Download or read book The World in Pancho s Eye written by J. P. S. Brown and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a family of cattlemen on the southern Arizona border at the beginning of the Great Depression, Mikey Summers is raised by people who are wilder than the animals under their care. Maggie, his mother, is quick to love, but also quick to fight, loves contention as much as peace, likes to run and play, but is decent with a fine moral sense. She does hard work as though tapping for a dance, but can be as mean and ill-tempered as she is decent and good. Paul Summers, his father, loves to cowboy, ride broncs, get drunk with Maggie's brothers, be Maggie's husband as long as it is fun, but tries not to get serious about any of it. When Maggie reminds him that he will have to stop running and playing and be responsible, he only grins. As his parents and uncles and their families work and play hard to keep their world from dying of drought, disease, and the Depression, Mikey revels in its fathers, mothers, horses, dirt, dogs, cows, and trees and learns that he must fight his own battles to keep it. Based on J. P. S. Brown's own experiences growing up and ranching in Mexico and Arizona, The World in Pancho's Eye offers an honest and heartfelt portrayal of the life of working cowboys and the love they and their families have for the job.
Download or read book Earth Is a Woman written by Thomas H. Mutchler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Neal Thurston seeks inspiration for his "great American novel" at the Rancho del Artista near Mexico City, Mexico, where his artist-friend Pancho has established an artists' colony in the form of a small Mexican pueblo to help nurture aspiring artists and writers. Here Neal finds the alluring artist's model Dominga, and the ragged, spiritually earth-oriented Jose, as well as other characters who help influence his attitudes about life and love.
Download or read book Collier s written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tsunami Eyes written by Shane Colwell and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At odds with the suffocating tsunami inching closer and closer stand a women and man alone together on a beach, calmly living their last moments through each other's eyes and ignoring the eternity beginning to enshroud them. A Thai boy stands on top of a boulder, staring dully at the scene, piss running down his gangly leg. He does not curse his short, unfulfilled life, but instead wonders what two people in love say to each other moments before the end. Was it a wasted life? Did they have regrets? Back down on the beach, as the first splashes of the wall of water rain down on them, their lives are relived in the blink of an eye amidst visions of youth, smiles, delight, exile, sickness, green mountains, regret, ageing and acceptance. Likeable, page-turning, and deeply moving, Tsunami Eyes is a tale that will involve you, awaken you, and go a little bit towards helping you to not take those you love for granted.
Download or read book Catch Her If You Can written by Merline Lovelace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a robot dog can sniff out trouble... USAF Lieutenant Samantha Spade is in the heat of the west Texas desert testing a dog-like robot for military use, when the device leads her and her team to a pick-up truck. The driver comes at them with a gun-and is shot in self-defense by Sam's friend. And then a gruesome discovery is made: three human heads in a cooler in the back of the truck. Because the dead man was on the FBI's most wanted list, Sam stands to get a hefty reward. Too bad the technology to keep her shady ex-husband from sniffing out cash has yet to be invented. His appearance, along with frightening issues from her boyfriend's past, make it hard to tell just who is responsible for the pipe-wielding thug who attacks her. All Sam knows is that her luck has taken a doggone turn for the worse...
Download or read book The World s Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Praise of Famous Horses written by Sean Magee and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. The book's entries include a wealth of unexpected, fascinating and serendipitous information, from horse-slang phrases to horses in British pub signs, and from the horse in advertising to the horse as a food item. Themes such as the horse in warfare and the horse in folklore abound. These features add up to a richly satisfying accumulation of information about the horse's role in human culture and society over two millennia. Horses will not only be a helpful reference source and congenial bedside book for those who work with or enjoy horses, but also a satisfying and browsable companion for the inquisitive general reader.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1924-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book On His Wickedness written by Ameiry Savar and published by Ameiry Savar. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celine thought she had a perfect life—a beautiful home, a successful career, and, above all, a husband who adored her. Pancho was the kind of man dreams were made of: gentle, devoted, and endlessly kind. But during a routine cleaning day, Celine stumbles upon a hidden box buried under their bed—a box containing haunting photos and a USB drive that reveals Pancho’s unimaginable secret. Now, trapped between fear and disbelief, Celine embarks on a desperate journey to uncover the truth about the man she loves. As she unravels Pancho’s dark past, she encounters Jonas, the determined brother of one of Pancho’s victims. Together, they dig deeper into a web of lies, power, and violence that threatens to consume them. But Pancho won’t let go of his perfect life—or his perfect wife—without a fight.
Download or read book The Bad Man written by Charles Hanson Towne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bad Man" by Charles Hanson Towne, Porter Emerson Browne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Download or read book A Slow Trot Home written by Lisa G. Sharp and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1958 was the year life came into focus for Lisa Sharp. Her mother, newly divorced, began the move from California to the San Rafael Cattle Company, a 22,000-acre cattle ranch south of Patagonia, Arizona. Leaving the city life behind, Lisa and her family traded paved roads, dependable electricity, and telephones for wide open spaces, prairie grass, horses, and cattle. Most eight-year-olds would have been homesick. When she first walked into the ranch corrals, "I became a part of that world as easily as that first shoot of spring grass. . . . I was home." A Slow Trot Home stitches together vignettes about the author's mother, ranching, cowboys, and a love of the land that is passed down through generations. With poignant reflections on ranch living along the US/Mexico border, Lisa resurrects an era that, for so many of us, endures only as a memory.
Download or read book Not Your China Doll written by Katie Gee Salisbury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history. One of Autostraddle's Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024 Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest. Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin, Paris, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state across several nations, leaving trails of suitors in her wake. She returned to challenge Hollywood at its own game by speaking out about the industry’s blatant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting as the China doll or dragon lady, and worked to reshape Asian American representation in film. Filled with stories of capricious directors and admiring costars, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs, Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.
Download or read book Collier s written by Hansi and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Polar Bear written by Achim Zahren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earth appears to be getting warmer and the polar ice cap is melting. The ozone layer is receding. The sky is about to tear wide open and the results will be devastating. This is the story of Lucy, Whitey and Thomas the Inuit, three teenage orphans who run away from home in a beat up school bus named the Pequod, then take off to find The Far North and hopefully prevent a worldwide environmental catastrophe. Saving the world however, may prove to be far easier than saving their best friend as Lucy struggles to understand the loss of her family, and wonders about the meaning of her own very complicated life.
Download or read book Dreaming with His Eyes Open written by Patrick Marnham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of Mexican artist Diego Rivera and discusses the artists who influenced him, his involvement in Communism, his family life, and other related topics.
