboro Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tall Tales of the Devil s Apron written by Herbert M. Sutherland and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appalachian folk tales in this book were originally told to the author by the hillmen of that area called the Appalachian Plateau, where the woods, rivers and valleys of the Cumberland Mountains stretch across parts of southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky.

Download or read book Trailsman 269 The Devil s Den written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once Fargo rides in, he may never ride out! When Dave Donaldson heads into Indian Territory and never comes back, Skye Fargo agrees to track him down and—if at all possible—bring him back to safety. Finding the young man near the lawless land of Devil’s Den, Fargo learns that Dave isn’t just in trouble—he’s part of it, tangled up with a gang of whiskey-smuggling killers. It’s up to the Trailsman to keep Donaldson alive—and let the others fall where they may…

Download or read book The Collected Works written by Knut Hamsun and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Knut Hamsun collection: Table of Contents: Hunger Shallow Soil Pan Mothwise Look Back on Happiness Growth of the Soil Under the Autumn Star A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings The Road Leads On

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Download or read book KNUT HAMSUN Premium Collection written by Knut Hamsun and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 1605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, and some essays. Table of Contents: Hunger Shallow Soil Pan Mothwise Look Back on Happiness Growth of the Soil Under the Autumn Star A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings The Road Leads On

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Download or read book Wyoming Off the Beaten Path written by Michael Mccoy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales.